Section 42238.
Cal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.
in effect(a)
For the 1984–85 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the county superintendent of schools shall determine a revenue limit for each school district in the county pursuant to this section.
(b)
The base revenue limit for a fiscal year shall be determined by adding to the base revenue limit for the prior fiscal year the following amounts:
(1)
The inflation adjustment specified in Section 42238.1.
(2)
For the 1995–96 fiscal year, the equalization adjustment specified in Section 42238.4.
(3)
For the 1996–97 fiscal year, the equalization adjustments specified in
Sections 42238.41, 42238.42, and 42238.43.
(4)
For the 1985–86 fiscal year, the amount per unit of average daily attendance received in the 1984–85 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.7.
(5)
For the 1985–86, 1986–87, and 1987–88 fiscal years, the amount per unit of average daily attendance received in the prior fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.8.
(6)
For the 2004–05 fiscal year, the equalization adjustment specified in Section 42238.44.
(7)
For the 2006–07 fiscal year, the equalization adjustment specified in Section 42238.48.
(8)
For the 2011–12 fiscal year, the equalization adjustment specified in Section 42238.49.
(c)
(1)
(A)
For the 2010–11 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall compute an add-on for each school district by adding the inflation adjustment specified in Section 42238.1 to the adjustment specified in Section 42238.485.
(B)
For the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent shall compute an add-on for each school district by adding the inflation adjustment specified in Section 42238.1 to the amount computed pursuant to this paragraph for the prior fiscal year.
(2)
Commencing with the 2010–11 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall compute an add-on for each school district by dividing each school district’s fiscal year average daily attendance computed pursuant to Section 42238.5 by the total adjustments in funding for each
school district made for the 2007–08 fiscal year pursuant to Section 42238.22 as it read on January 1, 2009.
(d)
The sum of the base revenue limit computed pursuant to subdivision (b) and the add-on computed pursuant to subdivision (c) shall be multiplied by the school district average daily attendance computed pursuant to Section 42238.5.
(e)
For school districts electing to compute units of average daily attendance pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 42238.5, the amount computed pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 42280) shall be added to the amount computed in subdivision (c) or (d), as
appropriate.
(f)
For the 1984–85 fiscal year only, the county superintendent of schools shall reduce the total revenue limit computed in this section by the amount of the decreased employer contributions to the Public Employees’ Retirement System resulting from enactment of Chapter 330 of the Statutes of 1982, offset by any increase in those contributions, as of the 1983–84 fiscal year, resulting from subsequent changes in employer contribution rates.
(g)
The reduction required by subdivision (f) shall be calculated as follows:
(1)
Determine the amount of employer contributions that would have been made in the 1983–84 fiscal year if the applicable Public Employees’ Retirement System employer contribution rate
in effect immediately before the enactment of Chapter 330 of the Statutes of 1982 was in effect during the 1983–84 fiscal year.
(2)
Subtract from the amount determined in paragraph (1) the greater of subparagraph (A) or (B):
(A)
The amount of employer contributions that would have been made in the 1983–84 fiscal year if the applicable Public Employees’ Retirement System employer contribution rate in effect immediately after the enactment of Chapter 330 of the Statutes of 1982 was in effect during the 1983–84 fiscal year.
(B)
The actual amount of employer contributions made to the Public Employees’ Retirement System in the 1983–84 fiscal year.
(3)
For purposes of this subdivision, employer contributions to the Public Employees’ Retirement System for
either of the following shall be excluded from the calculation specified above:
(A)
Positions supported totally by federal funds that were subject to supplanting restrictions.
(B)
Positions supported, to the extent of employer contributions not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) by a single educational agency, from a revenue source determined on the basis of equity to be properly excludable from the provisions of this subdivision by the Superintendent with the approval of the Director of Finance.
(4)
For accounting purposes, the reduction made by this subdivision may be reflected as an expenditure from appropriate sources of revenue as directed by the Superintendent.
(h)
The Superintendent shall apportion to each school district the amount
determined in this section less the sum of:
(1)
The school district’s property tax revenue received pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 75) and Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 95) of Part 0.5 of Division 1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(2)
The amount, if any, received pursuant to Part 18.5 (commencing with Section 38101) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(3)
The amount, if any, received pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 16140) of Part 1 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
(4)
Prior years’ taxes and taxes on the unsecured roll.
(5)
Fifty percent of the amount received pursuant to Section 41603.
(6)
(A)
The amount, if any, received pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code), except for any amount received pursuant to Section 33401 or 33676 of the Health and Safety Code that is used for land acquisition, facility construction, facility reconstruction, facility remodeling, maintenance, or deferred maintenance, and except for any amount received pursuant to Section 33492.15 of, paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 33607.5 of, or Section 33607.7 of, the Health and Safety Code that is allocated exclusively for educational facilities.
(B)
The amount, if any, received pursuant to Sections 34177, 34179.5, 34179.6, and 34188 of the Health and Safety Code.
(C)
The amount, if any, received pursuant to
subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California Constitution.
(7)
For a unified school district, other than a unified school district that has converted all of its schools to charter status pursuant to Section 47606, the amount of statewide average general-purpose funding per unit of average daily attendance received by school districts for each of four grade level ranges, as computed by the department pursuant to Section 47633, multiplied by the average daily attendance, in corresponding grade level ranges, of any pupils who attend charter schools funded pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 47630) of Part 26.8 of Division 4 for which the school district is the sponsoring local educational agency, as defined in Section 47632, and who reside in and would otherwise have been eligible to attend a noncharter school of the school district.
(i)
A transfer of pupils of grades 7 and 8 between an elementary school district and a high school district shall not result in the receiving school district receiving a revenue limit apportionment for those pupils that exceeds 105 percent of the statewide average revenue limit for the type and size of the receiving school district.
(j)
Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, this section shall be used only for purposes of allocating revenues received pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (e) of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California Constitution.
(k)
This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2033, and, as of January 1, 2034, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2034, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
References
referencesCal. Const. art. XIII § 36.
referencesCal. Revenue and Taxation Code - RTC § 95.
referencesCal. Revenue and Taxation Code - RTC § 38101.
referencesCal. Government Code - GOV § 16140.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33000.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33401.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33676.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 34177.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 34179.5.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 34179.6.
referencesCal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 34188.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.1.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.4.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.41.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.42.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.43.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.7.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.8.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.44.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.48.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.49.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.485.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.5.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42238.22.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 42280.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 75.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 41603.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 33492.15.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 33607.5.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 33607.7.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 47606.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 47633.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 47630.
referencesCal. Education Code - EDC § 47632.
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026