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. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include a base grant that in each fiscal year is adjusted for inflation by the percentage change in the annual average value of the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services for the United States, as specified. Existing law requires the local control funding formula to include, in addition to the base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are unduplicated pupils, as defined to include English learners, pupils eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and foster youth, as specified. Existing law requires county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to annually report their enrollment of unduplicated pupils to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified. Existing law requires pupils who are classified in more than one of these groups to be counted only once for these purposes. This bill would require, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, the inflation adjustment to the base grant for a school district or charter school to instead be 15%. For purposes of the local control funding formula, the bill would replace pupils who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals with low-income pupils, as defined to included pupils whose household income level is at or below 250% of the federal poverty level, as adjusted annually, or who is eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and would include pupils experiencing homelessness, as defined, in the categories of pupils who are unduplicated pupils for purposes of determining eligibility for supplemental and concentration grants. In order to determine income level, the bill would require a school to use an alternative household income data collection form for any pupil not determined to be eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as specified, and would require the State Department of Education to develop a sample form. The bill would place reporting requirements on local educational agencies to implement these provisions and would also make conforming changes. By imposing additional duties on county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools related to unduplicated pupils, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, which for school districts is based in part on the 2nd principal apportionment regular average daily attendance for the current or prior fiscal year, whichever is greater, and requires an adjustment for the calculation of average daily attendance for a sponsoring school district, as defined. Existing law requires the prior fiscal year average daily attendance for specified school districts to be increased by the prior fiscal year 2nd principal apportionment average daily attendance. This bill instead would require the calculation of the average daily attendance for school districts to also be based on the computation of the 2nd principal apportionment regular average daily attendance for the average of the 3 most recent prior fiscal years, if greater than that of the current or prior fiscal year, would specify the adjustments to be made to this computation for a sponsoring school district, and would also make conforming changes. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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Existing law establishes the Office of the Inspector General that is responsible, among other things, for contemporaneous public oversight of internal affairs investigations and staff grievance inquiries conducted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Office of Internal Affairs. Existing law requires the Office of the Inspector General to issue regular reports, no less than annually, to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing its recommendations concerning its oversight of the department allegations of internal misconduct and use of force and, no less than semiannually, summarizing its oversight of Office of Internal Affairs investigations. Existing law requires these reports to be posted on the Inspector General's internet website and otherwise made available to the public upon release to the Governor and Legislature. This bill, instead, would require the Office of the Inspector General's reports to be posted to the Inspector General's internet website and be made available to the public within 5 days of their release to the Governor and Legislature.
Existing law establishes the Capital Access Loan Program to assist qualified small businesses in financing the costs of complying with environmental mandates and the remediation of contamination on their properties, which is administered by the California Pollution Control Financing Authority. Under the program, the authority may enter into contracts with participating financial institutions and is required to establish a loss reserve account with each participating financial institution. Under the program, a participating financial institution that experiences a default on a qualified loan enrolled in the Capital Access Loan Program may obtain reimbursement from the authority by submitting a claim for reimbursement for a specified amount of the loss covered by that loan, subject to certain procedures. Existing law provides for the creation by local ordinance, or by ministerial approval if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned to allow single-family or multifamily dwelling residential use in accordance with specified standards and conditions. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the office of the Treasurer to establish and administer the Help Homeowners Add New Housing Program for the purpose of protecting participating financial institutions, as defined, from default on loans provided to a qualified homeowner to construct an accessory dwelling unit. The bill would require the office to establish various program requirements, including, among others, a minimum criteria for qualified loans that may be enrolled, a criteria for a financial institution to participate in the program, and the maximum percentage of the actual loss guaranteed under the program. The bill would authorize the office to contract with any financial institution for the purpose of allowing the financial institution to participate in the program, as specified. The bill would require the office to establish a loss reserve account for each participating financial institution that must consist of specified moneys. The bill would authorize a participating financial institution to enroll qualified loans in the program, subject to specified procedures, in order to obtain protection against default through the program. The bill would require the office to establish a procedure for a participating financial institution to submit a claim for reimbursement of losses incurred as a result of a default of an enrolled loan. This bill would establish the Accessory Dwelling Unit Access Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding loss reserve accounts under the program and would make the moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the office to annually prepare a report to the Governor and the Legislature that describes the financial condition and programmatic results of the program, as specified. The bill would authorize the office to adopt necessary rules for carrying out its duties, functions, and powers relating to the program.
Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, as defined, and requires, except as provided, a local agency disposing of surplus land to comply with certain notice requirements before disposing of the land or participating in negotiations to dispose of the land with a prospective transferee, particularly that the local agency send a notice of availability to specified entities that have notified the Department of Housing and Community Development of their interest in surplus land, as specified. Under existing law, if the local agency receives a notice of interest, the local agency is required to engage in good faith negotiations with the entity desiring to purchase or lease the surplus land. Existing law defines "exempt surplus land," for which a local agency is not required to follow the requirements for disposal of surplus land, except as provided, as, among other things, surplus land that is subject to valid legal restrictions that are not imposed by the local agency and that would make housing prohibited, as specified. This bill would require that those legal restrictions be documented and verified in writing by the relevant agencies that have authority relating to the restrictions. Existing law requires a local agency to take formal action in a regular public meeting to declare land is surplus and is not necessary for the agency's use and to declare land as either "surplus land" or "exempt surplus land," as supported by written findings, before a local agency may take any action to dispose of it consistent with an agency's policies or procedures. This bill would recast that provision and would authorize, in specified instances, that a local agency administratively declare land as "exempt surplus land" if the declaration and findings are published and available for public comment at least 30 days before the declaration takes effect. The bill would also require a local agency to provide a written notification to the Department of Housing and Community Development of its declaration and findings 30 days before disposing of land declared "exempt surplus land." Because this bill would require local officials to perform additional duties, it would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to maintain on its internet website, an up-to-date listing of all notices of availability throughout the state. This bill would also require the department to maintain on its internet website a listing of all entities, including housing sponsors, that have notified the department of their interest in surplus land for the purpose of developing low- and moderate-income housing. Existing law specifies that these provisions do not preclude a local agency, housing authority, or redevelopment agency that purchases land from a disposing agency from reconveying the land to a nonprofit or for-profit housing developer for development of low- and moderate-income housing as authorized under other provisions of law. This bill would instead specify that these provisions do not preclude a local agency that purchases land from a disposing agency from reconveying the land to a nonprofit or for-profit housing developer for development of low- and moderate-income housing as authorized under other provisions of law. Existing law makes a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these provisions after receiving a notification from the Department of Housing and Community Development, as specified, that the local agency is in violation of these provisions, liable for a penalty of 30% of the final sale price of the land sold for a first violation and 50% for any subsequent violation. This bill would, instead, make a local agency that disposes of surplus land in violation of these provisions after receiving a notification from the Department of Housing and Community Development, as specified, that the local agency is in violation of these provisions, liable for a penalty of 30% of the greater of the final sale price, or of the fair market value at the time of disposition, as determined by an independent appraisal, of the surplus land for a first violation, and 50% of the greater of the 2 sums, for any subsequent violation. The bill would make other nonsubstantive changes. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
This measure would designate May 10, 2022, as National Fentanyl Awareness Day.
This measure would declare May 2, 2022, as CASA Appreciation Day in California.
This bill would recognize the month of May 2022 as Older Americans Month and would encourage all Californians to recognize and treat all older adults with compassion and respect, and to participate in services and activities that contribute to the health, welfare, and happiness of older adults.
This measure would recognize May 8, 2022, as the 115th annual Mother's Day, and would urge all Californians to recognize, appreciate, and be grateful for the gifts and good works of mothers on that day.
This measure would proclaim the month of May 2022 to be National Military Appreciation Month.