BILL NUMBER: AB 283	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   An act to add Section 84751.3 to the Education Code, relating to
community colleges, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 283, as introduced, Bloom. Community colleges: property tax
revenues.
   Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, in calculating each community college district's
revenue level for each fiscal year, to subtract, among other things,
local property tax revenue specified by law for general operating
support, exclusive of bond interest and redemption, from the total
revenues owed.
   This bill would require the annual Budget Act to specify the total
local property tax revenue, as defined, for community college
districts upon which the General Fund appropriation for community
college districts is based.
   The bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges to certify to the Controller the actual property tax revenue
for the prior year.
   The bill would require the Controller to transfer funds between
the General Fund and Section B of the State School Fund, which is
administered by the California Community Colleges for apportionments
to community colleges, as applicable, based on whether the amount of
property tax revenue received plus any previous amount transferred to
Section B of the State School Fund is greater than or less than the
amount specified in the annual Budget Act. The bill would thereby
make an appropriation. To the extent that the funds appropriated by
this bill are allocated to community college districts for purposes
of the bill, the funds may be applied toward the minimum funding
requirements imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 84751.3 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   84751.3.  (a) The annual Budget Act shall specify the total local
property tax revenue (net of excess) for community college districts
upon which the General Fund appropriation for community college
districts is based. For purposes of this section, "total local
property tax revenue" means local property tax revenue as described
in subdivisions (a) and (d) of Section 84751, and does not include
the revenue described in subdivision (b) of Section 84751.
   (b) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall
certify to the Controller, on or before December 31 of each year, the
actual property tax revenue for the prior year based on information
reported on each district's Annual Financial and Budget Report.
   (c) If the total amount of property tax revenue identified in
subdivision (a) is greater than the amount of property tax revenue
identified in subdivision (b) plus any previous amount transferred to
Section B of the State School Fund pursuant to this section for the
same period, the Controller, at the time of the next general
apportionment certification by the chancellor, shall transfer an
amount equal to the difference from the General Fund to Section B of
the State School Fund for the purposes of Section 84750.5. If the
amount of property tax revenue identified in subdivision (b) plus any
previous amount transferred to Section B of the State School Fund
pursuant to this section is greater than the amount of property tax
revenue identified in subdivision (a) for the same period, the
Controller, at the time of the next general apportionment
certification by the chancellor, shall transfer an amount equal to
the difference from Section B of the State School Fund to the General
Fund.