Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates funding to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Highlights:

• Requires notification to the local health officer or the local health officer’s representative to include all of the following information, if known (Sec. 1-2):

• Identifying information of the individual who tested positive, including full name, address, telephone number, and date of birth;

• The date of the positive test, the school or schools at which the individual was present onsite, and the date the individual was last onsite at the applicable school or schools; and

• The name, address, and telephone number of the person making the report.

• Specifies if the local public health department or the State Department of Public Health identifies a deficiency in the local educational agency’s COVID-19 safety plan within the review period specified in the guidance, the local educational agency and its county office of education will be notified of the deficiency by the local public health department or the State Department of Public Health (Sec. 1-32091-2)

• Appropriates $2,000,000,000 to local educational agencies, excluding a charter school classified as a nonclassroom-based charter school (Sec. 43520.5.c-1).

• Establishes for elementary schools, for kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, as applicable, the following applies (Sec. 43521-3.B):

• For a local educational agency in a county in the purple tier, when eligible, the local educational agency offers optional in-person instruction to all pupils required to be offered in-person instruction, and to all pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2.

• When eligible, inclusive, the local educational agency offers optional in-person instruction to all pupils required to be offered in-person instruction, and to all pupils in grade 3 through the highest elementary school grade, up to grade 6, inclusive.

• Appropriates $6,557,443,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment in the 2020–21 fiscal year (Sec. 43521.a).

• Appropriates $5,192,512,000 to the “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts” (Sec. 2-43520.5-2).

• Requires each eligible local educational agency shall maintain a file of all receipts and records of expenditures made pursuant to this section for a period of no less than five years, or, where an audit has been requested, until the audit is resolved, whichever is longer (Sec. 4-2.g).

• Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to provide support to local educational agencies to maximize positive pupil outcomes and most effectively use funds (Sec. 8.a).

• Appropriates $1,750,000 in CRRSA funding to the State Department of Education for administrative costs (Sec. 5.B-4).

• Appropriates $250,000 in CRRSA funding to the State Department of Social Services for administrative costs (Sec. 5.B-5).

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