(a) A participating local education agency with an enrollment of 3,500 or more pupils, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program, is eligible for one-time funding for startup costs based on the greater of the following:

(1) Eight dollars and fifty-one cents ($8.51) for each pupil who is enrolled, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program.

(2) Two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite under the jurisdiction of the local education agency.

(b) A participating local education agency with a pupil enrollment of fewer than 3,500 pupils and greater than 1,800 pupils, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program, is eligible for one-time funding for startup costs based on the greater of the following:

(1) Eight dollars and fifty-one cents ($8.51) per pupil who is enrolled, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program.

(2) Two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite under the jurisdiction of the local education agency.

(3) Thirty thousand dollars ($30,000).

(c) A participating local education agency with a pupil enrollment of fewer than 1,800 pupils, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information that is available when the agency joins the California School Information Services Program, is eligible for one-time funding for the startup costs based on the greater of the following:

(1) Eight dollars and fifty-one cents ($8.51) for each pupil who is enrolled, as determined by the most current California Basic Educational Data System information, and two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per schoolsite.

(2) Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

(d) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) the California School Information Services Program may not provide a local education agency more than 50 percent of the total funds required by an agency to achieve full participation in the California School Information Services Program. Total costs may include both actual expenditures and in-kind contributions, including those made within the previous three years, that are necessary to enable the local education agency to participate in the California School Information Services Program.

(e) For each consortium of local education agencies using the same pupil information system software, the consortium fiscal agent shall receive five thousand nine hundred seventy dollars ($5,970) for each new local education agency in the first and second year of participation in the California School Information Services Program to provide project and fiscal management services on behalf of participating consortium members after July 1, 2002.

(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1002, Sec. 2. Effective September 27, 2002.)