Section 84321.7 Of Article 3. Duties Of The Chancellor From California Education Code >> Division 7. >> Title 3. >> Part 50. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 3.
84321.7
. (a) Commencing with the 2011-12 fiscal year, up to
thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) 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 84321.6, may be drawn
in June, subject to the approval of the Director of Finance, for a
community college district as follows:
(1) In order for a community college district to receive a payment
in June pursuant to this section, the community college district
shall certify to the Office of the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges and to the Director of Finance on or before April
1 that the deferral of warrants pursuant to Section 84321.6 will
result in the community college district being unable to meet its
financial obligations for June and shall provide the Office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges an estimate of the
amount of additional funds necessary for the community college
district to meet its financial obligations for the month of June.
(2) The criteria, as applicable, set forth in statute and
regulations to qualify a community college district for an emergency
apportionment shall be used to make the certification specified in
paragraph (1).
(3) A community college 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
community college district to meet its financial obligations for the
month of June, as reported to the Office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges pursuant to paragraph (1).
(B) The total payments the community college district is entitled
to receive in July for the prior fiscal year.
(b) If the total amount requested by community college districts
pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) exceeds thirteen million
dollars ($13,000,000), the Controller, the Treasurer, and the
Director of Finance may authorize additional payments to meet these
requests, but total payments to community college districts pursuant
to this section shall not exceed thirty-nine million dollars
($39,000,000). No later than May 1, the Controller, the Treasurer,
and the Director of Finance shall determine whether sufficient cash
is available to make payments in excess of thirteen million dollars
($13,000,000) to a community college district. 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 (2) of subdivision (a), payments to community college
districts shall be prioritized according to the date on which
notification was provided to the Office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges and the Department of Finance.
(d) Payments pursuant to this section shall be made no later than
June 20.
(e) 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 for 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.