SCA 23: Education finance: minimum funding requirement: inclusion of taxpayer contributions.

The California Constitution establishes a minimum General Fund obligation for moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts based on one of 3 tests in any given fiscal year (Proposition 98). The first test applies to the amount of General Fund revenues that may be appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB of the California Constitution based on the percentage of General Fund revenues that were appropriated for school districts and community college districts in the 198687 fiscal year. The 2nd and 3rd tests compute the minimum funding requirement based on the total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIIIB of the California Constitution and allocated local proceeds of taxes, adjusted for changes in enrollment, cost of living, or per capita General Fund revenues, in the prior fiscal year.

This measure would require the minimum obligation for moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts to be augmented by the proceeds of the Baseline Schools and Colleges Subaccount or of a successor fund. The measure would also augment the minimum required funding under each of the 3 tests described above by the amount of proceeds of the Baseline Schools and Colleges Subaccount or of a successor fund. The measure would also include the amount of proceeds of the Baseline Schools and Colleges Subaccount or of a successor fund in the calculation of the maintenance factor. The measure would make nonsubstantive technical changes to this provision.