BILL NUMBER: SB 660	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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.