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of county mental health plans for the pro-
vision of mental health services, as speci-
fied. Current law provides for the operation
and administration of various mental
health programs by the Mental Health
Services Oversight and Accountability
Commission. This bill would require the
commission, subject to the availability of
funds for these purposes, to administer an
Integrated Youth Mental Health Program
for purposes of establishing local centers
to provide integrated youth mental health
services, as specified.
ACSA position: Support
SB 582 (Beall) — Youth mental
health and substance use disorder
services
Would require the Mental Health
Services Oversight and Accountability
Commission, when making grant funds
available on and after July 1, 2021, to allo-
cate at least half of those funds to Local
Educational Agency and mental health
partnerships, as specified. The bill would
require this funding to be made available
to support prevention, early intervention,
and direct services, as determined by the
commission. The bill would require the
commission, in consultation with the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, to
consider specified criteria when determin-
ing grant recipients.
ACSA position: Support
SCA 5 (Hill) — Taxation: school
districts: parcel tax
The California Constitution generally
conditions the imposition of a special tax
by a city, county, or special district, includ-
ing a school district, upon the approval of
two-thirds of the voters of the city, county,
or special district voting on that tax. This
bill would condition the imposition, exten-
sion, or increase of a parcel tax, as defined,
by a school district or community college
district upon the approval of 55 percent of
its voters voting on the proposition, if the
proposition meets specified requirements.
The measure would also make conforming
changes to related provisions.
ACSA position: Support
AB16 (Muratsuchi) — Education
finance: Local Control Funding
Formula: aspirational funding level:
reports
Current law requires funding pursuant
to the Local Control Funding Formula to
include, in addition to a base grant, sup-
plemental and concentration grant add-ons
that are based on the percentage of pupils
who are English learners, foster youth, or
eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as
specified, served by the county superinten-
dent of schools, school district, or charter
school. Current law specifies the amount
of the base grant in the 2013-14 fiscal year,
as provided, and requires that amount to
be adjusted for changes in cost of living
in subsequent fiscal years. This bill would
express the intent of the Legislature to
increase the base grants to amounts equal
to the national average per-pupil funding
level, as provided.
ACSA position: Support
AB39 (O’Donnell) — Education
finance: school facilities:
Kindergarten-Community Colleges
Public Education Facilities Bond Acts
of 2020 and 2022
This bill would specifically autho-
rize the allocation of state funds for the
replacement of school buildings that are at
least 75 years old, for specified assistance
to small school districts, as defined, and for
the testing and remediation of lead levels
in water fountains and faucets used for
drinking or preparing food on school sites.
ACSA position: Support
AB123 (McCarty) — Early Childhood
Education: state preschool program:
access: standards
Would, commencing with the 2020-21
fiscal year, and notwithstanding any other
law, authorize a provider operating a state
preschool program within the attendance
boundary of a public school, except as pro-
vided, where at least 70 percent of enrolled
pupils are eligible for free or reduced-price
meals, to enroll 4-year-old children meet-
ing specified priorities. The bill would
authorize any remaining slots to be open
for enrollment to any other families not
otherwise eligible, as provided. The bill
would prohibit a state preschool classroom
from exceeding 24 children.
ACSA position: Support
AB428 (Medina) — Special education
funding
Current law requires the Superintendent
of Public Instruction to determine the
amount of funding to be provided for each
special education local plan area in accor-
dance with specified calculations. Current
law requires the superintendent, for the
2013-14 fiscal year, to compute an equal-
ization adjustment for each special educa-
tion local plan area for purposes of increas-
ing the funding rates for special education
local plan areas with funding rates below
the 90th percentile, as specified. This bill
would increase that percentile to the 95th
percentile and would require the super-
intendent to compute that equalization
adjustment commencing with the first
fiscal year after funds are apportioned pur-
suant to a specified formula and for each
fiscal year thereafter in which an equaliza-
tion appropriation is made, as specified.
ACSA position: Support
AB751 (O’Donnell) — Pupil
assessments: Pathways to College
Act
Would require, pursuant to specified
provisions of the federal Elementary
and Secondary Education Act, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
to approve a nationally recognized high
school assessment that a Local Educational
Agency, as defined, may, at its own discre-
tion, administer, if the alternative assess-
ment is approved by the LEA’s governing
board or body in a public meeting, com-
mencing with the 2021-22 school year,
and each school year thereafter, in lieu of
the consortium summative assessment in
English language arts and mathematics for
grade 11.
ACSA position: Support
AB967 (Smith) — Local Control and
Accountability Plans
Would require the development, adop-
tion, and transparency requirements for
Local Control and Accountability Plans
and the updates to those plans that apply
to the governing boards of school districts,
superintendents of school districts, and
county superintendents of schools, to also
apply to the governing bodies of charter
schools, administrators of charter schools,
and chartering authorities, as specified.
ACSA position: Support if amended.
AB314 (Bonta) — Public
employment: labor relations:
release time
Current law, as well as provisions
commonly referred to as the Educational
Employment Relations Act and the
Higher Education Employer-Employee
Relations Act, regulate the labor relations
of the state, the courts, and specified local
public agencies and their employees. These
acts generally require the public entities in
this context to grant employee representa-
tives of recognized employee organizations
reasonable time off without loss of com-
pensation or benefits for certain purposes
in connection with labor relations, com-
monly referred to as release time. This bill
would prescribe requirements relating to
release time that would apply to all of the
public employers and employees subject to
the acts described above and would gener-
ally repeal the provisions relating to release
time in those acts.
ACSA position: Oppose
AB500 (Gonzalez) — School and
community college employees: paid
maternity leave
Would require the governing board of
a school district, the governing body of a
charter school, and the governing board
of a community college district to provide
at least six weeks of a leave of absence
with full pay for a certificated employee,
or an academic employee, of the district
or charter school who is required to be
absent from duty because of pregnancy,
miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery from
those conditions. The bill would authorize
the paid leave to begin before and continue
after childbirth if the employee is actual-
ly disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or a
related condition.
ACSA position: Oppose
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