BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 86 (Budget Committee)
As Amended June 14, 2013
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect
Immediately
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|ASSEMBLY: | |(May 13, 2013) |SENATE: |33-3 |(June 14, |
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(vote not relevant)
Original Committee Reference: BUDGET
SUMMARY : Contains necessary statutory and technical changes in
the area of education in order to implement changes to the
Budget Act of 2013.
The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill,
and instead:
K-12 Education
1)Include statutory provisions that retire a total of $4.3
billion in ongoing Proposition 98 deferrals for K-14 education
in 2012-13 and 2013-14. This leaves an outstanding balance of
$6.2 billion in deferred funding to schools.
2)Appropriate $1.25 billion to school districts, county offices
of education (COEs), charter schools and state special schools
for the purposes of implementing Common Core State Standards.
3)Establish the California Career Pathways Trust. This
competitive grant program for regional partnerships links high
schools, community colleges and businesses to build and
improve career pathway programs.
4)Extend through July 1, 2016, the requirement that the
governing board of any school district seeking to sell or
lease any real surplus property first offer that property for
sale or lease to charter schools that have at least 80 units
of average daily attendance, as specified.
5)Extend flexibility through July 1, 2016, to allow school
districts to deposit the proceeds from the sale of surplus
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property into their general fund.
6)Delete education code sections that are inconsistent with
federal law as it relates to cafeteria funds.
7)Make several changes related to the shifting of the Charter
School Facility Grant Program from the Department of Education
to the California School Finance Authority.
8)Authorize the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to charge
fees for teacher preparation program review, with notification
to Legislature and Department of Finance.
9)Adjust the meal reimbursement rate for free and reduced price
meals in schools to $0.2229 and adjusts the rate for child
care centers to reflect a rate of $0.1660.
10)Suspend the following mandates, consistent with action on
Local Government mandates: Absentee Ballots, Brendon Maquire
Act, Mandate Reimbursement I and II and Sex Offender:
Disclosure by Law Enforcement.
11)Add the Science Graduation Requirement and the Pupil
Expulsions and Suspensions mandates to the K-12 mandate block
grant. The budget bill increases funding for the block grant
by $50 million to reflect the inclusion of these mandates.
12)Modify state law related to Behavior Intervention Plans to
minimize costs related to mandated activities.
13)Consolidate funding for regionalized services and program
specialists and personnel development grants into the larger
AB 602 funding formula to provide more local flexibility in
the use of the funds.
14)Relax restrictions on funding for service to students with
low-incidence disabilities. Consolidates two extraordinary
cost pool budget items into one.
15)Revise the statewide target rate to a weighted student
average based on updated data, and begins to equalize funding
across all special education local plan areas (SELPAs).
16)Extend supplemental per-Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
funding provided to necessary small SELPAs. Authorize growth
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funding and a 1.565% cost of living adjustment.
17)Allocate federal special education funding separately from
state funding to streamline the calculation and correct
inequities in the funding that SELPAs receive when ADA grows
versus the amount they lose when it declines. Specify the
state's federally-required "maintenance of effort"
expenditure.
18)Make the necessary statutory changes to begin the process of
equalizing state special education funding among SELPAs in
2013-14 to the 90th percentile. The Budget Act provided $30
million to begin this process in 2013-14.
19)Suspend the statutory division of Proposition 98 funding
among K-12 educational agencies, community colleges, and other
state agencies, and instead conform the division of funding
based upon actual budget appropriations in 2012-13.
20)Extend the statutory authorization for use of the existing
early literacy assessment for English learners (California
English Development Test (CELDT) exam) by two years.
21)Make statutory changes conforming to zero funding for the
Emergency Repair Program in 2012-13.
22)Authorize Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD), through
the Department of Education, to request cash flow loans from
the General Fund for a total of up to $55 million. This
replaces the authorization established through SB 533
(Wright), Chapter 325, Statutes of 2012, which appropriated
$29 million for an emergency loan to IUSD and authorized an
additional $26 million of lease financing through the
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank
(I-Bank).
23)Authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to
appoint a trustee with the powers and responsibilities of an
administrator when a school district becomes insolvent and
requires an emergency apportionment from the state.
Higher Education
24)Consolidate the K-12 and community college apprenticeship
programs into the community college system while continuing to
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allow local school districts to administer existing programs.
Require the Community College Chancellor's Office and the
Division of Apprenticeship Standards, with participation by
school district and community college apprenticeship
administrators, to develop policies and standards for
apprenticeship programs.
25)Require the Community College Chancellor's Office and State
Department of Education, based on funding provided in the
Budget Act of 2013, to jointly provide planning grants to
regional consortia of community college and school districts
to develop regional plans to improve adult education programs.
Plans are expected to include area adult education needs and
proposals to improve specific portions of adult education,
including English as a second language, career technical
education, education programs for adults with disabilities and
basic skills. Include the requirement of a subsequent report
on improving the adult education system and legislative intent
that additional funding will be provided for adult education
in 2015-16.
26)Eliminate the Community College Fund for Instructional
Improvement, an outdated program, and sweeps the remaining
fund balance of $863,000 into the General Fund.
27)Change the date by which community college districts are
required to submit letters to participate in the mandates
block grant from September 30 to August 30.
28)Allow for a General Fund backfill for community colleges to
the extent that expected property tax revenue from the
dissolution of Redevelopment Agencies does not match
anticipated revenues in the current year and budget year.
29)Allow for a General Fund backfill for community colleges to
the extent that expected tax revenue from the Education
Protection Account, created by Proposition 30, does not match
anticipated revenues in the current year and budget year.
30)Require that community college students who are California
Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
recipients to receive priority enrollment status, allowing
these students who have a shortened amount of time on benefits
to enroll in classes earlier than other students.
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31)Remove the apprenticeship and matriculation categorical
programs at community colleges from the flex, which will
require districts to spend funding associated with these
programs directly on these programs.
Child Care
32)Simplify family fees for families receiving state-subsidized
child care by creating a process for the Department of
Education to adopt a new fee schedule that will provide more
predictable fees through a cost-neutral change to the current
fee structure.
33)Require the Department of Education to report family fees
collects for preschool programs to the Department of Finance.
34)Clarify that current state income eligibility levels for
state child care program continue for the budget year.
35)Contain an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect
immediately upon enactment.
Analysis Prepared by : Misty Feusahrens, Mark Martin and
Christian Griffith / BUDGET / (916) 319-2099
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