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                       THIRD READING
                              

Bill No:  AB 798
Author:   Wildman (D)
Amended:  9/2/99 in Senate
Vote:     21

  
  SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE  :  14-0, 7/14/99
AYES:  Alpert, McPherson, Alarcon, Chesbro, Dunn, Hayden,  
  Haynes, Hughes, Knight, Monteith, O'Connell, Ortiz, Sher,  
  Vasconcellos

  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  13-0, 9/1/99
AYES:  Johnston, Alpert, Bowen, Burton, Escutia, Johnson,  
  Karnette, Kelley, Leslie, McPherson, Mountjoy, Perata,  
  Vasconcellos

  ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  76-1, 5/27/99 - See last page for vote
 

  SUBJECT  :    Education of prisoners

  SOURCE  :     Author

 
  DIGEST :   This bill, effective July 1, 2000, revises the  
funding formula for educational programs for adults in  
correctional facilities.

  ANALYSIS  :    Current law authorizes county offices of  
education and school districts to operate educational  
programs for adults in local correctional facilities  
(usually county jails).  Programs are funded through a  
revenue limit system that pays each county or district a  
formula amount per pupil based upon actual costs.  This  
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program is unusual in that current year appropriations are  
used to reimburse LEAs for prior year costs.  Like all  
adult education programs, the state has imposed growth  
limits that allow programs to claim funding for no more  
than two and one half percent more pupils (ADA) than in the  
prior year.

This bill, for the 2000-01 fiscal year, allows school  
districts or county offices that operate programs for  
adults in correctional facilities to use the average of the  
ADA claimed during the prior six years, or the average ADA  
claimed during the prior fiscal year, and makes related  
changes.

  Comments  :

Need for the bill.  The current growth cap on programs for  
Adults in Correctional Facilities prevents individual  
programs from returning to full strength whenever a jail  
has to be closed or renovated and the prisoner population,  
and thus the program participant population, declines  
temporarily. 

  FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
Local:  No

There are unknown increased costs in excess of $150,000 and  
potentially in excess of $1 million.  The 1998-99 Budget  
Act contained $15.6 million to reimburse local agencies for  
adult education programs in correctional facilities, while  
the Department of Education (DOE) allocated only $14.2  
million.  The discrepancy was apparently due to temporary  
facilities closures.

  SUPPORT  :   (Unable to verify at time of writing)

California State Sheriffs' Association
Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department


  ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  76-1, 5/27/99
AYES:  Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner, Ashburn,  
  Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs,  







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  Calderon, Campbell, Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett,  
  Correa, Cox, Cunneen, Davis, Dickerson, Ducheny, Dutra,  
  Firebaugh, Florez, Frusetta, Gallegos, Granlund, Havice,  
  Hertzberg, Honda, House, Jackson, Kaloogian, Keeley,  
  Knox, Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Leonard, Longville,  
  Lowenthal, Machado, Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni,  
  Migden, Nakano, Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod  
  Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley,  
  Soto, Steinberg, Strickland, Strom-Martin, Thompson,  
  Thomson, Torlakson, Vincent, Washington, Wayne, Wiggins,  
  Wildman, Wright, Zettel, Villaraigosa
NOES:  McClintock
NOT VOTING:  Floyd, Reyes, Wesson


NC:jk  9/2/99   Senate Floor Analyses 

               SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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