BILL NUMBER: SB 705	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 20, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hill

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 47614.2 to the Education Code, relating to
charter school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 705, as amended, Hill. Charter school facilities: preliminary
proposal: public hearing.
   Existing law requires each school district to make available to
each charter school operating in the school district facilities
sufficient for the charter school to accommodate all of the charter
school's in-district pupils in conditions reasonably equivalent to
those in which the pupils would be accommodated if they were
attending other public schools of the district. Existing law requires
the State Department of Education to propose, and for the State
Board of Education to adopt, regulations to implement those
provisions.
   This bill would require a school district's preliminary proposal
regarding the space to be allocated to a charter school to be
disclosed at a public hearing that is conducted at a properly noticed
and regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board of the school
district. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on school
districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 47614.2 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   47614.2.  A school district's preliminary proposal regarding the
space to be allocated to a charter school shall be disclosed at a
public hearing that includes opportunity for public  review
and comment that   comment and that  is conducted
at a properly noticed and regularly scheduled meeting of the
governing board of the school district.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.