Bill Text: CA AB1592 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Instructional school gardens: report.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1592 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1592-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1592 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Kiley |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to amend Sections 51796.2 and 51796.5 of the Education Code, relating to school gardens.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1592, as introduced, Kiley.
Instructional school gardens: report.
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 funding 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 the 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 extend the timeframe to submit that report from 6 months to 7 months. The bill also would make a conforming change to another provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 51796.2 of the Education Code is amended to read:51796.2.
(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(b) The Superintendent shall distribute the grants applied for pursuant to subdivision (a) to school districts, charter schools, or county offices of education as follows:
(1) 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.
(2) The receipt of a grant during the period from
the 2006–07 fiscal year to the 2008–09 fiscal year, inclusive, for instructional school garden equipment or supplies by a school district, charter school, or county office of education shall not be dependent on the receipt of a grant for instructional school garden professional development by the same school district, charter school, or county office. office of education.
