BILL NUMBER: AB 2033 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 1, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Salas
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Bigelow, Gray, and Perea)
(Principal coauthors: Senators Cannella, Galgiani, Nielsen, and
Vidak)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Bocanegra, Bradford,
Buchanan, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Eggman, Fox, Frazier,
Harkey, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Logue, Maienschein, Mullin,
Olsen, Pan, Patterson, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk-Silva, Williams, and
Yamada)
(Coauthors: Senators Anderson, Berryhill, Hueso, and Roth)
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to amend Section 52461 of the Education Code,
relating to career technical education, and making an
appropriation therefor. education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2033, as amended, Salas. Agricultural career technical
education: grant funding.
(1) Existing law
provides funding for various career technical education programs,
including regional occupational centers and programs, specialized
secondary programs, partnership academies, and agricultural career
technical education programs. Existing law establishes the
Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program,
pursuant to which requires the Superintendent of
Public Instruction is authorized to award
grants to a grant, for the purpose of
purchasing or leasing agricultural career technical education
equipment, to an applicant school districts for
purposes relating to district that operates an
agricultural career technical education programs.
program and that meets specified requirements.
Existing law requires the governing board of each school district
to annually adopt or update a local control and accountability plan
that contains specified information.
This bill would appropriate the sum of $4,134,000 from
the General Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of
funding the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive
Program. This bill would require the Superintendent
to award a grant to a school district that, in
addition to meeting the existing requirements, demonstrates how the
expenditure of the grant funds will be consistent with its adopted
local control and accountability plan. The bill would also
express various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating
to agricultural career technical education.
(2) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the
minimum funding requirements for school districts and community
college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes no
. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and
declares as follows:
(a)
( 1) California, as the leading agriculture
producing state in the nation for over 60 years, has a compelling
interest in ensuring that its school system supports and promotes the
continued development of innovative and thoughtful agricultural
leaders.
(b)
( 2) The Agricultural Career Technical
Education Incentive Program (Article 7.5 (commencing with
Section 52460) of Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Education Code) has given clear guidance and direction to
school districts throughout California in developing and promoting
high-quality program standards.
(c)
( 3) The Agricultural Career Technical
Education Incentive Program has provided financial incentives for
school districts to embark on a systematic and sustained process for
improving the delivery and effectiveness of agricultural education
throughout California.
(d)
( 4) The Future Farmers of America
organization, which is integral to high school instruction, has long
proven itself as an outstanding teaching strategy that promotes
excellence in agriculture agricultural
education for pupils throughout California. The goal of the
California Future Farmers of America organization is to teach and
promote premier leadership, personal growth, and career success among
its members.
(e)
( 5) The Future Farmers of America has a
long and well-established tradition of providing meaningful, relevant
leadership development experiences that have had a positive effect
on the lives of thousands of pupils in their communities.
(f)
( 6) California's reputation for leadership
in a variety of innovative and expanding science, technology,
engineering, and agricultural industries has been made possible
through the availability of well-trained and educated personnel.
(g)
( 7) Cocurricular pupil leadership
organizations enhance the classroom instruction process, provide
opportunities to learn in a laboratory, and provide leadership
training opportunities.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that funds appropriated
for the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program in
the annual Budget Act shall be no less than the amount appropriated
during the 2013-14 fiscal year.
SEC. 2. Section 52461 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
52461. The Superintendent of Public Instruction
shall award grants to applicant school districts
which that meet the following requirements:
(a) The school district shall contribute an amount of funds equal
to the amount of the grant to the purchase or lease of equipment for
use in agricultural career technical education programs.
(b) The school district shall certify to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction that the grant funds
received and the matching funds contributed by the school
district shall be used solely for the purpose of purchasing or
leasing equipment for use in agricultural career technical education
programs.
(c) The school district shall demonstrate how the expenditure of
the grant funds will be consistent with its local control and
accountability plan adopted pursuant to Article 4.5 (commencing with
Section 52060) of Chapter 6.1.
SEC. 2. (a) The sum of four million one hundred
thirty-four thousand dollars ($4,134,000) is appropriated from the
General Fund to the State Department of Education, to be allocated
for purposes of funding the Agricultural Career Technical Education
Incentive Program (Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 52460) of
Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code).
(b) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8
of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the funds appropriated
pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be "General Fund
revenues appropriated for school districts," as defined in
subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the
2014-15 fiscal year, and included within the "total allocations to
school districts and community college districts from General Fund
proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B," as
defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of the Education Code,
for the 2014-15 fiscal year.