BILL NUMBER: SB 705	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 9, 2015
	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: 
notification.   posting facilities request or
preliminary or final offer. 
   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 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.   district, within 10 days of receiving a
facilities request from a charter school or making a preliminary or
final offer of facilities to a charter school to post that
information on the school district's Internet Web site.  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) Within 10 days of receipt of a facilities request
from a charter school or of the school district making a preliminary
offer or final offer of facilities to a charter school, a school
district shall post the fact that a request was received or that a
preliminary or final offer was made, as applicable, on the school
district's Internet Web site.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "preliminary offer" includes
situations in which the school district reasonably anticipates that a
public school facility located in a district-operated school will be
allocated to a charter school.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 47614.2 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
   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.