(a) For the 1992–93 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, from Section A of the State School Fund, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall apportion to each school district or county superintendent of schools, as appropriate, an amount computed pursuant to this section. School districts and county superintendents of schools that provide special education transportation services by means of a joint powers agreement, a cooperative pupil transportation program, or a consortium shall receive special education transportation allowances pursuant to this section.

(b) For the 1992–93 fiscal year, each school district or county office of education shall receive a special education transportation allowance equal to the lesser of the following:

(1) The prior year’s approved special education transportation costs identified pursuant to Section 41850.

(2) That portion of the prior year’s transportation allowance that the school district or county superintendent of schools designates as a special education transportation allowance.

(c) For the 1993–94 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, each school district or county office of education shall receive a special education transportation allowance received in the prior fiscal year, but in no event shall that special education transportation allowance exceed the prior year’s approved special education transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in the annual Budget Act.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 283, Sec. 6. Operative July 1, 1992, by Sec. 8 of Ch. 283.)