BILL NUMBER: SB 193	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 14, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 28, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 6, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to add and repeal Section 52124.2 of the Education Code,
relating to class size reduction  , and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.   . 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 193, as amended, Lowenthal. Class size reduction: Long Beach
Unified School District.
   Existing law allows a school district that maintains kindergarten
or grades 1 to 3, inclusive, to apply to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction for an apportionment to implement a K-3 Class Size
Reduction Program. The purpose of the program is to ensure that
instruction is received in classrooms where there are not more than
20 pupils. The Controller is required to deduct an amount equal to
the amount received by the school district for class size reduction
from the district's next principal apportionment or apportionments of
state funds if the district does not implement its class size
reduction program for all grades and classes for which it received
funding.
   This bill would authorize the Superintendent to approve funding
for the Long Beach Unified School District for the 2009-10, 2010-11,
and 2011-12 school years for a class size reduction program if the
class size exceeds 20 pupils, or the class is housed with another
class, and specified criteria are met, including criteria relating to
closures on Catalina Island resulting from the May 2007 fire and
resultant debris flow hazard due to weather-related conditions. These
provisions would become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and would be
repealed on January 1, 2013.
   This bill would state the findings and declarations of the
Legislature concerning the need for special legislation. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  2/3   majority  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 52124.2 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   52124.2.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
the Superintendent may approve funding for the Long Beach Unified
School District pursuant to this chapter for the 2009-10, 2010-11,
and 2011-12 school years for classes in which the K-3 Class Size
Reduction Program is implemented that either exceed 20 pupils or are
housed with another class, if the following conditions are met:
   (1) The school district certifies that the number of pupils
enrolled in a district school increased as a direct result of the
closures on Catalina Island resulting from the May 2007 fire and
resultant debris flow hazard due to weather-related conditions, and
this growth increased the number of pupils enrolled in classes in
which the K-3 Class Size Reduction Program is implemented.
   (2) The school district certifies that it lacked sufficient
classroom space or credentialed teachers to accommodate the
enrollment increase from the closures on Catalina Island resulting
from the May 2007 fire and resultant debris flow hazard due to
weather-related conditions.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and as
of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends the dates on
which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that due to
unique circumstances relating to the Long Beach Unified School
District, a general statute cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution.

  SEC. 3.   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:
   In order to provide timely essential relief to the Long Beach
Unified School District that may experience a loss of state funding
as a result of mandatory fire and weather-related school closings on
Catalina Island, it is necessary that this bill take effect
immediately.