Section 84810.5.

(a) Notwithstanding open course provisions in statute or regulations of the board of governors, the governing board of a community college district that provides classes for inmates of any city, county, or city and county jail, road camp, farm for adults, or federal correctional facility may include the units of full-time equivalent student (FTES) generated in those classes for purposes of state apportionment. The attendance hours generated by credit or noncredit shall be added and counted for apportionment purposes as noncredit attendance hours.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds for inmate education programs provided pursuant to this section shall be considered as part of the base revenues for community college districts in computing apportionments as prescribed in regulations of the board of governors. When computing apportionments for districts that provided inmate education programs in the 1994–95 fiscal year, the student workload measures generated and revenues received for that year shall be added to their noncredit base revenue and noncredit base workload measures for the following year.

(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 758, Sec. 128. Effective January 1, 1996.)