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Bill No: SB 1028
Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Amended: 8/30/12
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available
SUBJECT : 2012-13 Budget Trailer Bill: Education
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes necessary statutory changes in
the area of education in order to enact modifications to
the 2012-13 Budget Act.
Assembly Amendments delete the intent of the Legislature to
enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2012,
and insert the above language.
ANALYSIS : This bill makes necessary statutory changes in
the area of education in order to enact modifications to
the 2012-13 Budget Act. Specifically, this bill:
1. Amends the Budget Act of 2011 to make a technical
scoring correction that is a part of a Proposition 98
funding swap for special education utilized to achieve
one-time budget savings in 2011-12.
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2. Corrects the appropriations for the Quality Education
Investment Act (QEIA) program in 2013-14 to reflect
amounts agreed to as a part of the 2012-13 Budget Act.
3. Makes changes to existing statute to ensure that
intercept payments related to facilities working capital
financing and bond issuances through the California
School Finance Authority for districts, counties,
charter schools and community colleges includes all
funds dispersed to them, as specified, regardless of
fund source.
4. Adds five small mandates to the K-12 education mandate
block grant established by the 2012-13 Budget that were
inadvertently left off the mandates block grant list.
5. Requires the State Board of Education, the Health and
Human Services Agency and the Department of Social
Services to repeal regulations related to county mental
health services that are no longer supported by statute.
6. Reinstates the expectation that the University of
California (UC) will enroll a total of 209,977
state-supported full-time equivalent students during the
2012-13 academic year. This target was included in the
Budget Act of 2012 but was subsequently vetoed by the
Governor. As a condition of receipt of state General
Fund (GF) in 2012-13, requires the UC to report to the
Legislature by May 1, 2013, on whether it has met the
enrollment goal.
7. Appropriates $4.75 million in 2006 General Obligation
(GO) bond funds for the costs of preliminary plans and
working drawings for a new Classroom and Academic Office
Building at UC Merced. Includes budget bill provisional
language, which has been included in the past several
budgets on GO-bond funded UC capital outlay projects, to
authorize expenditure of any savings as specified and
require payment of prevailing wage rates.
8. Clarifies existing law, adopted as part of the 2011
Budget Act, that an institution that is ineligible to
participate in the Cal Grant program shall regain its
eligibility in the academic year for which it satisfies
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the eligibility requirements. Under current law,
federally reported cohort default rate (CDR) and
graduation rate data is certified by the California
Student Aid Commission (CSAC) in October of each year.
That data becomes the basis for program eligibility in
the following academic year. Existing law also
specifies that an institution must have a CDR under
15.5% and a graduation rate greater than 30% to be
eligible for the program. This amendment clarifies that
an institution that is ineligible in the 2012-13
academic year shall regain its eligibility in the
2013-14 academic year if it satisfies the eligibility
tests based on the fall 2012 data. The CSAC has
interpreted current law to read as a two-year exclusion
from the program.
9. Appropriate $5 million from the golden State
Scholarshare Trust Fund to the Chancellor of the
California State University to fund the establishment
and maintenance of the California Open Education
Resources Council and the California Digital Open
Sources Library, and the development or acquisition of
open education resources, pursuant to legislation.
Further, the amendments allow the Chancellor to
reimburse California community colleges and the UC for
any of their costs associated with these activities.
Moneys appropriated would be required to be matched 100%
by private funds prior to being encumbered.
10.Contains an appropriation allowing this bill take effect
immediately upon enactment.
Comments
This bill makes necessary technical and clarifying changes
in the area of education in order to enact modifications to
the 2012-13 Budget Act.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
Appropriates $230,000 in federal Individuals with
Disabilities Act carryover funds to the California
Department of Education for oversight and technical
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monitoring related to behavior intervention plans.
Appropriates $4.75 million in 2006 GO bond funds for the
costs of preliminary plans and working drawings for a new
classroom and academic office building at UC Merced.
Appropriates $361 million for the QEIA in 2013-14.
Appropriates $5 million from State Scholarshare funds to
the California State University, pursuant to legislation as
specified.
PQ:k 8/31/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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