BILL NUMBER: SB 1137	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 27, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 22, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Torres
    (   Principal coauthor:   Senator 
 Vidak   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Correa
  ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Conway   ) 

                        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 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 2013-14 fiscal year, annually adjusted as specified,
whichever is greater. 
   The bill would become operative only to the extent that funding is
provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute for the
purposes of the bill. 
   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) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2014-15
fiscal 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 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:
   (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 2013-14 fiscal year school transportation apportionment
amount described in subdivision (a) shall be adjusted annually from
the 2014-15 fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year, inclusive, 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. 
   (c) This section shall be operative only to the extent that
funding is provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute for
the purposes of this section.