Senate Bill No. 660

Introduced by Senator Hancock

February 22, 2013

An act to add Section 52334.7 to the Education Code, relating to career technical education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 660, as introduced, Hancock. Career technical education: funding.

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.

This bill would, for the 2015-16 fiscal year and each subsequent fiscal year, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, using funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for regional occupational centers and programs, to apportion from the amounts provided in the annual Budget Act for those purposes an amount to each county office of education, school district, and joint powers agency based on the same relative proportion of funding that each county office of education, school district, and joint powers agency received in the 2012-13 fiscal year for those purposes. The bill would authorize local educational agencies that operate career technical education programs to form into regions for these purposes and would require the apportioned funds to be expended only to ensure the development and maintenance of a high-quality career technical education program.

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

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 52334.7 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

52334.7.  

(a) Notwithstanding Section 42605 or any other law,
for the 2015-16 fiscal year and each subsequent fiscal year, from
funds appropriated in Items 6110-105-0001, 6110-122-0001,
6110-166-0001, and 6110-167-0001 of Section 2.00 of the annual
Budget Act, the Superintendent shall apportion from the amounts
provided in the annual Budget Act for those items an amount to
each county office of education, school district, and joint powers
agency based on the same relative proportion that each county
office of education, school district, and joint powers agency
received from each of those items in the 2012-13 fiscal year.

(b) Local educational agencies that operate career technical
education programs may form into regions for purposes of this
section.

(c) Notwithstanding any other law, funds apportioned pursuant
to subdivision (a) and funds subject to an agreement entered into
pursuant to subdivision (b) may be expended only to ensure the
development and maintenance of a high-quality career technical
education program.