BILL ANALYSIS Ó SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW Senator Mark Leno, Chair 2015 - 2016 Regular Bill No: AB 105 Hearing Date: June 18, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Author: |Committee on Budget | |----------+------------------------------------------------------| |Version: |January 9, 2015 Introduced | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes | ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Consultant|Elisa Wynne | |: | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Budget Act of 2015. Summary: Repeals and revises numerous provisions of the Education Code to conform to the adoption of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), and appropriates $5.994 billion for the purpose of the LCFF. Proposed Law: 1)Repeals sections made obsolete by the LCFF, including: a) Revenue limit deficit factor reductions. b) Revenue limit equalization adjustments. c) Revenue limit apportionment adjustments for attendance reporting errors. d) Inflation adjustments for county office of education programs. e) Computation of revenue limits for Regional Occupational Centers and Programs (ROC/P). f) Revenue limit PERS adjustments to reflect decreased employer contributions AB 105 (Committee on Budget) Page 2 of ? g) Adjustments to county office of education revenue limits per unit of average daily attendance. h) Revenue limit adjustments for small elementary school districts. i) Computation for concurrent enrollment in nonpublic high schools and ROC/Ps. j) Criteria for computation of base revenue limits for specified elementary school districts. aa) Adjustments for 1993-94 and 1995-96 fiscal year revenue limits. bb) Equalization adjustments for certain fiscal years between 1995-96 and 2011-12. 1)Repeals sections relating to programs which have been rolled into the LCFF, including: a) Juvenile court schools operated by county superintendents of schools. b) Small community school categorical funding. c) Pregnant minors programs operated by county superintendents. d) Instructional materials incentive program. e) Allocations of funds for county office of education site visits. 1)Adjusts timelines to better conform with the process of developing Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAP) and local educational agency budgets, including: a) Adoption, public review, and approval by the superintendent of the annual budget. b) Budget review committee review of proposed budget. AB 105 (Committee on Budget) Page 3 of ? c) Response to disapproval of budget by the review committee. 1)Repeals sections that applied only to past fiscal years, including: a) Duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the 1988-89 fiscal year. b) Employer retirement contributions for the 1994-95 fiscal year. c) Portion of attendance consisting of excused absences for the 1996-97 and 1997-98 fiscal years. 1)Makes technical changes such as updating article titles, removing references to repealed sections, and aligning references to the LCFF, including: a) Removing references to repealed instructional materials program. b) Removing references to repealed school library program. 1)Appropriates $5.994 billion for the purpose of the LCFF. Background: Existing Law: 1.Establishes the LCFF, which replaced the prior revenue limit and categorical funding structure for K-12 education finance. The formula is comprised of a base grant (general purpose funding), supplemental grants (funding for English learners, low-income students, and students in foster care) and concentration grants (additional funding for local educational agencies with high numbers of English learners, low-income students, and students in foster care). 2.Establishes accountability requirements through the development and adoption of Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs), which require the reporting of detailed student achievement data and information related to the expenditure of AB 105 (Committee on Budget) Page 4 of ? LCFF allocations. Statute further requires the State Board of Education to adopt a template for use by local educational agencies in developing LCAPs. Support: Unknown Opposed: Unknown -- END --