BILL NUMBER: AB 798	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wildman

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1999

   An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 1909 of the Education
Code, relating to education of prisoners.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 798, as introduced, Wildman.  Education of prisoners.
   (1) Existing law provides for an allocation to each county
superintendent of schools that maintains schools or classes for
adults in correctional facilities, from money appropriated for those
purposes, an amount equal to the actual current expenses of the
program, but provides that the amount may not exceed an amount
determined pursuant to a certain formula.
   This bill would revise the formula for the 2000-01 fiscal year and
each fiscal year thereafter to increase the maximum amount that
could be allocated.
   Vote:  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 1909 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   1909.  (a) From funds appropriated for allocation pursuant to
Sections 2558 and 41841.5, for each county superintendent of schools
who maintained schools or classes for adults in correctional
facilities in the 1981-82 fiscal year pursuant to Section 1906, and
who continues to maintain those schools or classes in each fiscal
year thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allow
in the 1982-83 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, an
amount equal to the actual current expenses of the program, but not
to exceed an amount determined as follows:
   (1) Compute the prior year statewide average revenue limit per
unit of average daily attendance for adults, increased by the amount
specified in Section 52616.16 for the current fiscal year.
   (2) Multiply the amount computed in paragraph (1) by the average
daily attendance of the schools or classes in the current fiscal
year.
   (3) Multiply the product determined in paragraph (2) for each
fiscal year by 0.8.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), for the 1993-94 and 1994-95
fiscal years, in no event shall the amount allowed to a county
superintendent of schools for each unit of average daily attendance
pursuant to that subdivision exceed the statewide average revenue
limit at which adults in correctional facilities were funded in the
1992-93 fiscal year, as adjusted by any cost-of-living adjustment
pursuant to Section 42238.1.  
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2000, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes effective on or before January 1, 2000, deletes
or extends that date. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 1909 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   1909.  (a) From funds appropriated for allocation pursuant to
Sections 2558 and 41841.5, for each county superintendent of schools
who maintained schools or classes for adults in correctional
facilities in the 1981-82 fiscal year pursuant to Section 1906, and
who continues to maintain those schools or classes in each fiscal
year thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allow
in the 2000-01 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, an
amount equal to the actual current expenses of the program, but not
to exceed an amount determined as follows:
   (1) Compute the prior year statewide average revenue limit per
unit of average daily attendance for adults, increased by the amount
specified in Section 52616.16 for the current fiscal year.
   (2) Multiply the amount computed in paragraph (1) by the average
daily attendance of the schools or classes in the current fiscal
year.
   (3) Multiply the product determined in paragraph (2) for each
fiscal year by 0.9.