BILL NUMBER: AB 882	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wilk
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gallagher)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 15267 to the Education Code, relating to
school bonds.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 882, as introduced, Wilk. School bonds: portable electronic
devices and instructional materials.
   The California Constitution limits the maximum amount of any ad
valorem tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the
property except for ad valorem taxes or special assessments that pay
the interest and redemption charges on certain bonded indebtedness,
including bonded indebtedness incurred by a school district,
community college district, or county office of education for the
construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of
school facilities, including the furnishing and equipping of school
facilities, or the acquisition or lease of real property for school
facilities, approved by 55% of the voters if the proposition includes
specified accountability requirements.
   This bill would prohibit proceeds from the sale of bonds
authorized and issued pursuant to the exception described above to be
used to purchase portable electronic devices, including, but not
limited to, laptop computers and tablet computers, that are not
closely connected to classroom instruction, are assigned to
individual pupils, or are permitted to leave the schoolsite for more
than one schoolday, or to purchase basic or supplemental
instructional materials.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 15267 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   15267.  Proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized and issued
pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 1 of Article
XIII A and subdivision (b) of Section 18 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution shall not be used to purchase either of the
following:
   (a) Portable electronic devices, including, but not limited to,
laptop computers and tablet computers, that are any of the following:

   (1) Not closely connected to classroom instruction.
   (2) Assigned to individual pupils.
   (3) Permitted to leave the schoolsite for more than one schoolday.

   (b) Basic or supplemental instructional materials.