Section 41207 Of Chapter 2. Determination Of Minimum Level Of Education Funding From California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 24. >> Chapter 2.
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. (a) Notwithstanding Section 41206, by January 1, 2006, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Finance
shall jointly determine the outstanding balance of the minimum
funding obligation to school districts and community college
districts pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution for the 1995-96 to 2003-04 fiscal years, inclusive. The
Director of Finance shall notify the Governor and Legislature of the
amount of the outstanding balance for each fiscal year between the
1995-96 and 2003-04 fiscal years, inclusive, and the total amount of
the outstanding balance for those years. This notification does not
constitute a certification for purposes of Section 41206.
(b) If the joint determination required pursuant to subdivision
(a) is not made for any fiscal year by January 1, 2006, the
Controller shall make the determination for that fiscal year or years
and shall notify the Governor and Legislature of that determination
on or before March 1, 2006. This notification does not constitute a
certification for purposes of Section 41206.
(c) For purposes of this section, the outstanding balance of the
minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college
districts pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution for a fiscal year is the amount, if any, by which the
amount required to be applied by the state for the support of school
districts and community college districts pursuant to Section 8 of
Article XVI of the California Constitution, including any maintenance
factor that should have been allocated in that fiscal year pursuant
to subdivision (e) of Section 8 of Article XVI, exceeds the amount
applied by the state for the support of school districts and
community college districts for that fiscal year.
(d) Commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, the sum of one
hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) is hereby annually
appropriated from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation
to school districts and community college districts for the purpose
of discharging in full the outstanding balance of the minimum funding
obligation to school districts and community college districts
pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution
identified in subdivision (a) or (b) of this section. This annual
appropriation shall continue until the Director of Finance reports to
the Legislature that the sum of appropriations made and allocated
pursuant to this subdivision equals the total outstanding balance of
the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community
college districts pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution determined pursuant to subdivision (a) or
(b), as applicable.
(1) The amount annually appropriated pursuant to this subdivision
shall be allocated to school districts and community college
districts in a manner that reflects the proportion of regular average
daily attendance in school districts, as defined in subdivision (a)
of Section 41209, to funded full-time equivalent students in
community college districts, as those numbers are reported at the
time of the second principal apportionment for the fiscal year prior
to the fiscal year in which funds are to be received.
(2) The Controller shall allocate funds annually appropriated
pursuant to this subdivision to school districts and community
college districts based on attendance information provided by the
department and Chancellor of the California Community Colleges on
August 15 of each year commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year,
unless otherwise provided by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision
(g). For purposes of this subdivision a school district includes a
county office of education and a charter school.
(e) For purposes of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution, the amounts appropriated and allocated pursuant to this
section shall be applied to the outstanding balance of the minimum
funding obligation to school districts and community college
districts pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California
Constitution for the 1995-96 to 2003-04 fiscal years, inclusive, in
chronological order beginning with the 1995-96 fiscal year and shall
be deemed to be appropriations made and allocated in the fiscal year
in which the deficiencies resulting in the outstanding balance were
incurred. When the amount determined to be owed for each fiscal year
pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) is fully appropriated and
allocated pursuant to subdivision (d), the data used in the
computations made under subdivision (a) or (b) and the total amount
owed by the state for the support of school districts and community
college districts pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the
California Constitution for that fiscal year, including as much of
the maintenance factor for that fiscal year determined pursuant to
subdivision (d) of Section 8 of Article XVI as has been allocated as
required by subdivision (e) of Section 8 of Article XVI by virtue of
the payments made under this section, shall be deemed certified for
purposes of Section 41206.
(f) Funding received by school districts and community college
districts pursuant to this section shall first be deemed to be paid
in satisfaction of any outstanding claims pursuant to Section 6 of
Article XIII B of the California Constitution for reimbursement of
state-mandated local costs for any fiscal year. Notwithstanding any
amounts that are deemed, pursuant to this subdivision, to be paid in
satisfaction of outstanding claims for reimbursement of
state-mandated local costs, the Controller may audit any claim as
allowed by law and may reduce any amount owed by a local educational
agency pursuant to an audit by reducing amounts owed for any other
mandate claims. The Controller shall apply amounts received by each
school district or community college district against any balances of
unpaid claims for reimbursement of state-mandated local costs and
interest in chronological order beginning with the earliest claim.
The Controller shall report to each local educational agency the
amounts of any claims and interest that are offset from funds
provided pursuant to this section and shall report a summary of the
amounts offset for each mandate for each fiscal year to the
Department of Finance and the fiscal committees of the Legislature.
The governing board of a school district or community college
district may expend funds received pursuant to this section in excess
of amounts offsetting mandate claims for any other one-time
purposes, as determined by the governing board.
(g) The Legislature may specify in the annual Budget Act or other
statute other one-time purposes for which the funds appropriated
pursuant to this section shall be used so long as those
appropriations are made for allocation to school districts or
community college districts.