UPDATE: The Assembly closed the roll. Final vote: GOP plan, 23 yes, 52 no. Democratic plan, 50 yes, 25 no.
As expected, both houses of the Legislature soundly rejected two competing state budget plans today, leaving California without a spending plan 62 days into the fiscal year.
Republicans offered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal -- modified to exclude fee increases to water and homeowners' insurance, Majority Democrats put up a plan that did not include the tax increases they have touted.
Both fell well short of the required two-thirds majority (54 votes in the Assembly and 27 in the Senate), although Assembly and Senate leaders left the voting rolls open.
In the Assembly, initial tallies had the Democratic plan six votes short and the GOP approach 29 votes short.
In the Senate, the GOP plan was 15 votes short and the Democratic proposal six votes short.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said negotiations will continue on ways to close the $19.1 billion budget deficit.
"I feel an urgency, but not an urgency at any price, and that's really what this has come down to," Steinberg said.
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