BILL NUMBER: SB 683	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 18015 of the Education Code, relating to
public libraries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 683, as introduced, Wolk. Public library services: foundation
program.
   Existing law declares that certain provisions relating to public
library finance effects a state policy that each public library
provide a minimum level of service, known as the foundation program,
to the extent state funds are made available for that purpose.
Existing law defines the foundation program as those elements of
library service which are basic to its function as a provider of
information, education, and cultural enrichment to all segments of
the community, including, but not limited to, collection development
and maintenance, lending services, information services, facility
maintenance, and administration. Existing law excludes from the
foundation program major capital improvements, which, for purposes of
these provisions, is defined as the purchase of real property, the
construction or improvement of buildings, and the purchase of
equipment and the payment of fees or other costs in connection with
the same.
   This bill would include technology services in the definition of
the foundation program. The bill would also exclude from the meaning
of major capital improvements, the purchase of equipment and the
payment of fees or other costs in connection with the same.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 18015 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   18015.  As used in this chapter:
   (a) "Public library" means a library, or two or more libraries,
operated as a single entity by one or more public jurisdictions and
 which serve   that serves  the general
public without distinction.
   (b) "Foundation program" means those elements of library service
 which   that  are basic to its function as
a provider of information, education, and cultural enrichment to all
segments of the community, including, but not limited to, collection
development and maintenance, lending services, information  and
technology  services, facility maintenance, and administration.
The foundation program shall not include major capital improvements,
which, for purposes of this chapter, shall be defined as the purchase
of real  property,   property and  the
construction or improvement of  buildings, and the purchase
of equipment and the payment of fees or other costs in connection
with the same.   buildings. 
   (c) "Fiscal officer" means, for a municipal library, the chief
fiscal officer of the municipality; for a county library or a library
district under the jurisdiction of the county board of supervisors,
the chief fiscal officer of the county; and for an independent
library district, the chief librarian of the district. In the case of
a public library  which   that  provides
foundation program service by contract to one or more jurisdictions
in addition to the jurisdiction or jurisdictions with which it is
affiliated, the chief fiscal officer of the jurisdiction with which
it is primarily affiliated shall be deemed the fiscal officer for the
public library for  the  purposes of this chapter.