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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 798 (Wildman)
As Amended September 2, 1999
Majority vote
  
ASSEMBLY: 76-1 (May 27, 1999)   SENATE: 40-0 (September 7, 1999)
   
  Original Committee Reference:    ED.  

  SUMMARY  :   Revises, effective July 1, 2000, the funding formula  
for educational programs for adults in correctional facilities.

  The Senate amendments  : 

1)Add one year to the inoperative and repeal dates, from July 1,  
  1999 to July 1, 2000 and January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2001,  
  respectively, for the existing funding formula.  Modify the  
  operative date of the revised funding formula, from July 1,  
  1999 to July 1, 2000.

2)Modify the formula and fiscal year by which a school district  
  or county board of education is prohibited from claiming or  
  reporting average daily attendance (ADA) in excess of the  
  greater of:

   a)   The average of the ADA claimed and authorized for the  
     education of adults incarcerated in correctional facilities  
     during the six prior fiscal years; or,

   b)   The ADA claimed during the prior fiscal year.

3)Authorize, beginning with the 2001-2002 fiscal year and each  
  fiscal year thereafter, a school district or county board of  
  education to claim or report the maximum amount of ADA for the  
  education of adults incarcerated in correctional facilities  
  authorized for the prior fiscal year multiplied by 1.025,  
  unless the Legislature approves a greater increase for that  
  fiscal year in the annual Budget Act. 

  EXISTING LAW  authorizes school districts and county offices of  
education to operate educational programs for adults in local  
correctional facilities.  Programs are funded through a revenue  
limit system that pays each school district or county office of  
education a formula amount per student based upon actual costs.   
Like all adult education programs, the state has imposed growth  








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limits that allow programs to claim funding for no more than two  
and one half percent more students than in the prior year.

 AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY  , this bill revised the funding formula  
for the education of adults incarcerated in county-based  
correction programs.

  FISCAL EFFECT  :   According to the Senate Appropriations  
Committee:  Unknown, potential General Fund (Proposition 98)  
costs of $1.4 million annually.











































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 COMMENTS  :   

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  
inmate population, and thus the participating students, declines  
temporarily.


  Analysis Prepared by  :    Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916)319-2087 
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