SB 876 — Education finance.

Summary

(1) Existing law establishes the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to provide funding for the renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make it suitable for licensure for child care and development services and for the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities for lease to local educational agencies and contracting agencies that provide child care and development services. Existing law requires local educational agencies and contracting agencies using facilities made available by the use of these funds to be charged a leasing fee, as specified, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to deposit any revenue derived from the lease payments into the fund. Existing law requires augmentations to the fund made in the Budget Act of 2014 to be used for renovation or repair of existing local educational facilities or new relocatable child care facilities for lease to local educational agencies that provide California state preschool program services. This bill would require the funding for the renovation, repair, or improvement of an existing building to make it suitable for licensure for child care and development services to be used for loans, would require the loans to be repaid within a period that does not exceed 10 years, and would require the Superintendent to deposit all revenue derived from the loan repayments into the fund, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would also require augmentations to the fund made in the Budget Act of 2014 to be used for loans for renovation or repair of existing local educational agency facilities to ensure those facilities meet applicable health and safety standards or the purchase of new relocatable child care facilities for lease to local educational agencies, for the purpose of expanding access to California state preschool program services. (2) Existing law requires the cost of child care services provided for CalWORKs recipients to be governed by regional market rates and requires regional market rate ceilings to be established at the 85th percentile of the 2005 regional market rate survey for each region. This bill, commencing January 1, 2015, would instead require the regional market rate ceilings to be established at the greater of either the 85th percentile of the 2009 regional market rate survey for a region, reduced by 10.11%, or the 85th percentile of the 2005 regional market rate survey for that region. (3) Existing law requires the Department of Finance and the Department of General Services to approve or disapprove annual state subsidized child care and development program contract funding terms and conditions, including both family fee schedules and regional market rate schedules that are required to be adhered to by contract. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2015, requires the State Department of Education to implement the regional market schedule based upon the county aggregates, as determined by the Regional Market survey conducted in 2009 and requires the regional market rate schedule to be reduced by 13%, except as specified. This bill would instead require the regional market rate schedule to be reduced by 10.11%, except as specified. (4) Existing law authorizes a child development contractor to retain a reserve fund balance equal to 5% of the sum of the maximum reimbursable amount of all contracts to which the contractor is a party, or $2,000, whichever is greater, and authorizes a California state preschool program contracting agency to retain in the reserve fund an additional 10% of the sum of the maximum reimbursable amount of all preschool contracts to which the contracting agency is a party for purposes of professional development for California state preschool program staff. This bill would clarify the reserve fund balance limits that apply to child development contractors and California state preschool program contracting agencies, as specified. (5) Existing law requires a school district or charter school, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, to ensure that teachers who are assigned to a transitional kindergarten class after July 1, 2015, be credentialed and, by August 1, 2020, have a minimum number of units in early childhood education or childhood development, comparable experience in a preschool setting, or a child development permit issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. This bill would instead require a school district or charter school, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, to ensure that credentialed teachers who are first assigned to a transitional kindergarten class after July 1, 2015, have, by August 1, 2020, a minimum number of units in early childhood education or childhood development, comparable experience in a preschool setting, or a child development teacher permit issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. (6) Existing law, commencing with the 2015–16 school year, authorizes a school district, charter school, or county office of education to provide independent study courses for pupils enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in accordance with prescribed conditions. Existing law provides for the computation of the average daily attendance for pupils enrolled in courses offered pursuant to these provisions. This bill would revise the computation of the average daily attendance for those independent study courses by providing that if more than 10% of the total average daily attendance of a school district, charter school, or county office of education is claimed pursuant to those courses, the amount of average daily attendance for all pupils enrolled by that school district, charter school, or county office of education enrolled in those courses that exceeds 10% of the school district's, charter school's, or county office of education's total average daily attendance shall be reduced, as specified. (7) Existing law establishes the California Career Pathways Trust as a state education and economic and workforce development initiative, requires the State Department of Education to administer the trust as a competitive grant program, as specified, and provides that a grant recipient may be a school district, county office of education, direct-funded charter school, or community college district. This bill would provide that a regional occupational center or program operated as a joint powers authority may also be a grant recipient. (8) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to publicly post annual segmentwide and community college district goals, and requires the chancellor, in coordination with stakeholders, specified committees of the Legislature, and the Department of Finance, to develop, and the board of governors to adopt, a framework of indicators designed to measure and assess the ongoing condition of a community college's operational environment in specified areas. Existing law requires, as a condition of the receipt of specified funds, each community college within a community college district to annually develop, adopt, and post a goals framework that addresses at least all of the specified areas referenced above in connection with the measurement and assessment of the ongoing condition of a community college's operational environment. This bill would state legislative intent regarding these goals frameworks and would require the board of governors to annually develop, adopt, and publicly post a systemwide goals framework that addresses at least all of the specified areas referenced above in connection with the measurement and assessment of the ongoing condition of a community college's operational environment. (9) Existing law requires the California State University and the University of California to report, by March 15 of each year, on specified performance measures, including various calculations of graduation rates and amounts spent per degree, for the preceding academic year. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature review these performance measures in a collaborative process with the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst's Office, individuals with expertise in statewide accountability efforts, the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, and consider any recommendations for their modification and refinement, as specified. (10) Existing law establishes procedures to be followed by the University of California if it plans to use any of the support appropriation in the annual budget for a subsequent fiscal year for capital expenditures, as specified. Under existing law, these procedures include the submission of specified data to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. This bill would revise these procedures to provide for the submission of this data to the committees in each house of the Legislature that consider the annual state budget and the budget subcommittees in each house of the Legislature that consider appropriations for the University of California, instead of to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. (11) Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California to give public notice of a project to bidders by publication twice in one newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the major portion of the project is located and in one trade paper circulated in the county in which the major portion of the work is to be done, as specified, within the 60-day period preceding the day set for the receiving of bids. This bill would authorize the regents to give public notice of a project to bidders under this provision either in the newspaper and trade paper as indicated above or electronically on the Internet Web site of the university. (12) Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program and defines transitional kindergarten as the first year of a 2-year kindergarten program that uses a modified kindergarten curriculum that is age and developmentally appropriate. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs. Existing law requires those programs to include part-day age and developmentally appropriate programs designed to facilitate the transition to kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law requires the county board of supervisors and the county superintendent of schools to select members of a local planning council. Existing law requires a local planning council to conduct an assessment of child care needs in the county no less than once every 5 years. Of the moneys appropriated in the Budget Act of 2014, this bill would allocate a certain portion of those moneys for purposes of professional development stipends, to be administered by local planning councils, for teachers in transitional kindergarten and teachers in the California state preschool program, as provided. By imposing a new duty on a local planning council, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. (13) This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. (14) Funds allocated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, as provided. (15) 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 these statutory provisions. (16) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 09/27/14 - Chaptered Current pdf September 27, 2014
• Enrolled 09/03/14 - Enrolled pdf September 03, 2014
• Amended 08/13/14 - Amended Assembly pdf August 13, 2014
• Amended 08/12/14 - Amended Assembly pdf August 12, 2014
• Introduced 01/09/14 - Introduced pdf January 09, 2014
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Action History

1. September 27, 2014

   Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 687, Statutes of 2014.

2. September 27, 2014

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 08, 2014

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

4. August 29, 2014

   Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4986.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

5. August 29, 2014

   In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

6. August 29, 2014

   Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 3. Page 6710.) Ordered to the Senate.

7. August 18, 2014

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

8. August 14, 2014

   From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 23. Noes 1.) (August 14).

9. August 13, 2014

   From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

10. August 12, 2014

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

11. August 11, 2014

    Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 5975.)

12. May 08, 2014

    Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

13. April 10, 2014

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

14. April 10, 2014

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 3137.) Ordered to the Assembly.

15. April 07, 2014

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

16. April 03, 2014

    Ordered to second reading.

17. April 03, 2014

    Withdrawn from committee.

18. January 23, 2014

    Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

19. January 10, 2014

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 9.

20. January 09, 2014

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review · Primary

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