Bill Text: CA AB491 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 491 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: California Civil Liberties Public Education Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 292, Statutes of 2017. [AB491 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB491-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 491

Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

February 13, 2017

An act to amend Section 13030 of the Education Code, relating to education, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 491, as introduced, Muratsuchi. California Civil Liberties Public Education Act.

The California Civil Liberties Public Education Act establishes a grant program, administered by the State Librarian, for the stated purpose of sponsoring educational activities and the development of educational materials to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of citizens and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry will be remembered and so that the causes and circumstances of this and similar events may be illuminated and understood. The act provides that funding for the grant program is subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other act.

This bill instead would continuously appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund for each of 3 specified fiscal years to the State Librarian for the purposes of the grant program, thereby making an appropriation.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 13030 of the Education Code is amended to read:

13030.
~~(a)Funding for this program is subject to an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or other act.~~

13030.

(a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby continuously appropriated for each of the fiscal years 2017–18, 2018–19, and 2019–20 from the General Fund to the State Librarian for the purposes of this chapter.

(b) Subject to an appropriation ~~for this purpose~~ in the annual Budget Act or other ~~measure,~~ measure for this purpose, the State Librarian shall review and identify programs with similar goals that may be combined with this project in the future.

(c) Subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other measure for this purpose, the State Librarian shall report to the Legislature by November 1, ~~2004,~~ 2021, on the progress of the program and on the results of the review required by subdivision (b).