Bill Text: CA SB1071 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Special education funding: preschool-age individuals with exceptional needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1071 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1071-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1071	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Allen

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to amend Section 56441 of, and to add Section 56440.1 to,
the Education Code, relating to special education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1071, as introduced, Allen. Special education funding:
preschool-age individuals with exceptional needs.
   Existing law requires a special education local plan area (SELPA)
to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction information for
providing special education and services to individuals with
exceptional needs who are between the ages of three and five years
old. Existing law requires these individuals to be served by the
local educational agencies within each SELPA, as provided. Existing
law establishes apportionments to SELPAs for special education
programs to be calculated by the Superintendent, as provided.
   This bill would establish a new formula for a permanent one-time
total adjustment to the SELPA base funding calculation, to be
calculated by the Superintendent, to support special education and
related services as required under the individualized education
program for each 3-and 4-year-old preschool individual with
exceptional needs, upon an appropriation in the Budget Act, as
provided.
   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 56440.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   56440.1.  (a) Upon an appropriation in the Budget Act, there shall
be a permanent one-time total adjustment to the base funding
calculation established pursuant to Section 56836.08 to support
special education and related services as required under the
individualized education program for each three and four year old
preschool individual with exceptional needs.
   (b) Commencing with the ____ fiscal year, for purposes of
computing an apportionment for each special education local plan
area, the Superintendent shall use the following formula:
   (1) Divide the dollar amount, as appropriated in the Budget Act
pursuant to subdivision (a), by the December 2015 count of three and
four year old individuals with exceptional needs throughout the state
to establish a preschool rate per pupil.
   (2) Multiply the amount computed in paragraph (1) by each special
education local plan area's December 2015 count of three and four
year old individuals with exceptional needs. The product of this
amount shall be added to each special education local plan area's
base calculation computed pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
56836.08 as a permanent adjustment.
  SEC. 2.  Section 56441 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   56441.   (a)    The Legislature hereby finds and
declares that early education programs for individuals with
exceptional needs between the ages of three and five years,
inclusive, that provide special education and related services within
the typical environment appropriate for young children, and include
active parent involvement, may do the following: 
   (a) 
    (1)  Significantly reduce the potential impact of any
disabling conditions. 
   (b) 
    (2)  Produce substantial gains in physical development,
cognitive development, language and speech development, psychosocial
development, and self-help skills development. 
   (c) 
    (3)  Help prevent the development of secondary disabling
conditions. 
   (d) 
    (4)  Reduce family stresses. 
   (e) 
    (5)  Reduce societal dependency and
institutionalization. 
   (f) 
    (6)  Reduce the need for special class placement in
special education programs once a child reaches school age. 
   (g) 
    (7)  Save substantial costs to society and our schools.

   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that there has been a
significant increase in the population of preschool-age individuals
with exceptional needs, many of whom require intensive services and
that the adoption of a state funding mechanism for preschool-age
individuals with exceptional needs is necessary to establish new or
expand existing high-quality preschool programs to ensure
preschool-age individuals with exceptional needs are provided the
best chance for educational success in the most cost-efficient
manner.