BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SB 369
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB
369 (Block)
As Amended July 16, 2015
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE: 40-0
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Education |7-0 |O'Donnell, Chávez, | |
| | |Kim, McCarty, | |
| | |Santiago, Thurmond, | |
| | |Weber | |
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|Appropriations |17-0 |Gomez, Bigelow, | |
| | |Bloom, Bonta, | |
| | |Calderon, Chang, | |
| | |Nazarian, Eggman, | |
| | |Gallagher, Eduardo | |
| | |Garcia, Holden, | |
| | |Jones, Quirk, Rendon, | |
| | |Wagner, Weber, Wood | |
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SB 369
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SUMMARY: Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(SPI), on or before July 1, 2016, to add a reporting process
within the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
(CALPADS) requiring local educational agencies to report the
enrollment of pupils of military families. Specifically, this
bill:
1)Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to
include military families as an indicator for purposes of a
currently-required quarterly report on student attendance.
2)Specifies data collected for purposes of this bill shall not
be used to compile reports required by the federal No Child
Left Behind Act, including, but not limited to, dropout and
graduation rates.
3)Specifies that implementation of this bill shall not subject
the CDE to a loss of funding pursuant to provisional budget
language in the 2015 Budget Act that prohibits additional
components to be added to CALPADS.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee:
1)General Fund administrative costs of approximately $15,000 to
CDE to modify CALPADS to include a new indicator for students
of military families.
2)Unknown Proposition 98 (1988)/General Fund costs for local
educational agencies (LEAs) to update user interface with
CALPADS and collect and report this data to CALPADS. For
illustration, assuming approximately 10,000 schools dedicated
one hour of staff time collecting and entering data, statewide
costs would be approximately $500,000. The requirements in
the bill impose a state mandate on LEAs which is likely to be
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deemed by the Commission on State Mandates to be reimbursable.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. Currently, there is no method of tracking attendance
of students of military families. Supporters state that
including an indicator in CALPADS would build awareness of
students that may be affected by the deployment of a parent and
facilitate data-driven decision making to improve the
distribution of Department of Defense funding and local
resources to offer appropriate support.
Budget conflict. The CDE indicates that the change required by
this bill is relatively simple and could probably be achieved in
approximately one year. However, the 2015-16 Budget Act
prohibits the CDE from adding additional data elements to
CALPADS. Specifically, provisional language states, "As a
further condition of receiving these [federal] funds, the SDE
shall not add additional data elements to CALPADS, require local
educational agencies to use the data collected through the
CALPADS for any purpose, or otherwise expand or enhance the
system beyond the data elements and functionalities that are
identified in the most current approved Feasibility Study and
Special Project Reports and the CALPADS Data guide v4.1." This
bill contains a provision that exempts its requirements from
this Budget Act prohibition.
Prior legislation. This bill is substantially similar to AB
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2431 (Quirk-Silva) of 2014, which was held on the Suspense file
in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Analysis Prepared by:
Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087 FN: 0001628