Bill Text: CA SB1137 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School transportation: apportionments.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-14 - Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [SB1137 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1137-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1137	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 2, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 27, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 22, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Torres
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Vidak)
   (Coauthor: Senator Correa)
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Conway   Coauthors:   Assembly Members
  Conway   and Rodriguez  )

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 41850.5 to the Education Code, relating to
school transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1137, as amended, Torres. School transportation:
apportionments.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school.
Existing law, among other things, requires each school district or
county office of education that provides transportation to receive
the same home-to-school and special education transportation
allowances that it received in the prior fiscal year and prohibits
the transportation allowances from exceeding the prior year's
approved transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in
the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
 for the 2014-15 fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year,
inclusive,   commencing   with the 2015-16
fiscal year,  to apportion to each school district, county
office of education, entity providing services under a school
transportation joint powers agreement, or a regional occupational
center or program that provides pupil transportation an amount equal
to a specified annually increasing percentage of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100% of its school
transportation apportionment for the 2013-14 fiscal year, annually
adjusted as specified, whichever is greater.  The bill would
require the Superintendent to establish a process to provide startup
school transportation apportionments to school districts that did not
provide pupil transportation services in the 2014-15 fiscal year, as
specified. These provisions would be operative only to the extent
that funding for purposes of the bill is provided in the annual
Budget Act or another statute.  
   The bill would become operative only to the extent that funding is
provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute for the
purposes of the bill. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 41850.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   41850.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law,  for the
2014-15 fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year, inclusive, 
 commencing with the 2015-16 fiscal year,  the
Superintendent shall apportion to each school district, county office
of education, entity providing services under a school
transportation joint powers agreement, or regional occupational
center or program that provides pupil transportation services either
100 percent of its school transportation apportionment for the
2013-14 fiscal year, as adjusted by subdivision (b), or the following
amount, whichever is greater:
   (1) For the  2014-15   2015-16  fiscal
year, 41 percent of its approved transportation costs for the prior
fiscal year.
   (2) For the  2015-16   2016-17  fiscal
year, 42.5 percent of its approved transportation costs for the prior
fiscal year.
   (3) For the  2016-17   2017-18  fiscal
year, 44 percent of its approved transportation costs for the prior
fiscal year.
   (4) For the  2017-18   2018-19  fiscal
year, 45.5 percent of its approved transportation costs for the prior
fiscal year.
   (5) For the  2018-19   2019-20  fiscal
year, 47 percent of its approved transportation costs for the prior
fiscal year.
   (6) For the  2019-20   2020-21  fiscal
year, 48.5 percent of its approved transportation costs for the prior
fiscal year.
   (7) For the  2020-21   2021-22  fiscal
year,  and each fiscal year thereafter,  50 percent of its
approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (b) The 2013-14 fiscal year school transportation apportionment
amount described in subdivision (a) shall be adjusted annually
 from the 2014-15 fiscal year to the 2020-21 fiscal year,
inclusive,  by the percentage change in the annual average
value of the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government
Purchases of Goods and Services for the United States, as published
by the United States Department of  Commerce  
Commerce,  for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter
of the prior fiscal year. This percentage change shall be determined
using the latest data available as of May 10 of the preceding fiscal
year compared with the annual average value of the same deflator for
the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of the second
preceding fiscal year, using the latest data available as of May 10
of the preceding fiscal year, as reported by the Department of
Finance. 
   (c) The Superintendent shall establish a process to provide
startup school transportation apportionments to school districts that
did not provide pupil transportation services in the 2014-15 fiscal
year, subject to all of the following:  
   (1) The startup school transportation apportionment shall only
apply to the first fiscal year in which the school district provides
pupil transportation services and shall be equal to the school
district's estimated approved transportation costs multiplied by the
percentage in subdivision (a) for the applicable fiscal year. 

   (2) The school transportation apportionment for the second fiscal
year in which the school district provides pupil transportation
services shall be determined pursuant to subdivision (a) and shall be
increased or decreased to adjust for differences, if any, between
the prior fiscal year approved transportation costs and prior year
estimated transportation costs.  
   (3) No more than 5 percent of the amount provided for purposes of
subdivision (b) shall be allocated for startup school transportation
apportionments. If any of this amount is unused for startup school
transportation apportionments, the balance shall be used for purposes
of subdivision (a).  
   (4) Funding for startup school transportation apportionments shall
only be available to school district employee-operated
home-to-school transportation programs.  
   (c) 
    (d)  This section shall be operative only to the extent
that funding is provided in the annual Budget Act or another statute
for  the  purposes of this section.