Bill Text: CA AB1839 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1839 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Schools: safety.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-19 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission. [AB1839 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1839-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1839	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torrico

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2010

   An act to add Section 38006 to the Education Code, and to add
Section 10752.3 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to
schools.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1839, as amended, Torrico. Schools: safety.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to establish a security department under the supervision of a chief
of security or a police department under the supervision of a chief
of police and under the direction of the superintendent of the school
district. The governing board is authorized to employ personnel to
ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils and the
security of the real and personal property of the school district. In
addition, a school district is authorized to assign a school police
reserve officer who is deputized to a schoolsite to supplement the
duties of school police personnel.
   This bill would establish the Safe Schools Initiative, under which
the Superintendent of Public Instruction would award grants to
school districts with high schools located in areas with the highest
crime rates. A grant recipient would be required to use funds awarded
to employ at least one police officer to provide services at the
high school or high schools in the school district that qualified the
school district for the award. The grant program would be funded by
a 0.025% augmentation of the vehicle license fee that would be
imposed on vehicles with a market value of $50,000 or more.
   This bill would result in a change in state taxes for the purpose
of increasing state revenues within the meaning of Section 3 of
Article XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus would require
for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of
the Legislature.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 38006 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   38006.  (a) There is hereby established the Safe Schools
Initiative, under which the Superintendent shall award grants to
school districts with high schools located in areas with the highest
crime rates.
   (b) For purposes of implementing the program, the Superintendent
shall  consult with the Attorney General to determine the most
appropriate crime rate statistics or indicators to use for
determining the crime rates of the areas in which high schools are
located and shall  rank the high schools in the state 
according to the crime rates of the areas in which the high schools
are located.   in descending order based on the chosen
statistics or indicators. 
   (c) All school districts are eligible to apply for grant funds
under the program.
   (d) The Superintendent shall award  100  grants to
applicant school  districts that have jurisdiction over the
100 high schools located in areas with the highest crime rates.
  districts in descending order of the ranking performed
pursuant to subdivision (b). 
   (e) A school district shall use grant funds to employ at least one
police officer to provide services at the high school or high
schools in the district that qualified the school district for the
award  and may use the remaining grant funds for other safety
initiatives in consultation with local law enforcement agencies 
.
   (f) The grant program shall be funded from the augmentation of the
vehicle license fee collected pursuant to Section 10752.3 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code.
  SEC. 2.  Section 10752.3 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code,
to read:
   10752.3.  The annual amount of the license fee for a vehicle with
a market value of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more, other
than a trailer or semitrailer, as described in subdivision (a) of
Section 5014.1 of the Vehicle Code, or a trailer coach that is
required to be moved under permit as authorized in Section 35790 of
the Vehicle Code, shall be augmented by 0.025 percent. The amount of
money collected pursuant to this section shall be used to fund the
Safe Schools Initiative set forth in Section 38006 of the Education
Code.