BILL NUMBER: AB 101	CHAPTERED  05/05/00

	CHAPTER   14
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MAY 5, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   MAY 5, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   APRIL 24, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   APRIL 13, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 11, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 1, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 17, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 12, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 27, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 24, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   FEBRUARY 3, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Steinberg

                        DECEMBER 21, 1998

   An act to add Section 6528 to the Government Code, relating to
joint powers authorities, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 101, Steinberg.  Joint powers agreements:  charter schools.
   Existing law authorizes 2 or more public agencies, as defined, if
authorized by their governing bodies, by agreement to jointly
exercise any power common to the contracting parties.  Existing law
specifically authorizes local agencies, as defined, to enter into a
joint pooling agreement to form a single statewide insurance pooling
arrangement for the payment of tort liability or public liability
losses incurred by those agencies.
   This bill would provide that a charter school may be considered a
public agency for the purpose of being eligible for membership in a
joint powers agreement for risk-pooling.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 6528 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   6528.  A charter school, including a charter school organized
pursuant to Section 47604 of the Education Code, may be considered a
public agency, as defined in Section 6500, for the purpose of being
eligible for membership in a joint powers agreement for risk-pooling.

  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 clarify at the earliest possible time the authority of
charter schools to participate in joint powers agreements for the
purpose of risk-pooling, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.