BILL NUMBER: SB 63	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        JANUARY 9, 2013

   An act to amend Section 48031 of the Education Code, relating to
school attendance, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 63, as introduced, Wolk. School attendance: high schools.
   Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and
secondary schools in this state. Existing law also establishes school
districts throughout the state, and authorizes these school
districts to operate schools and to provide instruction to pupils.
Existing law establishes a system for the funding of public
elementary and secondary schools which includes, among other things,
the apportionment of state funds to school districts in accordance
with specified computations. Existing law provides for various types
of school districts, including elementary school districts, which
operate only elementary schools, high school districts, which operate
only secondary schools, and unified school districts, which operate
both elementary and secondary schools. Existing law provides that any
person who is eligible to attend high school, and who does not
reside in a high school district or a unified school district, may
attend high school in any high school district or unified school
district in the county in which he or she resides or in another
county.
   This bill would specify computations to be made under this
provision in the event that a pupil attends a high school in a basic
aid school district, and would require the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to apportion the amount computed under this bill to the
school district of attendance from Section A of the State School
Fund, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would define a basic
aid school district to mean a school district that does not receive
from the state an apportionment of state funds pursuant to a
specified statute in any fiscal year in which this provision is
applied.
   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 48031 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   48031.   (a)    Any person who is eligible to
attend high school  ,  and who does not reside in a high
school district or in a unified school district  ,  may
attend high school in any high school district or unified school
district in the county in which he or she resides or in another
county. 
   (b) If, pursuant to subdivision (a), a pupil attends a high school
in a basic aid school district, the Superintendent shall apportion
from Section A of the State School Fund the allowance computed under
subdivision (c) to the school district of attendance.  
   (c) The Superintendent shall compute an allowance for a basic aid
school district for the purposes of this section as follows: 

   (1) Compute, for the fiscal year of attendance, the statewide
average revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance for high
school districts with 300 or more units of average daily attendance.
 
   (2) Multiply the amount computed under paragraph (1) by the second
period average daily attendance, as defined in Section 41601, for
the fiscal year of attendance of pupils attending a high school
pursuant to subdivision (a).  
   (3) Multiply the amount computed under paragraph (2) by
seven-tenths.  
   (d) For purposes of this section, "basic aid school district"
means a school district that does not receive from the state, for any
fiscal year in which this section is applied, an apportionment of
state funds pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 42238.  
   (e) The allowance computed under subdivision (c) shall be computed
only with respect to school districts that accept pupils residing in
territory, or within an elementary school district, that was not
within the territory of either a high school district or a unified
school district during the 2012-13 fiscal year.