Article 17. Recomputation Of Allowances of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 24. >> Chapter 5. >> Article 17.

The total amount apportioned from Section A of the State School Fund shall not exceed the amount provided by law therefor. If the total amount provided for Section A of the State School Fund is greater than the total apportioned, the balance from any specified expenditure authorization in Sections 41300 and 41301 shall be used to decrease deficits in apportionments from Section A of the State School Fund in the order prescribed in Section 41972.

If the total amount allowed for each subdivision in Sections 41300 and 41301 is less than the apportionments named in the subsections, the apportionments shall be reduced proportionately or as otherwise prescribed. Prior to the close of the fiscal year, such reductions shall be restored to the extent possible pursuant to Section 41970.

Balances available from any appropriation for apportionments from Section A of the State School Fund and funds provided by subdivision (c) of Section 14002, or provided by any other provision of law in lieu of those sections, shall be used to restore any reductions in apportionments to elementary, high, and unified school districts and county superintendents of schools as follows:
  (a) First, for revenue limits computed pursuant to Sections 2558 and 42238.
  (b) Second, for special education computed pursuant to Chapter 7.2 (commencing with Section 56836) of Part 30.
  (c) Third, for home-to-school transportation computed pursuant to Section 41856 or, commencing with the 1984-85 fiscal year, Article 10 (commencing with Section 41850) of Chapter 8. Any remaining balances otherwise transferable under subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 14002 shall revert to the General Fund.