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Election Date: May 19, 2009

Statewide Special Election Sample Ballot


California Secretary of State Voter Information Guide: http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/

Title and Summary; Analysis; Arguments and Rebuttals; Text of Proposed Law

PROPOSITION 1F
ELECTED OFFICIALS’ SALARIES.
PREVENTS PAY INCREASES DURING BUDGET DEFICIT YEARS.

OFFICIAL TITLE AND SUMMARY

ELECTED OFFICIALS’ SALARIES.
PREVENTS PAY INCREASES DURING BUDGET DEFICIT YEARS.

    * Encourages balanced state budgets by preventing elected Members of the Legislature and statewide constitutional officers, including the Governor, from receiving pay raises in years when the state is running a deficit.
    * Directs the Director of Finance to determine whether a given year is a deficit year.
    * Prevents the Citizens Compensation Commission from increasing elected officials’ salaries in years when the state Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties is in the negative by an amount equal to or greater than one percent of the General Fund.

Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact:

    * Minor state savings related to elected state officials’ salaries in some cases when the state is expected to end the year with a budget deficit.

Final votes cast by the legislature on SCA 8 (Proposition 1F)
Senate:     Ayes 39     Noes 0
Assembly:     Ayes 80     Noes 0 PROPOSITION

ANALYSIS BY THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST

BACKGROUND

Voter-Created Commission Sets State Official Pay and Benefits. Proposition 112—approved by voters in June 1990—amended the State Constitution to create the California Citizens Compensation Commission. The commission includes seven members appointed by the Governor, none of whom can be a current or former state officer or state employee. The commission establishes the annual salary, as well as medical insurance and other benefits, for the following elected state officials:

    * The Legislature (120 Members).
    * The Governor.
    * The Lieutenant Governor.
    * The Attorney General.
    * The Controller.
    * The Insurance Commissioner.
    * The Secretary of State.
    * The Superintendent of Public Instruction.
    * The Treasurer.
    * The Board of Equalization (4 Members).

While the commission has control over most pay and benefits received by these state officials, there are certain exceptions. For example, Members of the Legislature are eligible to receive per diem payments to cover lodging, meals, and other expenses for each day of attendance at legislative sessions. The level of per diem payments is set by another state board and not by the commission. In addition, under Proposition 140 (approved by voters in November 1990), Members of the Legislature have been prohibited from earning state retirement benefits since November 1990. Accordingly, the commission has no control over these retirement benefits.

Factors the Commission Considers When Setting State Officials’ Pay and Benefits. Proposition 112 requires the commission to consider the following factors when it adjusts the annual salary and benefits of state officials:

    * How much time is required to perform official duties, functions, and services.
    * The annual salary and benefits for other elected and appointed officials in California with similar responsibilities, including judicial and private-sector officials.
    * The responsibility and scope of authority of the state official.

Currently, the Constitution does not list the financial condition of the state as a factor the commission must consider when setting the pay and benefits of these officials. In addition, Proposition 6—approved by voters in November 1972—prohibits the reduction of elected state officials’ salaries during their terms of office.

Current Salaries of Elected State Officials. Based on past commission decisions, elected state officials are currently eligible to receive annual salaries ranging from $116,000 (for legislators) to $212,000 (for the Governor).

PROPOSAL

This proposition amends the Constitution to prevent the commission from approving increases in the annual salary of elected state officials in certain cases when the state General Fund is expected to end the year with a deficit.

Official Certification of a Deficit Would Be Required. On or before June 1 of each year, the state Director of Finance (who is appointed by the Governor) would be required to notify the commission in certain cases when the state’s finances have weakened. Specifically, the Director would notify the commission if the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties (SFEU) is expected to have a negative balance equal to or greater than 1 percent of the annual revenues of the state General Fund on June 30 (the last day of the state’s fiscal year). As described in the analysis of Proposition 1A (also on this ballot), the SFEU is the state’s traditional rainy day reserve fund. Currently, 1 percent of General Fund revenues is almost $1 billion.

Certification of the Deficit Would Prevent Raises for Elected State Officials. In years when the commission chooses to adjust state officers’ pay and benefits, it already is required to pass a resolution to do this before June 30. These pay and benefit adjustments take effect beginning in December. Under this measure, if the Director of Finance certifies that the SFEU will end the month of June with a deficit of 1 percent or more of General Fund revenues, state officials will not be eligible to receive a salary increase to take effect in December of that year.

FISCAL EFFECTS

Cost Savings From State Officials’ Salaries During Certain Deficit Years. This measure would prevent the commission from approving pay increases for state officials in certain cases when the state General Fund is expected to end the year with a deficit. Under current practice, the commission might have otherwise approved pay increases in those years. The commission does not grant pay increases every year, and the level of pay increases granted by the commission is not always the same. Since January 2000, the commission has raised the pay of elected officials four times. Over this period, the total pay increases for each official have been equal to or less than the rate of inflation. Currently, a 1 percent raise for the elected state officials costs the state about $160,000 per year. If, for example, the commission were inclined to grant the officials a 3 percent raise but were prevented from doing so under this measure, the state would save less than $500,000 that year. Consequently, savings in any year would be minor.

May Contribute to Different Budget Decisions by the Legislature and Governor. The Constitution already requires the Legislature and the Governor to adopt a balanced budget each year. When the budget falls substantially out of balance during the course of a fiscal year, the Constitution allows the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and call the Legislature into a special session to address the emergency. The Constitution, however, does not require the budget to end the year in balance. This measure may have the effect of influencing the Legislature and the Governor to make different budgetary decisions—decisions, for example, that reduce a projected state deficit or make it less likely a deficit emerges in the first place. These impacts, however, are not possible to estimate.

ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF PROPOSITION 1F

YES ON 1F: NO PAY INCREASES FOR LEGISLATORS DURING TIMES OF STATE BUDGET DEFICITS.

Proposition 1F is straightforward and makes sense: During times when our state budget is running a deficit, legislators and the Governor should not receive pay increases.

A vote for Proposition 1F is a vote to prohibit legislators, the Governor and other state politicians from getting pay raises whenever our state is running a budget deficit.

BY STOPPING LEGISLATIVE PAY RAISES DURING STATE BUDGET DEFICITS, WE CAN SAVE OUR STATE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WHEN THEY'RE NEEDED MOST AND BRING ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE LEGISLATURE.

In times of deficit, critical services like schools, public safety and healthcare get cut. But legislators and the Governor still get pay raises.

Since 2005, legislators have had their pay increased three separate times. In four years their pay has increased nearly $17,000. Every year legislators have received a pay raise the state has been in a deficit.

California's legislators are the highest paid in the nation, some earning more than $130,000 a year in salary plus tens of thousands more annually in perks and benefits. From taxpayer-funded cars and gas, to tax-free money for living expenses, legislators are living high off the hog while the state's deficit continues to grow.

YES ON 1F: PART OF A RESPONSIBLE PACKAGE OF REFORMS TO FIX A DYSFUNCTIONAL LEGISLATURE AND BRING ACCOUNTABILITY TO A BROKEN SYSTEM.

We're all frustrated by California's broken budget system. We're all tired of legislators who are immune to the problems they create. Year after year, politicians deliver late budgets that harm our schools, healthcare system, police and fire services and more. The perpetual budget problems also hurt taxpayers as we see our taxes raised or services cut because of the Legislature's failure to budget responsibly.

VOTE YES ON 1F: NO PAY RAISES FOR THE POLITICIANS WHEN OUR STATE IS IN A DEFICIT.

STATE SENATOR ABEL MALDONADO

LEWIS K. UHLER, President
National Tax Limitation Committee

JOEL FOX, President
Small Business Action Committee

REBUTTAL TO ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF PROPOSITION 1F

"Oh boy! Here's a brick we can throw at the Legislature! That will make us feel better!"

Voters, please come to your senses. Proposition 1F will have absolutely no practical effect. Withholding pay raises from legislators will not suddenly propel them into agreement over how to balance the state budget. The problems run far deeper than that.

What Proposition 1F will do is give you the illusion of having made a difference. You'll walk away from your polling place thinking, "There, I've really stuck it to those louts in Sacramento." But come the next budget cycle, it will be exactly the same. Hard-line legislators in both parties will obstinately refuse to make the necessary concessions, resulting in yet another long, painful stalemate. Yes, you will have withheld their pay raises. So what?

The real reform was passed last November, when Californians wisely adopted the redistricting reforms in Proposition 11. Starting in 2012, many legislative districts will be less polarized, so more legislators will be answerable to constituents of both parties. This will result in more civility, cooperation and compromise, and budgets that work for all Californians.

But Proposition 1F won't help. It's on your ballot just to make you think you're doing something. Don't be fooled now and disappointed later. Vote no.

PETE STAHL, Author
Pete Rates the Propositions

ARGUMENT AGAINST PROPOSITION 1F

Proposition 1F won't work. Worse, it's petty, vindictive and childish.

Proposition 1F naively hopes to prevent budget deficits by withholding raises for legislators and elected state officers if the state budget does not balance.

This is just plain silly. Everyone wants our state government to be fiscally healthy. But this measure will never do the trick. For Proposition 1F to work, our legislators would have to be so selfish and immature that the possibility of a modest salary increase could induce them to betray their core values.

Of course they're not that selfish. Regardless of party, members of the Legislature are deeply caring, diligent, patriotic people who truly love the communities they represent and serve. Our state's structural deficit, if anything, has been caused by their overeagerness to serve too many constituencies, rather than the kind of selfish greed that would make Proposition 1F effective.

Freezing salaries will not loosen politicians' commitment to their ideologies. You cannot get conservative legislators to support tax increases just by threatening to cancel their raises. Similarly, liberal legislators will never agree to cuts in social programs just to increase their pay.

It's ludicrous to think that the mere threat of a salary freeze will somehow cause our polarized elected officials to rush into each others' arms and magically overcome their political differences. Proposition 1F will never do what it promises.

You may be thinking, "Okay, maybe Proposition 1F won't do any good. But it will make me feel better, and it can't do any harm!"

Not so. Proposition 1F freezes the salaries of not just the Legislature and Governor, who are responsible for passing and signing the budget, but also innocent bystanders such as the Insurance Commissioner and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This collateral damage will hurt some fine public servants and help no one.

And how good will you feel about freezing legislators' salaries when you know that their votes wouldn't change whether their salaries were frozen, reduced, or entirely eliminated? After all, they're clearly not in this for the money.

The current salary for nearly all legislators is $116,208. In most of California, this is solidly middle-class compensation. Many small business owners, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and managers make far more. You may earn more or you may earn less, but you've got to admit that our elected leaders aren't getting rich on their salaries.

Now consider that we ask these officials to run an enterprise with annual revenues exceeding $100 billion. That's roughly the income level of large corporations such as AT&T, Ford, and Hewlett-Packard, whose executives are paid millions of dollars. When you think about it in those terms, paying salaries such as $169,743 for a Treasurer and $133,639 for a Speaker of the Assembly is a terrific bargain.

Let's not make that discrepancy even worse just for an empty, childish, feel-good moment. Vote no on Proposition 1F.

PETE STAHL, Author
Pete Rates the Propositions

REBUTTAL TO ARGUMENT AGAINST PROPOSITION 1F

YES ON 1F: NO PAY INCREASES FOR LEGISLATORS DURING TIMES OF STATE BUDGET DEFICITS.

Proposition 1F is straightforward and fair: When our state budget is running a deficit, legislators and the Governor should not receive pay increases.

When the economy suffers, most working Californians don't get pay increases. Neither should the Legislature.

Since 2005, legislators have had their pay increased three separate times. In four years their pay has increased nearly $17,000. Legislators get pay raises even when we're facing huge deficits. That's not right!

California's legislators are the highest paid in the nation, some earning more than $130,000 a year in salary plus tens of thousands more annually in perks and benefits.

PROP. 1F MAKES SENSE AND IS FAIR.

In times of state budget deficits—when taxes are often raised and schools, police and fire, healthcare and other services all get cut—legislators should not get pay raises.

YES ON 1F: PART OF A RESPONSIBLE PACKAGE OF REFORMS TO FIX A DYSFUNCTIONAL LEGISLATURE AND BRING ACCOUNTABILITY TO A BROKEN SYSTEM.

We're all frustrated by California's broken budget system. We're all tired of legislators who are immune to the problems they create. Propositions 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E & 1F are a package of reforms to clean up budget dysfunction in Sacramento.

VOTE YES ON 1F: NO PAY RAISES FOR THE POLITICIANS WHEN OUR STATE IS IN A DEFICIT.

www.reformforchange.com

STATE SENATOR ABEL MALDONADO

JAMES N. EARP, Executive Director
California Alliance for Jobs

JOEL FOX, President
Small Business Action Committee

Arguments printed on this page are the opinions of the authors and have not been checked for accuracy by any official agency.

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PROPOSITION 1A
This amendment proposed by Senate Constitutional Amendment 13 of the 2007–2008 Regular Session (Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2008) and Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 of the 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session (Resolution Chapter 1, 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session) expressly amends sections of, and adds a section to, the California Constitution; therefore, provisions proposed to be deleted are printed in strikeout type and new provisions proposed to be added are printed in italic type to indicate that they are new.
Proposed Law
First—That Section 12 of Article IV thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 12. (a) Within the first 10 days of each calendar year, the Governor shall submit to the Legislature, with an explanatory message, a budget for the ensuing fiscal year containing itemized statements for recommended state expenditures and estimated state revenues total state resources available to meet those expenditures. If recommended expenditures exceed estimated revenues resources, the Governor shall recommend the sources from which the additional revenues resources should be provided. The itemized statement of estimated total state resources available to meet recommended expenditures submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall identify the amount, if any, of those resources anticipated to be one-time resources.
(b) The Governor and the Governor-elect may require a state agency, officer, or employee to furnish whatever information is deemed necessary to prepare the budget.
(c) (1) The budget shall be accompanied by a budget bill itemizing recommended expenditures.
(2) The budget bill shall be introduced immediately in each house by the persons chairing the committees that consider the budget.
(3) The Legislature shall pass the budget bill by midnight on June 15 of each year.
(4) Until the budget bill has been enacted, the Legislature shall not send to the Governor for consideration any bill appropriating funds for expenditure during the fiscal year for which the budget bill is to be enacted, except emergency bills recommended by the Governor or appropriations for the salaries and expenses of the Legislature.
(d) No bill except the budget bill may contain more than one item of appropriation, and that for one certain, expressed purpose. Appropriations from the General Fund of the State, except appropriations for the public schools, are void unless passed in each house by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring.
(e) The Legislature may control the submission, approval, and enforcement of budgets and the filing of claims for all state agencies.
(f) For the 2004–05 fiscal year, or any subsequent fiscal year, the Legislature may not send to the Governor for consideration, nor may the Governor sign into law, a budget bill that would appropriate from the General Fund, for that fiscal year, a total amount that, when combined with all appropriations from the General Fund for that fiscal year made as of the date of the budget bill’s passage, and the amount of any General Fund moneys transferred to the Budget Stabilization Account Fund for that fiscal year pursuant to Section 20 of Article XVI, exceeds General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for that fiscal year estimated as of the date of the budget bill’s passage. That estimate of General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances shall be set forth in the budget bill passed by the Legislature.
Second—That Section 20 of Article XVI thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 20. (a) (1) The Budget Stabilization Fund, and the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account is, are hereby created in the General Fund.
(2) If Section 8.3 is added to this article to provide for supplemental education payments at the same election at which this paragraph was approved by the voters, the Supplemental Education Payment Account is hereby established in the General Fund.
(b) In each fiscal year as specified in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, the Controller shall transfer from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Account Fund the following amounts:
(1) No later than September 30, 2006, a sum equal to 1 percent of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for the 2006–07 fiscal year.
(2) No later than September 30, 2007, a sum equal to 2 percent of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for the 2007–08 fiscal year.
(3) No later than On September 30, 2008, and on September 23 annually thereafter, a sum equal to 3 percent of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year.
(c) The Except for the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (h), the transfer of moneys shall not be required by subdivision (b) in any fiscal year to the extent that the resulting balance in the account Budget Stabilization Fund would exceed 5 12.5 percent of the General Fund revenues estimate set forth in the budget bill for that fiscal year, as enacted, or eight billion dollars ($8,000,000,000), whichever is greater. The Legislature may, by statute, direct the Controller, for one or more fiscal years, to transfer into the account Budget Stabilization Fund amounts in excess of the levels prescribed by this subdivision.
(d) Subject to any restriction imposed by this section, funds transferred to the Budget Stabilization Fund, the Supplemental Education Payment Account, or the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account shall be deemed to be General Fund revenues for all purposes of this Constitution.
(e) The Except for the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (h), the transfer of moneys from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Account Fund may be suspended or reduced for a fiscal year as specified by an executive order issued by the Governor no later than June 1 of the preceding fiscal year the date of the transfer set forth in subdivision (b). For a fiscal year commencing on or after July 1, 2011, this subdivision shall be operative only if a transfer of moneys from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Fund is authorized pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (f).
(f) (1) Of the moneys transferred to the account Budget Stabilization Fund in each fiscal year, exclusive of the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (h), 50 percent, up to the aggregate amount of five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) for all fiscal years, shall be deposited in the Deficit Recovery Bond Retirement Sinking Fund Subaccount, which is hereby created in the account Budget Stabilization Fund for the purpose of retiring deficit recovery bonds authorized and issued as described in Section 1.3, in addition to any other payments provided for by law for the purpose of retiring those bonds. The moneys in the sinking fund subaccount are continuously appropriated to the Treasurer to be expended for that purpose in the amounts, at the times, and in the manner deemed appropriate by the Treasurer. Any funds remaining in the sinking fund subaccount after all of the deficit recovery bonds are retired shall be transferred to the account Budget Stabilization Fund, and may be transferred to the General Fund pursuant to paragraph (2).
(2) All Except for the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (h), all other funds transferred to the account Budget Stabilization Fund in a fiscal year shall not be deposited in the sinking fund subaccount and may, by statute, be transferred to the General Fund by statute as specified in this paragraph.
(A) Apart from a transfer pursuant to subparagraph (B), the total amount that may be transferred to the General Fund pursuant to this paragraph for any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount derived by subtracting the General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for that fiscal year from the
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expenditure forecast amount for the current fiscal year. For purposes of this subparagraph, “General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for that fiscal year” does not include revenues transferred from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund pursuant to subdivision (b) for that fiscal year. For purposes of this subparagraph, Section 21, and Section 12 of Article IV, “balances available from the prior fiscal year for that fiscal year” means the funds in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, or a successor fund, as of June 30 of the prior fiscal year. The “expenditure forecast amount” for a fiscal year is the total General Fund expenditures for the immediately preceding fiscal year adjusted for the change in population of the State, as defined in Section 8 of Article XIII B, and the change in the cost of living for the State, as measured by the California Consumer Price Index, between the immediately preceding fiscal year and the fiscal year in which the transfer is made. “Total General Fund expenditures for the immediately preceding fiscal year” do not include, for this purpose, the expenditure of unanticipated revenues pursuant to subparagraph (B) or pursuant to paragraph (3) or (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 21.
(B) Any funds necessary for the purpose of responding to an emergency declared by the Governor may be transferred by statute. For purposes of this subparagraph, “emergency” has the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 3 of Article XIII B.
(g) In addition to any transfer authorized by this section, funds in the Budget Stabilization Fund or the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account may be loaned to meet General Fund cash requirements on the condition that the funds are repaid within the same fiscal year in which the loan is made.
(h) If the Supplemental Education Payment Account is established by subdivision (a), on October 1, 2011, and on October 1 annually thereafter, the Controller shall transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Supplemental Education Payment Account the lesser of the following:
(1) A sum equal to 1.5 percent of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year.
(2) The amount of the total supplemental education payments set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 8.3 remaining to be allocated.
(i) (1) If the Supplemental Education Payment Account is established by subdivision (a), on October 1 of the first fiscal year for which the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (h) is greater than the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (h), and on October 1 annually thereafter, the Controller shall transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account a sum equal to 1.5 percent of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year minus the amount, if any, of the total supplemental education payments set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 8.3 remaining to be allocated.
(2) If the Supplemental Education Payment Account is not established by subdivision (a), on October 1, 2011, and on October 1 annually thereafter, the Controller shall transfer from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account a sum equal to 1.5 percent of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year.
(3) Funds in the Supplemental Budget Stabilization Account may be appropriated only for the purposes set forth in subparagraphs (B) or (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 21.
Third— That Section 21 is added to Article XVI thereof, to read:
SEC. 21. (a) On or before May 29, 2011, and on or before May 29 of each year thereafter, the Director of Finance shall do all of the following, reporting the result in each case to the Legislature and the Governor:
(1) Separately estimate General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for the current fiscal year.
(2) Determine the revenue forecast amount for the current fiscal year in the manner set forth in subdivision (d).
(3) Estimate the amount, as of that date, of any General Fund obligations arising under Section 8 for the current fiscal year, including any maintenance factor allocation for the current fiscal year required pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 8, that have not yet been funded by the State.
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), “unanticipated revenues” for a fiscal year, for purposes of this section, shall be the lesser of the following:
(A) Estimated General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year reported pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) minus the revenue forecast amount for the current fiscal year.
(B) Estimated General Fund revenues, transfers, and balances available from the prior fiscal year for the current fiscal year reported pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) minus the expenditure forecast amount for the current fiscal year determined pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 20.
(2) If the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (1) is less than zero, the amount of unanticipated revenues shall be zero.
(c) Unanticipated revenues, as determined pursuant to this section, may be used only as follows:
(1) Unanticipated revenues shall be appropriated to satisfy any unfunded General Fund obligations arising under Section 8 for the current fiscal year, as estimated pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a).
(2) Any unanticipated revenues that remain after deducting, in accordance with paragraph (1), the amount of the estimate required by paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) shall be transferred by the Controller no later than June 27 of the current fiscal year to the Budget Stabilization Fund, not exceeding the amount needed to increase the balance in the fund to an amount equal to 12.5 percent of the estimate of General Fund revenues as set forth in the enacted budget bill for that fiscal year. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution:
(A) If the Director of Finance determines at any time that the total amount of General Fund obligations arising under Section 8 for a fiscal year, including any maintenance factor allocation for that fiscal year required pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 8, exceeds the total amount of those General Fund obligations as calculated for that fiscal year for purposes of the estimate required by paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), he or she shall so report to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Controller. The Controller shall thereupon transfer funds in the amount of that difference from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Fund, and the funds so transferred shall be appropriated only for purposes of funding the additional amount of General Fund obligations under Section 8 determined pursuant to this paragraph.
(B) If the Director of Finance determines at any time that the total amount of General Fund obligations arising under Section 8 for a fiscal year, including any maintenance factor allocation for that fiscal year required pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 8, is less than the total amount of those General Fund obligations as calculated for that fiscal year for purposes of the estimate required by paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), he or she shall so report to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Controller. The Controller shall thereupon transfer funds in the amount of that difference from the General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund, not exceeding the amount needed to increase the balance in the latter fund to an amount equal to 12.5 percent of the estimate of General Fund revenues as set forth in the enacted budget bill for that fiscal year.
(3) Any unanticipated revenues remaining after any appropriations and transfers described in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be appropriated to retire outstanding budgetary obligations. For purposes of this paragraph, “budgetary obligations” means any of the following:
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(A) Unfunded prior fiscal year General Fund obligations pursuant to Section 8.
(B) Any repayment obligations created by the suspension of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 25.5 of Article XIII.
(C) Any repayment obligations created by the suspension of subdivision (a) of Section 1 of Article XIX B.
(D) Bonded indebtedness authorized pursuant to Section 1.3.
(4) Any unanticipated revenues remaining after any appropriations and transfers described in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) are made to retire all outstanding budgetary obligations shall be used for one or more of the following purposes:
(A) Transfer by statute to the Budget Stabilization Fund.
(B) Appropriation for one-time infrastructure or other capital outlay purposes.
(C) Appropriation to retire, redeem, or defease outstanding general obligation or other bonded indebtedness of the State.
(D) Return to taxpayers within the current or immediately following fiscal year by a one-time revision of tax rates, or by rebates.
(E) Appropriation for unfunded liabilities for vested nonpension benefits for state annuitants.
(d) For the 2010–11 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the revenue forecast amount shall be determined as follows:
(1) The General Fund revenues for the current fiscal year shall be forecast by extrapolating from the trend line derived by a linear regression of General Fund revenues as a function of fiscal year for the period of the 10 preceding fiscal years. For purposes of this paragraph, General Fund revenues shall exclude both of the following:
(A) The General Fund revenue effect of a change in state taxes that affects General Fund revenues for less than the entire period of the 10 preceding fiscal years.
(B) Any proceeds of bonds authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1.3.
(2) The amount forecast pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be increased or decreased, as applicable, to reflect the net current fiscal year General Fund revenue effect of a change in state taxes for which General Fund revenue effects were excluded pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1).
PROPOSITION 1B
This amendment proposed by Assembly Constitutional Amendment 2 of the 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session (Resolution Chapter 2, 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session) expressly amends the California Constitution by adding a section thereto; therefore, new provisions proposed to be added are printed in italic type to indicate that they are new.
Proposed Law
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE XVI
That Section 8.3 is added to Article XVI thereof, to read:
SEC. 8.3. (a) School districts and community college districts shall receive supplemental education payments in the total amount of nine billion three hundred million dollars ($9,300,000,000). These payments shall be in lieu of the maintenance factor amounts, if any, that otherwise would be determined pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 8 for the 2007–08 and 2008–09 fiscal years. These payments are not subject to subdivision (e) of Section 8. These payments shall be made only from the Supplemental Education Payment Account, subject to the deposit into that account of the amounts necessary to make the payments. The operation of this section is contingent upon the establishment of the Supplemental Education Payment Account pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 20.
(b) Commencing with the 2011–12 fiscal year, in addition to the amounts required to be allocated pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (e) of Section 8, the Legislature annually shall appropriate to school districts and community college districts the amount transferred to the Supplemental Education Payment Account pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 20 in satisfaction of the supplemental education payments required by subdivision (a), until the full amount of the supplemental education payments required by subdivision (a) has been allocated pursuant to this section.
(c) (1) Of the appropriations made to school districts for the 2011–12 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b), an amount not exceeding two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available only for the purposes set forth in Section 42238.49 of the Education Code as that section read on March 28, 2009, as determined pursuant to the funding formula set forth in that section.
(2) The remaining amount of the appropriations made to school districts for the 2011–12 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b), and all of the appropriations made to school districts pursuant to subdivision (b) for each subsequent fiscal year, shall be allocated as an adjustment to revenue limit apportionments, as specified by statute, in a manner that does not limit a recipient school district with regard to the purposes of the district for which the moneys may be expended.
(d) All amounts appropriated in a fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be deemed allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B for that fiscal year, for purposes of determining, in the following fiscal year, the amount required pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3), as applicable, of subdivision (b) of Section 8.
PROPOSITION 1C
This amendment proposed by Senate Constitutional Amendment 12 of the 2007–2008 Regular Session (Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2008) and Assembly Bill 1654 of the 2007–2008 Regular Session (Chapter 764, Statutes of 2008) and Assembly Bill 12 of the2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session (Chapter 8, 2009–2010 Third Extraordinary Session) expressly amends the California Constitution by amending a section thereof and amends, adds and repeals sections of the Government Code and amends a section of the California State Lottery Act of 1984; therefore, existing provisions proposed to be deleted are printed in strikeout type and new provisions proposed to be added are printed in italic type to indicate that they are new.
Proposed Law
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE IV OF THE CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
That Section 19 of Article IV thereof is amended to read:
SEC. 19. (a) The Legislature has no power to authorize lotteries, and shall prohibit the sale of lottery tickets in the State.
(b) The Legislature may provide for the regulation of horse races and horse race meetings and wagering on the results.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Legislature by statute may authorize cities and counties to provide for bingo games, but only for charitable purposes.
(d) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), there is authorized the establishment of a California State Lottery, a lottery to be conducted by the State and operated for the purpose of increasing revenues to provide funds for the support of public education and other public purposes.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or this Constitution to the contrary, the Legislature is hereby authorized to obtain moneys for the purposes of the California State Lottery through the sale of future revenues of the California State Lottery and rights to receive those revenues to an entity authorized by the Legislature to issue debt
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obligations for the purpose of funding that purchase.
(e) The Legislature has no power to authorize, and shall prohibit, casinos of the type currently operating in Nevada and New Jersey.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (e), and any other provision of state law, the Governor is authorized to negotiate and conclude compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature, for the operation of slot machines and for the conduct of lottery games and banking and percentage card games by federally recognized Indian tribes on Indian lands in California in accordance with federal law. Accordingly, slot machines, lottery games, and banking and percentage card games are hereby permitted to be conducted and operated on tribal lands subject to those compacts.
(f)
(g) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Legislature may authorize private, nonprofit, eligible organizations, as defined by the Legislature, to conduct raffles as a funding mechanism to provide support for their own or another private, nonprofit, eligible organization’s beneficial and charitable works, provided that (1) at least 90 percent of the gross receipts from the raffle go directly to beneficial or charitable purposes in California, and (2) any person who receives compensation in connection with the operation of a raffle is an employee of the private nonprofit organization that is conducting the raffle. The Legislature, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, may amend the percentage of gross receipts required by this subdivision to be dedicated to beneficial or charitable purposes by means of a statute that is signed by the Governor.
PROPOSED STATUTORY PROVISIONS
SECTION 1. More than 20 years having passed since the inception of the California State Lottery, the Lottery, as a state-owned asset, should be authorized to modernize its operations in order to improve its financial performance.
SEC. 2. Section 8880.1 of the Government Code is amended to read:
8880.1. Purpose and Intent
The
8880.1. The People of the State of California declare that the purpose of this Act is support for preservation of the rights, liberties and welfare of the people by providing additional monies moneys to benefit education either directly or indirectly by providing funds to pay General Fund and infrastructure bond obligations without the imposition of additional or increased taxes.
The People of the State of California further declare that it is their intent that the net revenues of the California State Lottery that are allocated for public education shall not be used as substitute funds but rather shall supplement the total amount of money allocated for public education in California.
It is further the intent of the People of California to permanently secure the contribution that the California State Lottery has made to funding public education by increasing the minimum guarantee set forth in Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
SEC. 3. Section 8880.4 of the Government Code is amended to read:
8880.4. Revenues For fiscal years prior to the 2009–10 fiscal year, total revenues of the state lottery, as defined in Section 8880.65, shall be allocated as follows:
(a) Not less than 84 percent of the total annual revenues from the sale of state lottery tickets or shares shall be returned to the public in the form of prizes and net revenues to benefit public education.
(1) Fifty percent of the total annual revenues shall be returned to the public in the form of prizes as described in this chapter.
(2) At least 34 percent of the total annual revenues shall be allocated to the benefit of public education, as specified in Section 8880.5. However, for the 1998–99 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, 50 percent of any increase in the amount calculated pursuant to this paragraph from the amount calculated in the 1997–98 fiscal year shall be allocated to school districts and community college districts for the purchase of instructional materials, on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance, as defined by law, and through a fair and equitable distribution system across grade levels.
(3) All unclaimed prize money shall revert to the benefit of public education, as provided for in subdivision (e) of Section 8880.32 8880.321.
(4) All of the interest earned upon funds held in the State Lottery Fund shall be allocated to the benefit of public education, as specified in Section 8880.5. This interest is in addition to, and shall not be considered as any part of, the 34 percent of the total annual revenues that is required to be allocated for the benefit of public education as specified in paragraph (2).
(5) No more than 16 percent of the total annual revenues shall be allocated for payment of expenses of the lottery as described in this chapter. To the extent that expenses of the lottery are less than 16 percent of the total annual revenues, any surplus funds also shall be allocated to the benefit of public education, as specified in this section or in Section 8880.5.
(b) Funds allocated for the benefit of public education pursuant to subdivision (a) are in addition to other funds appropriated or required under existing constitutional reservations for educational purposes. No program shall have the amount appropriated to support that program reduced as a result of funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (a). Funds allocated for the benefit of public education pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not supplant funds committed for child development programs.
(c) None of the following shall be considered revenues for the purposes of this section:
(1) Revenues recorded as a result of a nonmonetary exchange. “Nonmonetary exchange” means a reciprocal transfer, in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, between the lottery and another entity that results in the lottery acquiring assets or services and the lottery providing assets or services.
(2) Reimbursements received by the lottery for the cost of goods or services provided by the lottery that are less than or equal to the cost of the same goods or services provided by the lottery.
(d) Reimbursements received in excess of the cost of the same goods and services provided by the lottery, as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), are not a part of the 34 percent of total annual revenues required to be allocated for the benefit of public education, as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a). However, this amount shall be allocated for the benefit of public education as specified in Section 8880.5.
SEC. 4. Section 8880.4.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:
8880.4.5. Commencing with the 2009–10 fiscal year, total revenues of the lottery, as defined in Section 8880.65, for each fiscal year shall be allocated as follows:
(a) Not less than 87 percent of the total revenues shall be returned to the public as follows:
(1) The commission shall determine the percentage of total revenues that shall be returned to the public in the form of prizes as set forth in this chapter, provided that the percentage shall not be less than 50 percent of the total revenues.
(2) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be allocated to the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling within the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs for problem gambling awareness and treatment programs. No later than April 1 of each year, the Director of the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling shall report to the commission on the effectiveness of problem gambling awareness and treatment efforts. The funding provided pursuant to this paragraph shall not replace or limit any other problem gambling awareness or treatment activity determined by the director to further the purposes of this chapter.
(3) The amount of net revenues designated by the Director of
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Finance as lottery revenue assets subject to sale pursuant to Article 6.7 (commencing with Section 63048.91) of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of Title 6.7 shall be transferred to the Lottery Assets Fund, which is hereby established in the State Treasury, and, notwithstanding Section 13340, is continuously appropriated for the purposes of that article.
(4) Net revenues remaining after the allocations made pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (3) shall be transferred to the Debt Retirement Fund, which is hereby established in the State Treasury. The Debt Retirement Fund may be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of repaying General Fund budgetary obligations, infrastructure bond debts, and the Economic Recovery Bonds, including reimbursement to the General Fund for the costs of these debts.
(b) No more than 13 percent of the total revenues shall be allocated for payment of expenses of the lottery as described in this chapter. To the extent that expenses of the lottery are less than 13 percent of the total revenues, surplus funds may be carried over from year to year upon a determination by the commission that the carryover furthers the purposes of this chapter, except that the total revenues allocated for payment, plus carried over revenue, shall not exceed 16 percent of the total revenues for the year in which carried over revenue is available. Excess carried over revenue shall be allocated pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) None of the following shall be considered revenues for the purposes of this section:
(1) Revenues recorded as a result of a nonmonetary exchange. “Nonmonetary exchange” means a reciprocal transfer, in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, between the lottery and another entity that results in the lottery acquiring assets or services and the lottery providing assets or services.
(2) Reimbursements received by the lottery for the cost of goods or services provided by the lottery that are less than or equal to the cost of the same goods or services provided by the lottery.
SEC. 5. Section 8880.5 of the Government Code is amended to read:
8880.5. Allocations for education:
The
8880.5. The California State Lottery Education Fund is created within the State Treasury, and is continuously appropriated for carrying out the purposes of this chapter. The For fiscal years prior to the 2009–10 fiscal year, the Controller shall draw warrants on this fund and distribute them quarterly in the following manner, provided that the payments specified in subdivisions (a) to (g), inclusive, shall be equal per capita amounts.
(a) Payments shall be made directly to public school districts, including county superintendents of schools, serving kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or any part thereof, on the basis of an equal amount for each unit of average daily attendance, as defined by law and adjusted pursuant to subdivision (l).
(b) Payments shall also be made directly to public school districts serving community colleges, on the basis of an equal amount for each unit of average daily attendance, as defined by law.
(c) Payments shall also be made directly to the Board of Trustees of the California State University on the basis of an amount for each unit of equivalent full-time enrollment. Funds received by the trustees shall be deposited in and expended from the California State University Lottery Education Fund, which is hereby created or, at the discretion of the trustees, deposited in local trust accounts in accordance with subdivision (j) of Section 89721 of the Education Code.
(d) Payments shall also be made directly to the Regents of the University of California on the basis of an amount for each unit of equivalent full-time enrollment.
(e) Payments shall also be made directly to the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law on the basis of an amount for each unit of equivalent full-time enrollment.
(f) Payments shall also be made directly to the Department of the Youth Authority for educational programs serving kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or any part thereof, on the basis of an equal amount for each unit of average daily attendance, as defined by law.
(g) Payments shall also be made directly to the two California Schools for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and the three Diagnostic Schools for Neurologically Handicapped Children, on the basis of an amount for each unit of equivalent full-time enrollment.
(h) Payments shall also be made directly to the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Mental Health for clients with developmental or mental disabilities who are enrolled in state hospital education programs, including developmental centers, on the basis of an equal amount for each unit of average daily attendance, as defined by law.
(i) No Budget Act or other statutory provision shall direct that payments for public education made pursuant to this chapter be used for purposes and programs (including workload adjustments and maintenance of the level of service) authorized by Chapters 498, 565, and 1302 of the Statutes of 1983, Chapter 97 or 258 of the Statutes of 1984, or Chapter 1 of the Statutes of the 1983–84 Second Extraordinary Session.
(j) School districts and other agencies receiving funds distributed pursuant to this chapter may at their option utilize funds allocated by this chapter to provide additional funds for those purposes and programs prescribed by subdivision (i) for the purpose of enrichment or expansion.
(k) As a condition of receiving any moneys pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b), each district and county superintendent of schools shall establish a separate account for the receipt and expenditure of those moneys, which account shall be clearly identified as a lottery education account.
(l) Commencing with the 1998–99 fiscal year, and each year thereafter, for the purposes of subdivision (a), average daily attendance shall be increased by the statewide average rate of excused absences for the 1996–97 fiscal year as determined pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 855 of the Statutes of 1997. The statewide average excused absence rate, and the corresponding adjustment factor required for the operation of this subdivision, shall be certified to the State Controller by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(m) It is the intent of this chapter that all funds allocated from the California State Lottery Education Fund and pursuant to Section 8880.5.5 shall be used exclusively for the education of pupils and students and no funds shall be spent for acquisition of real property, construction of facilities, financing of research, or any other noninstructional purpose.
SEC. 6. Section 8880.5.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:
8880.5.5. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, commencing with the 2009–10 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the following annual appropriations are hereby made from the General Fund:
(1) To the State Department of Education, for allocation to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools serving kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or any part thereof, on the basis of an equal amount for each unit of average daily attendance, as defined by law and adjusted pursuant to subdivision (l) of Section 8880.5, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in average daily attendance, as defined by law and adjusted pursuant to subdivision (l) of Section 8880.5, for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools serving kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
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(2) To the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, for allocation to community college districts, on the basis of an equal amount for each full time equivalent student, as defined by law, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in full time equivalent students for community college districts from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost of living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(3) To the Board of Trustees of the California State University, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in full-time equivalent students for the California State University system from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(4) To the Regents of the University of California, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in full-time equivalent students for the University of California system from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(5) To the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in full-time equivalent students for the Hastings College of the Law from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(6) To the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, for educational programs serving kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or any part thereof, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in equivalent average daily attendance for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Juvenile Justice from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(7) To the State Department of Education, for support of the State Special Schools, an amount equal to the payments made during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in equivalent average daily attendance for the State Special Schools from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(8) To the State Department of Developmental Services, for clients with developmental disabilities who are enrolled in developmental center education programs, an amount equal to the payments made to the State Department of Developmental Services during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in equivalent average daily attendance for the State Department of Developmental Services from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(9) To the State Department of Mental Health, for clients with mental disabilities who are enrolled in state hospital education programs, an amount equal to the payments made to the State Department of Mental Health during the 2008–09 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 8880.5, adjusted for inflation and attendance. The amount appropriated each year pursuant to this paragraph shall be determined by multiplying the amount appropriated in the preceding fiscal year by one plus the percent change in equivalent average daily attendance for the State Department of Mental Health from the second preceding fiscal year to the preceding fiscal year and then by applying a cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to paragraph (10) of this subdivision.
(10) The amounts appropriated pursuant to this subdivision shall be increased each year by the change in the cost-of-living determined pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (e) of Section 8 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
(b) The amounts appropriated for the 2009–10 fiscal year pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), (6), (7), (8), and (9) of subdivision (a) shall be in addition to the sums required by, and shall not be considered towards fulfilling the funding requirements of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(c) The amounts appropriated for the 2009–10 fiscal year pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), (6), (7), (8), and (9) of subdivision (a) shall not offset or in any way reduce the maintenance factor determined pursuant to subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, and shall be in addition to the amount of maintenance factor allocated in the 2009–10 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(d) Commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, for the purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriations made by paragraphs (1), (2), (6), (7), (8), and (9) of subdivision (a) of this section for the prior fiscal year shall be deemed to be included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of the Education Code.
(e) Commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year, the percentage determined pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, as adjusted pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 41200) of Part 24 of the Education Code, shall be increased by adding to it the number of percentage points determined by dividing the total amount allocated pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), (f), (g), and (h) of Sec

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