BILL NUMBER: AB 303	CHAPTERED  10/07/01

	CHAPTER  551
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 7, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 5, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 3, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dickerson

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2001

   An act to add Section 56213 to the Education Code, relating to
special education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 303, Dickerson.  Special education:  necessary small special
education local plan areas.
   Existing law authorizes certain special education local plan areas
to request designation as necessary small special education local
plan areas if their total reported units of average daily attendance
in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, are less than 15,000
including all of the school districts located in the county or
counties participating in the local plan, except those districts
participating in a countywide special education local plan area
located in an adjacent county that also meets certain criteria.
   This bill would authorize a necessary small special education
local plan area that experiences a reduction in its funding compared
to the prior year, to claim, in addition to the current year funding,
an amount equal to 40% of the reduction.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 56213 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   56213.  If the computation made pursuant to Section 56836.15
results in a reduction in the funding of a necessary small special
education local plan area pursuant to Section 56212, compared to that
local plan area's funding in the prior year, the local plan area may
claim, in addition to the current year funding, an amount equal to
40 percent of the reduction.