BILL ANALYSIS
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(Without Reference to File)
CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2 X4 (Evans)
As Amended July 23, 2009
2/3 vote. Urgency
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|ASSEMBLY: | |(July 9, 2009) |SENATE: | |(July 24, |
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(vote not relevant) (vote not
available)
Original Committee Reference: RLS.
SUMMARY : Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area
of education in order to enact modifications to fiscal year (FY)
2008-09 and 2009-10 Budget Acts.
The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill,
and instead:
2008-09 Adjustments :
1)Suspend statutory requirements that local educational agencies
(LEAs) newly-adopted instructional materials be purchased
within 24 months of an adoption for FY 2008-09 through 2012-13
and suspends the regular adoption cycle for K-8 materials for
the same period of time.
2)Permit, for FY 2008-09 through 2012-13, school districts to
reduce the number of school days (or the equivalent
instructional minutes) by five days, from 180 per year to 175,
while maintaining a longer year incentive adjustment for those
districts that currently receive it.
3)Make various average daily attendance (ADA) calculation
adjustments for programs that will no longer collect ADA
pursuant to the categorical flexibility provisions established
in the February enacted budget trailer bill (SB 4x3, Chapter
12, Statutes of 2009-10 Third Extraordinary Session).
4)Reduce, for FY 2008-09 through 2012-13 , the amount of their
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General Fund budgets that school districts are required to set
aside in "routine restricted maintenance accounts" from 1 % to
zero, as long as the district maintains its facilities in good
repair, as specified.
5)Authorize, for FY 2008-09 through 2012-13, the State
Allocation Board to release "extreme hardship" deferred
maintenance funding in advance of the normal timeline, if
necessary to avoid serious facility damage or hazard to the
health and safety of students.
6)Make technical and clarifying changes to the implementation of
the categorical program flexibility enacted as part of the
February special session, including, prohibiting school
districts from retaining funding intended for charter schools.
7)Remove statutory language that ties the minimum requirements
for a professional clear multiple or single subject teaching
credential to budget act funding for beginning teacher
induction programs, to clarify that the requirements that
apply to individuals' teacher credentials are not contingent
on district decisions to offer teacher induction programs.
8)Clarify, for FY 2008-09 through 2012-13, that LEAs in "program
improvement" and those who have received a federal correction
action sanction by the State Board of Education shall not be
prohibited from using categorical flexibility.
9)Include technical adjustments to the class size reduction
program, pursuant to the implementation of the education
trailer bill enacted as part of the February budget package
(SB 4x3).
10)^^^Amend, for 2008-09 and 2009-10 only, districts' authority
to use their categorical ending balances for any educational
purpose by adding several formerly restricted accounts and
deleting several formerly non-restricted ones. Changes the
due date for an associated report from October 31, 2009, to
April 15, 2010.
11)^^^Authorize new charter schools to apply for categorical
program funding so long as the charter school is eligible and
meets the provisions of the program, including those
categorical programs that are included in categorical
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flexibility.
2009-10 Adjustments :
1)Adjust the county office of education (COE) revenue limit
deficit factor to 18.621% and the school district revenue
limit deficit factor to 18.355% to reflect a reduction of $2.3
billion to revenue limits in 2009-10. These statutory factors
are created to establish state intent to repay the K-12
per-pupil reductions, including foregone cost-of-living
adjustments.
2)Reduce categorical funding for Basic Aid school districts by
$80 million to ensure a proportionate reduction to revenue
limit reductions implemented for Non-Basic Aid school
districts.
3)Fund the Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) in 2009-10
with ongoing, rather than one-time, Proposition 98 funds for a
General Fund savings of $450 million. Eligible districts may
apply for federal Title I funds to backfill the redirection of
ongoing Proposition 98 funds. Extends the QEIA program for an
addition year, though 2014-15.
4)Allow school districts to sell surplus property not purchased
with state funds and use proceeds for GF purposes for three
years.
5)Permit, for 2009-10 and 2010-11 only, school districts to
operate with one-third of its usual reserve for economic
uncertainties.
6)Suspend, starting in 2009-10, the requirement that eligible
pupils with disabilities pass the high school exit exam in
order to graduate from high school. The exemption is in place
until the State Board of Education makes a determination if
they should adopt regulations authorizing an alternative exam.
7)Specify through July 1, 2013 that the deficiency funding for
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the charter school categorical block grant be strictly limited
to unanticipated increases in average daily attendance (ADA)
and counts of economic impact aid (EIA) eligible pupils and
prohibits additional funding from being provided to restore
the categorical program reductions.
8)Prohibit, for the FYs 2011-12 and 2012-13, a county
superintendent or the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction from assigning a qualified or negative
certification to a school district due to the loss of federal
economic stimulus funds.
9)Change the Charter School Facility Grant Program from a
reimbursement program to a grant program.
Child Care:
10)Repeal automatic carryover of child care funds.
11)Make Los Angeles based CARES program contingent upon funding
being appropriated in the Budget Act.
12)Specify that subsidized child care providers will be
reimbursed at a maximum of the 85th percentile of the 2005
Regional Market Survey.
13)Maintain the current family fee schedule for child care
services.
14)Clarify that families receiving CalWORKs cash aid will not be
charged a family fee for child care services.
15)Eliminate the School Age Community Child Care Services
(Extended Day or Latchkey) Program, effective August 31, 2009,
due to an overlap with existing After School services.
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16)Clarify that reimbursements to child care service providers
based on a daily rate may only be authorized under specified
circumstances.
Higher Education:
17)Allow community college districts to transfer funding from 12
categorical programs to any other categorical program. This
flexibility provision is operative for 2009-10 through
2012-13.
18)Increase community college student fees by $6 per unit, from
the current level of $20 per unit to $26 per unit.
19)Revise the Quality Education Investments Act (QEIA)
allocation of $48 million for the Community Colleges Career
Technical Education program from 2010-11 through 2013-14.
Urgency Clause: Declare this bill take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMMBLY, this bill was a vehicle for the
budget trailer bill.
Analysis Prepared by : Misty Feusahrens and Sara Bachez /
BUDGET / (916) 319-2099
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