After Impasse, New California Budget Agreement LOS ANGELES - California lawmakers have come to an agreement on a budget. Again. After presenting a budget Tuesday to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that he vowed to veto, the four legislative leaders came to an agreement with the governor Thursday that was expected to go to the full Legislature for a final vote Friday afternoon. The budget, now roughly three months late, has been the source of deep divisions among lawmakers. The state's Democrats wanted to raise the sales tax to help plug a $15 billion hole and stave off steep cuts desired by the Republicans. The governor, who supported a temporary sales tax increase, also demanded that lawmakers include a series of reforms that they declined to adopt in the budget passed last Sunday. If he was not appeased, Mr. Schwarzenegger said, he would become the first governor in the state's recorded history to veto a full budget. As the Legislature moved to cobble together the two-thirds vote to override such a veto, the governor countered that he would veto some 1,000 bills awaiting his signature. In the new version of the budget, Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has won restrictions on lawmakers" access to the state's rainy-day fund and elimination of a plan to raise $1.6 billion by increasing tax withholdings from Californians" paychecks. A proposed tax amnesty program is also now off the table. Lawmakers did not raise the sales tax. Instead, according to a spokeswoman for the Senate president pro tem, Don Perata, a Democrat, lawmakers will increase penalties on corporations that understate their taxes by $1 million or more to 20 percent of their earnings, from 10 percent. The budget also pushes many of the state's shortfalls into the coming years with a variety of budget maneuvers that includes lowering the amount of the state's reserve fund to $800 million from $1.2 billion. "At this point it appears that there is an agreement," said Matt David, the governor's communication director. Referring to the leaders of both parties from the Assembly and Senate, Mr. David said, "We will confirm it after they meet tomorrow morning." The state has been unable to pay vendors, health care clinics, colleges and various state employees during the standoff; the state's fiscal year began July 1. "Hopefully, this will bring an end to the 80-plus days of pain," the Assembly speaker, Karen Bass, a Democrat, said at a news conference Thursday afternoon in Sacramento.