Bill Text: CA AB1754 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1754 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: School bonds: portable electronic devices and instructional materials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-05 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB1754 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1754-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1754	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Ch�vez   ) 
    (  Coauthors:   Senators   Gaines
  and Vidak   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2014

   An act to add Section 15267 to the Education Code, relating to
school bonds.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1754, as amended, Hagman. School bonds:  portable
electronic devices and  instructional materials.
   The California Constitution limits the maximum amount of any ad
valorem tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the
property except for ad valorem taxes or special assessments that pay
the interest and redemption charges on certain bonded indebtedness,
including bonded indebtedness incurred by a school district,
community college district, or county office of education for the
construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of
school facilities, including the furnishing and equipping of school
facilities, or the acquisition or lease of real property for school
facilities, approved by 55% of the voters if the proposition includes
specified accountability requirements.
   This bill would prohibit proceeds from the sale of bonds
authorized and issued pursuant to the exception described above to be
used to purchase  instructional materials, as defined.
  portable electronic devices, including, but not
limited to, laptop computers and tablet computers, that are not
closely connected to classroom instruction, are assigned to
individual pupils, or are permitted to leave the schoolsite for more
than one schoolday, or to purchase basic or supplemental
instructional materials. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 15267 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   15267.  Proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized and issued
pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 1 of Article
XIII A and subdivision (b) of Section 18 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution shall not be used to purchase 
instructional materials, as defined in subdivision (h) of Section
60010.   either of the following:  
   (a) Portable electronic devices, including, but not limited to,
laptop computers and tablet computers, that are any of the following:
 
   (1) Not closely connected to classroom instruction.  
   (2) Assigned to individual pupils.  
   (3) Permitted to leave the schoolsite for more than one schoolday.
 
   (b) Basic or supplemental instructional materials.