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. (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year, from Section A of the State
School Fund, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall
apportion to each school district or county superintendent of
schools, as appropriate, an amount computed pursuant to this section.
School districts and county superintendents of schools that provide
transportation services by means of a joint powers agreement, a
cooperative pupil transportation program, or a consortium shall
receive transportation allowances pursuant to this section.
(b) For the 1992-93 fiscal year, each school district or county
office of education shall receive a home-to-school transportation
apportionment equal to the transportation allowance received in the
prior fiscal year reduced by the amount of the special education
transportation allowance identified pursuant to Section 41851.5.
(c) For the 1993-94 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter,
each school district or county office of education shall receive the
same home-to-school transportation allowance received in the prior
fiscal year, but in no event shall that home-to-school transportation
allowance exceed the prior year's approved home-to-school
transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in the Budget
Act.
(d) For the 1993-94 and each fiscal year thereafter, each county
unified school district for which the county board of education
serves as the governing board that meets all of the following
criteria shall receive an apportionment in addition to the amount
received pursuant to subdivision (c) of three hundred fifty thousand
dollars ($350,000):
(1) Over 50 percent of the pupils enrolled in the school district
require home-to-school transportation services.
(2) Total enrollment of the school district is less than 3,500.
(3) Total miles driven each fiscal year for home-to-school
transportation exceeds 350,000.
(4) The school district received an apportionment pursuant to this
subdivision in the 2000-01 and 2001-02 fiscal years.
(e) If, in any fiscal year, a county unified school district
operates one or more necessary small schools pursuant to Article 4
(commencing with Section 42280) of Chapter 7 that the district did
not operate in the 1994-95 fiscal year, that district may not receive
an apportionment pursuant to subdivision (d) in that fiscal year or
in any subsequent fiscal year.
(f) If a later enacted statute amends subdivision (b) of Section
42280 or amends or adds any other provision of law authorizing a
county unified school district that has 3,001 or more units of
average daily attendance to be designated as a small school district
for the purposes of Article 4 (commencing with Section 42280) of
Chapter 7, subdivision (d) shall become inoperative on the date that
the later enacted statute becomes operative.
(g) Each county unified school district that receives an
additional apportionment pursuant to subdivision (d) shall report, by
September 1 of each year, commencing with September 1, 1995, on the
amount of revenues received and the funds expended for the
home-to-school transportation program in the prior fiscal year. The
report shall be submitted to the fiscal committees and education
policy committees of the Legislature and to the Legislative Analyst.