BILL NUMBER: AB 2950	CHAPTERED  09/29/04

	CHAPTER  898
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 29, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 17, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Goldberg

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2004

   An act to amend Section 17078.27 of the Education Code, relating
to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2950, Goldberg.  Critically overcrowded school facilities.
   Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998,
requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school
districts, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for
construction and modernization of school facilities, including
hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and
acquisition.  Eligibility for new construction funding under the act
is determined, in part, by calculating enrollment projections
determined by utilizing a cohort survival enrollment projection
system.
   Existing law also includes provisions that make apportionments,
for eligible applicants with critically overcrowded schools, in
advance of full compliance with all the application requirements
otherwise required for an apportionment.  Under existing law, upon
the completion of preliminary process procedures required by the act,
the apportionment made in advance of full compliance is converted
into a final apportionment when the preliminary applicant complies
with all the conditions required for a final apportionment.
   This bill would provide alternative methods for an applicant in
the critically overcrowded schools program to calculate enrollment
for purposes of determining eligibility for a final apportionment for
a project funded from the Kindergarten-University Public Education
Facilities Bond Act of 2002.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 17078.27 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   17078.27.  (a) Upon completion of the preliminary process
authorized pursuant to this article, and when a preliminary applicant
has complied with the conditions set forth in this chapter for a
final apportionment, including, but not limited to, Section 17070.50,
the board shall adjust the preliminary apportionment as set forth in
subdivision (b) and as necessary to reflect the current eligible
grant amounts for final apportionments pursuant to this chapter
consistent with regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (c) of
Section 17078.24.  The board shall then convert the adjusted
preliminary apportionment to a final apportionment and proceed to
completion of the project in the same manner as for any project
funded under provisions of this chapter other than this article.
   (b) The board may adjust for cost increases only if uncommitted
funds reserved expressly for the purposes of this article remain
available for those purposes.
   (c) For purposes of calculating enrollment to determine
eligibility for a final apportionment for a project funded from the
Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2002,
as set forth in Part 68.1 (commencing with Section 100600), an
applicant may use one of the following methods as an alternative to
the method provided in subdivision (a) of Section 17071.75:
   (1) The current year enrollment as recorded on the cohort survival
enrollment projection system described in subdivision (a) of Section
17071.75, for the year in which the application for the final
apportionment is submitted.
   (2) (A) If eligibility for the preliminary apportionment was
calculated pursuant to Section 17071.76, the current year or
five-year projected enrollment as recorded on a cohort survival
enrollment projection system, developed and approved by the board,
that uses pupil residence in the high school attendance area, for the
year in which the application for the final apportionment is
submitted.
   (B) A district that uses the method described in this paragraph to
calculate enrollment shall also use this method to calculate
enrollment for all applications it submits for final apportionments
for projects for which preliminary apportionments were approved from
the same bond authorization.