BILL NUMBER: SB 727	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY  Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1997

   An act relating to education finance, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 727, as introduced, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.
Education.
   The Budget Act of 1997 includes appropriations for the support of
elementary and secondary education and community colleges.  Existing
law, the California Constitution, establishes a method of calculating
the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community
college districts for each fiscal year.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to make the
necessary statutory changes to implement the Budget Act of 1997
relative to elementary and secondary education, community colleges,
and the state's minimum funding obligation to school districts and
community college districts under Section 8 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution for prior fiscal years.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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


  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
act to make the necessary statutory changes to implement the Budget
Act of 1997 relative to elementary and secondary education, community
colleges, and the state's minimum funding obligation to school
districts and community college districts under Section 8 of Article
XVI of the California Constitution for prior fiscal years.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to make the necessary statutory changes to implement the
Budget Act of 1997 at the earliest possible time, it is necessary
that this act take effect immediately.