BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1781 (Hertzberg)
As Amended August 27, 2002
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |54-20|(May 30, 2002) |SENATE: |23-0 |(August 28, |
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Original Committee Reference: ED.
SUMMARY : Establishes the Instructional Materials Funding
Realignment Program (IMFRP), which provides funding to school
districts to purchase instructional materials. Authorizes
school districts to use funding from the Instructional Materials
Fund (IMF) to purchase supplemental materials and classroom
library materials. Repeals specified provisions of the
California Classroom Library Materials Act (CCLMA) of 1999.
The Senate amendments :
1)Require the State Department of Education (SDE) to apportion
funds for purposes of IMFRP to school districts on the basis
of an equal amount per pupil enrolled in grades K-12 in the
prior year, as specified. Require a school district or
charter school in its first year of operation of expanding
grade levels at a schoolsite to be eligible to receive funding
for IMFRP, based on enrollment estimates provided to SDE by
the school district or the charter school, as specified.
2)Require that pupils be provided with standards-aligned
textbooks or basic instructional materials by the beginning of
the first school term that begins no later than 24 months
after those materials were adopted by the State Board of
Education (SBE).
3)Authorize SBE to grant the school district additional time to
meet the purchasing requirements, as specified, if the
governing board of the school district demonstrates that
specified criteria apply to the district.
4)Require that funds provided for the purchase of instructional
materials in the proposed Budget Act of 2002 be used for
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IMFRP.
5)Establish legislative intent that the following amounts from
the General Fund (GF) be appropriated in the annual Budget Act
or another measure, in each of the fiscal years from 2003-04
to 2006-07, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction:
a) $350 million for the 2003-04 fiscal year;
b) $450 million for the 2004-05 fiscal year;
c) $550 million for the 2005-06 fiscal year; and,
d) $600 million for the 2006-07 fiscal year.
6)Made clarifying and technical changes.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill established IMFRP, which
provides funding to school districts to purchase instructional
materials. Authorizes school districts to use funding from IMF
to purchase supplemental materials and classroom library
materials. Repeals specified provisions of CCLMA of 1999.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Floor Analysis, the
proposed 2002-03 Budget would transfer $395,775,000 to IMF and
allocate $250 million to IMFRP and $145,775,000 in one-time
funding for instructional materials
COMMENTS : This bill is sponsored by the Governor. According to
material provided by the Office of the Secretary of Education,
this proposal is "streamlined to give districts more
flexibility."
In its current form, this bill does repeal the California Public
School Library Act (CPSLA) of 1998, as originally proposed by
the Governor. The Assembly and Senate Budget Subcommittees on
Education took action to add language in the proposed 2002-03
Budget Act that states that the CPSLA Act of 1998 is to be
funded as a separate budget item on an annual basis. Therefore,
the CPSLA Act of 1998 funds are not intended to be included in
IMFRP this fiscal year or future fiscal years.
Analysis Prepared by : Kimberly Rodriguez / ED. / (916)
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