03.30.10: 2010 Significant Legislation
SPONSORED OR COSPONSORED LEGISLATION
Summary: Relates to the After School Education and Safety Program to serve pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 9 at participating public elementary, middle, junior high and charter schools. Establishes a minimum total direct grant amount for small schools.
Status: 03/24/2010 - From SENATE Committee on EDUCATION: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Position: Sponsor
Summary: Prohibits a school district's apportionment deferral from exceeding the district's required reserve for economic uncertainties, if the district meets specified criteria.
Status: 03/22/2010 - From SENATE Committee on EDUCATION with author's amendments.;03/22/2010 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Sponsor
Summary: Increases the amount set aside for facilities under the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 for career technical education programs to reduce the amount set aside for new construction funding for severely overcrowded schoolsites.
Status: 03/04/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Sponsor
SUPPORTED LEGISLATION
AB 220 (Brownley (D))
Summary: Amends existing law regarding ongoing eligibility of a school district for new construction funding using specified calculations. Revises the calculation. Requires a district to certify it has entered into a binding contract for professional services or for construction, or both, in order to complete an approved project as a qualifying factor for a district to receive funding for a new construction school facilities project. Provides that a district board may extend the time period to meet the criteria.
Status: 02/11/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 314 (Brownley (D))
Summary: Requires manufacturers of instructional materials to provide certain associated equipment for free and materials in an electronic format at a price that is less than the price for the printed version. Requires a public meeting before the meeting for adopting instructional materials for certain grades. Requires the list of materials to be made available to school districts and to be posted on the internet. Requires the list to also include the final assessments of expert reviewers and evaluators.
Status: 07/15/2009 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Position: Support
AB 317 (Solorio (D))
Summary: Provides that pupil absences related to the H1N1 (2009) influenza virus in an public elementary or secondary school be deemed to be an epidemic for the purposes of provisions of existing law regarding the average daily attendance of any school district, county office of education, or regional occupational center.
Status: 02/11/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 391 (Torlakson (D))
Summary: Amends the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act that provides for the development of a statewide pupil assessment program and defines various terms for that purpose. Defines additional terms for that purpose. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract for an independent evaluation of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program. Requires the Superintendent to report on the evaluation to specified entities.
Status: 02/11/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 868 (Perez V (D))
Summary: Extends authorization requirements for a four day school week, including that participating schools achieve their API growth targets in order to maintain the authorization, to the Palo Verde Unified School District beginning in the 2010-11 fiscal year.
Status: 06/11/2009 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 1724 (Chesbro (D))
Summary: Deems Gasquet Mountain Elementary School and Margaret Keating Elementary School to be necessary small schools and makes the Del Norte County Unified School District eligible to receive apportionments for each school pursuant to its status as a necessary small school.
Status: 03/24/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION: Not heard.
Position: Support
AB 1802 (Hall (D))
Summary: Authorizes a parent or guardian of a pupil with diabetes to designate one or more school employees as parent-designated school employees for the purpose of administering insulin to the pupil as necessary during a regular school day under certain conditions. Authorizes an employee to administer insulin. Requires a parent or guardian to submit a written statement in order to designate any employee for these purposes. Provides the maximum period of validity for such statement.
Status: 03/17/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS with author's amendments.;03/17/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS.
Position: Support
AB 2082 (Education Cmt)
Summary: Expresses the intent of the Legislature that statutes creating a reimbursable state mandate on school districts be periodically reviewed, and that the Legislature consider recommendations on whether those statues should be amended, repealed, or remain unchanged.
Status: 03/04/2010 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 2400 (Block (D))
Summary: Authorizes the Grossmont-Cuyamaca, San Diego, and San Mateo County Community College Districts to establish and participate in a baccalaureate degree program. Requires a district that establishes and participates in such program to meet specified requirements including offering degrees in a limited number of fields of study, and submitting a report the the Legislature that would evaluate specified factors. Authorizes a fee for enrolling in specified courses. Authorizes related local business agreements.
Status: 03/23/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION with author's amendments.;03/23/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 2446 (Furutani (D))
Summary: Adds completion of a course in career technical education as an alternative to the requirement that a pupil complete a course in visual or performing arts or foreign language in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school.
Status: 03/24/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION with author's amendments.;03/24/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 2591 (Feuer (D))
Summary: Implements changes that would become operative if ACA 4 is approved by the voters to include requiring a state program schedule of review set by the Legislature, prohibiting the Legislature from submitting a constitutional amendment that would increase state costs or lower revenue by a specified amount unless it contains funding offsets, requires state agencies and program performance standards be included in the Legislature's state budget submission, and authorized nonrecurring revenue expenditures.
Status: 03/17/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET with author's amendments.;03/17/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUDGET.
Position: Support
ACA 3 (Blakeslee (R))
Summary: Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to require an initiative measure that would authorize the issuance of state general bonds in a total amount exceeding a specified amount to either provide additional tax or fee revenues, the elimination of existing programs, or both, as necessary to fully fund the bonds, as determined by the Legislative Analyst, in order to be submitted to the voters or have any effect.
Status: 08/31/2009 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Position: Support
ACA 4 (Feuer (D))
Summary: Proposes an amendment to the Constitution for reform state and local finance to include voiding statutes or prohibiting constitutional amendment requests that would create a new agency or program that raise state costs or lower state revenue by a specified amount, passing bills regarding a declared financial emergency, the submission and requirements of the Governor's budget, legislative budget requirements, Countywide Strategic Action plans for additional sales taxation, and property tax allocations.
Status: 03/22/2010 - Withdrawn from ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.;03/22/2010 - Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on RULES.;03/22/2010 - Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET.
Position: Support
ACA 10 (Torlakson (D))
Summary: Proposes and amendment to the State Constitution regarding the condition of imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by an education finance district established pursuant to statute upon the approval of a majority of the voters of the district voting on that tax. Makes conforming changes.
Status: 05/29/2009 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time. To third reading.
Position: Support
AJR 31 (Buchanan (D))
Summary: Memorializes Congress and the President to enact HR 1102 or one of the other bills pending before Congress that would fully fund the federal individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Status: 03/24/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION: Be adopted as amended to Consent Calendar.
Position: Support
SB 205 (Hancock (D))
Summary: Relates to federal law that authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to publish the maximum face value amount of qualified school construction bonds that may be allocated by the United States Department of the Treasury to each state. Assigns specified amounts of the state's 2009 federal tax credit bond volume cap to the State Department of Education and the State School Finance Authority, to be assigned and distributed to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools.
Status: 03/25/2010 - Signed by GOVERNOR.;03/25/2010 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 11
Position: Support
SB 363 (Hancock (D))
Summary: Requires the Controller to establish the Solar School Subaccount in the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account. Provides that the subaccount would be available for the deposit of funds, including specified federal funds from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. Requires that the moneys in the subaccount, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the purposes of providing loans to schools for energy efficiency and for the installation of solar energy systems.
Status: 08/27/2009 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Heard, remains in Committee.
Position: Support
SB 1051 (Huff (R))
Summary: Authorizes a school district, in the absence of a licensed nurse onsite at the school, to provide employees with emergency medical training to provide emergency medical assistance to pupils with epilepsy suffering from seizures in accordance with performance standards developed by specified entities. Provides employees who are trained and administer diastat in good faith would be immune from liability for injuries resulting from acts or omissions in administering diastat.
Status: 03/24/2010 - In SENATE Committee on EDUCATION: Held in committee.
Position: Support
SB 1298 (Hancock (D))
Summary: Restricts the authority of a school district to withdraw from a regional occupational center or program if the State Board of Education determines that doing so would negatively impact the career technical education services received by high school pupils of other school districts in the region.
Status: 03/04/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
SB 1444 (Hancock (D))
Summary: Defines science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education as courses or a sequence of courses that prepare pupils for occupations and careers that require technically sophisticated skills, including the application of mathematical and scientific skills and concepts.
Status: 03/11/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
SCA 5 (Hancock (D))
Summary: Exempts General Fund appropriations in the Budget Bill from the 2/3 vote requirement.
Status: 09/01/2009 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Position: Support
SCA 6 (Simitian (D))
Summary: Proposes an amendment to the Constitutional that conditions the imposition, extension, or increase of a parcel tax by a school district, community college district, or county office of education upon the approval of 55% of its voters upon the proposition. Makes conforming changes to related provisions.
Status: 06/15/2009 - In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Position: Support
OPPOSED LEGISLATION
AB 1605 (Coto (D))
Summary: Amends existing law that relates to the design and construction of school buildings to ensure that plans and specifications comply with various structural safety standards. Authorizes a local educational agency to agree to pay an additional fee to the Department of General Services for the department's cost to employ additional staff to expedite its review of that local educational agency's plan. Exempts employees funded by those fees from furloughs implemented by any state agency, board or commission.
Status: 03/16/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION with author's amendments.;03/16/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Oppose
AB 1665 (Swanson (D))
Summary: Requires public school employers to give reasonable written notice to the exclusive representative of classified personnel of a public school employer's intent to make any change to matters within the scope of representation, including, but not necessarily limited to, start time. Requires public school employers to provide a recognized employee organization with the opportunity to meet and negotiate with the public school employer.
Status: 03/16/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY with author's amendments.;03/16/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY.
Position: Oppose
AB 1716 (Torlakson (D))
Summary: Requires a person subject to the increased development fee who has accepted an offer of a reimbursement election from a school district to also be reimbursed for any interest on that supplemental amount accrued during the interim time period prior to the district receiving those funds as determined by the district.
Status: 02/24/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION with author's amendments.;02/24/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Oppose
ACA 33 (Silva (R))
Summary: Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to require that a ballot measure for the issuance of state general obligation bonds be approved by two thirds of the voters who vote on the measure, whether placed on the ballot by the initiative process or the Legislature.
Status: 02/19/2010 - INTRODUCED.
Position: Oppose
SB 694 (Correa (D))
Summary: Extends the time that the State Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission to review a public agency project that is to be performed after the rejection of all bids, and for review of work for which evidence was provided that the work has exceeded the force account limits or has been improperly classified as maintenance.
Status: 01/25/2010 - In SENATE. Read third time. Passed SENATE. *****To ASSEMBLY.
Position: Oppose
SB 1227 (Runner G (R))
Summary: Amends the Field Act which requires the Department of General Services to supervise the design and construction or reconstruction or alteration of any public elementary, secondary, and community college building to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations. Transfers those duties to the building department of the appropriate local jurisdiction.
Status: 03/04/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Oppose
SB 1278 (Wyland (R))
Summary: Repeals the delay of the adoption of instructional materials and replaces the schedule for adoption instructional materials for specified subjects to be submitted in each year. Requires the Board of Education to adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science and science in 2011.
Status: 03/04/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Oppose
OPPOSE UNLESS AMENDED LEGISLATION
AB 1646 (Hayashi (D))
Summary: Requires all high school coaches taking or renewing first aid certification to take training that includes a basic understanding of the signs, symptoms, and appropriate emergency action steps regarding potentially catastrophic injuries, including, but not limited to head and neck injuries, concussions, 2nd impact syndrome, asthma attacks, heatstroke, and cardiac arrest.
Status: 03/24/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION: Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Position: Oppose Unless Amended
AB 1893 (Hayashi (D))
Summary: Requires high school spirit activities coach to complete specified safety certification. Requires a pupil participating in such activities to obtain consent from his or her parents to participate in such activities and to comply with specified requirements. Requires such activities to be conducted under the supervision of the coach in accordance with certain conditions. Prohibits a school from authorizes a person to coach such activities until completing safety certification. Imposes other requirements.
Status: 03/24/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION: Not heard.
Position: Oppose Unless Amended
AB 2454 (Torlakson (D))
Summary: Requires every school district with over 500 pupils to employ at least once school nurse.
Status: 03/11/2010 - To ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Oppose Unless Amended
