BILL NUMBER: AB 2337	CHAPTERED  09/27/00

	CHAPTER   746
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 31, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 8, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 2, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 29, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ducheny and Senator Alpert

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2000

   An act relating to community college funding, and making an
appropriation therefor.

      (Approved by Governor September 26, 2000.  Filed with
Secretary of State September 27, 2000.)

   On this date I have signed Assembly Bill 2337 with a deletion.
   This bill would appropriate $5,407,000 Proposition 98 General Fund
to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for
Apprenticeship programs and to augment the Part-Time Faculty Office
Hours Program.
   However, I am deleting the augmentation of $2.1 million for the
Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Program.  As indicated in the Budget
Act, I am not supportive of the reduced local match requirement
contained in Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000.  I am willing to consider
additional funding for this program only if the matching requirement
is restored to a 1:1 ratio.
                                                 GRAY DAVIS, Governor


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2337, Ducheny.  Community college finance.
   Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges, in calculating each community college district's revenue
level for each fiscal year, to subtract, among other things, local
property tax revenue specified by law for general operating support,
exclusive of bond interest and redemption, from the total revenues
owed.
   The bill would appropriate $5,406,836 from the General Fund for
support of the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges, for purposes of augmenting a specified item of the Budget
Act of 2000, of which $2,100,000 would be required to be expended to
provide part-time faculty office hours and $3,306,836 to provide
apprenticeships.
   Appropriation:  yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  The sum of five million four hundred six thousand eight
hundred thirty-six dollars ($5,406,836) is hereby appropriated from
the General Fund, for support of the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges, for purposes of augmenting Item
6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2000 for
expenditure according to the following schedule:
   (a) The sum of two million one hundred thousand dollars
($2,100,000) to provide part-time faculty office hours.
   (b) The sum of three million three hundred six thousand eight
hundred thirty-six dollars ($3,306,836) to provide apprenticeships.