BILL NUMBER: AB 348	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Conway

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2013

   An act to  amend Section 41601.7   add and
repeal Section 42283.5  of the Education Code, relating to
 high  school finance.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 348, as amended, Conway. School finance: necessary small
 schools.   schools: Hot Springs Elementary
School District.  
   (1) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to
make certain computations for each necessary small school of each
school district with less than 2,501 units of 2nd principal
apportionment average daily attendance.  
   This bill would, until July 1, 2018, deem Hot Springs Elementary
School and Johnsondale Elementary School, which are within the Hot
Springs Elementary School District, necessary small schools. The bill
would, instead of the necessary small schools apportionment,
apportion $150,000 each fiscal year to the Hot Springs Elementary
School District for those 2 schools in addition to the amount per
unit of average daily attendance received by the school district and
calculated, as specified, if either school does not exceed 28 units
of average daily attendance in any fiscal year.  
   (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as
to the necessity of a special statute for Hot Springs Elementary
School District.  
   Existing law authorizes a school district with an increase or
decrease in the number of units of average daily attendance at a
necessary small high school from the second principal apportionment
to the annual apportionment to request the county superintendent of
schools to adjust the school district's revenue limit or block grant
by utilizing the units of average daily attendance for the annual
apportionment for the necessary small high school in lieu of the
units of average daily attendance for the second principal
apportionment if specified conditions are met. 
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 42283.5 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   42283.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this article or any
other law, Hot Springs Elementary School and Johnsondale Elementary
School, which are within the Hot Springs Elementary School District,
each shall be deemed a necessary small school, as defined in Section
42283. Instead of the amount calculated for necessary small schools,
and in addition to the amount per unit of average daily attendance
received by the Hot Springs Elementary School District, as calculated
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 42238), the Hot
Springs Elementary School District shall receive in each fiscal year,
commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year, a
seventy-five-thousand-dollar ($75,000) apportionment for Hot Springs
Elementary School and a seventy-five-thousand-dollar ($75,000)
apportionment for Johnsondale Elementary School.
   (b) If Hot Springs Elementary School or Johnsondale Elementary
School exceeds 28 units of average daily attendance in a fiscal year,
the school is no longer entitled to receive the apportionments set
forth in subdivision (a).
   (c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2018, and, as
of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

   SEC. 2.    The Legislature finds and declares that a
special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made
applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of the
Hot Springs Elementary School District.  
       
  SECTION 1.    Section 41601.7 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
   41601.7.  A school district with an increase or decrease in the
number of units of average daily attendance at a necessary small high
school from the second principal apportionment to the annual
apportionment may request the county superintendent of schools to
adjust the school district's revenue limit or block grant by using
the units of average daily attendance for the annual apportionment
for the necessary small high school in lieu of the units of average
daily attendance for the second principal apportionment. To qualify
for this adjustment, the following conditions shall be met:
   (1) The increase or decrease in the units of average daily
attendance between the two periods at the necessary small high school
shall be equal to or greater than 15 percent and such increase or
decrease shall be attributable to pupils attending a necessary small
high school that provides a program of education with individualized
instruction in a residential setting at an institution for pupils who
have been placed in foster care for rehabilitation purposes pursuant
to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 200) of Part 1 of Division 2
of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
   (2) The school district reimburses the county superintendent of
schools for the administrative costs of making the adjustment
prescribed by this section.