BILL NUMBER: AB 987	CHAPTERED  07/06/04

	CHAPTER  105
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 6, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 5, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 24, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 3, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Keene

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to amend Section 42285.3 of the Education Code, relating to
schools, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 987, Keene.   School finance:  necessary small schools.
   (1) Existing law provides that a unified school district that
meets certain criteria is eligible to receive apportionments pursuant
to the schedules for a necessary small school and a necessary small
high school, as specified.  Existing law requires a school district
that receives those apportionments to report to the State Department
of Education and the Department of Finance by July 1, 2001,
concerning the plan of the district to address its need for
additional funding after the January 1, 2005, date of repeal of this
authority.
   This bill would  delete that reporting requirement.
   (2) Under existing law, these provisions become inoperative on
July 1, 2004, and are repealed as of January 1, 2005.
   This bill would delete the repeal date, thereby extending the
operation of these provisions indefinitely.
   (3) This bill would declare that it would take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 42285.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   42285.3.  Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 42280 or any
other provision of law, a unified school district that is the only
school district in a county, that has received more than two million
seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) in federal Forest Reserve
funds in the 1992-93 school year and less than one million three
hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds
in the 1996-97 school year, and that has fewer than 4,501 units of
average daily attendance in the 1997-98 school year or in subsequent
school years shall be eligible to receive apportionments pursuant to
the schedules for a "necessary small school" and a "necessary small
high school," as set forth in this article, for up to the total
number of schools in the district that would have met the criteria
for classification as a necessary small school or a necessary small
high school in the 1996-97 fiscal year, if the district had fewer
than 2,501 units of average daily attendance in the 1996-97 fiscal
year, except that this section does not apply in a school year in
which an otherwise eligible school district receives more than two
million dollars ($2,000,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure the continuation of funding of certain schools
and high schools in certain unified school districts as necessary
small schools and necessary small high schools, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.