Bill Text: CA AB158 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 158 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: School finance: The John B. Mockler School Finance Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-04-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 3, Statutes of 2015. [AB158 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB158-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 158	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  3
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  APRIL 27, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  APRIL 27, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 23, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 9, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 5, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members O'Donnell, Atkins, and McCarty
   (Principal coauthors: Senators De Le�n, Hertzberg, Block, and Liu)

                        JANUARY 20, 2015

   An act to repeal and amend Section 41200 of the Education Code,
relating to school finance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 158, O'Donnell. School finance: The John B. Mockler School
Finance Act.
   The California Constitution requires from all state revenues that
there first be set apart the moneys to be applied by the state for
support of the public school system and public institutions of higher
education and requires, commencing with the 1990-91 fiscal year,
that the moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school
districts and community college districts be not less than the
greater of certain amounts. Existing law provides the method for
calculating the amount of moneys required to be applied by the state
for the support of school districts and community college districts,
and defines the words and phrases used in specifying the method of
calculating that amount.
   This bill would provide that those provisions shall be known, and
may be cited, as the John B. Mockler School Finance Act. The bill
would also resolve a numbering conflict within these provisions.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 41200 of the Education Code, as added by
Section 8 of Chapter 82 of the Statutes of 1989, is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 41200 of the Education Code, as added by Section 8
of Chapter 83 of the Statutes of 1989, is amended to read:
   41200.  (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
John B. Mockler School Finance Act.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that the California
Constitution, as amended by "The Classroom Instructional Improvement
and Accountability Act" as adopted by the voters on November 8, 1988,
mandates that a specific minimum level of state General Fund
revenues be guaranteed and applied for the support of school
districts, community college districts, and state agencies that
provide direct elementary and secondary level instructional services.
The Legislature further finds and declares that, by defining certain
terms used in establishing a method of calculation for determining
the guaranteed minimum level of funding, Sections 14022.3 and 14022.5
and this chapter further the purposes of "The Classroom
Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act."
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the annual Budget
Bill, required by Section 12 of Article IV of the California
Constitution, include a section that specifies the respective
percentages and amounts of General Fund revenues that must be set
aside and applied for the support of school districts, community
college districts, and the direct elementary and secondary level
instructional services of state agencies, as required by subdivision
(b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.