BILL NUMBER: AB 1820	CHAPTERED  09/10/04

	CHAPTER  481
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 10, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 9, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Maze

                        JANUARY 16, 2004

   An act to add and repeal Section 37700.1 of the Education Code,
relating to schooldays.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1820, Maze.  Four-day school week:  Death Valley Unified School
District.
   Existing law authorizes the Pacific Unified School District, the
Leggett Valley Unified School District, and the Reeds Creek
Elementary School District to operate one or more schools in their
districts on a 4-day school week, so long as the district complies
with specified requirements, including instructional time
requirements.
   This bill would authorize the Death Valley Unified School District
to operate one or more schools in the district on a 4-day school
week.
   The bill would provide that if a school of that district that is
operating on a 4-day school week fails to meet its Academic
Performance Index growth target, the authority of that school to
operate on a 4-day school week would be revoked commencing with the
beginning of the following school year.
   This bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances
regarding the Death Valley Unified School District, a general statute
within the meaning of specified provisions of the California
Constitution cannot be made applicable and a special statute is
necessary.
   This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2009.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 37700.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   37700.1.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Death Valley
Unified School District may operate one or more schools in its
district on a four-day school week, if the district complies with the
instructional time requirements specified in Section 37701 and the
other requirements of this chapter.
   (b) If the school district operates one or more schools on a
four-day week pursuant to this section and the program for the school
year provides less than the 180 days of instruction required under
Section 46200, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall reduce
the base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance for that
fiscal year by the amount the school district would have received for
the increase received pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 46200,
as adjusted in fiscal years subsequent to the 1984-85 fiscal year.
If the school district operates one or more schools on a four-day
school week pursuant to this section and the program provides less
than the minimum instructional minutes required under Section 46201,
the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall reduce the base
revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance for that fiscal
year in which the reduction occurs by the amount the school district
would have received for the increase in the 1987-88 fiscal year base
revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance pursuant to
paragraph (6) of subdivision (b) of Section 42238, as adjusted in the
1987-88 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter.
   (c) If the school district has an exclusive bargaining
representative, the school district may operate a school on a
four-day school week pursuant to this section only if the district
and the representative of each bargaining unit of district employees
mutually agree to that operation in a memorandum of understanding.
   (d) If a school operating on a four-day school week pursuant to
this section fails to meet its Academic Performance Index growth
target pursuant to Section 52052, the authority of that school to
operate on a four-day school week is permanently revoked commencing
with the beginning of the following school year.
   (e) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2008, and, as
of January 1, 2009, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2009, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that due to the unique
circumstances regarding the Death Valley Unified School District, a
general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of
Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution.  Therefore,
the special legislation contained in this act is necessarily
applicable only to the Death Valley Unified School District.