BILL NUMBER: SB 604	CHAPTERED  08/22/06

	CHAPTER  139
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 22, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 22, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 10, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  JANUARY 26, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 4, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 19, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Aanestad

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2005

   An act to amend Section 47652 of the Education Code, relating to
school funding.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 604, Aanestad  Charter schools: funding.
   Existing law provides that a charter school in its first year of
operation is eligible to receive funding for a specified advance
apportionment based on an estimate of average daily attendance for
the current fiscal year, as specified.
   This bill would permit advance apportionment for a charter school
in its 2nd or later year of operation that is adding one or more
grade levels. The bill would base the apportionment on the part of
the average daily attendance at the 2nd principal apportionment for
the prior year that was attributable to pupils in the highest grade
served by the charter school.
   The bill would make additional, nonsubstantive changes to
provisions in existing law.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 47652 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   47652.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 41330, a charter school in its
first year of operation shall be eligible to receive funding for the
advance apportionment based on an estimate of average daily
attendance for the current fiscal year, as approved by the local
educational agency that granted its charter and the county office of
education in which the charter-granting agency is located. For
charter schools approved by the state board, estimated average daily
attendance shall be submitted directly to, and approved by, the
department. Not later than five business days following the end of
the first 20 schooldays, a charter school receiving funding pursuant
to this section shall report to the department its actual average
daily attendance for that first month, and the Superintendent shall
adjust immediately, but not later than 45 days, the amount of its
advance apportionment accordingly.
   (b) In addition to funding received pursuant to Section 41330, a
charter school in its second or later year of operation also shall be
eligible to receive an advance apportionment pursuant to the process
and conditions described in subdivision (a) in any year in which the
charter school is adding at least one grade level. The average daily
attendance funded for a new grade level shall not exceed the portion
of the certified average daily attendance at the second principal
apportionment for the prior year that was attributable to pupils in
the highest grade served by the charter school.
   (c) A charter school in its first year of operation may only
commence instruction within the first three months of the fiscal year
beginning July 1 of that year. A charter school shall not be
eligible for an apportionment pursuant to subdivision (a), or any
other apportionment for a fiscal year in which instruction commenced
after September 30 of that fiscal year.