Six months after a scathing state audit found that California had failed to track the $24 billion it spent to combat homelessness over the past half-decade, Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have required state homelessness programs to more closely monitor and report their spending.

The California legislature recently concluded its regular session at the end of August, having introduced and discussed more than 2,000 bills. By the Sept. 30 deadline to sign or veto legislation sent his way,