09.03.10: Legislation Update
Sponsored Legislation
SB 898 (Ashburn (R))
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: 05/27/2010 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Sponsor
SB 1136 (Cox (R))
Prohibits a school district's apportionment deferral from exceeding an amount according to a specified formula, using the district's average daily attendance as a factor. Provides that these provisions apply only to apportionment deferrals within a single fiscal year.
Status: 08/12/2010 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Sponsor
SB 1380 (Hancock (D))
Requires school facilities constructed or modernized using specified bond funds set aside for career technical education to be used for a minimum number of years. Requires the district board to adopt a related resolution and to seek a waiver under certain conditions. Encourages district applying for a grant to include teacher of such education in the design and planning process. Relates to the spending of funds for related equipment.
Status: Enrolled
Position: Sponsor
Supported Legislation
AB 191 (Budget Cmt)
Requires that all March 2011 deferred payments to county offices of education, school districts, and charter schools be made not later than a specified date. Authorizes cities and counties to request an exemption from the deferral of fuel tax from the Highway Users Tax Account appropriations to those cities and counties if such deferral creates a hardship in making specified bond debt payments. Relates to warrants for principal apportionments to school districts for the month of June 2010.
Status: 06/22/2010 - Signed by GOVERNOR.;06/22/2010 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 29
Position: Support
AB 220 (Brownley (D))
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2010. Provides for the issuance of a specified amount of general obligations bonds to provide aid to school districts, county superintendents of schools, and county boards of education, the California Community Colleges , the University of California , the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities.
Status: 08/12/2010 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File.
Position: Support
AB 314 (Brownley (D))
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))
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: 08/12/2010 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support
AB 346 (Conway (R))
Amends existing law that allows local education entities to designate an entity or employee to act on the entity's behalf to perform certain duties relating to employee background checks and employment lists for certificated employees. Extends the authority to cover noncertificated candidates who are assuming a paid or volunteer position. Provides the requirement to obtain an Activity Supervisor Clearance Certificate is applicable to a paid or volunteer position to work with pupils in a district program.
Status: 07/09/2010 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 52
Position: Support
AB 391 (Torlakson (D))
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: Enrolled
Position: Support
AB 868 (Perez V (D))
Requires every community college district to develop and implement an online degree audit system to provide students and counselors the ability to monitor student progress toward completion of a degree, a certification, or the credits required to transfer to the California State University or the University of California and to perform an inquiry before beginning a semester or a quarter to identify students near degree completion and to notify them of the courses needed for completion.
Status: 06/23/2010 - From SENATE Committee on EDUCATION with author's amendments.;06/23/2010 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Support
AB 1724 (Chesbro (D))
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. Deems Rail Road Flat Elementary School to be a necessary small school. Makes Calaveras Unified School District eligible to receive small school apportionments. Provides the conditions under which the schools will not be eligible.
Status: 08/12/2010 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support
AB 1802 (Hall (D))
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: 04/20/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION: Failed passage.
Position: Support
AB 2082 (Education Cmt)
Requires that the Legislative Analyst review and report on each reimbursable state mandate relating to local education agencies that meets prescribed criteria to the Chairs of specified Legislative committees. Authorizes a local education agency to file an incorrect reduction claim as an appeal with the Educational Audit Appeals Panel and provides appeal procedures for the panel. Prohibits the Commission on State Mandates from ordering a reconsideration of all or part of any claim.
Status: 06/30/2010 - In SENATE Committee on EDUCATION: Held in committee.
Position: Support
AB 2330 (Arambula (I))
Amends the Voting Rights Act of 2001 which prohibits the use of an at-large election in a political subdivision if it would impair the ability of a protected class to elect candidates of its choice or otherwise influence the outcome of an election. Requires a voter to notify a county office of education, school district, or community college district prior to filing an action seeking enforcement of the act against those entities. Requires the entities to respond and provides litigation costs liability.
Status: 05/04/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on JUDICIARY: Not heard.
Position: Support
AB 2400 (Block (D))
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: 05/04/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION: Not heard.
Position: Support
AB 2446 (Furutani (D))
Adds for specified school years, 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. Requires the State Board of Education to report the number of pupils who took such a course in order to fulfill the graduation requirement.
Status: Enrolled
Position: Support
AB 2560 (Brownley (D))
Authorizes the State Board of Education to assign and distribute the state's 2010 federal tax credit bond volume cap from qualified school construction bonds to or for the benefit of school districts and county offices of education. Authorizes the state School Finance Authority to assign and distribute the same bond cap to or for the benefit of charter schools, or to be further assigned and distributed to one or more issuers in the state for the benefit of charter schools.
Status: Enrolled
Position: Support
AB 2721 (Blakeslee (R))
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare a report identifying options for reducing administrative and legal costs borne by local educational agencies resulting from disputes and litigation over the adequacy and administration of individualized education plans. Requires the superintendent to prepare an interim report to the Legislature by a specified date, and a final report by another specified date.
Status: 08/12/2010 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support
ACA 3 (Blakeslee (R))
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 10 (Torlakson (D))
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to condition the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by a school district upon the approval of a majority of the voters of the district voting on that tax. Makes conforming changes to related provisions.
Status: 04/05/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read third time and amended. To third reading.
Position: Support
AJR 31 (Buchanan (D))
Memorializes Congress and the President to enact one of the bills pending before Congress that would fully fund the federal individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Status: 06/28/2010 - Chaptered by Secretary of State.;06/28/2010 - Resolution Chapter No. 41
Position: Support
SB 205 (Hancock (D))
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 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter No. 11
Position: Support
SB 363 (Hancock (D))
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))
Authorizes a school district to provide school employees with voluntary emergency medical training to provide, in the absence of a credentialed school nurse or other licensed nurse onsite at the school, emergency medical assistance to pupils with epilepsy suffering from seizures. Allows a parent or guardian of a pupil with epilepsy who has been prescribed diastat by the pupil's health care provider to request the pupil's school to have one or more of its employees receive voluntary training.
Status: 05/27/2010 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support
SB 1161 (Lowenthal A (D))
Amends existing law that requires the State Allocation Board to prohibit a school district from self-certifying certain project information. Requires the Office of Public School Construction to notify the board if certified eligibility or funding application information is found to contain a material inaccuracy. Requires the board to set forth reasons for its decision regarding prohibition on self-certification, in a scheduled meeting. Deletes the exception from the prohibition for the district's repayment.
Status: 08/12/2010 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support
SB 1298 (Hancock (D))
Restricts, for the 2011-12 fiscal year, 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 or charter schools in the region. Requires the recipient of such funds to expend the funds in accordance with the regional plan for occupational course sequences, in order to meet the regional demand.
Status: 08/12/2010 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support
SB 1444 (Hancock (D))
Sets forth various findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Defines STEM education as courses or a sequence of courses that prepare pupils for occupations and careers that required technically sophisticated skills, including the application of mathematical and scientific skills and concepts. Expresses the Legislature's intent that the Superintendent of Public Instruction allocate funds designated for STEM education.
Status: Enrolled
Position: Support
SCA 5 (Hancock (D))
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))
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: 08/02/2010 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Position: Support
AB 2083 (Education Cmt)
Amends an existing law that requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to establish a list of low-achieving schools and persistently lowest-achieving schools and to identify schools according to specified criteria, including, but not limited to, a criterion relating to a school's graduation rate calculated for each of the previous three years, using existing data.
Status: 08/10/2010 *****To GOVERNOR.
Position: Support with Amendment
SB 1186 (Liu (D))
Amends existing law that provides that the State Board of Education consists of 10 members appointed by the Governor. Requires that the 10 nonstudent appointees represent and reside in different geographical areas of the state, reflect the ethnic and gender diversity of the state's population. Eliminates the authority of the state board to establish statewide educational policy and issue rules and regulations for the governance of public elementary and secondary schools.
Status: 05/27/2010 - In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Support with Amendment
SB 1193 (Lowenthal A (D))
Increases the amount of a modernization grant per schoolsite if a school district incorporates the use of high performance design and materials, and if the project is able to achieve specified objectives. Provides this increase would be provided from the funds set aside for this purpose in a specified bond act of 2006. Requires emergency regulations to implement the increases. Makes a Career Technical Education Facilities Program project eligible for grant increases upon meeting certain criteria.
Status: 08/12/2010 From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Position: Support with Amendment – Amendment adopted and we support the bill
Watched Legislation
AB 1605 (Coto (D))
Specifies that an employee funded by fees paid into the Public School Planning, Design, and Construction Review Revolving Fund by a local educational agency that submits a building plan is exempt from any furlough implemented by any state agency, board, or commission. Requires the Department of General Services to complete and return its initial review of a school construction or modernization plan within a specified number of days from the date the local educational agency submitted the plan.
Status: 05/28/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Changed to Watch after April 28 2010 amendments removed opposition
AB 1716 (Torlakson (D))
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: 05/27/2010 - To SENATE Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Changed from oppose to watch May 13, 2010 amendments removed opposition
AB 1741 (Coto (D))
Authorizes a school district governing board to deny a petition for the establishment of a charter school if the petitioner reasonably expects that at least 15% of its students will be served as English learners, if the petition does not contain a reasonably comprehensive description of program requirements relating to the needs of such learners. Provides prior to renewing a charter, the entity that granted the charter consider the degree of implementation of those programs in school's academic performance.
Status: 08/03/2010 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.
Position: Watch
Opposition removed based on March 11, 2010 amendments.
AB 2027 (Blumenfield (D))
Provides that school districts, county offices of education and charter schools that offer online education courses may claim one day of attendance toward average daily attendance on the basis of a pupil's attendance in an online class or classes that satisfy prescribed criteria.
Status: 08/12/2010 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Watch
AB 2591 (Feuer (D))
Implements changes if ACA 4 that reforms 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, budget related referendum measures, and the passage of certain fees.
Status: 05/10/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET with author's amendments.;05/10/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUDGET.
Position: Changed position from support to watch on April 14, 2010
ACA 4 (Feuer (D))
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to reform state and local finance to include voiding statutes or prohibiting constitutional amendment requests that would create a new agency or program that raises state costs or lowers state revenues by a specified amount, passing bills regarding a declared financial emergency, the submission and requirements of the Governor's budget, legislative budget requirements, budget related referendum measures, and the passage of certain fees.
Status: 05/10/2010 - From ASSEMBLY Committee on BUDGET with author's amendments.;05/10/2010 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on BUDGET.
Position: Changed position from support to watch on April 14, 2010
SB 234 (Wyland (R))
Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to consider and vote on whether to include an oral history component specifically related to genocides in the proposed changes to the 2014 history-social science curriculum framework as part of its regular process of developing and revising curriculum frameworks as requested by the State Board of Education. Relates to oral history materials.
Status: 07/15/2009 - In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.
Position: Watch
SB 955 (Huff (R))
Relates to notification of a certificated employee regarding reelection of that employee by a school district, the notice of dismissal or suspension of a permanent employee, the review of a decision by a Commission on Professional Competence, the notification requirement for terminating or reappointing certificated employees, substitute teacher compensation, the termination of employees based on performance evaluations, and the transfer of teachers and administrators.
Status: 07/01/2010 From SENATE Committee on RULES with author's amendments. 07/01/2010 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on RULES.
Position: Watch
SB 1285 (Steinberg (D))
Requires the visits by a county superintendent of schools determine the extent to which the percentage of teachers in each school who are in the first or second year of teaching exceeds or falls below the percentage of teachers in the district who are in the first or second year of teaching. Relates to the assignment of teachers using a specified criteria. Relates to county oversight of categorical education programs. Requires the use of specified criteria when laying off certificated employees.
Status: 08/12/2010 From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended to Committee on RULES.
Position: Watch
Opposed Legislation
AB 1665 (Swanson (D))
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: 06/28/2010 - In SENATE Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT: Failed passage.;06/28/2010 - In SENATE Committee on PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT: Reconsideration granted.
WATCH this bill - Dave does not want to remove position at this time.
Position: Oppose
ACA 33 (Silva (R))
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 258 (Oropeza (D))
Amends existing law, relates to required questionnaires that are submitted by prospective bidders on certain school district contracts. Requires the questionnaire and the uniform system of rating bidders to contain substantially similar information, questions, and requirements as developed by the Department of Industrial Relations. Requires a district governing body to use certain bidding procedures for contracts valued at a specified amount.
Status: 08/12/2010 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Oppose – Amendments accepted June 30 to remove opposition
SB 623 (Ashburn (R))
Prohibits a local agency from entering into a financial advisory, legal advisory, underwriting, or similar relationship with an individual or firm, with respect to a bond issue that requires voter approval on or after a specified date, if that individual, firm, or an employee, agent, or person related to an employee or agent of the individual or firm, provided or will provide bond campaign services to the bond campaign.
Status: 08/09/2010 In ASSEMBLY. Read third time and amended. To third reading.
Position: Amendments taken to remove Opposition
SB 694 (Correa (D))
Extends the time to request a review, and the time the State Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission has to review a public agency project that is to be performed after the rejection of all bids, and for a commission 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: Enrolled
Position: Amendments taken to remove Opposition
SB 1227 (Runner G (R))
Authorizes the Department of General Services to grant a request of a school district or community college district for review of a school construction by a qualified plan review firm under contract with the department as it deems appropriate. Prohibits the occupancy of a school building that has been constructed, reconstructed, altered, or added to, until the department has issued a certification.
Status: 04/15/2010 - From SENATE Committee on EDUCATION with author's amendments.;04/15/2010 - In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on EDUCATION.
Position: Oppose
SB 1278 (Wyland (R))
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science in 2011.
Status: 08/12/2010 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
WATCH this bill, Dave does not want to remove position at this time.
Position: Oppose
AB 1646 (Hayashi (D))
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: 05/28/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Oppose Unless Amended
AB 1893 (Hayashi (D))
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: 04/21/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on EDUCATION: Not heard.
Position: Oppose Unless Amended
AB 2454 (Torlakson (D))
Requires the governing board of a school district to employ at least one school nurse, registered nurse, or licensed vocational nurse for every 750 pupils. Provides that districts with more pupils would be required to employ more nurses. Requires registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses to provide health care services to pupils under the supervision of a school nurse. Provides the number of pupils enrolled at a school with a school health center shall not be included in a nurse-to-pupil ratio.
Status: 05/28/2010 - In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in committee.
Position: Oppose Unless Amended
SB 1381 (Simitian (D))
Changes the required birthday for admission to kindergarten and first grade for specified school years. States the intent of the Legislature to appropriate in the annual Budget Act a portion of the savings resulting from the change for purposes of expanding the state preschool program and that children who are 4 and 5 years of age and not eligible for kindergarten be allowed to participate in that preschool program. Relates to the year to year loss of average daily attendance for kindergarten.
Status: 08/12/2010 From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass.
Position: Amendments taken to remove Opposition
SB 1425 (Simitian (D))
Eliminates Class of 1 for bargaining and restricts return to work for CalSTRS members.
Status: 08/12/2010 From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass as amended.
Position: Amendments taken to remove Opposition
