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                                                                  AB 317
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          Date of Hearing:   January 21, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

                  AB 317 (Solorio) - As Amended:  January 15, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Education  
          Vote:10-0

          Urgency:     Yes                  State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill, for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years (FYs), deems  
          any pupil absence related to the H1N1 (2009) influenza virus  
          (H1N1 virus) in any public school as an epidemic for the  
          purposes of school districts receiving apportionments.   
          Specifically, this bill:  

          1)Defines "pupil absence related to the H1N1 virus" as,  
            including, but limited to, both of the following: (a) an  
            absence of a pupil who has tested positive for the H1N1 virus  
            and (b) an absence of a pupil who has not tested positive for  
            the H1N1 virus, but whose reason for absence is consistent  
            with the symptoms of the H1N1 virus.  

          2)Defines "H1N1 virus" as the virus commonly known in 2009 as  
            "pandemic influenza" or "swine flu." 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Potential loss of GF/98 savings, likely less than $50,000, to  
          continue providing revenue limit funding (general purpose) to  
          school districts due to H1N1 absences.   

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  .  School districts receive state revenue limit  
            apportionments based on the number of pupils who attend  
            school.  Existing law requires a school district that is  
            prevented from maintaining at least 175 days at its schools  
            because of fire, flood, earthquake, or epidemic to receive the  
            same state apportionment it would have received had it not  








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            been prevented from maintaining school for at least 175 full  
            length days.  

            This bill deems the H1N1 virus an epidemic for the 2009-10 and  
            2010-11 FYs to allow school districts to continue receiving  
            full state apportionments.    

           2)H1N1 virus in California  .  The number of school age children  
            affected by the H1N1 virus is difficult to quantify because  
            physicians largely halted individual testing in late  
            spring/early summer 2009 due to the number of people reporting  
            symptoms.  

            Between April 3, 2009 and January 2, 2010, the CDC reports  
            there were 1,790 severe cases, 1,712 ICU cases, and 470 deaths  
            attributed to the H1N1 virus.  



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Kimberly Rodriguez / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081