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California Education Code - EDC Section 100420.
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Section 100420. (Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 858, Sec. 14.)
Cite as: Cal. Educ. Code §100420.
(a)Of the proceeds from the sale of bonds, issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 100410, not more than three billion three hundred fifty million dollars ($3,350,000,000) shall be allocated beginning in the 1998–99 fiscal year in accordance with the following schedule:
(1)Not less than one billion three hundred fifty million dollars ($1,350,000,000) for project funding related to the growth in enrollment of applicant school districts under Chapter 12 and Chapter 12.5 that have incurred or will incur enrollment increases.
(2)Not less than eight hundred million dollars ($800,000,000) for the reconstruction or modernization of facilities pursuant to Chapter 12 and Chapter 12.5.
(3)Not more than five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) shall be deposited in the Public School Critical Hardship Account, which is hereby established in the 1998 State School Facilities Fund and shall be allocated by the State Allocation Board to fund critical hardships as defined in Chapter 12.5. These funds may be expended for the acquisition of portable classrooms for use in accordance with Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 17085) of Part 10.
(4)(A)Not more than seven hundred million dollars ($700,000,000) may be allocated to assist school districts with site acquisition and facilities-related costs of kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive, that are in the Class Size Reduction Program contained in Chapter 6.10 (commencing with Section 52120) of Part 28 and Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 10, and to assist districts with the restoration of facilities that previously accommodated other programs and were displaced as a result of the implementation of class size reduction. On and after July 1, 2000, if applications for the total funds available under this paragraph have not been filed with the State Allocation Board, the funds for which applications have not been received may be allocated by the board to other high priority needs as the board determines. On and after July 1, 2003, any funds not allocated are available for other high priority needs.
(B)The funds allocated in subparagraph (A) shall be allocated to the State Department of Education to provide class size reduction facilities grants necessary to implement the K–3 Class Size Reduction Program established pursuant to Chapter 6.10 (commencing with Section 52120) of Part 28 and Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 10. The department shall certify to the State Allocation Board the amount of funds needed for this purpose. The board shall transfer the amount of funds needed to the department. From these funds, the department shall award eligible districts forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for each new option one class established for class size reduction for which the district had not previously received funding under class size reduction facilities programs.
(C)The remaining funds provided pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be to provide funding for schoolsites that were eligible to receive a class size reduction land-locked waiver pursuant to Section 52122.6. The funds may be provided to districts to provide 50 percent of the cost of funding a facilities mitigation plan developed for the impacted site pursuant to Section 52122.7.
(D)Any funds not expended pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), or (C) may be allocated to districts that request funding of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) for each teaching station that (1) was displaced as a result of the implementation of class size reduction and (2) received less than forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per teaching station in 1996–97 pursuant to Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 10. Programs for which teaching stations may be restored may include child care, extended day care, school libraries, computer labs, and special education classrooms.
(b)Of the proceeds from the sale of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 100410, not more than three billion three hundred fifty million dollars ($3,350,000,000) shall be allocated beginning in the 2000–01 fiscal year in accordance with the following schedule:
(1)Not less than one billion five hundred fifty million dollars ($1,550,000,000) for project funding related to the growth in enrollment of applicant school districts under Chapter 12.5 that have incurred or will incur enrollment increases.
(2)Not less than one billion three hundred million dollars ($1,300,000,000) for the reconstruction or modernization of facilities pursuant to Chapter 12.5.
(3)Not more than five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) shall be deposited in the Public School Critical Hardship Account in the 1998 State School Facilities Fund and shall be allocated by the State Allocation Board to fund critical hardships as defined in Chapter 12.5. These funds may be expended for the acquisition of portable classrooms for use in accordance with Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 17085) of Part 10.
(c)Districts may use funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) and paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) for one or more of the following purposes in accordance with Chapter 12.5:
(1)The purchase and installation of air-conditioning equipment and insulation materials, and related costs.
(2)Construction projects or the purchase of furniture or equipment designed to increase school security or playground safety.
(3)The identification, assessment, or abatement in school facilities of hazardous asbestos.
(4)Project funding for high priority roof replacement projects.
(5)Any other renovation or modernization of facilities pursuant to Chapter 12.5.
(d)Funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) and paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) may be utilized to provide new construction grants, without regard to funding priorities, for applicant county boards of education under Chapter 12.5 that are eligible for that funding or classrooms for severely handicapped pupils and funding for classrooms for county community school pupils.
(e)(1)The Legislature may amend this section to adjust the minimum funding amounts specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) and the maximum funding amounts specified in paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (a), and to adjust the minimum funding amounts specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b) and the maximum funding amount specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), by either of the following methods:
(A)By a statute, passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the respective journals, by not less than two-thirds of the membership in each house concurring, if the statute is consistent with, and furthers the purposes of, this chapter.
(B)By a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the voters.
(2)Amendments pursuant to this subdivision may adjust the amounts to be expended pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (a) or paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b) or both, but may not increase or decrease the total amount to be expended pursuant to either subdivision.