AB 9 AUTHOR: Coto [D]
TITLE: Education Finance
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LAST AMEND: 02/24/2005
COMMITTEE: Assembly Education Committee
HEARING: 03/30/2005 1:30 pm
SUMMARY:
Requires the Legislature to ensure that the current per pupil level of funding for K 12 public schools grows by a certain percentage in each of the next 5 budget years to reach a certain funding level per pupil and to ensure that the per pupil level of funding for K 12 public schools is among the top 5 states in the nation by 2010 and remains there thereafter.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 23 AUTHOR: Liu [D]
TITLE: Community College Finance: Funding Priorities
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LAST AMEND: 03/02/2005
COMMITTEE: Assembly Higher Education Committee
HEARING: 03/15/2005 1:30 pm
SUMMARY:
Provides that the California Community Colleges have 3 primary missions that are to lower division instruction for students seeking to transfer to a university in pursuit of the baccalaureate degree, workforce training and preparation, and adult literacy programs. Requires that first priority in the use of state funds be given to courses and services that are directly responsive to these priorities.
POSITION: OPPOSE UNLESS AMENDED

AB 39 AUTHOR: Walters [R]
TITLE: Charter Schools: Alternative Authority
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LOCATION: Assembly Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes a pilot program that would authorize the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to authorize no more that 10 campuses within their respective segments to approve and administer one charter school each. Requires a chartering authority to present the charter at a regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing board of the school district.
POSITION: OPPOSE

AB 48 AUTHOR: Lieber [D]
TITLE: Minimum Wage
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
States the intent of the Legislature to increase the minimum wage effective on and after January 1, 2005.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 49 AUTHOR: Benoit [R]
TITLE: Contracting for Noninstructional Services
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LOCATION: Assembly Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Repeals provisions that authorize school districts and community college districts to contract for personal services customarily performed by classified employees, and instead authorizes school districts and community college districts to contract for any noninstructional services. Declares that higher education employer employee relations provisions do not limit the authority of the UC and the CSU to enter into contracts with 3rd parties for noninstructional services.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 58 AUTHOR: Nunez [D]
TITLE: Kindergarten University Public Education Bond Act
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LOCATION: Assembly Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Enacts the Kindergarten University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006. Provides for the issuance of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts, county superintendents of schools, and county boards of education, and a prescribed amount would be deposited in the 2006 Higher Education Capital Outlay Bond Fund, which would be established by this bill to provide aid for California public higher education facilities.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 214AUTHOR: Richman [R]
TITLE: Public Employees' Retirement: Final Compensation
INTRODUCED: 02/03/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee
SUMMARY:
Defines "final compensation" for any member of the Public Employees' Retirement System who retires or dies on and after January 1, 2006, as the average compensation earnable by the member during the final 3 years of employment immediately preceding the effective date of his or her retirement or the date of his or her last separation from state service if earlier.
POSITION: OPPOSE

AB 232 AUTHOR: Arambula [D]
TITLE: Community Colleges: Registered Nursing Programs
INTRODUCED: 02/07/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Appropriates funds from the General Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for allocation, without regard to fiscal year, to provide for enrollment growth in community college registered nursing programs.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 256 AUTHOR: De La Torre [D]
TITLE: Public Employees' Health Care: School Employees
INTRODUCED: 02/08/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Declares the intent of the Legislature to conduct a study to examine the feasibility and cost effectiveness of creating a single statewide health care pool that would cover all public school employees working in school districts, county offices of education, and community colleges, or of including all school employees under the Pubic Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 310AUTHOR: Umberg [D]
TITLE: Public Employees' Retirement: School Members
INTRODUCED: 02/10/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee
SUMMARY:
Provides that school members, other than school safety members, who retire on and after January 1, 2006, shall be subject to a 2.5% at age 55 benefit formula.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 317 AUTHOR: Dymally [D]
TITLE: Community College Finance
INTRODUCED: 02/10/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change in a provision relating to full time equivalent students (FTES) based funding for community colleges by deleting an obsolete reference to an audit report on district compliance.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 318 AUTHOR: Dymally [D]
TITLE: Community Colleges: Funding
INTRODUCED: 02/10/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the Chancellor of the Community Colleges, when calculating the enrollment growth rate for community college districts under the existing law governing the calculation of apportionments, to increase the growth rate otherwise granted to the district by the amount of Full Time Equivalent Students (FTES) served in excess of 102% of the state supported level of FTES for the preceding 3 fiscal years.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 401 AUTHOR: Goldberg [D]
TITLE: Education and Workforce Council
INTRODUCED: 02/15/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Establishes the Education and Workforce Council within the state government, with specified membership, to be chaired by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Requires the council to develop a workforce preparation and strategic plan by December 31, 2006, and to provide policy guidance to the Legislature and to the Governor on emerging issues of workforce development.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 416 AUTHOR: Plescia [R]
TITLE: Civic Centers: Religious Services
INTRODUCED: 02/15/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to existing law which authorizes a school district to grant the use of school facilities as a civic center for the conduct of religious service by a religious organization, on the conditions that the use is temporary and that the organization has no suitable meeting place. The bill removes those conditions.
POSITION: OPPOSE

AB 457 AUTHOR: Torrico [D]
TITLE: Public Employees' Retirement: Unfunded Liabilities
INTRODUCED: 02/15/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
States the intent of the Legislature to enact the statutory changes necessary to help minimize unfunded liabilities in public pension systems.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 458 AUTHOR: Torrico [D]
TITLE: Public Employees' Retirement: Stable Rates
INTRODUCED: 02/15/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
States the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes necessary to create more stable and predictable retirement contribution rates of public employers and employees.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 473 AUTHOR: Liu [D]
TITLE: Community Colleges: Student Fees
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to community college fees. Provides that the $26 per unit per semester student fee would continue in the 2005 06 and 2006 07 academic years. Requires that, commencing with the 2007 08 academic year, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges would bear the primary responsibility for adjusting the mandatory systemwide fees that each community college district is required to charge.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 494 AUTHOR: Montanez [D]
TITLE: School Facilities: Educational Empowerment Zones
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Declares the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish educational empowerment zones to assist in the construction of school facilities.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 500 AUTHOR: La Malfa [R]
TITLE: State Mandates
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Local Government Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to provisions that establish procedures for reimbursing local governments for state mandates. Requires that no claim shall be made or paid unless it exceeds $200.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 511 AUTHOR: Richman [R]
TITLE: Public Employees' Retirement
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee
SUMMARY:
Prohibits public agency contributions to a defined contribution plan for employees covered by the federal Social Security Act from exceeding 6% of an employee's base salary, except that contributions of up to 9% would be permitted for sworn police officers and full time firefighters. Permits these limits to be exceeded with respect to local public agencies comprised of directly elected public officials upon a 2/3 vote of the electorate of that agency.
POSITION: OPPOSE

AB 514 AUTHOR: Richman [R]
TITLE: Public Employees: Benefits
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Limits the amount that a retired public employee who is receiving disability benefits may receive in connection with a workers' compensation claim.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 518AUTHOR: Canciamilla [D]
TITLE: State Budget: Two Year Spending Plan
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Requires the Governor to submit, together with the Governor's Budget for each fiscal year that begins in an odd numbered year, a proposed budget plan for the immediately following fiscal year. Specifies that the Governor's Budget subsequently submitted for that immediately following fiscal year identify proposed modifications to the budget plan previously submitted for that year.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 532 AUTHOR: Levine [D]
TITLE: Public Contracts: Schools: Procurement
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a school district to utilize alternative competitive negotiation methods for procuring bids for the acquisition of specified technological supplies and equipment.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 616 AUTHOR: Vargas [D]
TITLE: Public Buildings: Smoking Areas
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law that provides that a public employee or other person may smoke in any outdoor area of a public building unless otherwise prohibited by state law or local ordinance and a sign describing the prohibition is posted.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 700 AUTHOR: Horton J [D]
TITLE: Student Financial Aid
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Declares the intent of the Legislature to provide aid to all financially needy student, irrespective of their ages, who meet the requirements for a Cal Grant award. Eliminates with respect to eligibility requirements for Cal Grant A and B Entitlement awards and the California Community College Transfer Entitlement awards a requirement that recipients graduate from a California high school during or after the 2000 01 academic year.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 702 AUTHOR: Koretz [D]
TITLE: Nursing Education
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Expresses findings and declarations of the Legislature with respect to a current shortage of registered nurses in California. Expresses the intent of the Legislature to add funding to the budgets for the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges for additional slots in nursing education programs and for all state programs that educate entry level, master's, and doctoral program nursing students.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 705 AUTHOR: Nakanishi [R]
TITLE: Public Employees' Retirement: School Members
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes an increase for a retired school member with respect to the allowance payable on and after the date of retirement. Revises the method for calculating contributions the member must make in order to receive the service credit.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 724 AUTHOR: Horton S [R]
TITLE: Design Build Contracting
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing law that requires public entities to comply with certain procedures in soliciting and evaluating bids and awarding contracts for the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other public improvement.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 828 AUTHOR: Cohn [D]
TITLE: Public Postsecondary Education: Tuition/Fee Waiver
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Provides that any person who is honorably serving in, or has been honorably discharged from, the armed forces of the United States, would not be subject to tuition or fees at any campus of the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges if he or she is a California resident. Applies to the University of California to the extent the regents make them applicable by resolution.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 931 AUTHOR: Emmerson [R]
TITLE: Student Financial Aid
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Makes various technical changes in a provision of the Ortiz Pacheco Poochigian Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act related to eligibility requirements.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 933 AUTHOR: Emmerson [R]
TITLE: Public Postsecondary Education: Student Fee Policy
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires that commencing with the 2006 2007 fiscal year, the level of mandatory systemwide fees for resident undergraduate students at the University of California, the California State University, and any campus of the California Community Colleges to be set as an unspecified percentage of the total cost of instruction.
POSITION: OPPOSE

AB 958 AUTHOR: De La Torre [D]
TITLE: Public Postsecondary Education: Nursing Education
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to establish a program pursuant to which foreign educated physicians may obtain a bachelor of science degree in nursing. Requires the trustees, and request the regents, to establish a nursing education program designed to allow foreign educated physicians, and other qualified persons with a significant background of health care knowledge, to obtain bachelor of science degrees in nursing as a gateway to becoming registered nurses.
POSITION: WATCH

AB 967 AUTHOR: Canciamilla [D]
TITLE: Concurrent Enrollment of Pupils in High School
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Relates to pupils attending community college as special part time students to help ensure a smoother transition from high school to college for pupils by providing them with greater exposure to the collegiate atmosphere.
POSITION: SUPPORT IF AMENDED

AB 970 AUTHOR: Yee [D]
TITLE: School Facilities: Seismic Safety
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Requires the Department of General Services to, upon the request of a school district or community college district, provide written copies of a report or data therein pertaining to a specified school building to that district. Immunizes a district from liability for a lawsuit based on the receipt of that information that alleges the district had actual knowledge of seismic safety deficiencies in a school building and failed to take actions to remedy those deficiencies for 4 years.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 982 AUTHOR: Laird [D]
TITLE: Community College Fees
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Higher Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Deletes the provision requiring an exemption from health supervision and services fees for all low income students.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 1366 AUTHOR: Lieber (D)
TITLE: Community Colleges: Fiscal Accountability
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2005
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY: Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law that provides for an annual audit of each community college district, and requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish standards and procedures to encourage sound fiscal management practices by community college districts.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 1425 AUTHOR: Daucher (R)
TITLE: Community Colleges: Faculty
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2005
DISPOSITION: Pending
COMMITTEE: Assembly Higher Education Committee
HEARING: 04/19/2005 1:30 pm
SUMMARY: Relates to Community Colleges. Provides that hours of credit instruction in career technical education and vocational education courses shall not be included in the calculations required by these provisions.
POSITION: SUPPORT

ACA 5 AUTHOR: Richman [R]
TITLE: Public Retirement Systems
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Proposes a Constitutional amendment to establish the California Public Employee Defined Contribution Plan. Provides that on and after July 1, 2007, any person hired as a new employee by a public agency may enroll only in a defined contribution plan of a public pension or retirement system, and is prohibited from enrolling in a defined benefit plan. Limits employer contributions to a defined contribution plan to an unspecified percentage of employer payroll.
POSITION: OPPOSE

SB 5 AUTHOR: Morrow [R]
TITLE: Postsecondary Education: Student Bill of Rights
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Requests the Regents of the University of California, and directs the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, to develop guidelines and implement specified principles, relating to academic freedom, of a Student Bill of Rights.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 55 AUTHOR: Lowenthal [D]
TITLE: Community College District Governing Boards: Meeting
INTRODUCED: 01/12/2005
LOCATION: Senate Rules Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes various technical, nonsubstantive changes in a provision relating to the agendas of community college district governing boards.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 168 AUTHOR: Chesbro [D]
TITLE: Property Tax Revenue Shifts: Local Fiscal Relief
INTRODUCED: 02/08/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes a clarifying change to define school districts when making adjustments in the formulas used in computing the state's obligation to provide funding to those districts.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 190 AUTHOR: Cedillo [D]
TITLE: State Mandates
INTRODUCED: 02/10/2005
LOCATION: Senate Rules Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change in statutory provisions which establish procedures for reimbursing local governments and school districts for state mandates.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 327 AUTHOR: Lowenthal [D]
TITLE: Public Contracts: School Districts
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Limits the scope of the lease and purchase contracts that may be entered into by a public corporation or agency, including school districts, to exclude any public project or public work.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 337 AUTHOR: Maldonado [R]
TITLE: Postsecondary Education: Public Institutions
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Adds a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that would require the governing board of a community college district and the Trustees of the California State University, and that would request the Regents of the University of California, to immediately dismiss, from any institution within its jurisdiction, any student who is convicted of an offense requiring the student to register as a sex offender under a prescribed provision of the Penal Code.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 349 AUTHOR: McClintock [R]
TITLE: Public Postsecondary Education: Nonresident Admissions
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Deletes a person without lawful immigration status from eligibility for paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University.
POSITION: OPPOSE

SB 352 AUTHOR: Scott [D]
TITLE: Chief Business Officer Training Program
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Establishes, within the State Department of Education, the Chief Business Officer Training Program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education. Authorizes the Superintendent to award funding to school districts and to county offices of education, to provide chief business officers with instruction and training in the areas of school finance, school operations, and leadership.
POSITION: SUPPORT, SUPPORT IF AMENDED

SB 361 AUTHOR: Scott [D]
TITLE: Community Colleges: Growth Allocations
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: Senate Rules Committee
SUMMARY:
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that will address the method by which community college districts receive growth allocations.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 445 AUTHOR: Ducheny [D]
TITLE: Commission on Statewide Postsecondary Education Policy
INTRODUCED: 02/17/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Repeals existing law providing for the Postsecondary Education Commission and its functions and responsibilities. Establishes the Commission on Statewide Postsecondary Education Policy and Planning. Requires the new commission to develop and regularly assess a statewide public agenda for higher education, subject to prescribed policy goals. Provides that the commission would be empowered to participate in the executive and legislative budget processes in an advisory capacity.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 489 AUTHOR: Alarcon [D]
TITLE: Workers' Compensation
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Senate Rules Committee
SUMMARY:
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to existing workers' compensation law.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 525 AUTHOR: Torlakson [D]
TITLE: State Teachers' Retirement: Benefits
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Amends the State Teachers' Retirement Law. Reduces the time period within which the termination benefit is payable, and the time period within which it may not be paid if creditable service is performed, from one year to 6 months. Specifies that a member who is reemployed and again performs creditable service may not apply for a subsequent termination benefit if less than 5 years have passed since the last termination benefit was distributed.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 531 AUTHOR: Ortiz [D]
TITLE: Student Financial Aid: Cal Grant Program
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Requires the annual Budget submitted by the Governor to take into consideration any increases in tuition and fees at California colleges and universities.
POSITION: SUPPORT

SB 545 AUTHOR: Ortiz [D]
TITLE: Public Employee Benefits: Health Benefit Plans
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee
SUMMARY:
Relates to benefit plans and major medical plans for public employees and annuitants. Requires that the Board of Administration provide complete notice of a proposed change or withdrawal and provide an explanation of such change and cost comparisons for alternative and equivalent services.
POSITION: SUPPORT

SB 595 AUTHOR: Alarcon [D]
TITLE: Education and Job Training Services
INTRODUCED: 02/18/2005
LOCATION: Senate Rules Committee
SUMMARY:
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would reduce poverty by establishing additional means by which people, including but not limited to, those with income of less than %100 of the poverty level, may build assets and achieve higher levels of education and job training.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 672 AUTHOR: Cox (R)
TITLE: Community Colleges: Inmate Education Programs
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2005
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY: Requires open course provisions to be waived for any governing board of a community college district that provides classes for inmates of state correctional facilities. Revises the method of computing apportionments for purposes of specified inmate education programs.
STATUS: 03/10/2005 To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
POSITION: WATCH

SB 709AUTHOR: Speier (D)
TITLE: Community Colleges: Audits
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2005
DISPOSITION: Pending
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY: Requires annual audits of community college districts include examinations of whether districts are accurately reporting student enrollment for the purpose of state apportionments. Requires random checks of attendance at classes for which apportionment is claimed. Requires that, at least twice each year, the paycheck envelopes issued to community college faculty shall contain the Web site address and hotline telephone number for reporting suspected improprieties to the Office of Inspector General.
STATUS: 03/10/2005 To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
POSITION: OPPOSE

SCA 2 AUTHOR: McClintock [R]
TITLE: Budget Process
INTRODUCED: 12/06/2004
COMMITTEE: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
HEARING: 03/31/2005 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Provides that if, following the enactment of the Budget Bill for the 2006 07 fiscal year or any subsequent year, the Governor determines that General Fund (GF) expenditures will exceed estimated GF revenues for that fiscal year, the Governor shall, by proclamation, reduce or eliminate one or more items of appropriation from the GF for that fiscal year as necessary to prevent GF expenditures from exceeding the estimate of GF revenues for that fiscal year.
POSITION: WATCH

SCA 8 AUTHOR: Simitian [D]
TITLE: Taxation: Educational Entities: Parcel Tax
INTRODUCED: 02/16/2005
LOCATION: Senate Education Committee
SUMMARY:
Authorizes a school district, community college district, or county office of education, with the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition, to impose a parcel tax.
POSITION: SUPPORT

SCA 12 AUTHOR: Torlakson [D]
TITLE: Education Finance: Minimum Amount
INTRODUCED: 02/23/2005
LOCATION: SENATE
SUMMARY:
Relates to funds for the support of school districts and community college districts. Requires a maintenance factor determined for any fiscal year to be allocated in full to school districts and community college districts, with interest, no later than 3 fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the entitlement to the maintenance factor arose.
POSITION: SUPPORT

AB 1 a AUTHOR: McCarthy [R]
TITLE: School and Community College Districts: Employees
INTRODUCED: 02/22/2005
LOCATION: ASSEMBLY
SUMMARY:
Deletes provisions of existing law that permit personal services contracting by school districts and community college districts for all services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees to achieve cost savings, unless otherwise prohibited, if certain conditions are met, including that the contract not be approved solely on the basis that savings will result form lower contractor pay rates or benefits.
POSITION: OPPOSE

ACA 1 a AUTHOR: Richman [R]
TITLE: Public Employee Defined Contribution Plan
INTRODUCED: 01/06/2005
LOCATION: Assembly Public Sector Committee
SUMMARY:
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution that establishes the California Public Employee Defined Contribution Plan. Provides that on and after July 1, 2007, any person hired by a public agency may enroll only in a defined contribution plan of a public pension or retirement system, and is prohibited from enrolling in a defined benefit plan. Permits an active member of a benefit plan, during a specified period, to transfer a sum equal to the member's interest in the benefit plan to a contribution plan.
POSITION: OPPOSE

ACA 2 a AUTHOR: Daucher [R]
TITLE: School Districts: Annual Financial Reports
INTRODUCED: 01/06/2005
COMMITTEE: Assembly Education Finance & The Teaching Profession Committee
HEARING: 03/16/2005
SUMMARY:
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution that requires a school district to prepare, and make available to the public, an annual report disclosing, for each fiscal year, specified financial information, including revenues form any source, personnel expenses, and outstanding obligations.
POSITION: WATCH

ACA 4 a AUTHOR: Keene [R]
TITLE: State Finances
INTRODUCED: 01/20/2005
LAST AMEND: 02/24/2005
COMMITTEE: Assembly Budget Process Committee
HEARING: 03/15/2005 10:00 am
SUMMARY:
Requires, rather than authorizes, the Governor to issue a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and specifies that the proclamation would be issued when the Governor determines either that General Fund revenues will decline below the estimate of General Fund revenues upon which the Budget Bill for that fiscal year was based, or that General Fund expenditures will increase above that estimate of General Fund revenues, or both, by at least $250,000,000.
POSITION: OPPOSE