BILL NUMBER: AB 537	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Aroner

                        FEBRUARY 18, 1999

   An act to add Section 41857 to the Education Code, relating to
school transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 537, as introduced, Aroner.  School transportation:  West
Contra Costa Unified School District.
   Existing law establishes a formula for the apportionment by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction of an amount from the State
School Fund to fund home-to-school transportation.
   This bill would establish an alternative formula for funding
home-to-school transportation in the West Contra Costa Unified School
District.
   The bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances
applicable to the West Contra Costa Unified School District, a
statute of general applicability cannot be enacted within the meaning
of subdivision (b) of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution.
   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 41857 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   41857.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes
of this article, commencing with the 1999-2000 fiscal year and each
fiscal year thereafter, the home-to-school transportation allowance
received by the West Contra Costa Unified School District, shall be
established at an amount equal to the district enrollment times the
statewide average per pupil allowance for home-to-school
transportation, but in no event shall the home-to-school
transportation allowance received by the West Contra Costa Unified
School District be in an amount greater than the approved costs of
home-to-school transportation received by that district for the
1998-99 fiscal year.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that, due to the unique
circumstances applicable to the West Contra Costa Unified School
District, a statute of general applicability cannot be enacted within
the meaning of subdivision (b) of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution.