(a) For the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years, if the state defers any payments owed to school districts, the governing board of a school district may authorize, by resolution, moneys held in any fund or account to be temporarily transferred to another fund or account of the school district for payment of obligations. The transfer shall be accounted for as temporary borrowing between funds or accounts and shall not be available for appropriation or be considered income to the borrowing fund or account. Amounts transferred shall be repaid either in the same fiscal year, or in the following fiscal year if the transfer takes place within the final 120 calendar days of a fiscal year. Borrowing shall occur only if the fund or account receiving the money will earn sufficient income, during the current fiscal year, to repay the amount transferred. No more than 85 percent of the maximum of moneys held in any fund or account during a current fiscal year may be transferred.
(b) If a school district elects to exercise the authority described in subdivision (a), the governing board of the school district shall hold a public hearing to take testimony from the public before adopting the required resolution.
(c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2023, and, as of January 1, 2024, is repealed.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 24, Sec. 33. (SB 98) Effective June 29, 2020. Inoperative July 1, 2023. Repealed as of January 1, 2024, by its own provisions.)