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. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before February 20 of each year, to make a first principal apportionment of funds and, on or before July 2 of each year, to make a 2nd principal apportionment of funds to each local educational agency. This bill would define "average daily membership" as the quotient of the aggregate enrollment days for all pupils in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, from transitional kindergarten to grade 12, inclusive, as applicable, divided by the total number of instructional days for the local educational agency in an academic year. The bill would require a local educational agency's average daily membership to be calculated using data from the same fiscal year or years that the local educational agency used to calculate its average daily attendance for purposes of state apportionment, as provided. For any fiscal year before the 2022–23 fiscal year for which average daily membership data is not available, the bill would require the Superintendent to use a local educational agency's census day enrollment count, as provided. The bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would require a local educational agency that submits enrollment data to the Superintendent and demonstrates a maintenance of effort to address chronic absenteeism, as provided, to receive as additional education funding the difference between what the local educational agency would have received under the local control funding formula based on average daily membership and what the local educational agency received under the local control funding formula based on average daily attendance for that fiscal year, as provided. The bill would make that maintenance of effort requirement subject to an annual audit and would provide that failure to meet the maintenance of effort requirement shall result in the loss of the additional education funding. The bill would require local educational agencies to use at least 30% of their additional education funding for local educational agency expenditures to address chronic absenteeism and habitual truancy, as provided. This bill would, for purposes of calculating a local educational agency's average daily membership, require the Superintendent to issue directives and guidance on determining the date of withdrawal for a pupil deemed habitually truant. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before November 1, 2028, on the implementation of the average daily membership funding in local educational agencies selected by the Legislative Analyst's Office, as provided. The bill would expressly state that funds to implement these provisions would be continuously appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
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This measure would recognize the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots on April 29, 2022, as a time of building and reflection for the citizens of Los Angeles and the citizens of California.
This measure would declare April 28, 2022, as Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and would recognize the goals of introducing our daughters and sons to the workplace and commend all participants of Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day.
This measure would designate the week of May 1, 2022, through May 7, 2022, as Compost Awareness Week.
This measure would proclaim, in perpetuity, the month of April as California Wines: Down to Earth Month, to celebrate the sustainable leadership of California wineries and winegrape growers throughout the month of April.
Existing law provides for the prosecution of crimes by the district attorney of each county. Existing law establishes the office of the Attorney General to prosecute crimes at the state level and to provide technical assistance to local law enforcement, including district attorneys' offices. This bill, until January 1, 2026, would require the Attorney General to choose 3 counties in which to establish Innocence Commission Pilot Programs to further the district attorneys' commitment to justice, professional ethics, and integrity, and to effectuate the district attorneys' duty to prevent and rectify the conviction of innocent persons. The bill would require participating district attorneys' offices to establish an Innocence Commission, to review cases submitted to it to determine if a person is factually innocent, has been wrongfully committed, or should receive relief in the interest of justice, as specified. The bill would require participating district attorneys' offices to track specified metrics and to report them to the Attorney General's office quarterly. The bill would require the Attorney General's office to submit annual progress reports to the Legislature by January 31 of each year until 2026.
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including life insurance. Existing law requires a life insurance policy illustration, which is a presentation or depiction that includes nonguaranteed elements of a policy of life insurance over a period of years, to include specified information and conform to specified requirements to ensure an illustration is understandable and does not mislead consumers. Existing law requires a life insurance policy to include specified disclosures, including requiring an individual life insurance policy or annuity contract that is initially delivered or issued for delivery on and after January 1, 1990, to include a notice stating that, after receipt of the policy by the owner, the policy may be returned by the owner for cancellation, as specified. This bill would entitle a policy owner, in deciding whether to cancel a policy, to review any illustration, policy, or other disclosure or information of any kind. This bill would authorize a producer to receive compensation or other incentives if the amount was not material to the recommendation of a sales transaction of a life insurance policy, other than a policy solely providing term life with no cash value, or an annuity. The bill would require a life insurance agent to make specified disclosures to a prospective policyholder, including if the agent receives monetary or nonmonetary compensation that is contingent on selling a life insurance policy or annuity or if the insurer or agent who makes a statement about the potential tax advantages of a life insurance policy. The bill would require an illustration or policy to disclose fees and charges, and surrender fees and charges in specified forms. The bill would require a prospective policyholder to sign a copy of those disclosures, and would require the insurer to retain copies of the signed disclosures, as specified. The bill would require a life agent who sells life insurance, other than term life with no cash value, to satisfactorily complete 4 hours of training prior to soliciting individual consumers in order to sell nonterm life insurance. The bill would require a life agent who sells variable life insurance to satisfactorily complete 2 hours of training prior to each license renewal. The bill would require the training to be approved by the Insurance Commissioner and to consist of topics related to, among other things, regulations related to variable life insurance. The bill would become operative on January 1, 2024.
This measure would respectfully memorialize the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to take action to restore honor to Bernard B. James, and to take the necessary actions to ensure the treatment of Bernard B. James is rectified by a full exoneration, including having the military record of Bernard B. James cleared of any court judgment and less-than-honorable discharge.