Bill Text: CA SB191 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School transportation: apportionments.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-5)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB191 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB191-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 191	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Block and Vidak
    (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Salas   ) 
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Achadjian,   Bigelow,   Brown,  
Dahle,   Dodd,   Eggman,   Eduardo Garcia,
  Gray,   Lackey,   Perea,  
Rodriguez,   and Wood   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2015

   An act to add Section 41850.5 to the Education Code, relating to
school transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 191, as amended, Block. School transportation: apportionments.
   Existing law authorizes school districts and county
superintendents of schools to provide transportation services to
pupils. Existing law, among other things, requires each school
district or county office of education that provides transportation
to receive the same home-to-school and special education
transportation allowances that it received in the prior fiscal year
and prohibits the transportation allowances from exceeding the prior
year's approved transportation costs, increased by the amount
provided in the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2015-16 fiscal year to
the 2021-22 fiscal year, inclusive, to apportion to each school
district, county office of education, entity providing services under
a school transportation joint powers agreement, or a regional
occupational center or program that provides pupil transportation
services, an amount equal to a specified annually increasing
percentage of its approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal
year or 100% of its school transportation apportionment for the
2014-15 fiscal year, annually adjusted as specified, whichever is
greater.  The bill would provide that implementation of its
provisions is subject to an appropriation being made for purposes of
those provisions in the annual Budget Act or another statute. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 41850.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   41850.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2015-16
fiscal year to the 2021-22 fiscal year, inclusive, the Superintendent
shall apportion to each school district, county office of education,
entity providing services under a school transportation joint powers
agreement, or regional occupational center or program that provides
pupil transportation services, either 100 percent of its school
transportation apportionment for the 2014-15 fiscal year, as adjusted
by subdivision (b), or the following amount, whichever is greater:
   (1) For the 2015-16 fiscal year, 41 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (2) For the 2016-17 fiscal year, 42.5 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (3) For the 2017-18 fiscal year, 44 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (4) For the 2018-19 fiscal year, 45.5 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (5) For the 2019-20 fiscal year, 47 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (6) For the 2020-21 fiscal year, 48.5 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (7) For the 2021-22 fiscal year, 50 percent of its approved
transportation costs for the prior fiscal year.
   (b) The 2014-15 fiscal year school transportation apportionment
amount described in subdivision (a) shall be adjusted annually from
the 2015-16 fiscal year to the 2021-22 fiscal year, inclusive, by the
percentage change in the annual average value of the Implicit Price
Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and
Services for the United States, as published by the United States
Department of Commerce, for the 12-month period ending in the third
quarter of the prior fiscal year. This percentage change shall be
determined using the latest data available as of May 10 of the
preceding fiscal year compared with the annual average value of the
same deflator for the 12-month period ending in the third quarter of
the second preceding fiscal year, using the latest data available as
of May 10 of the preceding fiscal year, as reported by the Department
of Finance. 
   (c) The implementation of this section is subject to an
appropriation being made for purposes of this section in the annual
Budget Act or another statute.