BILL NUMBER: SB 645	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 8483.73 to, the Education Code, relating to
after school  programs, and making an appropriation therefor.
  programs. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 645, as amended, Hancock. After school programs: grant amounts.

   Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program Act of
2002, enacted by initiative statute, establishes the After School
Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating public elementary, middle,
junior high, and charter schools. The  existing 
act provides that each school establishing a program pursuant to the
act is eligible to receive a renewable 3-year grant for before or
after school programs, as provided, and a grant for operating a
program beyond 180 regular schooldays or during summer, weekend,
intersession, or vacation periods, as provided. The act specifies the
maximum grant amount and related amounts for each of these grants,
provides a formula for determining an amount to be continuously
appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of
Education for purposes of the program, and authorizes the Legislature
to appropriate additional funds for purposes of the program.
   This bill  would, for the 2015-16 fiscal year, appropriate
$54,000,000 more to the department for purposes of the program and
 would  , to the extent funding is provided in the
annual Budget Act,  require the department to proportionately
adjust the maximum grant amounts and those related amounts to reflect
 this   that  appropriation. 
Commencing with the 2016-17 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year
thereafter, the bill would appropriate $72,000,000 more to the
department for purposes of the program and would require the
department to proportionately adjust the maximum grant amounts and
those related amounts to reflect this appropriation. The bill would,
commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, require the Department of
Finance to annually adjust that amount using a specified calculation,
provided that adjustment does not result in a reduction. The bill
would, also commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, require the
State Department of Education to annually adjust the maximum grant
amounts and those related amounts to reflect the percentage change in
the California Consumer Price Index, provided that adjustment does
not result in a reduction. The bill also would provide that funds
appropriated by the 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   no
 . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8483.73 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   8483.73.   (a)     (1)
    For the 2015-16 fiscal year,
fifty-four million dollars ($54,000,000) is hereby appropriated from
the General Fund to the department for purposes of the program
established pursuant to this article. The department  
To the extent funding is provided in the annual Budget Act, the
department  shall proportionately adjust the dollar amounts for
grant amounts and per pupil per day formulas specified in Sections
8482.55, 8483.7, 8483.75, and 8483.76 by an amount necessary to
reflect  this   that  appropriation.

   (2) For the 2016-17 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year
thereafter, seventy-two million dollars ($72,000,000) is hereby
continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the department for
purposes of the program established pursuant to this article. The
department shall proportionately adjust the dollar amounts for grant
amounts and per pupil per day formulas specified in Sections 8482.55,
8483.7, 8483.75, and 8483.76 by an amount necessary to reflect this
appropriation. Commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, and each
fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Finance shall adjust this
amount by adding the product of six hundred twenty-two million
dollars ($622,000,000) times the percentage change in the California
Consumer Price Index from the 2016-17 fiscal year, provided that
adjustment does not result in a reduction in any fiscal year.
 
   (b) Commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, and each fiscal year
thereafter, the department shall annually adjust the dollar amounts
for grant amounts and per pupil per day formulas specified in
Sections 8482.55, 8483.7, 8483.75, and 8483.76 by an amount necessary
to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price
Index from the 2016-17 fiscal year, provided that adjustment does not
result in a reduction in any fiscal year.  
   (c) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8
of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations
made by subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be "General Fund revenues
appropriated for school districts," as defined in subdivision (c) of
Section 41202, for the fiscal year in which they were appropriated,
and included within the "total allocations to school districts and
community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes
appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B," as defined in subdivision
(e) of Section 41202, for the fiscal year in which they were
appropriated.