BILL NUMBER: SB 1397	CHAPTERED  09/26/02

	CHAPTER  932
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 26, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 26, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 8, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Costa
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Florez)

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2002

   An act to add Section 47613.2 to the Education Code, relating to
charter schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1397, Costa.  Charter schools:  funding.
   Existing law authorizes a school district's revenue limit to be
determined using either the current or prior fiscal year average
daily attendance, whichever is greater.  Under existing law, a
charter school that was assigned a number by the State Board of
Education before June 1, 1999, may choose to be funded for the
1999-2000, 2000-01, and 2001-02 fiscal years through the base revenue
limit method or the block grant method.
   This bill would authorize the revenue limit of an elementary
school district to be determined using either the current or prior
year second principal apportionment average daily attendance,
whichever is greater, if all the schools in the district were
converted to charter schools in the 2000-01 fiscal year and the
district continued to be funded through the base revenue limit
method.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 47613.2 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   47613.2.  Notwithstanding Sections 47613.1 and 47661, for the
2000-01 fiscal year, the revenue limit of an elementary school
district may be determined using either the current or prior year
second principal apportionment average daily attendance, whichever is
greater, if all the schools in the district were converted to
charter schools in the 2000-01 fiscal year and the district continued
to be funded through the base revenue limit method.