Bonds.

(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money for various facilities purposes, for refunding bonds, or for the purchase of schoolbuses. Existing law limits the total amount of bonds that a school or community college district may issue to 1.25% of the taxable property of the school or community college district. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of a school district or community college district to issue bond anticipation notes. Existing law requires a bond anticipation note to be payable not more than 5 years from the date of the original issuance of the note. Existing law prohibits the maturity date of a renewed note to be later than 5 years from the date of the original issuance of the note. Existing law allows the interest on the notes to be payable from the proceeds of the sale of bonds or from the tax levied to pay principal of and interest on the bonds. This bill would extend the period during which the note is payable from 5 to 10 years and would delete the prohibition against the maturity date of a renewed note being later than 5 years from the date of the original issuance of the note. The bill would authorize the payment of interest and principal on the bond anticipation notes from property taxes levied for that purpose if provided for in the resolution adopted by the governing board in connection with issuance of the bond anticipation notes. The bill would require the notes to be issued without reference to the limitation on indebtedness for bonds noted above if the resolution adopted by the governing board in connection with the bond anticipation notes does not authorize the levy of a tax for payment of the principal of and interest on the notes. The bill would require the governing board of a school district or community college district that issued bond anticipation notes payable from ad valorem taxes to transmit the authorizing resolution and debt service schedule to the county auditor and county treasurer. (2) Existing law authorizes the general obligation bonds of a city, county, city and county, school district, community college district, or special district to be sold at a public sale and authorizes the sale of school district and community college district general obligation bonds at a private sale. This bill would authorize a city, county, city and county, and a special district to sell their bonds at a private sale. (3) Existing law authorizes a city, county, city and county, and special district to sell bonds at a negotiated sale for a price at, above, or below par value, as authorized by the legislative body of the city, county, city and county, or special district, without further approval, if the legislative body adopts a resolution before the negotiated sale that includes specified information. This bill would extend this authorization to a school district and a community college district.