Bill Text: CA AB1609 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education finance: local control funding formula: attendance yields.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. [AB1609 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1609-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1609

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Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

January 05, 2022

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An act to add Section 42238.023 to the Education Code, relating to education finance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1609, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Education finance: local control funding formula.

Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation for these local educational agencies.

This bill would instead, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, require the department to use the greater of the 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, or 2022–23 fiscal year average daily attendance for purposes of apportionments under the local control funding formula for these local educational agencies, as provided.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key

Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 42238.023 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 42238.022, to read:

42238.023.

 (a) Notwithstanding Section 41601, Sections 42238.05 to 42238.053, inclusive, Section 46010, or any other law, for purposes of calculating apportionments for the 2022–23 fiscal year for a local educational agency, the department shall use the greater of (1) the average daily attendance in the 2019–20 fiscal year reported for both the second period and the annual period apportionment that included all full school months from July 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020, inclusive, and extended year average daily attendance attributed to the 2019–20 school year reported pursuant to Section 96 of Chapter 24 of the Statutes of 2020, (2) the average daily attendance attributed to the 2020–21 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05, (3) the average daily attendance attributed to the 2021–22 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05, or (4) the average daily attendance attributed to the 2022–23 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05 for the local educational agency.

(b) For purposes of this section, ”local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

SEC. 2.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to mitigate the impacts of declining enrollment due to both long-term demographic trends and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.