BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: July 1, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Patrick O'Donnell, Chair
SB
416 (Huff) - As Amended June 11, 2015
SENATE VOTE: 36-0
SUBJECT: Public schools: elementary and secondary education.
SUMMARY: Repeals provisions of the Education Code related to
categorical programs that are no longer operational due to the
enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).
Specifically, this bill:
1)Repeals provisions related to the following programs:
a) Youth Conservation and Training Program;
b) Technical, agricultural, and natural resource
conservation schools;
c) Expansion of cosmetology courses;
d) Arts Work Visual and Performing Arts Education Program
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e) Agricultural education;
f) Katz Safe Schoolbus Clean Fuel Efficiency Demonstration
Program;
g) Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention
Act;
h) School Safety Violence Protection Act;
i) Summer school;
j) An out-of-date reference to the Class Size Reduction
Program in the provisions governing continuous schools
programs;
aa) Home-to-school transportation;
bb) Transportation allowances for State Special Schools;
cc) Staff development projects;
dd) Mathematics Staff Development;
ee) Educational Technology Staff Development Program;
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ff) Personnel Management Assistance Teams;
gg) Teacher Incentive Program of 1990
hh) Beginning teacher salary incentives;
ii) Categorical program funding for charter schools;
jj) Education technology;
aaa) Impacted Languages Act of 1984;
bbb) Financial assistance to low income pupils who are taking
advanced placement examinations;
ccc) California Regional Career Guidance Center;
ddd) Precareer Technical Education;
eee) Summer Vocational Education;
fff) Home Economics Careers and Technology Career Technical
Education;
ggg) International Baccalaureate Diploma Program incentive
funding and reporting requirements;
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hhh) School-to-Career Initiatives;
iii) Mathematics Improvement Programs;
jjj) Single Gender Academies Pilot Program; and
aaaa)Pupil Textbook and Instructional Materials Incentive
Program.
2)Repeals miscellaneous provisions related to the authority of
county superintendents of schools and county boards of
education.
3)Amends provisions related to the uniform complaint process to
strike references to intensive instructional services to
pupils who have not passed the California High School Exit
Exam.
4)Incorporates references to the LCFF into provisions that
protect local education agencies that fail to meet minimum
instructional time requirements due to fire, flood,
earthquake, or epidemic.
5)Repeals inoperative provisions related to the calculation of
revenue limits for adult education programs.
6)Strikes references to regional occupational centers and
programs and adds references to charter schools to provisions
that protect local education agencies against a material
decrease of average daily attendance due to fire, flood,
impassable roads, epidemic, earthquake, the imminence of a
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major safety hazard, or a strike involving transportation
services to pupils provided by a non-school entity.
FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.
COMMENTS: The LCFF, which was enacted as part of the 2013-14
Budget Act, replaced revenue limit funding and funding for most
categorical programs with a single funding formula. As a
result, most statutory provisions related to the categorical
programs that were replaced by the LCFF are no longer operative.
This bill repeals many of those provisions, which were rendered
obsolete by the LCFF, but which remain in the code. In
addition, this bill modifies some Code sections to delete
references to revenue limits and add references to the LCFF.
Amendment needed. Section 3 of this bill repeals Sections 1940
through 1946, inclusive, of the Education Code. These sections
contain miscellaneous provisions related to county school
service funds and various functions of county superintendents of
schools and county boards of education. They are not related to
the enactment of the LCFF. In addition, the California
Department of Education report that they are still used.
Accordingly, staff recommends that the bill be amended to strike
the repeal of Education Code Sections 1940 through 1946.
Related legislation. SB 971 (Huff), Chapter 923, Statutes of
2014, repealed or amended several provisions of the Education
Code that were rendered obsolete by the LCFF.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
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Support
California School Boards Association
Opposition
California Right to Life Committee, Inc.
Analysis Prepared by:Rick Pratt / ED. / (916)
319-2087