Section 14035.

(a) The county school service fund contingency account is hereby established in the General Fund. In each fiscal year the amount credited to the account shall be one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). Notwithstanding any provision of Section 14002 to the contrary, the amount to be credited to the county school service fund contingency account each fiscal year shall not be transferred from the General Fund as required or authorized to be transferred by Section 14002, but the amounts required or authorized to be transferred by Section 14002 shall be reduced by the amount to be credited to the contingency account and shall remain in the General Fund to the credit of the contingency account.

(b) The moneys in the General Fund to the credit of the contingency account shall be transferred by the Controller to the State School Fund in amounts as are certified from time to time by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to be necessary to meet actual costs to reimburse county superintendents of schools for expenses incurred in providing emergency education to pupils and making financial grants to school districts pursuant to Section 1602, to reimburse county superintendents of schools for the actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in connection with cooperative county publication projects by the county superintendent of schools or members of his or her staff, and to reimburse county superintendents of schools for expenses incurred in making emergency financial grants to school districts.

(c) The amount credited, pursuant to this section, in each fiscal year to the county school service fund contingency account in the General Fund shall be reduced by the amount of the balance remaining to the account on June 30 of the preceding fiscal year and an equal reduction shall be made in the amount of the reduction in the amounts required or authorized to be transferred under Section 14002 in accordance with this section.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 328, Sec. 36. Effective January 1, 2011.)