41404. (a) The Superintendent shall determine the reduction in state support resulting from excess administrative employees identified in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 41403 as follows:
(1) Compute the ratio that total state support to the school district general fund bears to the total general fund income of the school district.
(2) Multiply the ratio determined pursuant to paragraph (1) by the average salary of administrative employees.
(3) Multiply the product of paragraph (2) by the number of administrative employees converted to the nearest whole number in excess of the maximum number specified in Section 41402.
(b) The amount of the second principal apportionment made to the school district for the current fiscal year pursuant to Section 41335 shall be reduced by the product so produced. However, no reduction shall reduce the final apportionment below the amount specified in Section 6 of Article IX of the California Constitution.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 908, Sec. 3. (AB 2038) Effective January 1, 2023.)