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46201.  (a) In each of the 1984-85, 1985-86, and 1986-87 fiscal
years, for each school district that certifies to the Superintendent
of Public Instruction that it offers at least the amount of
instructional time specified in this subdivision at a grade level or
levels, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall determine an
amount equal to twenty dollars ($20) per unit of current year second
principal apportionment regular average daily attendance in
kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and forty dollars ($40)
per unit of current year second principal apportionment regular
average daily attendance in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. This section
shall not apply to adult average daily attendance, the average daily
attendance for pupils attending summer schools, alternative schools,
regional occupational centers and programs, continuation high
schools, or opportunity schools, and the attendance of pupils while
participating in community college or independent study programs.
   (1) In the 1984-85 fiscal year, for kindergarten and each of
grades 1 to 12, inclusive, the sum of subparagraphs (A) and (B):
   (A) The number of instructional minutes offered at that grade
level in the 1982-83 fiscal year.
   (B) One-third of the difference between the number of minutes
specified for that grade level in paragraph (3) and the number of
instructional minutes offered at that grade level in the 1982-83
fiscal year.
   (2) In the 1985-86 fiscal year, for kindergarten and each of
grades 1 to 12, inclusive, the sum of subparagraphs (A) and (B):
   (A) The number of instructional minutes offered at that grade
level in the 1982-83 fiscal year.
   (B) Two-thirds of the difference between the number of minutes
specified for that grade level in paragraph (3) and the number of
instructional minutes offered at that grade level in the 1982-83
fiscal year.
   (3) In the 1986-87 fiscal year:
   (A) Thirty-six thousand minutes in kindergarten.
   (B) Fifty thousand four hundred minutes in grades 1 to 3,
inclusive.
   (C) Fifty-four thousand minutes in grades 4 to 8, inclusive.
   (D) Sixty-four thousand eight hundred minutes in grades 9 to 12,
inclusive.
   (4) In any fiscal year, each school district that receives an
apportionment pursuant to subdivision (a) for average daily
attendance in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, shall offer a program of
instruction that allows each student to receive at least 24 course
years of instruction, or the equivalent, during grades 9 to 12,
inclusive.
   (5) For any schoolsite at which programs are operated in more than
one of the grade levels enumerated in subparagraph (B) or (C) of
paragraph (3), the school district may calculate a weighted average
of minutes for those grade levels at that schoolsite for purposes of
making the certification authorized by this subdivision.
   (b) (1) If any of the amounts of instructional time specified in
paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) is a lesser number of minutes for
that grade level than actually provided by the district in the same
grade in the 1982-83 fiscal year, the 1982-83 fiscal year number of
minutes for that grade level, adjusted to comply with Section 46111,
shall instead be the requirement for the purposes of paragraphs (1),
(2), and (3) of subdivision (a). Commencing with the 1990-91 fiscal
year, and each fiscal year through the 1995-96 fiscal year, any
school district subject to this subdivision that does not maintain
the number of instructional minutes for a particular grade level that
the school district maintained for the 1982-83 fiscal year, adjusted
to comply with Section 46111, shall not be subject to paragraphs (1)
to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (c) if that school district
maintains at least the minimum number of instructional minutes for
each grade level set forth in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) in the
1990-91 fiscal year and each fiscal year through the 1994-95 fiscal
year or the 1995-96 fiscal year for districts whose instructional
minutes were adjusted to comply with Section 46111, and thereafter
returns to the number of instructional minutes maintained for each
grade level in the 1982-83 fiscal year.
   (2) The Legislature finds and declares that the school districts
to which paragraph (1) is applicable have not offered any less
instructional time than is required of all other school districts and
therefore should not be forced to pay any penalty.
   (c) (1) For any school district that receives an apportionment
pursuant to subdivision (a) in the 1984-85 fiscal year and that
reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum
amounts specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) in the 1985-86
fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, up to and including the
2000-01 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall
reduce the base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance
for the fiscal year in which the reduction occurs by an amount
attributable to the increase in the 1985-86 fiscal year base revenue
limit per unit of average daily attendance pursuant to paragraph (4)
of subdivision (b) of Section 42238, as adjusted in the 1985-86
fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter.
   (2) For each school district that receives an apportionment
pursuant to subdivision (a) in the 1985-86 fiscal year and that
reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum
amounts specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) in the 1986-87
fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, up to and including the
2000-01 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall
reduce the base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance
for the fiscal year in which the reduction occurs by an amount
attributable to the increase in the 1986-87 fiscal year base revenue
limit per unit of average daily attendance pursuant to paragraph (4)
of subdivision (b) of Section 42238, as adjusted in the 1986-87
fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter.
   (3) For each school district that receives an apportionment
pursuant to subdivision (a) in the 1986-87 fiscal year and that
reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum
amounts specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) in the 1987-88
fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, up to and including the
2000-01 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall
reduce the base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance
for the fiscal year in which the reduction occurs by an amount
attributable to the increase in the 1987-88 fiscal year base revenue
limit per unit of average daily attendance pursuant to paragraph (4)
of subdivision (b) of Section 42238, as adjusted in the 1987-88
fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter.
   (d) For each school district that receives an apportionment
pursuant to subdivision (a) in the 1986-87 fiscal year and that
reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum
amounts specified in either paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) or
paragraph (1) of subdivision (b), whichever is applicable, in the
2001-02 fiscal year, or any fiscal year thereafter, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction shall withhold from the district'
s revenue limit apportionment for the average daily attendance of
each affected grade level, the sum of that apportionment multiplied
by the percentage of the minimum offered minutes at that grade level
that the district failed to offer.

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