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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 104
Author: Committee on Budget
AmendedAmended:6/16/15 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE: 15-1, 6/18/15
AYES: Leno, Nielsen, Allen, Anderson, Beall, Block, Hancock,
Mitchell, Monning, Moorlach, Pan, Pavley, Roth, Stone, Wolk
NOES: Nguyen
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: Not relevant
SUBJECT: Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill makes various statutory changes and
appropriations regarding child care and early childhood
education and K-14 education, necessary for the implementation
of the Budget Act of 2015.
ANALYSIS: This bill makes statutory changes to implement the
2015-16 Budget Act. Specifically, this bill:
K-14 Education Crosscutting Issues
1) Appropriates $3.8 billion in Proposition 98 one-time and
settle up funding to pay down the existing mandate backlog.
Of this, $3.2 billion is allocated to K-12 and over $600
million is provided to community colleges. Includes intent
language that these funds be spent on professional
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development, teacher induction, and supporting
implementation of state-adopted academic content standards.
Includes language that ensures that school districts and
community colleges to not have to remit funding to pay for
disallowed costs identified by audits.
2) Suspends the Proposition 98 split between K-12 education
and the California Community Colleges.
Adult Education
3) Establishes the Adult Education Block Grant program to
provide adult education services through regional consortia.
The Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chancellor
of the Community Colleges jointly approve consortia,
including governance structures and funding allocations,
with the advice of the Executive Director of the State Board
of Education. Of the total funding appropriated for this
program in the Budget Act of 2015, the provision of funding
to school district adult education programs based on the
maintenance-of-effort certification is capped at $375
million, with the remainder allocated to consortia or
consortia members by the superintendent and Chancellor, with
the concurrence of the Executive Director of the State Board
of Education. The language also specifies that joint powers
agencies may participate as adult education consortia
members and that older adults may access programs that
relate to employment or helping children succeed in
elementary and secondary education.
4) Provides for the development and collection of outcome
data relating to the effectiveness of each adult education
consortia in meeting the educational and workforce training
needs of adults. Authorizes the Chancellor and
Superintendent to collaborate on the development of common
outcome data collection, and requires them to report to the
Legislature by November 1, 2015 on progress
5) Changes references to apprenticeship programs in adult
education statutes to pre-apprenticeship training activities
conducted in coordination with apprenticeship programs
approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.
Pre-apprenticeship programs will provide job preparation
training courses that will lead into apprenticeship programs
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Child Care and Development, Early Childhood Education
6) Provides, effective July 1, 2015, a five percent increase
to the Standard Reimbursement Rate, which is used to pay
providers that contract with the California Department of
Education (CDE).
7) Establishes, effective July 1, 2015, the full-day State
Preschool rate for the Standard Reimbursement Rate.
8) Provides, effective October 1, 2015, a 4.5 percent
increase, to the Regional Market Rate (RMR) for all
counties. The RMR is used to pay providers that accept
vouchers.
9) Establishes, effective October 1, 2015, the RMR ceilings,
at the greater of either the 85th percentile of the 2009 RMR
survey, reduced by 10.11 percent; or, the 85th percentile of
the 2005 RMR survey. These ceilings must be calculated to
include the additional 4.5 across-the-board increase, as
discussed above.
10) Increases, from 60 percent to 65 percent of the family
child care home rate, the reimbursement to license-exempt
child care providers, effective October 1, 2015.
11) Requires that adjustment factors for serving specified
infants, toddlers, children with exceptional needs, children
with severe disabilities, children at risk of abuse or
neglect, or limited-English speaking and non-English
speaking children, must apply to a full-day State Preschool
program when reimbursement rates are above the full-day
State Preschool rate.
12) Shifts local educational agencies' "wrap care" into
Proposition 98 guarantee.
13) Requires CDE to convene a stakeholder group to provide
recommendations to streamline data and other reporting
requirements for child care and early learning providers,
and a separate stakeholder group to examine CalWORKs Stage
2, CalWORKs Stage 3, and Alternative Payment Program child
care contract requirements, program and fiscal audits, and
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the process by which contractors are informed of, and
implement, new contract requirements.
14) Establishes income eligibility limits for state subsidized
child care at 70 percent of the state median income that was
in use for the 2007-08 fiscal year, adjusted for family
size.
15) Eliminates the July 1, 2018, sunset on the San Francisco
individualized county child care subsidy pilot program.
16) Provides a cost-of-living adjustment to free and reduced
price meals served at schools and child care centers.
K-12 Education
17) Appropriates $500 million in one-time funds for educator
effectiveness. $490 million is provided for beginning
teacher and administrator support and mentoring;
professional development, coaching, and support services for
teachers who have been identified as needing improvement or
additional support; professional development for teachers
and administrators that is aligned to state academic content
standards; and activities such as training on mentoring and
coaching certificated staff, and training certificated staff
to support effective teaching and learning. $10 million is
provided to the K-12 High Speed Network to provide
professional development and training related to network
management and infrastructure. As a condition of receiving
funds, local educational agencies must develop and adopt a
plan for expenditure of funds. Funds may be expended through
the 2017-18 fiscal year.
18) Establishes the California Career Technical Education
Incentive Grant Program, a competitive grant program
administered by the CDE to provide support for career
technical education in grades K-12, and provides $400
million in 2015-16, $300 million in 2016-17, and $200
million in 2017-18 for this program. Provides competitive
grants in three size related spans (0-140, 140-550, over 550
average daily attendance). Requires a dollar-for-dollar
match from each applicant. Specifies sources of this match,
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states that these sources do not include funding received
through the Career Pathways Trust program. Requires higher
weighting of applicants who do not have a Career Technical
Education program; serve low-income, English learner, and
foster youth students; have a high dropout rate; or are
located in areas with high unemployment rates. Requires
applicants to submit a three year plan for the funds with
specified elements. Allows various local education entities
to apply jointly for this funding. Allows renewal grants
under specified circumstances.
19) Appropriates $145.5 million to the School Facilities
Emergency Repair Account, to fulfill the terms of the
Williams v. State of California settlement.
20) Appropriates $10 million in one-time funds to a county
office of education (or two applying jointly) to provide
technical assistance and to develop and disseminate
statewide resources that encourage and assist local
educational agencies and charter schools in establishing and
aligning schoolwide, data-driven systems of learning and
behavioral supports for the purpose of meeting the needs of
the state's diverse learners in the most inclusive
environments possible.
21) Requires an annual appropriation of $2 million to the Los
Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) for professional
development and leadership training in anti-bias education
and the creation of inclusive and equitable schools.
22) Appropriates $350,000 for support and development of
evaluation rubrics through a contract between the CDE and
the San Joaquin County Office of Education.
23) Appropriates $50,000 to the CDE for increased 2014-15
district claims for teacher dismissal costs.
24) Establishes homeless students as a subgroup for purposes
of the unduplicated pupil counts used in Local Control and
Accountability Plans.
25) Includes intent language that, at full implementation of
the Local Control Funding Formula, local educational
agencies and charter schools report on the resources and
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services provided to serve low-income students, English
learners, and foster youth, and requires that this
information be made available on the CDE website.
26) Shifts funding that has gone to home-to-school joint
powers agencies to the agencies' member school districts,
allows each agency to determine the amount of funding each
member district will receive, and requires that funding
received by each member district continue to be spent on
transportation services.
27) Eliminates the transfer of funds from audit exceptions to
the Educational Telecommunications Fund.
28) Permits, through 2019-20, a phase-in of school district
contributions to routine restricted maintenance accounts (no
less than 2 percent by 2017-18 and 3 percent by 2020-21) and
allows funds to be used for drought mitigation purposes.
School districts that received an amount greater than ten
percent of school facilities funds from voter-approved bonds
are excluded from certain requirements.
29) Increases the maximum allowable fee charged by the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the issuance and
renewal of teaching and service credentials from $70 to
$100.
30) Expands eligibility for participation in the Charter
School Facilities Grant Program by allowing participation by
charter schools which enroll or are located in an attendance
area in which 55 percent (instead of 70 percent) of students
are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Allows that
determination to be based solely on prior year data. Allows
for participation of new charter schools in the program.
31) Requires State Preschool programs to improve parental
knowledge about identification and treatment for
developmental disabilities, and requires that teachers be
provided staff development on behavioral strategies and
targeted interventions to improve kindergarten readiness.
32) Permits students who will turn five years old after the
eligibility window for Transitional Kindergarten to be
enrolled in Transitional Kindergarten before they turn five
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years old, and states that this enrollment shall not
generate funding for average daily attendance or be included
in the enrollment or unduplicated pupil count for purposes
of the Local Control Funding Formula until those students
turn five years old.
33) Removes grade spans for pupil-to-teacher ratios in
independent study programs and requires calculations of the
ratios to be based on average daily attendance rather than
enrollment.
34) Extends the encumbrance period for funding for the Career
Pathways Trust program from 2014-15 to the 2016-17 fiscal
year.
35) Authorizes the CDE to assess fees on publishers of
history/social science instructional materials when
submitting materials for state adoption review.
36) Adds two new approved mandates (Immunization
Records/Pertussis and Race to the Top) to the Mandates Block
Grant, and creates a consolidated category for suspensions,
expulsions, and expulsion appeals.
37) Extends, until June 30, 2018, the authority of the
Inglewood Unified School District to sell property to repay
emergency loans to the state.
38) Extends the deadline for the State Board of Education to
adopt evaluation rubrics for one year, to October 1, 2016.
39) For the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal year, requires that
certain allocations from the county Supplemental Educational
Revenue Augmentation Fund to be treated as property taxes
for purposes of calculating the ratio that determined the
pro rata share of the apportionment for a basic aid school
district that lost its basic aid status as a result of
required property tax transfers to charter schools.
40) Provides authority for the appropriation of Proposition 98
General Fund for support of special education programs if
the amount of property taxes provided for this purpose from
the dissolution of redevelopment agencies is less than
estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2015.
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Identifies funds in satisfaction of the federal special
education maintenance of effort.
41) Adjusts the LACOE and East San Gabriel Valley Special
Education Local Plan Area's (SELPA) LCFF calculations to
re-allocate the Home-to-School Transportation add-on for
special education transportation services from LACOE to the
Home-to-School Transportation add-on of the SELPA's member
school districts.
42) Adds "maintenance" to the list of activities for which the
contractual redevelopment agency pass-through payments can
be used, and removes the sunset on these provisions.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
According to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, the
funding related to the changes in this bill is contained in the
2015-16 Budget. In addition, this bill makes multiple
appropriations totaling $4.9 million.
SUPPORT: (Verified6/17/15)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/17/15)
None received
Prepared by:Elisa Wynne / B. & F.R. / (916) 651-4103
6/18/15 18:51:33
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