BILL NUMBER: SB 189	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2011

   An act to relating to education finance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 189, as introduced, Anderson. Education finance: categorical
education programs: flexibility.
   Existing law establishes various categorical education programs
and appropriates the funding for those programs in the annual Budget
Act. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
for the 2008-09 to 2012-13 fiscal years, inclusive, to apportion from
the amount provided in the annual Budget Act for specified
categorical education programs an amount based on the same relative
proportion that the local educational agency received in the 2008-09
fiscal year for those programs and authorizes school districts, for
those fiscal years, to use these funds, with specified exceptions,
for any educational purpose, to the extent permitted by federal law.
Existing law, for those fiscal years, deems local educational
agencies that use these categorical education program funds for any
educational purpose to be in compliance with the program and funding
requirements of those categorical education programs, including
requirements related to average daily attendance accounting.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide for a study of categorical education
program flexibility.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature that would enact
legislation to provide for a study of categorical education program
flexibility.