BILL NUMBER: SB 705	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2015
	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.   notification.

   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 a charter school desiring facilities from a school district
in which it is operating to provide the school district with a
reasonable projection of the charter school's average daily classroom
attendance by in-district students for the following year and
requires the school district to allocate facilities to the charter
school based on that projection.  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.   district to notify, in writing, a
district-operated school and the parents or guardians of pupils
attending that district-operated school if the school district
reasonably anticipates that a public school facility located in that
district-operated school will be allocated to a charter school, as
specified.  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 comment and that
is conducted at a properly noticed and regularly scheduled meeting of
the governing board of the school district. 
    47614.2.    If a school district, upon receipt of a
charter school's reasonable projection of average daily classroom
attendance by in-district students for the following year, as
provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 47614,
reasonably anticipates that a public school facility located in a
district-operated school will be allocated to a charter school
pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 47614, the
school district shall, before allocating that facility, notify, in
writing, the district-operated school and the parents or guardians of
the pupils attending that district-operated school. 
  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.