Amended  IN  Senate  January 20, 2022
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 add Section 42238.023 to the Education Code, relating to education finance.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 579, as amended, Allen. 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 2021–22 fiscal year, require the department to use the greater of the 2019–20, 2021–22, or 2022–23 2019–20 or 2021–22 fiscal year average daily attendance for purposes of apportionments under the local control funding formula for these local educational agencies, as provided. The 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 specified.
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 2021–22 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, 2020 or (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) 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)

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