Bill Text: CA AB2860 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adult education: Adult Education Block Grant Program: appeals board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2860 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2860	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 84909 of the Education Code, relating to
adult education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2860, as introduced, Brown. Adult education: Adult Education
Block Grant Program.
   Existing law establishes the Adult Education Block Grant Program
under the administration of the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Under this program, the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the
advice of the Executive Director of the State Board of Education, are
required to divide the state into adult education regions and
approve one adult education consortium in each adult education
region, as specified. Existing law requires the chancellor and the
Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, to
approve, for each consortium, rules and procedures that adhere to
prescribed conditions. Existing law also requires, as a condition for
the receipt of an apportionment of funds from this program for a
fiscal year, that members of a consortium approve an adult education
plan, as specified.
   Existing law, for the 2016-17 fiscal year and each fiscal year
thereafter, requires the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the
advice of the executive director, to approve, within 15 days of the
enactment of the annual Budget Act and in accordance with prescribed
criteria, a final schedule of allocations to each consortium under
the program. Existing law specifies that, using the final schedule of
allocations, the chancellor and the Superintendent are to either
apportion funds to a fund administrator designated by the members of
a consortium beginning no more than 30 days after approval of the
final schedule of allocations or apportion funds to members of a
consortium beginning no more than 30 days after receipt of final a
distribution schedule from that consortium.
   This bill would instead require the chancellor and the
Superintendent to apportion funds directly to members of a consortium
before the beginning of the fiscal year for which the allocation is
to be made.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 84909 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   84909.  (a) This section shall apply commencing with the 2016-17
fiscal year.
   (b) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the
executive director, shall approve, no later than February 28 of the
prior fiscal year, a preliminary schedule of allocations to each
consortium of any funds proposed in the Governor's Budget for the
program.
   (c) The chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the
executive director, shall approve, within 15 days of enactment of the
annual Budget Act, a final schedule of allocations to each
consortium of any funds appropriated by the Legislature for the
program.
   (d) The chancellor and the Superintendent shall determine the
amount to be allocated to each consortium based on the following:
   (1) The amount of funds apportioned to the members of that
consortium in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
   (2) That adult education region's share of the statewide need for
adult education.
   (3) That consortium's effectiveness in meeting the educational
needs of adults in the adult education region based on available
data.
   (e) Using the final schedule approved pursuant to subdivision (c),
the chancellor and the Superintendent shall  do one of the
following for each consortium:   apportion 
funds directly to members of a consortium before the beginning of the
fiscal year for which the allocation is to be made.  
   (1) Apportion funds to a fund administrator designated by the
members of a consortium beginning no more than 30 days after approval
of the final schedule of allocations.  
   (2) Apportion funds to members of a consortium beginning no more
than 30 days after receipt of a final distribution schedule from that
consortium.