Bill Text: CA AB239 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School financing: common core implementation: broadband network.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB239 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB239-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 239	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
    (   Coauthors:  
Assembly Members   Ch�vez  
  and Maienschein   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator
  Walters   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2013

    An act to add Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 26230)
to Division 16.3 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
  An act relating to school financing. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 239, as amended, Hagman.  Energy: school facilities:
energy efficiency upgrade projects.   School financing:
common core implementation: broadband network.  
   Existing law establishes the Academic Content Standards Commission
and requires the commission to develop academic content standards in
language arts and mathematics and to present its recommended
academic content standards to the State Board of Education. Existing
law requires at least 85% of these standards to be the common core
academic content standards developed by the Common Core State
Standards Initiative consortium or any associated or related
interstate collaboration. Existing law requires the state board to
adopt or reject the academic content standards.  
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to appropriate
an unspecified amount from the General Fund to equip all
kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, schoolsites with
broadband network infrastructure to help those schools with the
implementation of the common core academic content standards. 

   The California Clean Energy Jobs Act, an initiative measure
enacted by voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general
election, establishes the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund and requires
moneys in the fund to be available for appropriation during
specified fiscal years for, among other things, the purposes of
funding energy efficiency retrofit and clean energy installation
projects in schools and other public facilities.  
   This bill would establish the California Clean Energy School Fund
in the State Treasury. The bill would transfer 50% of the moneys
deposited into the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund to the California
Clean Energy School Fund during specified fiscal years. The bill
would require the Office of Public School Construction, in
consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, to expend
moneys in the California Clean Energy School Fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to fund a zero-interest revolving
loan program and a grant program for school districts to perform
energy efficiency retrofit or clean energy installation projects at
public schools. The bill would require a school district receiving an
allocation from the office to provide to the office an inventory of
the school district's facilities, and basic site and energy-related
information for the facilities, which the office would be required to
compile into a specified database. The bill would authorize the
office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend moneys in
the California Clean Energy School Fund to develop the database.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature to
appropriate ____ dollars ($____) from   the General Fund, as
a one-time appropriation, to equip all kindergarten and grades 1 to
12, inclusive, schoolsites with broadband network infrastructure to
help those schools with the implementation of the common core
academic content standards.  
  SECTION 1.    Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
26230) is added to Division 16.3 of the Public Resources Code, to
read:
      CHAPTER 5.  IMPLEMENTATION


   26230.  (a) The California Clean Energy School Fund is hereby
established in the State Treasury.
   (b) For fiscal years 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and
2017-18, 50 percent of the moneys deposited into the Clean Energy Job
Creation Fund established pursuant to Section 26205 is hereby
transferred to the California Clean Energy School Fund.
   (c) Moneys in the California Clean Energy School Fund shall, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, be expended by the Office of Public
School Construction, in consultation with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission and the Public Utilities
Commission, to fund a zero-interest revolving loan program and a
grant program for school districts to perform energy efficiency
retrofit or clean energy installation projects at public schools.
   (d) (1) A school district receiving an allocation from the Office
of Public School Construction shall provide to the office an
inventory of the school district's facilities, and basic site and
energy-related information for the facilities.
   (2) (A) The office shall compile the information provided pursuant
to paragraph (1) into a database that will assist the office in
achieving the purposes in subdivision (i) of Section 26206.
   (B) The office may, upon appropriation by the Legislature, expend
moneys from the California Clean Energy School Fund for the purpose
of subparagraph (A).
   (e) Excluding the moneys appropriated pursuant to subparagraph (B)
of paragraph (2) of subdivision (d), the Office of Public School
Construction shall expend moneys appropriated from the Clean Energy
School Fund as follows:
   (1) Sixty percent for zero-interest revolving loans.
   (2) Forty percent for grants.