BILL NUMBER: AB 1846	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lopez
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chávez and Eduardo Garcia)

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2016

   An act relating to adult education, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1846, as amended, Lopez. Adult  education consortium
program.   Education Block Grant Program. 
   Existing law  requires   creates the Adult
Education Block Grant Program under the administration of  the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the 
State Department of Education, pursuant to funding made available in
the annual Budget Act, to jointly provide 2-year planning and
implementation grants to regional consortia of community college
districts and school districts for developing regional plans to
better serve the educational needs of adults. Existing law requires
the grant funds provided under this program to be used by each
regional consortium to create and implement a plan to better provide
adults in its region with certain skills, classes, courses, and
programs, including, among other things, programs for apprentices.
  Superintendent of Public Instruction, which provides
funds for certain adult education consortia. 
   This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 every fiscal year from
the General Fund to the  Chancellor of the  California
Community Colleges and the  State Department of Education
  Superintendent of Public Instruction  for ongoing
support of the  adult education consortium program 
 Adult Education Block Grant Program  .
   This bill would also declare the intent of the Legislature to add
this appropriation to the $500,000,000 appropriated annually in
recent state budgets for the  adult education block grant
program   Adult Education Block Grant Program  for
a total of $750,000,000 annually, and would make certain findings and
declarations relating to adult education funding.
   The funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the
minimum funding requirements for school districts and community
college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
   (1) According to the Regional Planning Report of 2015 authored by
the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the 
Superintendent,   Superintendent of Public Instruction,
 between the years of 2008 and 2013 an estimated 65 adult
schools across California were closed.
   (2) Increasing funding for the  adult education consortium
program   Adult Education Block Grant Program
established pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) of
Chapter 5 of Part 50 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code
 to seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000) would
restore adult education funding to its 2008 level.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to add two hundred fifty
million dollars ($250,000,000) annually to the five hundred million
dollars ($500,000,000) appropriated annually in recent state budgets
for the  adult education block grant program established
pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 84900) of Chapter 5 of
Part 50 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code 
 Adult Education  Block Grant Program  for a total
provided for these purposes each year of seven hundred fifty million
dollars ($750,000,000).
   (c) The sum of two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) is
hereby appropriated every fiscal year from the General Fund to the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the 
State Department of Education   Superintendent of Public
Instruction  for ongoing support of the  adult
education consortium program   Adult Education Block
Grant Program  implemented pursuant to Section  84830
  84900  of the Education Code.