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Bill No: SB 1380
Author: Hancock (D)
Amended: 8/16/10
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 4/21/10
AYES: Romero, Huff, Alquist, Hancock, Liu, Simitian,
Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Maldonado, Price
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 10-0, 5/17/10
AYES: Kehoe, Cox, Alquist, Corbett, Denham, Leno, Walters,
Wolk, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Price
SENATE FLOOR : 35-0 (Consent), 6/1/10
AYES: Aanestad, Alquist, Ashburn, Calderon, Cedillo,
Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham, DeSaulnier,
Ducheny, Dutton, Florez, Hancock, Harman, Hollingsworth,
Huff, Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod,
Padilla, Pavley, Price, Romero, Runner, Simitian,
Steinberg, Strickland, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Oropeza, Walters, Wiggins, Vacancy,
Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 8/19/10 - See last page for vote
SENATE FLOOR : 34-0, 8/26/10 (Consent)
AYES: Aanestad, Alquist, Ashburn, Blakeslee, Calderon,
Cedillo, Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, DeSaulnier, Ducheny,
Dutton, Emmerson, Hancock, Harman, Hollingsworth, Huff,
Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Padilla,
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Pavley, Price, Romero, Runner, Simitian, Steinberg,
Walters, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Denham, Florez, Oropeza, Strickland,
Wiggins, Vacancy
SUBJECT : Career technical education facilities
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill adds new requirements and conditions
to be met by districts that apply for and receive Career
Technical Education Facilities Program (CTEFP) funding, and
requires the California Department of Education to review
and make recommendations on specified elements of the
CTEFP.
Assembly Amendments
1.Reduces the minimum number of years that a school
facility is used for career technical education purposes
when constructed or modernized with specified bond funds.
2.Requires a governing board of an applicant school
district to also adopt a resolution, in addition to
providing certification, stating the intent to use the
facilities for career technical education purposes during
the first year of occupation, rather than every five
years.
3.Authorizes a governing board of a school district to seek
a waiver of the career technical education use
requirement from the State Allocation Board (SAB) if the
facility or educational program of the school district
changes during the initial 10 years of use.
4.Requires the governing board of a school district with
projects approved by the SAB, as specified, to meet
specified evaluation criteria.
ANALYSIS : Existing law establishes the Career Technical
Education Facilities Program (CTEFP) as part of the Leroy
F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 for the purpose of
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providing funding to qualifying local educational agencies
for constructing new facilities or reconfiguring existing
facilities, including purchasing equipment with an average
useful life expectancy of at least 10 years, to enhance
educational opportunities for pupils in existing high
schools.
This bill:
1.Requires the governing board of an applicant school
district to submit a resolution adopted by the governing
board stating the intent to use the facilities built or
modernized with Proposition 1D funds set aside for the
CTEFP and provide certification that the facility is
being used for career technical education purposes during
the first year of occupation of the school facility.
2.Authorizes the governing board of a school district to
seek a waiver of the career technical education use
requirement from the State Allocation Board (SAB) if the
facility or educational program of the school district
changes during the initial five years of use.
3.Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to
evaluate the waiver request and make a recommendation to
the SAB based on the following criteria:
A. Enrollment changes in the school district.
B. Enrollment changes in the career technical education
program.
C. Changes in labor market demands.
D. Inability to hire teaching staff with proper
credentials.
E. The fiscal conditions of the school district.
F. Other factors presented by a local governing board
deemed appropriate and relevant by the CDE and the SAB.
4.Specifies that the provisions in the bill requiring
career technical education facilities constructed or
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modernized with CTEFP funds to be used for a minimum of
five years apply to projects approved by the SAB on or
after January l, 2011.
5.Encourages a school district applying for a career
technical education grant to include teachers of career
technical education and members of the local career
technical education advisory committee in the design and
planning process leading to the submission of an
application that is a request for full funding or a
reservation of funds.
6.Authorizes 25 percent of the funds used for qualifying
equipment purchased with CTEFP funds to have a life
expectancy of at least five years instead of 10 years.
Encourages a school district to purchase energy efficient
and environmentally preferable equipment.
Background
Proposition 1D . AB 127 (Nunez and Perata), Chapter 35,
Statutes of 2006, the Kindergarten-University Public
Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, authorized
Proposition 1D, a statewide general obligation bond
proposal for $10.4 billion. Proposition 1D, approved by
the voters in November 2006, provided $7.3 billion for K-12
education facilities and allocated specified amounts from
the sale of these bonds for modernization, new
construction, charter schools, career technical education
facilities, joint use projects for new construction on
severely overcrowded schoolsites, and high performance
incentive grants to promote energy efficient designs and
materials. In addition, portions of the amounts allocated
for new construction and modernization were authorized for
purposes of funding smaller learning communities and high
schools and for seismic retrofit projects.
Career Technical Education Facilities Program . Proposition
1D established the CTEFP within the School Facility Program
(SFP) and provided $500 million for school districts and
joint powers authorities to construct or modernize
facilities and to purchase equipment with an average useful
life expectancy of at least 10 years for career technical
education programs at existing high schools. Current law
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requires a school district to contribute from local
resources a dollar amount equal to the amount of the state
grant provided and authorizes the contribution to come from
private industry groups, the school district, or a joint
powers authority. Local agencies may enter into a loan
agreement with the Office of Public School Construction to
cover their share of the project costs. Grants are
calculated on a square foot basis, with a maximum of $3
million for each new facility and $1.5 million for each
modernization project purpose.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2010-11 2011-12
2012-13 Fund
25-year minimum use Reduction in bond pressure
Bond*
Reporting $50 to $75,
one time Bond*
*Proposition 1D
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/19/10) (Unable to reverify at time
of writing)
Beaumont Unified School District
California Business Education Association
California Space Authority
Clovis Unified School District
El Dorado Union High School District
Rialto Unified School District
Rocklin Unified School District
San Dieguito Union High School District
Sierra County Office of Education
Tracy Unified School District
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : Supporters argue that the CTEFP
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was established to encourage and enable the establishment
of career technical education programs, and as such,
districts should not be allowed to drop the programs housed
in facilities constructed with bond funds dedicated for
career technical education programs for other facilities
uses. Research has shown that career technical education
opportunities for pupils may provide relevance to the high
school curriculum and engage pupils who may be at risk of
dropping out.
GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE :
"I am returning Senate Bill 1380 without my
signature.
For years many career technical education (CTE)
programs and facilities have been ignored or
eliminated altogether. However, during my time in
office the state has made substantial investment in
CTE. This bill stands to threaten the recent
investments in this area, as well as the significant
momentum we have achieved. By allowing CTE bond
funds to be used for CTE investments with just a five
year minimum lifespan, and for non-CTE related
purposes, this bill seriously risks jeopardizing the
quality and scope of investments we make in these
facilities.
For these reasons, I am unable to sign this bill."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block,
Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero,
Charles Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto,
Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Eng, Evans, Feuer,
Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines,
Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey,
Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jones, Knight,
Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Nava,
Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino,
Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
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Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico,
Tran, Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Jeffries, Monning, Norby, Vacancy
CPM:cm 10/5/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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