Section 41570.

(a) There is hereby established the school and library improvement block grant. Commencing with the 2005–06 fiscal year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion block grant funds to a school district in the same relative statewide proportion that the school district received in the 2003–04 fiscal year for the programs listed in Section 41571.

(b) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), a school district may expend funds received pursuant to this article for any purpose authorized by the programs listed in Section 41571, as the statutes governing those programs read on January 1, 2004.

(2) If a school district did not participate before January 1, 2004, in the school improvement program as set forth in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 52000) of Part 28, the school district shall use grant funds received pursuant to this article for school library materials as set forth in Article 7 (commencing with Section 18180) of Chapter 2 of Part 11, as that article read on January 1, 2004.

(c) For purposes of this article, "school district" includes a county office of education if county offices of education are eligible to receive funds for the programs that are listed in Section 41571. The block grant of a county office of education shall be based only on those programs for which it was eligible to receive funds in the 2003–04 fiscal year.

(Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 871, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2005.)