December 31, 1999
No. 99 - 36

[Stats. 1999, Chapter 858
(AB 695, Mazzoni)]

Amends Education Code Sections 15340, 17009.5, 17070.15, 17070.75,17071.10, 17071.25, 17071.75, 17072.10, 17072.20, 17074.10, 17076.10, and 100420 , Government Code Sections 65995.5 and 65995.6, and Election Code Section 1003; adds Education Code Section 17072.17 and repeals Education Code Section 15341.

Existing law-relating to the formation of school facilities improvement districts-authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide for and call a special bond election. Existing Law prohibits elections from being held within 45 days before or after a statewide election, unless conducted at the statewide election. The new law generally allows such an election to be held on any date. The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 establishes a program in which the State Allocation Board provides state per-pupil funding for new school facilities construction and school facilities modernization to applicant school districts. The Green Act also requires applicant districts to provide local matching funds.

The new law authorizes the State Allocation Board to adopt or amend regulations to adjust the assumed capacity for each teaching station used for special day class purposes. The State Allocation Board may adopt, after January 1, 2001, regulations establishing assumed capacity standards for teaching stations at continuation high school, community day school, county community school, and county community day school.

Existing law requires the calculation of existing pupil capacity to be made on a one-time basis as a baseline for eligibility determinations. Current law also requires each participating school district to submit to the board a one-time report of existing school building capacity. The new law creates an exception to the one-time calculation. The new law requires a school district newly formed, reorganized, or affected by reorganization after November 4, 1998, to calculate its existing school building capacity under regulations adopted by the State Allocation Board.