Bill Text: CA SB307 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Regional occupational centers or programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-27 - Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. Held in committee and under submission. [SB307 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB307-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 307	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 24, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 26, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alquist
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Lieu)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 52322.5 to the Education Code, relating to
regional occupational centers or programs, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 307, as amended, Alquist. Regional occupational centers or
programs.
   (1) Existing law authorizes the establishment of regional
occupational centers or programs to provide career technical
education and technical training to students. Existing law provides a
system for the funding of regional occupational centers or programs
that includes a provision for the apportionment of state funds to
these centers or programs.
   This bill would require  , commencing in  
from  the 2009-10 fiscal year  , in any  
to the 2012-13  fiscal year  when a specified provision
of existing law is not operative   ,  
inclusive , that a regional occupational center or program
established and maintained by school districts as a joint powers
agency receive its operating funds directly from the county office of
education of the county in which it is located, in a manner that is
consistent with the apportionments for those school districts that
comprise the joint powers authority that are provided to the county
office of education pursuant to the annual Budget Act. 
   The bill would authorize a joint powers agency receiving an
apportionment for a school district pursuant to the bill to disburse
those funds to the school district for which that apportionment was
made. The bill would provide that nothing in its provisions would
prevent any school district or county office of education from using
funding received from a specified item of the annual Budget Act for
any educational purpose. 
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 52322.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   52322.5.   Commencing in the 2009-10 fiscal year, in any
fiscal year when Section 52321 is not operative, a   For
the 2009-10 fiscal year to the 2012-13 fiscal year, inclusive, all
of the following shall apply: 
    (a)     A  regional occupational
center or program established and maintained by school districts as a
joint powers agency pursuant to Section 52301 shall receive its
operating funds directly from the county office of education of the
county in which it is located, in a manner that is consistent with
the apportionments for those school districts that comprise the joint
powers authority that are provided to the county office of education
pursuant to the annual Budget Act. 
   (b) Pursuant to its joint powers agreement, a joint powers agency
receiving an apportionment for a school district pursuant to
subdivision (a) may disburse those funds to the school district to
which that apportionment was made.  
   (c) Pursuant to Section 42605, nothing in this section shall
prevent any school district or county office of education from using
funding received from Item 6110-105-0001 of Section 2.00 of an annual
Budget Act for any educational purpose. 
  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 increased flexibility in the funding of
regional occupational centers or programs, commencing with the
beginning of the 2009-10 fiscal year, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately.