Bill Text: CA AB1609 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Education finance: local control funding formula: attendance yields.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. [AB1609 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1609-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 18, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1609

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Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

January 05, 2022

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An act to add Section 42238.023 to the Education Code, relating to education finance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. finance.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1609, as amended, Muratsuchi. Education finance: local control funding formula. formula: attendance yields.

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, that includes average daily attendance as a component of that calculation for these local educational agencies.

This bill would instead, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, 2021–22 fiscal year for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, require the department to use the greater of the 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, or 2022–23 fiscal year average daily attendance Superintendent to calculate an attendance yield for the 2019–20 and 2021–22 fiscal years, as specified, and to adjust the 2021–22 fiscal year average daily attendance for purposes of apportionments under the local control funding formula for these local educational agencies, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to make the same adjustment for school districts for the 2022–23 to 2024–25 fiscal years, inclusive, for purposes of calculating prior year average daily attendance or the average daily attendance of the 3 most recent fiscal years, as provided.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key

Vote: TWO_THIRDSMAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 42238.023 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 42238.022, to read:

42238.023.

 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and for purposes of calculating local control funding formula entitlements pursuant to Sections 2574, 2576, 42238.02, and 42238.03, as applicable, if the Superintendent determines that a local educational agency’s attendance yield in the 2019–20 fiscal year is greater than the attendance yield in the 2021–22 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall adjust the local educational agency’s 2021–22 average daily attendance pursuant to subdivision (b). This determination shall be made by the following calculation for each local educational agency:

(1) Divide the total average daily attendance in the 2019–20 fiscal year reported for both the second period and the annual period apportionment, as applicable, by total enrollment for the 2019–20 fiscal year. This amount shall not exceed a value of one.

(2) Divide the total average daily attendance in the 2021–22 fiscal year reported for both the second period and annual period apportionment, as applicable, by total enrollment for the 2021–22 fiscal year. This amount shall not exceed a value of one.

(3) Divide the quotient calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) by the quotient calculated pursuant to paragraph (2). If the resulting quotient is greater than one, the local educational agency’s 2021–22 average daily attendance shall be adjusted pursuant to subdivision (b).

(b) (1) For purposes of calculating a county office of education’s 2021–22 annual apportionment pursuant to Sections 2574 and 2576, the Superintendent shall multiply the county office of education’s 2021–22 reported average daily attendance by the quotient calculated pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) for the county office of education.

(2) For school districts, the Superintendent shall make the following adjustments:

(A) For purposes of calculating a school district’s 2021–22 annual apportionment pursuant to Sections 42238.02 and 42238.03, the Superintendent shall multiply the school district’s 2021–22 reported average daily attendance by the quotient calculated pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) for the school district.

(B) For purposes of calculating prior year average daily attendance or the average daily attendance of the three most recent fiscal years pursuant to Sections 42238.05 and 42280 for the 2022–23 to 2024–25 fiscal years, inclusive, the Superintendent shall multiply the school district’s 2021–22 reported average daily attendance by the quotient calculated pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) for the school district.

(3) For purposes of calculating a charter school’s 2021–22 annual apportionment pursuant to Sections 42238.02 and 42238.03, the Superintendent shall multiply the charter school’s reported classroom-based average daily attendance by the quotient calculated pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) for the charter school.

(c) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a county office of education, school district, or charter school.

SECTION 1.Section 42238.023 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 42238.022, to read:

42238.023.

(a)Notwithstanding Section 41601, Sections 42238.05 to 42238.053, inclusive, Section 46010, or any other law, for purposes of calculating apportionments for the 2022–23 fiscal year for a local educational agency, the department shall use the greater of (1) the average daily attendance in the 2019–20 fiscal year reported for both the second period and the annual period apportionment that included all full school months from July 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020, inclusive, and extended year average daily attendance attributed to the 2019–20 school year reported pursuant to Section 96 of Chapter 24 of the Statutes of 2020, (2) the average daily attendance attributed to the 2020–21 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05, (3) the average daily attendance attributed to the 2021–22 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05, or (4) the average daily attendance attributed to the 2022–23 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.05 for the local educational agency.

(b)For purposes of this section, ”local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

SEC. 2.

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to mitigate the impacts of declining enrollment due to both long-term demographic trends and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.