BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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( Without Reference to File )
SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1028 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
As Amended August 30, 2012
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect
Immediately
SENATE VOTE :Vote not relevant
SUMMARY: 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.
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
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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 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. Current 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 University of
California 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
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immediately upon enactment.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriates $230,000 in federal Individuals
with Disabilities Act (IDEA) carryover funds to the California
Department of Education (CDE) for oversight and technical
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.
COMMENTS: Makes necessary technical and clarifying changes in
the area of education in order to enact modifications to the
2012-13 Budget Act.
Analysis Prepared by : Misty Feusahrens and Sara Bachez/ BUDGET
/ (916) 319-2099
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