14041.7
. (a) Commencing with the 2010-11 fiscal year, up to one
hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) of the amount of the warrants
for the principal apportionments for the month of June, that are
instead to be drawn in July pursuant to Section 14041.5, may be drawn
in June, subject to the approval of the Director of Finance, for a
charter school or school district as follows:
(1) In order for a charter school to receive a payment in June
pursuant to this section, the governing body of the charter school,
in consultation with the county superintendent of schools, shall
certify to the Superintendent and the Director of Finance on or
before April 1 that the deferral of warrants pursuant to Sections
14041.5 and 14041.6 will result in the charter school being unable to
meet its financial obligations for June and shall provide the
Superintendent an estimate of the amount of additional funds
necessary for the charter school to meet its financial obligations
for the month of June.
(2) In order for a school district to receive a payment in June
pursuant to this section, the county superintendent of schools shall
certify to the Superintendent and to the Director of Finance on or
before April 1 that the deferral of warrants pursuant to Sections
14041.5 and 14041.6 will result in the school district being unable
to meet its financial obligations for June and shall provide the
Superintendent an estimate of the amount of additional funds
necessary for the school district to meet its financial obligations
for the month of June.
(3) The criteria, as applicable, set forth in statute and
regulations to qualify a school district for an emergency
apportionment shall be used to make the certification specified in
paragraph (2).
(4) A charter school or school district may receive, pursuant to
this section, no more than the lesser of the following:
(A) The total amount of additional funds necessary for the charter
school or school district to meet its financial obligations for the
month of June, as reported to the Superintendent pursuant to
paragraph (1) or (2).
(B) The total payments the charter school or school district is
entitled to receive in July for the prior fiscal year.
(b) If the total amount requested by charter schools and school
districts pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) exceeds one
hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), the Controller, Treasurer,
and Director of Finance may authorize additional payments to meet
these requests, but total payments to charter schools and school
districts pursuant to this section shall not exceed three hundred
million dollars ($300,000,000). No later than May 1, the Controller,
Treasurer, and Director of Finance shall determine whether sufficient
cash is available to make payments in excess of one hundred million
dollars ($100,000,000). In making the determination that cash is
sufficient to make additional payments, in whole or in part, the
Controller, Treasurer, and Director of Finance shall consider costs
for state government, the scope of any identified cash shortage,
timing, achievability, legislative direction, and the impact and
hardship imposed on potentially affected programs, entities, and
related public services. The Department of Finance shall notify the
Joint Legislative Budget Committee within 10 days of this
determination and identify the total amount of requests that will be
paid.
(c) If the total amount of cash made available pursuant to
subdivision (b) is less than the amount requested pursuant to
paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), payments to charter schools and
school districts shall be prioritized according to the date on which
notification was provided to the Superintendent and the Department of
Finance.
(d) A charter school submitting a certification pursuant to
paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall provide its chartering
authority with a copy of the certification.
(e) Payments pursuant to this section shall be made no later than
June 20.
(f) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (e) of Section
41202, for purposes of making the computations required by Section 8
of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the warrants drawn
pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be "General Fund
revenues appropriated to school districts," as defined in subdivision
(c) of Section 41202, for the fiscal year in which the warrants are
drawn and included within the "total allocations to school districts
and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes
appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B," as defined in subdivision
(e) of Section 41202, for the fiscal year in which the warrants are
drawn.