AB 41 — School facilities.
Last action — From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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✓Introduced
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2In Committee
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3Passed Assembly
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4Passed Senate
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5To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill died with 2013-2014 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.
Summary
(1) 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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014, a state general obligation bond act that would provide funds to construct and modernize education facilities, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the next statewide general election, and to provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election. (2) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities and requires a school district's ongoing eligibility for new construction to be based, in part, on a calculation of existing school building capacity. Existing law requires the calculation of school building capacity of a school district to be increased by the number of pupils reported by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to a certain calculation related to the excess school capacity generated as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program, but exempts from this increase each school on a year-round, multitrack calendar that has a density of 200 or more pupils enrolled per acre and that is located in a school district with 40% of its pupils attending multitrack, year-round schools. This bill would repeal the provisions requiring an increase in the calculation of school building capacity as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program and exempting specified schools from this increase in the calculation of school building capacity. (3) Existing law requires the board and the State Department of Education to conduct specified evaluations related to the construction of small high schools and requires those evaluations to be used to inform the direction of future school facilities construction and related bond measures. This bill would repeal this provision. The bill would also correct a cross-reference.
Bill Text
- Amended 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly Current pdf April 01, 2013
- Amended 03/14/13 - Amended Assembly pdf March 14, 2013
- Introduced 12/07/12 - Introduced pdf December 07, 2012
- AB41 View text html
Action History
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From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
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Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
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Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
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Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
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Referred to Com. on ED.
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Read first time.
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From printer. May be heard in committee January 9.
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Introduced. To print.
Sponsors
- Buchanan · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
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Sponsors (1)
- Buchanan
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (121)
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Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does AB 41 do?
- (1) 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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014, a state general obligation bond act that would provide funds to construct and modernize education facilities, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the next statewide general election, and to provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election. (2) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities and requires a school district's ongoing eligibility for new construction to be based, in part, on a calculation of existing school building capacity. Existing law requires the calculation of school building capacity of a school district to be increased by the number of pupils reported by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to a certain calculation related to the excess school capacity generated as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program, but exempts from this increase each school on a year-round, multitrack calendar that has a density of 200 or more pupils enrolled per acre and that is located in a school district with 40% of its pupils attending multitrack, year-round schools. This bill would repeal the provisions requiring an increase in the calculation of school building capacity as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program and exempting specified schools from this increase in the calculation of school building capacity. (3) Existing law requires the board and the State Department of Education to conduct specified evaluations related to the construction of small high schools and requires those evaluations to be used to inform the direction of future school facilities construction and related bond measures. This bill would repeal this provision. The bill would also correct a cross-reference.
- Who sponsors AB 41?
- AB 41 is sponsored by Buchanan.
- What is the current status of AB 41?
- This bill died with 2013-2014 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
- Where can I track AB 41?
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