Bill Text: CA SB1136 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education finance: revenue limit apportionments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-13 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB1136 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1136-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1136	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 22, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cox

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 14041.61 to the Education Code, relating to
education finance  ,  and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1136, as amended, Cox. Education finance: revenue limit
apportionments.

   (1) Existing law requires the Controller to draw warrants on the
State Treasury in favor of the county treasurer of each county in
each month of each year in prescribed amounts and in a prescribed
manner. Commencing with the 2008-09 fiscal year, existing law
requires the warrants for the principal apportionments for the month
of February in the amount of $2,000,000,000 to be drawn in July of
the same calendar year  ,  and requires those warrants to be
applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts
and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI
of the California Constitution for the year in which they are drawn.
   This bill  would provide  , notwithstanding the
provisions described above,  that   would
prohibit  a school district's apportionment deferral 
shall not exceed   from exceeding  the school
district's required reserve for economic uncertainties, if the school
district meets specified criteria.
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 14041.61 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   14041.61.  Notwithstanding Section 14041.6  , Sections 16325.5
and 16326 of the Government Code,  or any other provision of
law, a school district's revenue limit apportionment deferral shall
not exceed the school district's required reserve for economic
uncertainties  specified in the standards and criteria adopted by
the state board pursuant to Sections 33127 and 33128  if the
school district meets either of the following criteria:
   (a) The school district's average daily attendance, excluding
charter school average daily attendance, for the prior year second
principal apportionment is equal to or less than five hundred.
   (b) The school district's annual general fund revenues are less
than five million dollars ($5,000,000).
  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 Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide economic relief for small school districts, it
is necessary that this act go into immediate effect.