Bill Text: CA SB579 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 579 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Education finance: local control funding formula.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-05 - Referred to Com. on ED. [SB579 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB579-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate January 03, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 579

Introduced by Senator Allen

February 18, 2021

~~An act to amend Section 234.3 of the Education Code, relating to school safety.~~ An act to add Section 42238.023 to the Education Code, relating to education finance.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 579, as amended, Allen. ~~School safety: bias-related discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying: model handout.~~ 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, 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.
The Safe Place to Learn Act requires the State Department of Education to develop, and post on its internet websites, a model handout describing specified rights of pupils and obligations relating to educational equity and the policies addressing bias-related discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying in schools.
~~This bill would require the department to periodically review and update the model handout to ensure the availability of relevant and recent information.~~

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

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 Sections 41601, 42238.05 to 42238.053, inclusive, and 46010, 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 2021–22 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05, or (3) 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, a local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

SECTION 1.Section 234.3 of the Education Code is amended to read:
234.3.
The department shall develop a model handout describing the rights and obligations set forth in Sections 200, 201, and 220 and the policies addressing bias-related discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying in schools. This model handout shall be posted on appropriate department internet websites. The department shall periodically review and update the model handout to ensure the availability of relevant and recent information.