BILL NUMBER: SB 645INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Hancock FEBRUARY 27, 2015 An act to add Section 8483.73 to, the Education Code, relating to after school programs, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 645, as introduced, Hancock. After school programs: grant amounts. Existing law, the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, enacted by initiative statute, establishes the After School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9, inclusive, at participating public elementary, middle, junior high, and charter schools. The existing act provides that each school establishing a program pursuant to the act is eligible to receive a renewable 3-year grant for before or after school programs, as provided, and a grant for operating a program beyond 180 regular schooldays or during summer, weekend, intersession, or vacation periods, as provided, and specifies the maximum grant amount and related amounts for each of these grants. The existing act provides a formula for determining an amount to be continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of the program, and authorizes the Legislature to appropriate additional funds for purposes of the program. This bill would, for the 2015-16 fiscal year, appropriate $36,630,000 more to the department for purposes of the program. Commencing with the 2016-17 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the bill would appropriate $73,260,000 more to the department for purposes of the program. The bill would, commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, require the Department of Finance to annually adjust that amount using a specified calculation, provided that adjustment does not result in a reduction. The bill would, also commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, require the State Department of Education to annually adjust the maximum grant amounts and those related amounts to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index, provided that adjustment does not result in a reduction. The bill also would provide that funds appropriated by the bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 8483.73 is added to the Education Code, to read: 8483.73. (a) (1) For the 2015-16 fiscal year, thirty-six million six hundred thirty thousand dollars ($36,630,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the program established pursuant to this article. (2) For the 2016-17 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, seventy-two million two hundred sixty thousand dollars ($73,260,000) is hereby continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the program established pursuant to this article. Commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Finance shall adjust this amount by adding the product of six hundred twenty-three million two hundred sixty thousand dollars ($623,260,000) times the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index from the 2016-17 fiscal year, provided that adjustment does not result in a reduction in any fiscal year. (b) (1) Commencing with the 2017-18 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall annually adjust the dollar amounts specified in Sections 8482.55, 8483.7, 8483.75, and 8483.76 by an amount necessary to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index from the 2016-17 fiscal year, provided that adjustment does not result in a reduction in any fiscal year. (c) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations made by 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 they were appropriated, 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 they were appropriated.