BILL NUMBER: SB 826	CHAPTERED  09/29/03

	CHAPTER  600
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ashburn

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act to add and repeal Section 42283.6 of the Education Code,
relating to the Hot Springs Elementary School District.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 826, Ashburn.  Hot Springs Elementary School District.
   Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to make
certain computations for each necessary small school of school
districts with fewer than 2,501 units of average daily attendance, as
specified.
   This bill would, until July 1, 2008, deem Hot Springs Elementary
School, which is within the Hot Springs Elementary School District, a
necessary small school.  The bill would, instead of the necessary
small school apportionment, apportion $50,000 to the Hot Springs
Elementary School District in addition to the amount per unit of
average daily attendance received by the district and calculated as
specified if the school does not exceed 28 units of average daily
attendance in any fiscal year.
   The bill would declare that, due to the unique situation of the
Hot Springs Elementary School District, a general statute cannot be
made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution, and the enactment of a special statute is
therefore necessary.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 42283.6 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   42283.6.  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this article or any
other provision of law, Hot Springs Elementary School shall be
deemed a necessary small school, as defined in Section 42283.
Instead of the amount calculated for necessary small schools, and in
addition to the amount per unit of average daily attendance received
by the district, as calculated pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with
Section 42238), the Hot Springs Elementary School District shall
receive in each fiscal year, commencing with the 2003-04 fiscal year,
a fifty-thousand-dollar ($50,000) apportionment for Hot Springs
Elementary School.
   (b) If Hot Springs Elementary School exceeds 28 units of average
daily attendance in any fiscal year, that school is no longer
entitled to receive the apportionments set forth in subdivision (a).

   (c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2008, and, as
of January 1, 2009, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted 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 a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances of the Hot Springs Elementary
School District.  The facts constituting the special circumstances
that distinguish it from other school districts are the
disproportionate impact that the designation of the Sequoia National
Monument has had on the district.