SB 820 – Allows The State Board Of Education To Designate An Applicant County Office Of Education To Administer The California Dyslexia Initiative (Urgency Bill Effective Immediately On September 18, 2020)

SB 820 – Allows The State Board Of Education To Designate An Applicant County Office Of Education To Administer The California Dyslexia Initiative (Urgency Bill Effective Immediately On September 18, 2020).

Existing law establishes the California Dyslexia Initiative and requires the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. Prior law provided for approval from the executive director of the State Board of Education to designate an applicant county office of education to administer the initiative by September 1, 2020. Prior law appropriated $4,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate to the designated county office of education for the initiative.

SB 820 revises existing law to require the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, with approval from the executive director of the State Board of Education, to designate an applicant county office of education to administer the initiative by November 15, 2020. SB 820 also reduces the appropriation from the General Fund to $2,000,000 and funds the remaining $2,000,000 from the Federal Trust Fund.

Because it is a bill providing for the appropriations related to the budget bill, SB 820 became effective immediately when the Governor signed it on September 18, 2020.

(SB 820 amends Sections 313.3, 8209, 14041.8, 17199.4, 17391, 17463.7, 37700, 41024, 41207.47, 43501, 43502, 43503, 43504, 43505, 43509, 48412, 51461, 52065, 52074, 56836.07, 56836.148, 56836.24, 60010, 69996.3, 71000, and 92495 of, adds Sections 1241, 17199.15, 43502.5, 43506.5, and 92411 to, adds and repeals Section 92496.1 of, the Education Code, amends Sections 14900, 14901, 14902, 14903, 14904, 14905, 14906, 14910, and 14911 of, to adds Section 8880.4.1 to, and repeals Section 14905.1 of, the Government Code, amends Sections 8025, 102426, and 102430 of, and adds Section 8024 to, the Health and Safety Code, repeals Section 48 of Chapter 29 of the Statutes of 2016, to amend Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Chapter 3 of the Statutes of 2020, and amends Sections 95, 97, 110, 111, 112, 116, 117, 118, and 119 of Chapter 24 of the Statutes of 2020, relating to education finance.)