Proposition 1B EDUCATION FUNDING. PAYMENT PLAN.

EDUCATION FUNDING. PAYMENT PLAN.

• Requires supplemental payments to local school districts and community colleges to address recent budget cuts.
• Annual payments begin in 2011–12.
• Payments are funded from the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund until the total amount has been paid.
• Payments to local school districts will be allocated in proportion to average daily attendance and may be used for classroom instruction, textbooks and other local educational programs.

Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

• Fiscal impact would depend on how current constitutional provisions would otherwise be interpreted.
• Potential state savings of up to several billion dollars in 2009–10 and 2010–11.
• Potential state costs of billions of dollars annually thereafter.

TEXT OF PROPOSED LAW BELOW

This amendment proposed by Assembly Constitutional Amendment 2 of the 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session (Resolution Chapter 2, 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session) expressly amends the California Constitution by adding a section thereto; therefore, new provisions proposed to be added are printed in italic type to indicate that they are new.
Proposed Law
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVI
That Section 8.3 is added to Article XVI thereof, to read:
SEC. 8.3. (a) School districts and community college districts shall receive supplemental education payments in the total amount of nine billion three hundred million dollars ($9,300,000,000). These payments shall be in lieu of the maintenance factor amounts, if any, that otherwise would be determined pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 8 for the 2007–08 and 2008–09 fiscal years. These payments are not subject to subdivision (e) of Section 8. These payments shall be made only from the Supplemental Education Payment Account, subject to the deposit into that account of the amounts necessary to make the payments. The operation of this section is contingent upon the establishment of the Supplemental Education Payment Account pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 20.
(b) Commencing with the 2011–12 fiscal year, in addition to the amounts required to be allocated pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (e) of Section 8, the Legislature annually shall appropriate to school districts and community college districts the amount transferred to the Supplemental Education Payment Account pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 20 in satisfaction of the supplemental education payments required by subdivision (a), until the full amount of the supplemental education payments required by subdivision (a) has been allocated pursuant to this section.
(c) (1) Of the appropriations made to school districts for the
2011–12 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b), an amount not exceeding two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available only for the purposes set forth in Section 42238.49 of the Education Code as that section read on March 28, 2009, as determined pursuant to the funding formula set forth in that section.
(2) The remaining amount of the appropriations made to school districts for the 2011–12 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b), and all of the appropriations made to school districts pursuant to subdivision (b) for each subsequent fiscal year, shall be allocated as an adjustment to revenue limit apportionments, as specified by statute, in a manner that does not limit a recipient school district with regard to the purposes of the district for which the moneys may be expended.
(d) All amounts appropriated in a fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be deemed allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B for that fiscal year, for purposes of determining, in the following fiscal year, the amount required
pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3), as applicable, of subdivision (b) of Section 8.



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Proposition 92: Community Colleges. Funding. Governance. Fees. FAILED

INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE.

• Establishes in state constitution a system of independent public community college districts and Board of Governors.
  
• Generally, requires minimum levels of state funding for school districts and community college districts to be calculated separately, using different criteria and separately appropriated.
• Allocates 10.46 percent of current Proposition 98 school funding maintenance factor to community colleges.
• Sets community college fees at $15/unit per semester; limits future fee increases.
• Provides formula for allocation by Legislature to community college districts that would not otherwise receive general fund revenues through community college apportionment.

SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S ESTIMATE OF NET STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FISCAL IMPACT:

• Increase in state spending on K–14 education from 2007–08 through 2009–10—averaging about $300 million per year, with unknown impacts annually thereafter.
• Loss of student fee revenues to community colleges—potentially about $70 million annually.

TEXT OF PROPOSED LAW HERE.


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