AB 182 — COVID-19 emergency response: Learning Recovery Emergency Fund: appropriation.

Summary

(1) The California Emergency Services Act authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency during conditions of disaster or extreme peril to persons or property, including epidemics. Pursuant to this authority, on March 4, 2020, the Governor declared a state of emergency relating to the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Existing law appropriates funds from the Federal Trust Fund, the Coronavirus Relief Fund, and the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation in the 2020–21 fiscal year to eligible local educational agencies, as defined, in accordance with prescribed methodologies to be used for activities that directly support pupil academic achievement and mitigate learning loss related to COVID-19 school closures, as provided. Existing law appropriates money from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community colleges to support efforts to increase student retention rates and enrollment by primarily engaging former community college students who may have withdrawn from a community college due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, current community college students who may be hesitant to remain in a community college due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and prospective students who may be hesitant to enroll in a community college due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill would create the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of receiving appropriations for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would appropriate $7,936,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate these appropriated funds to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as provided. The bill would authorize allocated funds to be used for learning recovery initiatives through the 2027–28 school year that, at a minimum, support academic learning recovery, and staff and pupil social and emotional well-being. The bill would require local educational agencies receiving these allocations to report interim expenditures to the department by December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2027, as well as a final report no later than December 1, 2029. This bill would also appropriate $650,000,000 from the General Fund to the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. The bill would require the Chancellor's Office to allocate these appropriated funds to community college districts on the basis of actual reported full-time equivalent students, as provided. The bill would authorize funds to be expended for purposes related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including student supports, reengagement strategies, faculty grants, and professional development opportunities, as well as technology investments, cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment, and to discharge unpaid student fees, as provided. The bill would require community college districts, as a condition of receiving funds, to report, by March 1, 2023, to the Chancellor's Office metrics on the provision of employer-sponsored health insurance for part-time faculty in the 2021–22 academic year, and by March 1, 2026, metrics on the provision of employer-sponsored health insurance to part-time faculty in the 2024–25 academic year, as provided. The bill would require the Chancellor's Office to submit a report on the use of funds by March 1, 2024, to the Legislature, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the Department of Finance on the expenditure of the appropriated funds, as provided. (2) The California Constitution generally prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population, and prescribes procedures for making adjustments to the appropriations limit. The California Constitution makes certain specified appropriations exempt from this total annual limit if certain requirements are satisfied, including appropriations approved by a 23 vote of the Legislature relating to an emergency declared by the Governor. This bill would provide that the appropriations made by the bill are appropriations relating to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, and pursuant to the above-described constitutional provision are not subject to the annual appropriations limit set by the California Constitution when passed by a 23 vote of the Legislature. (3) Funds appropriated 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. (4) 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 06/30/22 - Chaptered Current pdf June 30, 2022
• Enrolled 06/29/22 - Enrolled pdf June 29, 2022
• Amended 06/25/22 - Amended Senate pdf June 25, 2022
• Amended 02/18/21 - Amended Assembly pdf February 18, 2021
• Introduced 01/08/21 - Introduced pdf January 08, 2021
• AB182 View text html

Action History

1. June 30, 2022

   Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 53, Statutes of 2022.

2. June 30, 2022

   Approved by the Governor.

3. June 29, 2022

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 p.m.

4. June 29, 2022

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).

5. June 29, 2022

   Assembly Rule 77 suspended.

6. June 29, 2022

   Assembly Rule 63 suspended.

7. June 29, 2022

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

8. June 29, 2022

   Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4521.).

9. June 28, 2022

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

10. June 27, 2022

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 27).

11. June 25, 2022

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.

12. June 21, 2022

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

13. March 11, 2021

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

14. February 25, 2021

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

15. February 25, 2021

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 502.)

16. February 23, 2021

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

17. February 22, 2021

    Ordered to second reading.

18. February 22, 2021

    Withdrawn from committee.

19. February 22, 2021

    Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 432.)

20. February 22, 2021

    Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.

21. February 18, 2021

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended.

22. January 28, 2021

    Referred to Com. on BUDGET.

23. January 11, 2021

    Read first time.

24. January 09, 2021

    From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.

25. January 08, 2021

    Introduced. To print.

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget · Primary

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