BILL NUMBER: AB 691	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gilmore

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to  amend Section 42238.1 of   add
Section 37710.3 to  the Education Code, relating to 
education finance   school distr   icts  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 691, as amended, Gilmore.  Education finance: inflation
adjustment.  School districts: 4-day school week. 

   Existing law authorizes the Pacific Unified School District, the
Leggett Valley Unified School District, the Reeds Creek Elementary
School District, the Potter Valley Community Unified School District,
the Borrego Springs Unified School District, the Julian Union
Elementary School District, the Julian Union High School District,
and the Warner Unified School District to operate one or more schools
in their districts on a 4-day school week, so long as those school
districts comply with specified requirements, including the annual
provision of at least 560 hours of instructional time for
kindergarten, 700 hours of instructional time for grades 1, 2, and 3,
and 845 hours of instructional time for grades 4 to 8, inclusive.
 
   This bill would extend the authority to operate one or more
schools on a 4-day week and apply those minimum annual instructional
time requirements to the Alpaugh Unified School District, beginning
in the 2010-11 fiscal year.  
   This bill would declare that, due to the unique circumstances
applicable to the Alpaugh Unified School District, a general statute
cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article
IV of the California Constitution, and the enactment of a special
statute is therefore necessary.  
   Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to
determine a revenue limit for each school district in the county
pursuant to a specified formula that is based on the base revenue
limit of the school district for the prior year, adjusted for
inflation, and the average daily attendance for the school district,
as specified.  
   This bill would make various technical, nonsubstantive changes in
the statute that sets forth the procedures for the calculation by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction of the annual inflation
adjustment for school districts. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 37710.3 is added to the 
 Education Code  , to read:  
   37710.3.  Beginning in the 2010-11 fiscal year, the Alpaugh
Unified School District may operate one or more schools in the school
district on a four-day school week if the district complies with the
instructional time requirements in Section 37701 and the other
requirements of this chapter. 
   SEC. 2.    The Legislature finds and declares that,
due to the unique circumstances applicable to the Alpaugh Unified
School District, a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution,
and the enactment of a special law is therefore necessary. 

  SECTION 1.    Section 42238.1 of the Education
Code is amended to read:
   42238.1.  (a) For the 1986-87 fiscal year, and each subsequent
fiscal year up to and including the 1998-99 fiscal year, the
Superintendent shall compute an inflation adjustment equal to the
product of paragraphs (1) and (2):
   (1) Compute the sum of the following:
   (A) The statewide average base revenue limit per unit of average
daily attendance for the prior fiscal year for districts of similar
type.
   (B) The amount, if any, per unit of average daily attendance
received by the district pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with
Section 46200) of Chapter 2 of Part 26 of Division 4 for the prior
fiscal year.
   (2) The percentage change in the annual average value of the
Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of
Goods and Services for the United States, as published by the United
States Department of Commerce for the 12-month period ending in the
third quarter of the prior fiscal year. This percentage change shall
be determined using the latest data available as of May 1 of the
preceding fiscal year compared with the annual average value of the
same deflator for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of
the second preceding fiscal year, using the latest data available as
of May 1 of the second preceding fiscal year, as reported by the
Department of Finance.
   (b) For the 1999-2000 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter,
the Superintendent shall compute an inflation adjustment equal to
the product of paragraphs (1) and (2):
   (1) Compute the sum of the following:
   (A) The statewide average base revenue limit per unit of average
daily attendance for the prior fiscal year for districts of similar
type.
   (B) The amount, if any, per unit of average daily attendance
received by the district pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with
Section 46200) of Chapter 2 of Part 26 of Division 4 for the prior
fiscal year.
   (2) The percentage change in the annual average value of the
Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of
Goods and Services for the United States, as published by the United
States Department of Commerce for the 12-month period ending in the
third quarter of the prior fiscal year. This percentage change shall
be determined using the latest data available as of May 10 of the
preceding fiscal year compared with the annual average value of the
same deflator for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of
the second preceding fiscal year, using the latest data available as
of May 10 of the preceding fiscal year, as reported by the Department
of Finance.
   (c) This section shall become operative July 1, 1986.