Bill Text: CA AB1433 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public contracts: school facility projects.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 581, Statutes of 2023. [AB1433 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1433-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Assembly
March 22, 2023 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Mike Fong |
February 17, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the Instructional School Gardens Program for the promotion, creation, and support of instructional school gardens through the allocation of grants, and through technical assistance provided, to school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education. Existing law authorizes a school district, charter school, or county office of education to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for a 3-year grant under this program in a manner determined by the Superintendent, in order to develop and maintain an instructional school garden. Existing law requires a school district, charter school, or county office of education, as a condition of receiving funding, within 6 months of the final expenditure of the instructional school garden funds received, to report to the Superintendent, in a manner prescribed by the Superintendent, in conjunction with an
interagency working group, regarding the use of the funds and the manner in which the instructional school garden or gardens are used to complement the academic program of the participating school or schools.
This bill would reduce the deadline to submit that report from 6 months after the final expenditure of those funds to 3 months after that final expenditure.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 44303 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 44302, to read:44303.
Notwithstanding any other law, and until July 1, 2024, any holder of a credential or permit issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing that authorizes the holder to substitute teach in a general, special, or career technical education assignment may serve in a substitute teaching assignment aligned with their authorization, including for staff vacancies, for up to 60 cumulative days for any one assignment. Nothing in this section shall preclude a local educational agency from following the hiring provisions outlined in Section 44225.7.(a)A school district, charter school, or county office of education may apply to the Superintendent for funding for a three-year grant under this article in a manner determined by the Superintendent, in order to develop and maintain an instructional school garden. The application, at a minimum, shall indicate the school or schools at which the instructional school gardens are, or are to be, located; the grade level or grade levels to be targeted; the potential number of classes within the grade levels and number of pupils who would use the instructional school gardens; and the intended items of expenditure for any funds received. The application also shall include an explanation of the
three-month reporting requirement specified in Section 51796.5.
(b)The Superintendent shall distribute the grants applied for pursuant to subdivision (a) to school districts, charter schools, or county offices of education. Each grant shall be not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite, except that a school district, charter school, or county office of education that applies on behalf of at least one schoolsite with an enrollment of 1,000 or more pupils may receive a grant of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per schoolsite with an enrollment of 1,000 or more pupils.
As a condition of the receipt of funds pursuant to this article, a school district, charter school, or county office of education, within three months of the final expenditure of funds received, shall report to the Superintendent, in conjunction with the interagency working group convened pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 51796, in a manner prescribed by the Superintendent, regarding the use of funds and the manner in which the instructional school garden or gardens are used to complement the academic program of the participating school or schools. A school district or county office of education may submit one
report for all of the schools that have received grants that are under the jurisdiction of the school district or county office of education.
