(1) Existing law provides a deficit factor for the revenue limit of each county superintendent of schools.
This bill would provide that the revenue limit for the 1999–2000 fiscal year for each county superintendent of schools shall be reduced by a 8.628% deficit factor.
(2) Under existing law, on or before June 30, 1999, the State Department of Education is required to develop prekindergarten learning development guidelines. The development of these guidelines is required to be funded from funds appropriated for this purpose in the Budget Act of 1998. The guidelines are required to focus on preparing 4- and 5-year-old children for kindergarten. The guidelines are required to be articulated with the academic content and performance standards adopted by the State Board of Education for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
This bill would require the State Department of Education in future expenditure plans for quality improvement activities to include funding for periodically updating and distributing the guidelines, and providing education, outreach, and training services to implement the guidelines. The bill would require child and development programs for migrant families, state preschool, and general child care and development programs to use the guidelines.
(3) Under existing law, the Department of Finance and the Department of General Services are required to approve or disapprove annual child care and development program contract funding terms and conditions and contract face sheets submitted by the State Department of Education not more than 30 working days from the date of submission, unless unresolved conflicts remain between the Department of Finance, the State Department of Education, and the Department of General Services.
This bill would require alternative payment child care systems, as defined, to be subject to rates established in the Regional Market Rate Survey of California Child Care Providers and would require the State Department of Education to contract to conduct and complete the annual Regional Market Rate Survey. The bill would require the Department of Finance to provide to the State Department of Education the State Median Income amount for a 4-person household in California based on the best available data, and would require the State Department of Education to adjust its fee schedule for child care providers to reflect this updated state median income.
(4) Existing law establishes the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating elementary, middle, and junior high schoolsites.
This bill would provide that the program is also established to serve pupils at charter schoolsites.
(5) Under existing law, there is the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science created to establish a multidisciplinary mathematics and science program to enable pupils with demonstrated academic excellence in mathematics and science to receive intensive training in these subjects. The summer school is governed by the State Board of Education and required to provide a training ground for pupils who wish to study advanced mathematics or science or to pursue careers that require a high degree of mathematics or scientific training. This program is repealed on January 1, 2004.
This bill would instead provide that the program is established to provide academic development to enable pupils with demonstrated academic excellence in mathematics and science to receive intensive educational enrichment in these subjects and an opportunity for pupils who wish to study advanced mathematics or science or to pursue careers that require a high degree of skills and knowledge mathematics or science. This bill would request that the Regents of the University of California to operate the summer school, and would make conforming changes to this program transferring its operation and governance from the State Board of Education to the Regents of the University of California. The bill would continue the summer school indefinitely. The bill would appropriate $1,000,000 to the University of California for purposes of the summer school that was appropriated from the General Fund to the State Board of Education.
(6) Under the Academic Improvement and Achievement Act, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to recommend, and the State Board of Education is required to adopt, criteria and regulations for the implementation of the act. This act defines “qualifying school” to mean a comprehensive high school that provides instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, with a percentage of pupils who graduate from the school and are eligible for admission to the California State University or the University of California in the following year that is below the statewide average according to information from the California Postsecondary Education Commission. The act requires local educational agencies to be invited to apply to receive funds for qualifying schools, subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose, and provides that funds allocated may not exceed $100 per pupil, nor shall be less than $20,000 at a qualifying school in any single fiscal year.
This bill would delete the requirement to adopt regulations. The bill would revise the definition of “qualifying school” to mean a comprehensive high school that provides instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, with a percentage of pupils who graduate from the school and enroll in the California State University or the University of California in the following year that is below the statewide average according to information from the commission. The bill would delete the requirement that a minimum of $20,000 be allocated to a qualifying school.
(7) Under existing law, the Controller is required during each fiscal year commencing with the 1980–81 fiscal year, to transfer from Section A of the State School Fund such sums, in addition to the sums accruing from other sources, that provide in Section A of the State School Fund for apportionment during the fiscal year a total amount per pupil in average daily attendance during the preceding fiscal year credited to all elementary, high, and unified school districts and to all county superintendents of schools in the state, as certified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, of $180.
This bill would require the Controller, commencing with the 1999–2000 fiscal year, to also transfer additional amounts necessary to meet computed apportionments of general-purpose funding for charter schools. This provision would become inoperative on July 1, 2002, and would be repealed on January 1, 2003.
(8) Existing law, the California Public School Library Protection Act, requires the State Department of Education to issue to qualifying school districts grants for the purpose of improving school libraries. Existing law, the California Public School Library Act of 1998, provides for the transfer of certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act to the California Public School Library Protection Fund for apportionment to school districts for the support of a districtwide school library plan and for expenditure for library resources.
This bill would establish the California Classroom Library Materials Act of 1999, and would require the act to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The bill would authorize any school district that maintains a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 4, inclusive, to apply for this funding under the act, and would authorize charter schools to apply for funding on their own behalf or through their chartering entity. The bill would require, as a condition of receiving funding under the act, school districts to develop a districtwide kindergarten and grade 1 to grade 4, inclusive, classroom library plan and to receive certification of the plan from the governing board of the school district. The bill would impose certain requirements regarding the development of the plan, including a means of preventing loss, damage, or destruction of materials.
The bill would establish a fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Business Organizations and Opportunities for Kids Fund to be administered by the State Librarian in consultation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The bill would require moneys donated by private entities for the purchase of classroom reading materials to be deposited in this fund. The bill would provide that moneys in that fund are available for expenditure only upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other act.
The bill would require funds apportioned for purposes of the act to be apportioned to schools in an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance reported in the second principal apportionment of the prior fiscal year for kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 4, inclusive, and would require schoolsites to expend the funds to purchase grade-level appropriate reading materials.
(9) Existing law, as amended by Chapter 1 of the 1999–2000 First Extraordinary Session to become operative January 1, 2000, requires the governing board of each school district maintaining any or all of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer summer school instructional programs for pupils enrolled in those grades who do not demonstrate sufficient progress toward passing the exit examination required for high school graduation. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of any school district that offers certain summer school instructional programs to offer summer school programs for instruction in mathematics, science, and other core academic areas.
This bill would authorize school districts to provide this instruction during the summer, after school, Saturday, or during intersession, or in any combination of summer, after school, Saturday, or intersession instruction, but in addition to the regular schoolday and would apply these provisions to charter schools, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
(10) Existing law authorizes the governing board of each school district maintaining any or all of grades 2 to 6, inclusive, to offer programs of direct, systematic, and intensive supplemental instruction to pupils enrolled in grades 2 to 6, inclusive, with low mathematics, reading, or written expression scores to allow those pupils to achieve proficiency in standards adopted by the State Board of Education.
The bill would apply those provisions to charter schools.
(11) Existing law limits a school district’s maximum entitlement for reimbursement for pupil attendance in core curriculum area summer school programs and vocational work experience summer school to be an amount equal to 7% of the district’s total enrollment for the prior fiscal year multiplied by 120 hours, multiplied by the hourly rate for the current fiscal year.
This bill would revise the manner in which summer school attendance is calculated and apply these provisions to charter schools.
(12) Under existing law, the California Constitution requires a minimum level of funding for school districts and community college districts.
This bill would provide that if, as the result of an audit or review, as defined, a local education agency is required to repay as apportionment significant audit exception the total amount of disallowed apportionment claims be subtracted from the allocation that the local educational agency would otherwise receive pursuant to this constitutional provision.
This bill would provide for the establishment of a repayment plan for a district with disallowed apportionment claims by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Finance.
(13) Under existing law, for the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, allocations calculated to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community colleges is required to be distributed in accordance with certain calculations. This provision does not apply to the fiscal years 1992–93 to 1998–99, inclusive.
This bill would provide that this provision does not apply to fiscal year 1999–2000.
(14) Under existing law, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to compute an inflation adjustment in accordance with a formula for the 1986–87 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.
This bill would revise the formula for the 1999–2000 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter.
This bill would also provide that the revenue limit for each school district shall be reduced by an 6.996% deficit factor, for the 1999–2000 fiscal year.
(15) Under existing law, the county superintendent of instruction is required to compute an amount for each school district’s summer school attendance in accordance with a specified formula.
This bill would require the county superintendent of instruction to compute an amount for each charter school’s summer school attendance in the same manner, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
(16) Existing law requires that a person to be employed in a position not requiring certification qualifications, except a secondary school pupil employed in a temporary or part-time position by the governing board of the school district having jurisdiction over the school attended by the pupil, to be fingerprinted for purposes of a criminal history check by the Department of Justice.
This bill would require the Department of Justice to process all requests from a school district, an employer, or a human resources agency for criminal history information on a volunteer to be used in a school pursuant to the provisions that relate to persons employed by a school district that do not require certification qualifications.
(17) Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to set a fee for the issuance and renewal of teaching and service credentials that may not exceed $70 and to charge a single fee, not to exceed the charge for a single supplemental credential, for all supplemental credentials applied for at the same time.
This bill would authorize the commission to waive those fees for first-time teaching credential applicants subject to funds being appropriated expressly for this purpose in the annual Budget Act.
(18) Existing law sets forth a formula for computing the amount that a school district may be reimbursed for the costs of its voluntary program designed to remedy the harmful effects of racial segregation. Existing law provides that, commencing with the 1998–99 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the amount that the Sacramento City Unified School District may be reimbursed for the costs of its voluntary desegregation program shall not exceed the amount in excess of 1/5 of the audited desegregation cost approved by the Controller and actually incurred in the 1990–91 fiscal year, reduced by the federal desegregation reimbursement of $3,096,989 received in the 1990–91 fiscal year, as adjusted for inflation and changes in enrollment, as specified.
This bill would provide that notwithstanding this provision, commencing with the 1998–99 fiscal year, the Sacramento City Unified School District’s level of reimbursement shall be calculated based on actual reimbursements received for its 1998–99 voluntary desegregation audited claim.
(19) Under existing law, each fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to provide each eligible school district, county office of education, and charter school applying for a grant under the Instructional Time and Staff Development Reform Program with a staff development allowance of $270 per day for up to 3 days, for each certificated classroom teacher and $140 per day for up to one day for each classified classroom instructional aide and certificated teaching assistant who participates in staff development instructional methods.
This bill would require that these amounts be adjusted annually commencing in the 1999–2000 fiscal year by a specified inflation adjustment and would include conflict resolution as curriculum that may be included in staff development.
(20) Under existing law, school districts are apportioned state funds for home-to-school transportation and special education transportation in accordance with specified formulas.
This bill would provide that a charter school is eligible for funding pursuant to, and shall comply with all requirements of, these provisions and that for purposes of these provisions.
(21) Under existing law, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to apportion to each charter school for each fiscal year (1) from funds appropriated to Section A of the State School Fund for apportionment for that fiscal year, an amount for each unit of regular average daily attendance in the charter school that is equal to the current fiscal year base revenue limit for the school district to which the charter petition was submitted, (2) for each pupil enrolled in the charter school who is entitled to special education services, the state and federal funds for special education services for that pupil that would have been apportioned for that pupil to the school district to which the charter petition was submitted, and (3) funds for specified categorical education programs to the extent that any pupil enrolled in the charter school is eligible to participate.
This bill would delete this provision.
(22) Under existing law, the full apportionment received by the basic aid district, as defined, under certain circumstances, is required to be provided to a charter school, and with respect to any pupil of a charter school located within a basic aid school district who resides in a district other than a basic aid district, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing with the 1998–99 fiscal year, is required to calculate for that school an apportionment of state funds that provides 70 percent of the district revenue limit calculated that would have been apportioned to the school district of residence for any average daily attendance credited.
This bill would repeal this provision.
(23) Under existing law, notwithstanding the provision discussed above, commencing with the 1999–2000 school year and only upon adoption of regulations, charter school operational funding is required to be equal to the total funding that would be available to a similar school district serving a similar pupil population. However, a charter school is not required to be funded as a necessary small school or a necessary small high school, nor receive revenue limit funding that exceeds the statewide average for a school district of a similar type.
This bill would repeal this provision.
(24) This bill would revise the method for funding charter schools. It would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually compute a general-purpose entitlement, as defined, and a categorical block grant amount, as defined, for each charter school. The bill would provide that general-purpose entitlement funding may be used for any public school purposes determined by the governing body of the charter school.
(25) This bill would provide that a charter school may be deemed to be a local educational agency for purposes of special education funding and compliance with applicable federal law.
(26) Under the High-Risk First-Time Offenders Program, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to apportion to each county office of education or school district that operates a program, in addition to funds from all other sources and subject to the limitation specified in the Budget Act or other statute, $3,000 per year for each unit of average daily attendance reported at the annual apportionment for pupil attendance in a program.
This bill would authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an apportionment for startup costs under specified conditions during the 1st year that a county office of education or a school district operates a High-Risk First-Time Offenders Program.
(27) Under the Transitioning High-Risk Youth Program, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to apportion to each county office of education or school district that operates a program, in addition to funds from all other sources and subject to the limitation specified in the Budget Act or other statute, $3,000 per year for each unit of average daily attendance reported at the annual apportionment for pupil attendance in a program.
This bill would authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an apportionment for startup costs under specified conditions during the 1st year that a county office of education or a school district operates a Transitioning High-Risk Youth Program.
(28) Under existing law, in addition to funds from all other sources, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to apportion to each school district that operates a community day school $4,000 per year, and for each county office of education that operates a community day school $3,000 per year, for each unit of average daily attendance reported at the annual apportionment for pupil attendance at community day schools.
This bill would require that this amount be adjusted annually commencing in the 1999–2000 fiscal year for inflation by a specified calculation.
(29) Under existing law, there is a County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team that consists of persons having extensive experience in school district budgeting, accounting, data processing, telecommunications, risk management, food services, pupil transportation, purchasing and warehousing, facilities maintenance and operation, and personnel administration, organization, and staffing.
This bill would establish the California School Information Service, administered by the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, which would be authorized to hire a program administrator. The California School Information Services program administrator would be required to submit to the State Board of Education a plan to administer, coordinate, and manage the development and implementation of an electronic statewide school information system to address current problems of information exchange.
(30) Under existing law, the State Department of Education is required, on behalf of the state, to participate in a specified federal child care food program, and may not terminate its participation in the program unless the Legislature authorizes the termination.
This bill would require the State Department of Education, to the extent permitted by federal law, to adopt regulations to establish eligibility requirements for participation in the child care food program and to impose penalties and sanctions for noncompliance by sponsoring organizations and would authorize the department to establish contracts effective for periods of 12 months or less for sponsoring organizations meeting the department’s high-risk profile.
(31) Existing law provides that parents or guardians of pupils enrolled in public school have specified rights and should have specified opportunities with regard to the education of their children. Existing law requires, upon approval by the State Board of Education, the State Department of Education to make materials that describe a comprehensive partnership at schools that involves parents and guardians of pupils in the public schools of California on or before December 31, 1999, and requires these materials to include information about the possible roles of each parent or guardian, and of each teacher, principal, and other school personnel in fostering and participating in parent involvement activities and programs.
This bill would establish the Parental Involvement Grant Program and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer this program. The bill would authorize any school district or charter school that maintains a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to apply on behalf of a school for funding under the program if the schoolsite council submits an application and a plan that contains certain elements, including, among others, a plan for a program that facilitates significant involvement of parents in their children’s education. The bill would require the plan developed by the schoolsite council to be reviewed and approved by the governing board of the school district or in the case of a charter school, a specified local educational agency, and to be submitted to the State Department of Education together with the application for funding pursuant to this program. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in any fiscal year in which funds are appropriated for making parental involvement grants pursuant to this program, to administer the application process and to award one-time grants, on a competitive basis, in the amount of $25,000.
(32) Under existing law, a school district that elects to continue to operate a class size reduction program in grades 10 to 12, inclusive, is eligible to receive $135 per pupil certified pursuant to this chapter as it read on July 1, 1998, except that total funding shall not exceed the amount received by the school district for the program for grades 10 to 12, inclusive, in the 1997–98 fiscal year.
This bill would increase that amount to $165 per pupil, adjusted annually commencing in the 2000–01 fiscal year by a specified inflation adjustment, except that total funding would not be permitted to exceed the amount received by the school district for the program for grades 10 to 12, inclusive, in the 1997–98 fiscal year.
(33) Under existing law, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to apportion to each applicant district an amount equal to $135 per unit of full-year equivalent enrollment for special education pupils enrolled in special education classes on a full-time basis and the number of pupils enrolled in necessary small schools that receive specified funding if the district certifies an average class size of 20 pupils and not more than 22 pupils in each participating class at each participating school.
This bill would instead provide for an apportionment of $165 per unit of full-year equivalent enrollment for these pupils if the district certifies an average class size of 20 pupils and not more than 22 pupils in each participating class at each participating school, adjusted annually commencing in the 2000–01 fiscal year for inflation.
(34) Under existing law, there is the Elementary School Intensive Reading Program, and the Governor’s Reading Award Program. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, with input from an advisory committee, is required to evaluate these programs on or before November 1, 2000.
This bill would instead require the evaluation of these programs on or before November 1, 2001.
(35) Existing law provides for various programs to serve individuals with exceptional needs, as defined.
This bill would prohibit the Superintendent of Public Instruction from allocating state funds to offset the federal funds withheld.
(36) Under existing law, an individual with exceptional needs, who is eligible to receive special educational instruction, related services, or both, is required to receive educational instruction, services, or both, at no cost to his or her parents or, as appropriate, to him or her.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to send a notice to each member of the governing board of a local education agency within 30 days of the superintendent’s receipt of notification by the federal government that a local educational agency is not in compliance with the Individual’s with Disabilities Education Act or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, or when the Superintendent of Public Instruction determines that the local educational agency is not in compliance with any other special education provision, with a description of those services required by the statute with which the local educational agency is not in compliance. Upon receipt of the notification, the governing board would be required to address the issue of noncompliance at a regularly scheduled public hearing.
(37) Under existing law, for the 1998–99 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to make computations to determine the amount of funding for each special education local plan area, including computations to determine the inflation adjustment for the fiscal year in which the computation is made.
This bill would revise that inflation adjustment.
(38) Under existing law, in order to mitigate the effects of any declining enrollment, commencing in the 1998–99 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to calculate allocations to special education local plan areas based on the average daily attendance reported for the special education local plan area for the fiscal year in which the computation is made or the prior fiscal year, whichever is greater, adjusted for any loss or gain of average daily attendance reported for the special education local plan area due to a reorganization or transfer of territory in the special education local plan area.
This bill would revise that calculation.
(39) Under existing law, the State Board of Education is required to complete the adoption of the portion of pupil assessments that meets certain objectives and that yields valid, reliable estimates of school performance, school district performance, and statewide performance of pupils that, in grades 4, 5, 8, and 10, assess basic academic skills and incorporate the use of direct writing assessment and other assessments of applied academic skills, in the core curriculum areas of reading, writing, and mathematics by December 31, 1999, and the board is required to complete the adoption of that portion of pupil assessments for these pupils in the core curriculum areas of history/social science and science by December 31, 2000.
The bill would instead require the board to adopt performance standards not later than July 15, 2000, and require the board to complete the adoption of the pupil assessments in the core curriculum areas not later than November 15, 2000.
(40) Under the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, known as the STAR Program, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to apportion funds, to enable school districts to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, the achievement test designated by the State Board of Education. The State Board of Education is required to establish the amount of funding to be apportioned, which is up to $8 per test administered to a pupil in grades 2 to 11, inclusive.
This bill would provide, instead of up to $8 per test, that an adjustment to the amount of funding apportioned per test may not be valid without the approval of the Director of Finance, would require that these requests be submitted in writing to the director and the chairpersons of the fiscal committees of the Legislature with accompanying material justifying the proposed adjustment, and would require the director to approve or disapprove the amount within 30 days of receipt of the request and notify the chairpersons of the fiscal committees of the Legislature.
(41) Under the STAR Program, to be eligible for consideration, a test publisher is required to meet certain conditions, including, but not limited to, to provide disaggregated scores, based on limited-English-proficient status and non-limited-English-proficient status, provide disaggregated scores by pupil gender, and to provide disaggregated scores based on whether pupils are economically disadvantaged or not.
This bill would require a test publisher to agree in writing to also provide disaggregated scores for pupils who have individualized education programs and are enrolled in special education, to the extent required by federal law. The bill would also require a school district to be reimbursed by the publisher for unexpected expenses incurred due to the late delivery of testing materials.
(42) Under existing law, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to review existing tests that assess the English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English. These tests are required to include, but not be limited to, an assessment of achievement of these pupils in English reading, speaking, and written skills.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, not later than August 15, 1999, to release a request for proposals for the development of this test or series of tests. The bill would require the State Board of Education, not later than September 15, 1999, to select a contractor or contractors for the development of the test or series of tests, to be available for administration during the 2000–01 school year. The bill would also require the State Board of Education, not later than July 1, 1999, to approve standards for English language development for pupils whose primary language is other than English.
(43) Under existing law, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges are required to develop criteria and standards for the purposes of making the annual budget request for the California Community Colleges to the Governor and the Legislature, and for the purpose of allocating the state general apportionment revenues. Annual revenue adjustments are required to be made to reflect cost changes, using the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services for the United States as published by the United States Department of Commerce, and using the ratio for the 4th calendar quarter of the latest available year to the 4th calendar quarter of the prior year rounded up to the 100th.
This bill would instead require the board of governors to use the same factor as required for school districts.
(44) Under existing law, the California Community Colleges Economic Development Program becomes inoperative on June 30, 1999, and as of January 1, 2000, is repealed.
This bill would extend this program until January 1, 2001.
(45) Under existing law, the fee for filing a notice of appeal in a civil case appealed to a court of appeal is $250 and the fee for filing a petition for a writ within the original civil jurisdiction of a court of appeal is $250.
This bill would increase these amounts to $265.
(46) Under existing law, the $50 of each fee collected in a civil case by the clerk of each court of appeal for filing a notice of appeal is required to be paid into the State Treasury for deposit in a special account in the General Fund known as the California State Law Library Special Account. Existing law provides that this provision is repealed on January 1, 2000.
This bill would increase the fee to $65 and would extend this provision until January 1, 2005, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by extending the duties of the clerk of each court of appeals.
(47) Existing property tax law requires the county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions in accordance with specified formulas and procedures, and generally requires that each jurisdiction be allocated an amount equal to the total of the amount of revenue allocated to that jurisdiction in the prior fiscal year, subject to certain modifications, and that jurisdiction’s portion of the annual tax increment, as defined. Existing property tax law also reduces the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue that would otherwise be annually allocated to the county, cities, and special districts pursuant to these general allocation requirements by requiring, for purposes of determining property tax revenue allocations in each county for the 1992–93 and 1993–94 fiscal years, that the amounts of property tax revenue deemed allocated in the prior fiscal year to the county, cities, and special districts be reduced in accordance with certain formulas. It requires that the revenues not allocated to the county, cities, and special districts as a result of these reductions be transferred to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in that county for allocation to school districts, community college districts, and the county office of education.
This bill would require, for the 1999–2000 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that if, after making these prescribed allocations, a county auditor determines that there are still additional funds to be allocated, that those funds be allocated to the county, cities, and special districts in proportion to the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be shifted from those local agencies to the county’s Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for the relevant fiscal year. This bill would, for the 1999–2000 fiscal year, condition the operation of this allocation provision upon an appropriation, as provided, in the Budget Act of 1999. By imposing new duties in the allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. However, this bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by these provisions for a specified reason.
(48) Under existing law, there is in the Department of the Youth Authority a correctional education authority for the purpose of carrying out the education and training of wards committed to the youth authority.
This bill would provide that for purposes of receiving state funds pursuant to subdivision (b) of Article XVI of the California Constitution (Proposition 98), the correctional education authority is a state agency and is only entitled to state funding for direct instructional services provided to wards attending a course of study. The bill would prohibit the authority from receiving state funds unless the funds are specifically appropriated to the Youth Authority for direct instructional services, and would provide that the authority may not receive additional funds from the State Department of Education under any other program.
(49) Under existing law, $5,000,000 is appropriated from the General Fund to the Library of California Board to fund the startup phase of the Library of California for expenditure in the 1998–99 fiscal year.
This bill would authorize expenditure of these funds in the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 fiscal years, thereby making an appropriation.
(50) This bill would require, notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the state funds for revenue limits to school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter school operational funding certified to the Controller in the 2000–01 fiscal year do not exceed certain amounts as determined by statute.
(51) This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the cost-of-living adjustment for certain items of the Budget Act of 1999 is 1.41% and would provide that these funds are in lieu of the amounts that would otherwise be appropriated.
(52) This bill would reappropriate $15,471,000 from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocations in various amounts on a one-time basis to various school districts for specified purposes.
(53) This bill would appropriate $973,400 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation in various amounts to school districts on a one-time basis for specified purposes. These funds would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community colleges imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(54) This bill would appropriate $134,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation on a one-time basis to school districts and charter schools, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate these funds in specified amounts to school districts and charter schools on an enrollment basis for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and grades 9 to 12, inclusive. These funds would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community colleges imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(55) This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to the 5 Challenger Learner Centers, and would require that each center be allocated an equal amount.
(56) This bill would provide that the unencumbered balance as of June 30, 1999, in the 1997 Omnibus Education Trailer Bill or reimbursement of state-mandated local cost claims submitted by local education agencies is reappropriated to the Controller for the reimbursement of these claims for fiscal years 1995–96 to 1999–2000, inclusive.
(57) The bill would reappropriate $3,320,000 from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for various purposes.
(58) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for transfer to Section B of the State School Fund for the purpose of providing one-time grants to community college districts for the 1999–2000 fiscal year for the purpose of one-time expenditures on high priority projects for instructional equipment, library materials replacement, technology infrastructure, scheduled maintenance, and special repairs. The bill would require these funds to be allocated in an average amount per actual statewide full-time equivalent student enrollment reported for the 1998–99 fiscal year. These funds would be applied toward the minimum funding requirement for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution for the 1998–99 fiscal year.
(59) Existing law requires, and provides a mechanism for, reimbursement of certain school district costs associated with compliance with desegregation plans or orders and voluntary integration programs.
This bill would appropriate $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Controller to provide for the unfunded costs for Sacramento City Unified School District’s 1998–99 voluntary integration program. The bill would require the funds appropriated by these provisions to be counted toward the state’s minimum funding obligation pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution for the 1998–99 fiscal year.
(60) This bill would appropriate a total of $6,724,097 from the General Fund to the State Controller, for allocation to school districts for costs associated with school desegregation pursuant to a prescribed schedule for the 1994–95 and the 1995–96 fiscal years.
This bill would require the funds appropriated by these provisions to be counted towards the state’s minimum funding obligation pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution for years prior to the 1998–99 fiscal year to the extent that obligations remain.
(61) This bill would appropriate $200,000 from the General Fund to the University of California for violence prevention studies.
(62) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement, including the creation of a State Mandates Claims Fund to pay the costs of mandates that do not exceed $1,000,000 statewide and other procedures for claims whose statewide costs exceed $1,000,000.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
(63) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.