AB 41

Bill Subjects

Abstract

(1) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (A) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (B) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (C) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (D) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014, a state general obligation bond act that would provide funds to construct and modernize education facilities, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the next statewide general election, and to provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election. (2) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities and requires a school district's ongoing eligibility for new construction to be based, in part, on a calculation of existing school building capacity. Existing law requires the calculation of school building capacity of a school district to be increased by the number of pupils reported by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to a certain calculation related to the excess school capacity generated as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program, but exempts from this increase each school on a year-round, multitrack calendar that has a density of 200 or more pupils enrolled per acre and that is located in a school district with 40% of its pupils attending multitrack, year-round schools. This bill would repeal the provisions requiring an increase in the calculation of school building capacity as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program and exempting specified schools from this increase in the calculation of school building capacity. (3) Existing law requires the board and the State Department of Education to conduct specified evaluations related to the construction of small high schools and requires those evaluations to be used to inform the direction of future school facilities construction and related bond measures. This bill would repeal this provision. The bill would also correct a cross-reference.