Existing law authorizes school districts and county superintendents of schools to provide transportation services to pupils. Existing law, among other things, requires each school district or county office of education that provides transportation to receive the same home-to-school and special education transportation allowances that it received in the prior fiscal year and prohibits the transportation allowances from exceeding the prior year's approved transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in the annual Budget Act. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, to apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity providing services under a school transportation joint powers agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides pupil transportation services either 100% of its school transportation apportionment for the 2020–21 fiscal year or 100% of its reported home-to-school transportation costs as determined by a specified report, whichever is greater. The bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would annually adjust those amounts for inflation, as specified. The bill would provide that implementation of these provisions is subject to an appropriation being made for purposes of those provisions in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
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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.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to award grants for the establishment of Family Empowerment Centers on Disability in 32 regions in the state to provide training and services to children and young adults with disabilities and their families. Existing law establishes a minimum base rate of $150,000 for each center awarded a grant and requires a center that receives a grant to complete specified actions related to providing that training and those services. Existing law establishes a Family Empowerment and Disability Council composed of the executive directors of the centers and certain other members, establishes a base amount of $150,000 to be made available annually to the council, and requires the council to, among other actions, develop a uniform tracking and data collection system to be used by each center. This bill would revise and recast the provisions related to Family Empowerment Centers on Disability, including requiring the department to award grants by March 1, 2022, to applicants in those of the 32 regions in the state that do not have a center and to give priority to certain applicants, increasing the minimum base rate for each center awarded a grant from $150,000 to $246,000 commencing on July 1, 2021, and, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, providing for an annual cost-of-living adjustment of the grant amount, as specified. The bill would also increase the base amount to be made available annually to the council from $150,000 to $246,000. The bill would impose additional requirements on grantees as a condition of receiving a grant and would require the department, among other actions, to, on or before June 30, 2022, develop a data collection template for use by grantees and provide guidance to grantees on how to define and report data. This bill would require, subject to an appropriation for this purpose, the department to award $20,000,000 from the federal Governor's Emergency Education Relief II Fund to the department to award grants to Family Empowerment Centers on Disability and certain applicants, as specified. The bill would require grantees to spend at least 50% of the funds to work in partnership with one or more special education local plan areas to broaden access to alternative dispute resolution, including, but not limited to, facilitation of the individualized education program process, and train additional individuals to conduct these activities. The bill would require grantees to use remaining funds to avert disputes and support resolution of conflict at the lowest level possible, as specified. The bill would impose certain duties on the department relating to these grants. This bill would make implementation of the bill's provisions contingent upon an appropriation being made in the annual Budget Act or another statute for its purposes.
Existing law establishes the California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program, which is administered by the State Air Resources Board, in conjunction with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to fund development, demonstration, precommercial pilot, and early commercial deployment of zero- and near-zero-emission truck, bus, and off-road vehicle and equipment technologies. This bill would expand the purposes of the program to include the funding of the development, demonstration, precommercial pilot, and early commercial deployment of zero- and near-zero-emission commercial harbor craft technologies.
Existing law requires the Governor to establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Existing law also establishes various programs to assist local governments in addressing homelessness, such as the Homeless Emergency Aid Program and the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. Existing law requires applicants to that program to submit specified information to the council, including a local landscape analysis that assesses the current number of people experiencing homelessness and existing programs and funding that address homelessness within the jurisdiction, utilizing any relevant and available data from the Homeless Data Integration System, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's homeless point-in-time count, continuum of care housing inventory count, longitudinal systems analysis, and Stella tools, as well as any recently conducted local needs assessments. This bill would require each city, county, and city and county that has used funds from any state funding source to assist in addressing homelessness to complete a report and publish the report on its internet website providing specified information, or, alternatively, publishing a local homelessness action plan on its internet website, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. 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.
(1) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 provides for the adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures, under the administration of the Director of General Services, for the allocation of state funds by the State Allocation Board for the construction and modernization of public school facilities. This bill would add provisions to the act to require the Department of General Services to process all applications received under the act on and after an unspecified date and to present those applications to the State Allocation Board within 120 days of receipt. The bill would require applicants for bond funding to supply designated information to the State Department of Education. The bill would authorize school districts to receive a supplemental grant to expand an existing, or construct a new, gymnasium, multipurpose room, library, or school kitchen under specified conditions. The bill would amend the methodology for calculating a school district's required local contribution, as specified. The bill would specifically authorize the allocation of state funds for the replacement of school buildings that are at least 75 years old, for specified assistance to school districts with a school facility located on a military installation, as specified, and small school districts, as defined, and for the testing and remediation of lead levels in water fountains and faucets used for drinking or preparing food on schoolsites. The bill would authorize new construction and modernization grants to be used for seismic mitigation purposes, certain health and safety projects, and, among other things, to establish schoolsite-based infrastructure to provide broadband internet access. The bill would also authorize modernization grants to be used for the control, management, or abatement of lead. The bill would increase the maximum level of total bonding capacity, as defined, that a school district could have in order to be deemed eligible for financial hardship under the act from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000. The bill, commencing in the 2023–24 fiscal year, would increase that $15,000,000 maximum by a specified inflation adjustment. The bill would authorize the State Allocation Board to provide specified assistance to school districts and county offices of education impacted by a natural disaster for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency. (2) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (A) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (B) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (C) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (D) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. This bill would set forth the Kindergarten-Community Colleges Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2022 as a state general obligation bond act that would provide $12,000,000,000 to construct and modernize education facilities, as provided. The bond act would become operative only if approved by the voters at an unspecified statewide election in 2022. The bill would require its other provisions to take effect upon voter approval of the bond act. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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 proclaim the week of May 15, 2022, to May 21, 2022, inclusive, to be Emergency Medical Services Week in California.
This measure would recognize May 7, 2022, as Girls on the Run of Greater Sacramento Day and resolve that schools across the Sacramento region should encourage girls in grades 3 to 8, inclusive, to get involved and participate in a nearby Girls on the Run program.