BILL ANALYSIS AB 1781 Page 1 CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS AB 1781 (Hertzberg) As Amended August 27, 2002 Majority vote ----------------------------------------------------------------- |ASSEMBLY: |54-20|(May 30, 2002) |SENATE: |23-0 |(August 28, | | | | | | |2002) | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 1781 Page 2 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) AB 1781 Page 3 319-2087 FN: 0007642