§ 41204.2 — California Education Code

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the 2021–22 fiscal year, an appropriation shall be made from the General Fund in the annual Budget Act for the support of public schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and the California Community Colleges to supplement funding appropriated pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. In each fiscal year, the amount of the supplemental appropriation shall be equal to 1.5 percent of total General Fund revenues, as calculated pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. The supplemental appropriation shall be made annually until the sum of all supplemental appropriations equals twelve billion three hundred sixty-six million one hundred seven thousand dollars ($12,366,107,000).

(b) Amounts appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be deemed supplementary payments in excess of the minimum amount required for a given fiscal year pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

(c) (1) For the 2022–23 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, “the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community colleges districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986–87,” for purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, shall be deemed to be the percentage of General Fund revenues that would have been appropriated for those entities if the share of the General Fund of the supplementary payment calculated pursuant to subdivision (a) in the prior fiscal year had been included in the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community colleges districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986–87.

(2) Paragraph (1) is operative until “the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community colleges districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986–87,” for purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution equals 40 percent.

(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 24, Sec. 20. (SB 98) Effective June 29, 2020.)