SB 1137, as amended, Torres. School transportation: apportionments.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school. Existing law, among other things, requires each school district or county office of education that provides transportation to receive the same home-to-school and special education transportation allowances that it received in the prior fiscal year and prohibits the transportation allowances from exceeding the prior year’s approved transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in the annual Budget Act.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2014-15 fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year, inclusive, to apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity providing services under a school transportation joint powers agreement, or a regional occupational center or program that provides pupil transportation an amount equal to a specified annually increasing percentage of its approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100% of its school transportation apportionment for the 2013-14 fiscal year, annually adjusted as specified, whichever is greater.
begin insertThe bill would become operative only to the extent that funding is provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute for the purposes of the bill.
end insertVote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 41850.5 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2014-15
4fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year, inclusive, the Superintendent
5shall apportion to each school district, county office of education,
6entity providing services under a school transportation joint powers
7agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
8pupil transportation services either 100 percent of its school
9transportation apportionment for the 2013-14 fiscal year, as
10adjusted by subdivision (b), or the following amount, whichever
11is greater:
12(1) For the 2014-15 fiscal year, 41 percent of its approved
13transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
14(2) For the 2015-16 fiscal year, 42.5 percent of its approved
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transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
16(3) For the 2016-17 fiscal year, 44 percent of its approved
17transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
18(4) For the 2017-18 fiscal year, 45.5 percent of its approved
19transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
20(5) For the 2018-19 fiscal year, 47 percent of its approved
21transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
22(6) For the 2019-20 fiscal year, 48.5 percent of its approved
23transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
24(7) For the 2020-21 fiscal year, 50 percent of its approved
25transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
26(b) The 2013-14 fiscal year school transportation apportionment
27amount described in subdivision (a) shall be adjusted annually
28from the 2014-15 fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year, inclusive,
29by the percentage change in the annual average value of the Implicit
P3 1Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods
2and Services for the United States, as published by the United
3States Department of Commerce for the 12-month period ending
4in the third quarter of the prior fiscal year. This percentage change
5shall be determined using the latest data available as of May 10
6of the preceding fiscal year compared with the annual average
7value of the same deflator for the 12-month period ending in the
8third quarter of the second preceding fiscal year, using the latest
9data available as of May 10 of the preceding fiscal year, as
reported
10by the Department of Finance.
11(c) This section shall be operative only to the extent that funding
12is provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute for the
13purposes of this section.
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