BILL NUMBER: AB 2033 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 4, 2014
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, Alejo,
Bocanegra, Bradford, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Conway,
Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Eggman, Fox, Frazier,
Harkey, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Logue, Maienschein, Mullin,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, V. Manuel Pérez,
Quirk-Silva, Williams, and Yamada)
(Coauthors: Senators Anderson, Block, Berryhill, Hueso,
and Roth)
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to amend Section 52461 of , and to add Section 52463
to, the Education Code, relating to career technical
education. education, and making an appropriation
therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2033, as amended, Salas. Agricultural career technical
education: grant funding.
Existing
(1) Existing law establishes the
Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program, which
requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award a grant,
for the purpose of purchasing or leasing agricultural career
technical education equipment, to an applicant school district that
operates an agricultural career technical education 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 continuously appropriate the sum of
$4,134,000 in each fiscal year beginning with the 2015-16 fiscal year
from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for
purposes of funding the Agric ultural Career Technical
Education Incentive Program. The 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: no yes
. 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:
(1)
(a) 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.
(2)
(b) 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.
(3)
(c) 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.
(4)
(d) 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
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.
(5)
(e) 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.
(6)
(f) 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.
(7)
(g) 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 shall award grants to applicant school
districts 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 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. 3. Section 52463 is added to the
Education Code , to read:
52463. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
the sum of four million one hundred thirty-four thousand dollars
($4,134,000) is hereby continuously appropriated from the General
Fund to the department in each fiscal year beginning with the 2015-16
fiscal year, to be allocated for purposes of funding the
Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program established
pursuant to this article.
(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, for the fiscal year in which the
funds are appropriated, 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, for the fiscal year in
which the funds are appropriated.