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Current Mandates (46)

Mandate
08/09
Actual
Appropriations
 09/10
Actual
Appropriations
10/11
Proposed
Appropriation
Description

Absentee Ballots

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for increased cost to issue absentee ballots when issues and elective offices related to school districts are included on a ballot. More...

Academic Performance Index

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on the Academic Performance Index. More...

Agency Fee Arrangements

$1000

$22,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on agency fee arrangements. More...

AIDS/HIV Prevention Instruction I &II

$1,000

$1,293,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for AIDS/HIV prevention instruction in grades 7-12. Teacher time is not claimable. More...

Annual Parent Notification, School Site Discipline Rules, Alternative Schools

$1,000

$8,844,000

$1,000

Consolidated unit rate mandate reimburses districts for time spent on annual parent notifications, school site discipline rules and alternative schools. More…

CalSTRS Service Credit

$1,000

$85,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent preparing a separation notice, employment notice, sick leave notice, or military reemployment notice in regards to CalSTRS or CalPERS election. More...

Caregiver Affidavits

$1,000

  $502,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for processing caregiver affidavits. More...

Charter Schools I, II, & III

$1,000

$1,306,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for new activities related to initial charter school petitions and for monitoring and evaluating the performance of charter schools pertaining to the revision or renewal of approved charters. More...

Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting

New Mandate*

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting. More...
COE Fiscal Accountability Reporting

New Mandate*

$282,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses COE for time spent on Fiscal Accountability Reporting. More...

Collective Bargaining

$1,000

$1,789,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for union negotiations, preparation of a collective bargaining agreement disclosure, teacher's contractual grievances and unfair labor practice charges. More...

Axiom Solution: Go to Bargaining Hunter

Comprehensive School Safety Plans I & II

$1,000

$2,977,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on comprehensive school safety plans. More…

Criminal Background Check I

$1,000

$568,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for criminal background checks for certificated employees prior to hiring and to obtain certification that specified employees of entities that contract with school districts for janitorial, administrative, landscape, transportation, and food-related services have been fingerprinted. More...

Criminal Background Check II

$1,000

$303,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for various activities that are the direct result of the districts requirement to fingerprint specified employees. More...

Differential Pay and Reemployment

$1,000

$2,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the calculation of differential pay, the establishment and placement of an employee on a reemployment list, and the return of the employee to work. More...

Expulsion of Pupils Transcript Cost for Appeals (SMAS)

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for expulsions transcripts provided free of charge to pupils with a limited income certification or if an expulsion has been reversed by the county. More...

Financial and Compliance Audit

$1,000

$359,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the annual financial and compliance audit's plans of correction, public review and responding to any further requests for information from the county or state. More...

Graduation Requirements

$1,000

  $0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the additional cost of requiring pupils to complete two years of science courses over the previous one year requirement. Mandate applies only to grades 7-12. More...

Habitual Truant

$1,000

$1,383,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the time spent processing habitual truants. The SARB process is not claimable. More...

Axiom Solution: Go to Truancy Hunter

High School Exit Examination

$1,000

 

$5,776,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for notifying parents of transfer students who enroll after the first semester or quarter of the regular school term that, commencing with the 2003-04 school year, and each school year thereafter, each pupil completing 12th grade will be required to successfully pass the High School Exit Exam (HSEE); maintaining documentation that the parent or guardian of each pupil received written notification of the HSEE; determining whether English-learning pupils possess sufficient English language skills at the time of the HSEE to be assessed with the HSEE; administration of the HSEE, on designated dates to specified pupils excluding a teacher’s time administering the HSEE; maintaining test security and providing specific HSEE data on each pupil tested to the SPI or independent evaluators or the publisher. More...

Immunization Records (SMAS)

$1,000

$3,802,000

$1,000

Unit rate mandate reimburses districts for maintaining immunization records on each student and filing a written report on the immunization status of new entrants to the school with the State Department of Health Services. More...

Immunization Records:
Hepatitis B

$1,000

$4,626,000

$1,000

Unit rate mandate reimburses districts for maintaining immunization records on each student and filing a written report on the immunization status of new entrants to the school with the State Department of Health Services. More...

Intradistrict Attendance

$1,000

$3, 397,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for establishing and implementing a random and unbiased process of intradistrict attendance. More...

Juvenile Court Notices II

$1,000

$1,024,000

$1,000

Unit rate mandate reimbursing districts for time spent processing juvenile court notices. More...

Law Enforcement Agency Notification/ Missing Children Reports

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts to notify the appropriate law enforcement agency of any acts of a pupil that may involve the possession or sale of a controlled substance or weapons. Reimburses districts and COE's for performing specific activities when notified of missing children including the posting of the missing children information and notifying law enforcement when a request is made for the missing child's student records. More...

Mandate Reimbursement Process I, MRP II
$1,000
$0
$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent working with a consultant to prepare mandated cost claims and time spent in training. More...

Axiom Solution: Go to Mandate Central

National Norm Referenced Achievement Test

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate replaces STAR program and reimburses districts only for activities associated with the CAT/6 testing for grades 3 and 7. More...

Notification of Truancy

$1,000

$3,645,000

$1,000

Unit rate mandate reimbursing districts for sending out the initial notification of truancy. More...

Axiom Solution: Go to Truancy Hunter

Consolidation of Notification to Teachers: Pupil Suspension or Expulsion I &II and Pupil Discipline Records

$1,000

$6,656,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts to identify, report to teachers and maintain information on the names of every student who has caused or attempted to cause serious bodily injury or injury to another person. More...

Open Meetings Act/Brown Act Reform

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent preparing the agenda to be available to the public for School Board meetings in accordance with the Open Meetings Act and Brown Act Reform. More...

Peace Officers Bill of Rights

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for providing procedural protection to peace officers employed by school districts when a peace officer is subject to an interrogation by the employer, is facing punitive action, or receives an adverse comment in his or her personnel file. Mandate applies to peace officers classified as permanent employees, peace officers who serve at the pleasure of the school district, and are terminable without cause (“at will” employees), and peace officers on probation who have not reached permanent status. More...

Physical Performance Testing

$1,000

$3,485,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts conducting the Fitnessgram physical performance testing to 5th, 7th and 9th grade students; to process and analyze score data; and to respond to requests by the California Department of Education for testing results. More...

Prevailing Wage Rate

 New Mandate*

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on the Prevailing Wage Rate program. More...

Pupil Health Screening

$1,000

  $759,000

$1,000

Unit rate mandate for kindergarten and 1st grade notification, follow up and exclusion in regards to pupil health screenings. More...

Pupil Promotion and Retention

$1,000

$1,074,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for providing supplemental instruction to students who are deemed at risk of being retained. Mandate is offset by any funds received for after-school or summer supplemental instruction for at-risk students. More...

Pupil Safety Notices

New Mandate*

$72,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts and COE’s for providing notices and information regarding health, safety, and legal issues to staff, parents, and students.  More…

Pupil Suspensions, Expulsions, and Expulsion Appeals

$1,000

$5,205,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the time spent processing suspensions for firearms, expulsions and expulsion appeals. More...

Removal of Chemicals
$1,000
$0
$0
Mandate reimburses districts for the cost of removing dangerous chemicals from the campus. Mandate suspended after October 7, 2011

School Accountability Report Cards II & III

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses dstricts for time spent preparing the annual School Accountability Report Card. More...

Axiom Solution: Go to SARCSelect

School District Fiscal Accountability Reporting & Employee Benefits Disclosure

$1,000

$2,668,000

$1,000

New mandate combining two separate mandates. Mandate reimburses districts for fiscal accountability reporting and forwarding revisions to the current year budget that are necessary to fulfill the terms of the collective bargaining agreement to the County. More...

School District Reorganization

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the time spent on school district reorganizations initiated by property owners and voters. Mandate does not apply to district initiated reorganizations. More...

Scoliosis Screening
$1,000
$0
$0
Mandate reimburses district for the time spent conducting scoliosis screenings on 7th grade girls and 8th grade boys. Mandate suspended after October 7, 2011
Student Records

New Mandate*

New Mandate*

New Mandate*

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on Student Records. More...

Teacher Incentive Program

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the time spent reviewing and certifying applications and distributing awards for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program. More...

The Stull Act

$1,000

$18,451,000

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for the time spent evaluating certificated (instructional and non-instructional) employees. More...

Threats Against Peace Officers

New Mandate*

$0

$1,000

Mandate reimburses districts for time spent on Threats against Peace Officers. More...

* – New program, funding is not currently available

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Pending Test Claims

Pending Test Claim
Tenative Hearing Date

California English Language Development Test

July 28, 2011

California Public Records Act (K-14)

May 26, 2011

Charter Schools IV

Hearing date not set

Deferred Maintenance Programs

July 28, 2011

Design-Build Contracts

September 29, 2011

Developer Fees

September 29, 2011

High School Exit Examination II

Hearing date not set

Instructional Materials Funding Requirements

Hearing date not set

Parental Involvement Programs

Hearing date not set

Public Contracts (K-14)

September 29, 2011

Public Health: Oral Health Assessment

Hearing date not set

Race to the Top Hearing date not set

School Bus Safety III

May 26, 2011

Standardized Testing and Reporting II

Hearing date not set

Standardized Testing and Reporting III

Hearing date not set

Special Education Services for Adult Students in County Jail Hearing date not set

Teacher Credentialing

Hearing date not set

Uniform Complaint Procedures (K-12)

Hearing date not set

Williams Case Implementation

Hearing date not set

Williams Case Implementation II

Hearing date not set

Williams Case Implementation III

Hearing date not set

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Reconsidered (No Longer) (30 mandates)

Mandate
Description

American Government Document Requirements

Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.

Annual Parent Notification III

Mandate has been replaced with the Consolidation of Annual Parent Notification, School Site Discipline Rules, and Alternative Schools mandate.

County Treasury Oversight Committee

Program has been suspended

County Treasury Withdrawals Program has bee suspended

Emergency Procedures, Earthquake Procedures, and Disasters and Comprehensive School Safety Plans

Mandate has been replaced with the Comprehensive School Safety Plan mandate.

Employee Benefits Disclosure

Mandate has been combined with School District Fiscal Accountability Reporting.

Fiscal Accountability Reporting – School District

Mandate has been combined with Employee Benefits Disclosure.

Grand Jury Proceedings

Program has been suspended

Health Benefits for Survivors of Peace Officers and Firefighters Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.

Interdistrict Attendance Permits

Program has been determined to be optional, repealed or overturned by the court.

Interdistrict Transfer Requests

Program has been determined to be optional, repealed or overturned by the court.

Investment Reports

Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.

Law Enforcement Sexual Harassment Training

Program has been suspended

Missing Children Reports

Mandate has been combined with Law Enforcement Agency Notification.

Parent Classroom Visits

Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.

Peace Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
Physical Education Reports Program has been suspended

Pupil Classroom Suspensions

Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.

Pupil Residency Verification and Appeals Program has been suspended
Pupil Exclusions Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
Pupil Suspensions: Parent Classroom Visits Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
Removal of Chemicals Program has been suspended as of October 7, 2011.

School Bus Safety II

Program has been suspended

School Crimes Reporting II

Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.

School Crimes Statistic Reporting and Validation Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
School District of Choice: Transfers and Appeals Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
Schoolsite Councils and Brown Act Reform Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
Schoolsite Discipline Rules Mandate has been set aside by the Commission on State Mandates.
Scoliosis Screening Program has been suspended ad of October 7, 2011.

Standardized Testing and Reporting

Mandate has been replaced with the National Norm Referenced Achievement Test

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Last Revised: August 8, 2011

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