BILL NUMBER: SB 1137	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Torres

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 41850.5 to the Education Code, relating to
school transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1137, as amended, Torres. School transportation:
apportionments.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school.
Existing law, among other things, requires each school district or
county office of education that provides transportation to receive
the same home-to-school and special education transportation
allowances that it received in the prior fiscal year and prohibits
the transportation allowances from exceeding the prior year's
approved transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in
the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
for the 2014-15 fiscal year to the  2019-20  
2020-21  fiscal year, inclusive, to apportion to each school
district, county office of education, entity providing services under
a school transportation joint powers agreement, or a regional
occupational center or program that provides pupil transportation an
amount equal to a specified annually increasing percentage of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100% of
its school transportation apportionment for the  prior
  2013-14  fiscal year,  adjusted as specified,
 whichever is greater.
   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 41850.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   41850.5.  (a)  (1)   
Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2014-15 fiscal  year,
  year to the 2020-21 fiscal year, inclusive,  the
Superintendent shall apportion to each school district, county office
of education, entity providing services under a school
transportation joint powers agreement, or regional occupational
center or program that provides pupil transportation services
 an amount equal to 40 percent of its approved transportation
costs for the prior fiscal year or 100 percent of its school
transportation apportionment for the prior fiscal year, whichever is
greater.   either 100 percent of its school
transportation apportionment for the 2013-14 fiscal year, as adjusted
by subdivision (b), or the following amount, whichever is greater:
 
   (2) For the 2015-16 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall
apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity
providing services under a school transportation joint powers
agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
pupil transportation services an amount equal to 42 percent of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100
percent of its school transportation apportionment for the prior
fiscal year, whichever is greater.  
   (3) For the 2016-17 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall
apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity
providing services under a school transportation joint powers
agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
pupil transportation services an amount equal to 44 percent of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100
percent of its school transportation apportionment for the prior
fiscal year, whichever is greater.  
   (4) For the 2017-18 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall
apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity
providing services under a school transportation joint powers
agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
pupil transportation services an amount equal to 46 percent of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100
percent of its school transportation apportionment for the prior
fiscal year, whichever is greater.  
   (5) For the 2018-19 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall
apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity
providing services under a school transportation joint powers
agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
pupil transportation services an amount equal to 48 percent of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100
percent of its school transportation apportionment for the prior
fiscal year, whichever is greater.  
   (6) For the 2019-20 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall
apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity
providing services under a school transportation joint powers
agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
pupil transportation services an amount equal to 50 percent of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100
percent of its school transportation apportionment for the prior
fiscal year, whichever is greater.  
   (1) For the 2014-15 fiscal year, 41 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.  
   (2) For the 2015-16 fiscal year, 42.5 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.  
   (3) For the 2016-17 fiscal year, 44 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.  
   (4) For the 2017-18 fiscal year, 45.5 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.  
   (5) For the 2018-19 fiscal year, 47 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.  
   (6) For the 2019-20 fiscal year, 48.5 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.  
   (7) For the 2020-21 fiscal year, 50 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year. 
   (b) The  amounts apportioned pursuant to this section
  2013-14 fiscal year school transportation
apportionment amount described in subdivision (a)  shall be
adjusted by the percentage change in the annual average value of the
Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of
Goods and Services for the United States, as published by the United
States Department of Commerce for the 12-month period ending in the
third quarter of the prior fiscal year. This percentage change shall
be determined using the latest data available as of May 10 of the
preceding fiscal year compared with the annual average value of the
same deflator for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of
the second preceding fiscal year, using the latest data available as
of May 10 of the preceding fiscal year, as reported by the Department
of Finance.