BILL NUMBER: AB 1 CHAPTERED 07/28/99 CHAPTER 191 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 28, 1999 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR JULY 27, 1999 PASSED THE SENATE JULY 15, 1999 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY JUNE 2, 1999 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 28, 1999 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 11, 1999 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Aanestad (Coauthor: Senator Leslie) DECEMBER 7, 1998 An act to amend Section 42285.3 of the Education Code, relating to school finance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1, Aanestad. School finance: necessary small schools: necessary small high schools. Under existing law, a unified school district that is the only school district in a county, that received specified amounts of federal Forest Reserve funds and that has fewer than 4,501 units of average daily attendance, is eligible to receive apportionments for necessary small schools and necessary small high schools. The provision that establishes this eligibility becomes inoperative on July 1, 1999, and as of January 1, 2000, is repealed. This bill would instead provide that the provision that establishes this eligibility becomes inoperative on July 1, 2002, and as of January 1, 2003, is repealed and would require a school district that receives apportionments pursuant to this provision to report to the State Department of Education and the Department of Finance by July 1, 2001, concerning the district's plan to address the district's need for additional funding when this section is repealed. This bill would declare that its provisions would become effective immediately as an urgency statute. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 42285.3 of the Education Code is amended to read: 42285.3. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 42280 or any other provision of law, a unified school district that is the only school district in a county, that has received more than two million seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds in the 1992-93 school year and less than one million three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds in the 1996-97 school year, and that has fewer than 4,501 units of average daily attendance in the 1997-98 school year or in subsequent school years shall be eligible to receive apportionments pursuant to the schedules for a "necessary small school" and a "necessary small high school," as set forth in this article, for up to the total number of schools in the district that would have met the criteria for classification as a necessary small school or a necessary small high school in the 1996-97 fiscal year, if the district had fewer than 2,501 units of average daily attendance in the 1996-97 fiscal year, except that this section shall not apply in any school year in which an otherwise eligible school district receives more than two million dollars ($2,000,000) in federal Forest Reserve funds. (b) A school district that receives apportionments pursuant to the schedules for a necessary small school and a necessary small high school under subdivision (a) shall report to the State Department of Education and the Department of Finance by July 1, 2001, concerning the district's plan to address the district's need for additional funding when this section is repealed. (c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2002, and, as of January 1, 2003, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2003, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed. 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: To provide needed funding to enable necessary small school and necessary small high schools to continue educating pupils, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.