School Finance
School Facilities
Bilingual Education
Charter Schools
Class Size Reduction
School Safety
Child and Day Care
Special Education
School Accountability and Testing
Higher Education
School Employees
School Curriculum
Miscellaneous
School Finance
SB 92* (Torlakson-D) School: state audits
Holds in abeyance all completed school district audits and appeals of audits, withdraws any findings made pursuant to audits, and provides that no loss of apportionment pursuant to an audit will be realized. Requires the State Controller to notify all school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education that it is no longer necessary to retain records supporting pupil attendance and excused absences used for purposes of calculating average daily attendance during the 1996-97 fiscal year.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 192* (O'Connell-D) Education technology
Establishes the Education Technology Grant Act of 2002 to provide grants to eligible school districts, county offices of education or charter schools for purposes of implementing and supporting a comprehensive system that effectively uses technology to improve pupil academic achievement.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2002
SB 218 (Dunn-D) Adult education
Authorizes a school district to report for state apportionments average daily attendance in classes for adults that are not open to the general public, if the classes are held in the workplace, are intended solely to help students develop English language skills and are instructed by an employee of the district appropriately credentialed for the course being offered. Provides that, if the adult class is held in the workplace and is intended primarily to help students develop literacy and English language skills, admission to the class may be limited to employees of that work site.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 240 (Morrow-R) Education: school districts
Creates the Capistrano Unified School District Categorical Program Funding Flexibility Pilot Program to allow the district to receive state categorical funding using the same block grant formula used for charter schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 250* (McPherson-R) School finance: Pacific Unified School District
Authorizes the Pacific Valley School in the Pacific Unified School District (Big Sur) to receive a necessary small school allowance with as few as 18, rather than 26, elementary grade pupils.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 382 (Haynes-R) Compton Unified School District: education certificates
Enacts the California Education Certificate Pilot Program to require the State Department of Education to establish a program, within the Compton Unified School District, whereby, upon the request of parents, children may be provided with educational certificates to fund their attendance at participating public or private schools. Establishes the value of the certificate to be based upon 75 percent of the revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 874 (Dunn-D) Adult education
Allows a school district to report for state apportionment average daily attendance adult education classes that are not open to the general public under specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1020 (Escutia-D) Schools
Establishes the California Middle Grades Extended Year Incentive Program and the Targeted Instructional Improvement Block Grant. Repeals existing authorizations for economic impact aid, court-ordered desegregation and voluntary integration reimbursement.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1289 (Haynes-R) Riverside Alvord Unified School Districts: adult education
Authorizes the State Board of Education (SBE) to waive the Education Code for one situation. Permits SBE to waive appropriate provisions to the Education Code only to allow Riverside and Alvord Unified School Districts to fulfill their 2001-02 adult education contract.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1485 (McClintock-R) Public school expenditures
Requires each school, school district, county office of education, and the State Department of Education to annually prepare a report which indicates the amount of funds expended by that entity, including the amount expended on classroom purposes, in the preceding fiscal year. Requires that these reports be sent to the Legislature annually.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1606 (Soto-D) Specialized secondary programs
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion funds among eligible specified secondary school programs established prior to the 2001-02 fiscal year (current law sets this date at 1991-92) and eliminates the requirement that the funds be apportioned equally.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1789 (Poochigian-R) Assessed valuation of all taxable property: reports
Requires the State Controller to compile data regarding the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in each school district in the state and to post the findings on a county basis on the Internet by June 1 of each year.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1830* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education funding
Makes adjustments to current and budget-year funding for K-14 education under Proposition 98.
(Refused adoption on Assembly Floor)
SB 1921 (Romero-D) Adult education: average daily attendance audits
Authorizes the wavier of any adult education average daily attendance audit finding for any fiscal year, if the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the Director of the State Department of Finance, or the State Auditor, determines that the audit exception was minor and inadvertent, or both.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 47* (Simitian-D) Juvenile court schools and county community schools
Changes the formula for cost of living adjustments and computing equalization adjustments for juvenile court schools and county community schools commencing with the 2002-03 fiscal year, so that cost-of-living adjustments are no longer used to equalize funding levels.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2002
AB 193 (Thomson-D) School finance: equalization adjustment
Establishes a formula to equalize school district per pupil revenue limits to set dollar value above which are revenue limits for school districts enrolling no more than ten percent of the pupils in the state.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 818 (Dutra-D) Fremont Unified School District: minimum instructional time
Exempts the Fremont Unified School District in Alameda County from the requirement to maintain a specified instructional time schedule in 2000-01.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 885 (Daucher-R) Average daily attendance: Internet classroom
Authorizes secondary school pupil participation in an on-line interactive course to count as instructional time for the purpose of generating Average Daily Attendance and associated funding.
Chapter 801, Statutes of 2002
AB 1100* (Simitian-D) Education finance
Cleans up and changes SB 955 (Alpert-D), Chapter 586, Statutes of 2001, regarding basic aid school districts and charter schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1227 (Canciamilla-D) Minimum instructional time: penalty waiver
Provides that a currently allowed waiver of instructional time fiscal penalties is effective for 2000-01 and that instruction time must be made up beginning in the year following the granting of the waiver.
Chapter 942, Statutes of 2002
AB 1299* (Rod Pacheco-R) Adult education
Provides that a district that contracts their adult education program to another district can receive its apportionment under the adult education cap, even if the students are not directly under the supervision of the teachers in the district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1525 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance
Appropriates $429,191,000 in 2003-04 to the School Improvement Program and $45,809,000 in 2003-04 for the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program and makes other changes to education finance.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File awaiting concurrence)
AB 1789 (Reyes-D) Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District
Allows the Sierra Elementary School in the Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District to generate funding, as a necessary small school, in spite of the fact that the district has more than 2,500 pupils.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1795 (Reyes-D) Kerman Unified School District
Extends an audit repayment period from eight to 11 years for the Kerman Unified School District.
Chapter 1056, Statutes of 2002
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 1848 (Diaz-D) Targeted Instructional Improvement Grants
Clarifies current law to insure that court-ordered and voluntary desegregation programs may continue to be funded through the Targeted Instructional Grant.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2002
AB 1973* (Richman-R) Instructional day
Exempts the Castaic Union Elementary School District from the requirement to maintain a 1982-83 instructional time schedule in kindergarten.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2128 (Ashburn-R) Hot Springs Elementary School District
Deems the Hot Springs Elementary School to be a necessary small school and requires the apportionment of $100,000 per year to the Hot Springs Elementary School District in lieu of necessary small school funding and in addition to revenue limit funding earned per unit of average daily attendance.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2138 (Firebaugh-D) School districts
Requires the annual fiscal audit of school districts include local bond funds, revises audit penalty procedures to prevent double penalties in districts with declining enrollments, and makes other technical revisions to school district audit and budget procedures.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2585 (Aroner-D) Education finance
Authorizes various changes in the financial oversight of school districts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2627 (Leach-R) School Fairness in Education Funding Act
Modifies the existing school finance equalization formula, established in Chapter 155, Statutes of 2001, by directing the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in 2003-04 and each fiscal year thereafter, to compute an equalization adjustment so that 90 percent of the state's average daily attendance (ADA) would be the same revenue limit per ADA for school districts of the same size and type.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2750 (Wesson-D) Adult education: classes in correctional facilities
Permits increases in the maximum average daily attendance calculations for classes for adults in correctional facilities.
Chapter 1067, Statutes of 2002
AB 2781* (Oropeza-D) Education finance
Contains provisions necessary to implement the education portion of the 2002 Budget Act.
Chapter 1167, Statutes of 2002 - Item Veto
Similar legislation was AB 2999 (Assembly Budget Committee), which died on the Assembly Unfinished Business File.
AB 2785 (Oropeza-D) Education finance
Makes technical corrections to AB 3008 (Oropeza-D), Chapter 99, Statutes of 2002, which appropriated $503,433,000 to adult education programs.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2002
AB 2803 (Cogdill-R) School transportation
Makes legislative findings concerning the current home-to-school transportation funding formula and requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study to determine alternatives to the current formula.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2859 (Aroner-D) School finance
Partially forgives or redirects audit recoveries from the Berkeley Unified School District and the Emery Unified School District. Requires the preparation and implementation of corrective action plans for Berkeley and changes the penalties incurred.
Chapter 1069, Statutes of 2002
AB 2894 (Strom-Martin-D) Manchester Union Elementary School District
Exempts the Manchester Union Elementary School District in Mendocino County from the requirement to maintain a 1982-83 instructional time schedule.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3003 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance
Appropriates $429.2 million for the School Improvement Program in the 2003-04 fiscal year, $45.8 million for the Standardized Reporting and Testing Program in the 2003-04 fiscal year, and $406 million for equalization in budget year plus one. Requires that Proposition 98 Maintenance Factor be fully restored in the 2003-04 fiscal year.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File awaiting concurrence)
AB 3005* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education
Makes necessary changes to implement portions of the proposed 2002-03 budget related to education.
Chapter 1032, Statutes of 2002
Similar legislation was AB 2955 (Assembly Budget Committee), which died on the Assembly Third Reading File.
AB 3011 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education
Appropriates $1,046,893,000 General Fund to Proposition 98 programs in the budget year.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2002
ACA 20 (Leach-R) School finance: equalization adjustment
Proposes a Constitutional Amendment to provide funding for the Fairness in Education Funding Act, which provides for revenue limit equalization adjustments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School Facilities
SB 21 (Escutia-D) Lead-safe schools
Authorizes a school district to use its modernization apportionment of state school bond proceeds for funding the identification, assessment, control, management, or statement of lead hazards.
Chapter 1075, Statutes of 2002
SB 115 (Haynes-R) School facilities
Requires the Director of the State Department of Finance to estimate what unencumbered General Fund monies will be available for the support of K-14 schools and colleges that will not be needed to meet the minimum funding guarantee established by Proposition 98, and transfer this amount to the Public School Construction Fund that is created by the bill.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 284 (Polanco-D) School facilities
Requires the California Energy Commission to recommend best design practices that include energy efficiency measures for all new public schools.
Chapter 498, Statutes of 2002
SB 440 (Monteith-R) School facilities funding: ranking mechanism
Requires that the priority point ranking mechanism that the State Allocation Board utilizes to fund new school construction projects be applied in such a manner as to ensure that every major geographic area of the State actually receives a fair and equitable share, on a per capita basis, of the funds for school facilities, prior to the exhaustion of the state funds under the School Facilities Program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 491 (Vincent-D) School facility funding: school building capacity
Requires that, in making new construction eligibility determinations, a school district's ongoing school building capacity be rescued by the capacity that is projected to be lost due to anticipated destruction of, removal of, or eviction from, existing school buildings that the school district is unable to prevent. Requires that, for purposes of the priority-point ranking mechanism, pupils currently housed in the buildings that are projected to be lost be considered projected unhoused pupils as of the date of anticipated removal of, destruction of, or eviction from, the buildings.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 572* (O'Connell-D) School construction funding
Authorizes school districts, whose application for hardship assistance was approved by the State Allocation Board on or after July 1, 2002, to use hardship funds to reimburse the costs of loan origination fees incurred for bridge financing obtained to begin new construction or modernization projects while awaiting state bond funding.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 634 (Murray-D) Lead poisoning prevention
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to develop a community-based lead hazard preliminary assessment training program in coordination with all local health departments. Requires counties to provide, at least annually, training workshops to train parents and community volunteers to conduct preliminary assessments. Requires DHS to develop a specified training and certification program for clearance technicians who would be certified to conduct preliminary assessments and clearance examinations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 709 (Alpert-D) School facilities
Changes requirements related to commercial buildings being used for a school building.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1043 (Soto-D) School facility funding
Authorizes partial apportionments of state school construction funding. Authorizes school districts that meet "hardship" criteria to combine partial apportionments of state school construction funding.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1091 (Alarcon-D) School facilities: multitrack year-round schools
Appropriates $100 million from the General Fund for the purpose of fully funding the Multitrack Year-round Grant Program and makes other related changes in the program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1229* (Johnson-R) School facilities funding: local match
Allows a school district to apply the appraised value of donated military base reuse property toward meeting the local matching share requirement for a new school construction project funded pursuant to the State School Facilities program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1546 (Haynes-R) School facilities funding: pay-as-you-go
Establishes the State School Facilities Capital Improvement Fund in the State Treasury and continuously appropriates that fund to provide "pay-as-you-go" funding for construction, modernization and maintenance of school facilities.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1550* (Battin-R) Thermal Powerplant sites and related facilities: schools
Requires the State Department of Education, under the direction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and in consultation with the Division of the State Architect, the commission, and the School Facilities Planning Division of the department, to conduct an evaluation of appropriate siting guidelines for thermal powerplants of an unspecified size near an existing or proposed public school that maintains a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1624 (Romero-D) Educational facilities
Authorizes the California Educational Facilities Authority to finance the cost of constructing faculty housing and establishes a grant program for expanded outreach efforts in schools with low rates of college participation.
Chapter 1081, Statutes of 2002
SB 1673 (McPherson-R) School facilities funding: replacement buildings
Deletes the requirement that in order to qualify for a supplemental school facilities grant, a school at which the building demolition (single story building and replacement multistory building) is to occur is operating on a multitrack year-round education schedule.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1904 (Vasconcellos-D) School facilities construction and modernization
Authorizes a school district to use an alternative process for selecting a firm to execute a "design-build" contract, based upon the contractor's qualifications, experience and expertise.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1915 (Alarcon-D) Deferred maintenance
Revises the statutory formula for calculation of school district deferred maintenance apportionments and required local matching funds.
Chapter 1084, Statutes of 2002
AB 14 (Goldberg-D) School facilities
Implements the Charter Schools Facilities Program and makes various technical and substantive changes to the State School Facilities Program and the recently-authorized Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Acts of 2002 and 2004.
Chapter 935, Statutes of 2002
AB 16* (Hertzberg-D) Education facilities
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Acts of 2002 and 2004, and specifies procedures for the expenditure of the funds. Allows for two statewide general obligation bond elections, one in 2002 and one in 2004, in the total amounts of $13.05 billion and $12.7 billion, respectively.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2002
AB 200 (Runner-R) School facilities
Appropriates $1 billion from the General Fund to the Office of Public School Construction for allocation to school districts for purposes of new school construction projects. Specifies legislative intent that the apprpriation provided in this measure not count toward the minimum funding level required by Proposition 98.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 320 (Reyes-D) Portable classrooms
Requires the Office of the State Architect to conduct a study to evaluate the safety of the various means currently available for providing emergency exits from portable classrooms. The results of the study, along with recommendations, shall be reported to the Legislature by July 1, 2003.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2002
AB 542 (Runner-R) Pupil capacity: multitrack year-round program
Reduces school district eligibility for funding under the Multitrack Year-Round Education Grant Program by changing the formulas that determine funding eligibility.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 693 (Longville-D) School facilities improvement districts: elections
Provides that no school bond election shall be held within 45 days before or 45 days after a statewide election unless the school bond election is consolidated with the statewide election or another established election date.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2002
AB 768 (Shelley-D) School property: modification of structures
Requires a school district to report any modification of any existing structure on school property, if the modification of that structure changes the purpose for which the structure will be used, to both the State Board of Education and the State Department of General Services.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1255 (Cardenas-D) School construction funding: smaller schools
Increases school construction grants for small schools by requiring the State Allocation Board to increase the per pupil amount established in current law by 25 percent, for any project in which the total number of pupils to be housed within the school when constructed will not exceed 400.
(Died In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1430 (Cardenas-D) School facilities
States legislative intent to examine the issue of providing state general obligation bond funds to school districts for the purpose of paying the site acquisition and site development costs of sites that the school districts already own.
(Died in Conference)
AB 1506 (Wesson-D) Public works
Requires an awarding body choosing to use funds for a public works project, from either the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2002, or the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2004, to initiate and enforce, or contract with a third party to initiate and enforce, a labor compliance program.
Chapter 868, Statutes of 2002
AB 1511 (Frommer-D) Public school facilities
Allows school districts to purchase commercial buildings for use as school buildings, as long as the buildings are in substantial compliance with the Field Act, and makes other related changes in current law.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1580 (Cardenas-D) School facilities: allocation of funds
States legislative intent to examine the processes currently used to apportion and release state general obligation bond funds to school districts for facilities.
(Died in Conference)
AB 1623 (Nakano-D) School facilities
Authorizes prescribed regional occupational center joint powers agencies to be school districts for modernization funding purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2153 (Firebaugh-D) School facilities
Exempts employees with contracts for school facility construction or modernization from paying their employees prevailing wages.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2319 (Cogdill-R) School facilities construction and modernization
Exempts employers with contracts for school facility construction or modernization from paying their employees prevailing wages.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2424 (Goldberg-D) Local school construction authority
Authorizes a school district, as defined, to form a districtwide local school construction authority to perform the school construction duties of the school district, as prescribed, and requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations for expedited release of funds for approved projects administered by a local school construction authority.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2466 (Firebaugh-D) Deferred maintenance
Authorizes any school district to apply savings from school facilities projects to the district's required maintenance funding and requires that local governing boards annually discuss the condition of the fund at a public hearing. Revises the statutory formula for calculation of school district deferred maintenance apportions and required local matching funds.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2588 (Hertzberg-D) School facilities: collaborative community planning
Expresses legislative intent and establishes the School Facilities Collaborative Implementation Advisory Commission with duties related to joint use school construction projects, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
Bilingual Education
SB 1547 (Soto-D) Teacher credentialing
Makes a number of additions to existing requirements for teacher preparation programs as it relates to the teaching of English language learners.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1595 (Escutia-D) Pupils: English learners
Expands the list of topics to which parents have a right to be informed and entitles parents/guardians of English language learners to participate in their children's education by being informed of specified information related to English language development testing, placement, and reclassification.
Chapter 1037, Statutes of 2002
SB 1665 (Polanco-D) Pupils: English learners
Makes various changes to state law related to the provision of appropriate standards-aligned English language development curriculum and instructional materials for English learner pupils.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2083* (Polanco-D) English language learners
Establishes the English Learner and Immigrant Pupil Federal Conformity Act, which is meant to ensure that instructional services are provided to pupils with limited English proficiency in conformity with federal requirements, as specified in Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Chapter 1014, Statutes of 2002
AB 741 (Firebaugh-D) English language instruction
Makes various changes to the Public Schools Accountability Act in references to English learner issues. Requires the reclassification criteria for English learners include the mastery of academic content, as measured by the California Standards Tests that are appropriate for the pupil's age or grade.
Vetoed by the Governor
Charter Schools
SB 1397 (Costa-D) Charter schools: funding
Allows an elementary school district that converted all of its schools to charter schools in 2002-01 to receive revenue limit funding based on the greater of current or prior year attendance in that year. Only applies to the Island Union Elementary School District that lost a "declining enrollment adjustment" in 2000-01 because the district had converted to charter status in October 2000.
Chapter 932, Statutes of 2002
SB 1416 (Polanco-D) Charter schools: community day schools
Extends, from June 30, 2003 to May 30, 2008, the authorization for the Los Angeles County Board of Education to operate a charter school serving "at risk" pupils. Requires a county board of education that approves a charter school to establish accountability criteria that are in compliance with an alternative accountability system developed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2002
SB 1708 (Poochigian-R) Charter schools: special education funding
Provides that a charter school may report average daily attendance to accommodate special education pupils who require extended year services as part of an individualized education plan.
Chapter 117, Statutes of 2002
SB 1709 (Poochigian-R) Charter schools: audits
Requires a charter school to send copies of its annual audit to the State Controller and the county superintendent of schools of the county in which the charter school is located.
Chapter 209, Statutes of 2002
SB 2039* (O'Connell-D) Charter schools
Expands eligibility for participation in the Charter School Facility Grant Program. Provides that, regardless of location, charter schoolsites at which 70 percent of the pupil enrollment is eligible for free or reduced price meals are eligible for funding pursuant to the Charter School Facility Grant Program.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2002
AB 168* (Nation-D) Charter schools: funding
Extends, until July 1, 2004, the State Controller's authority to transfer from the General Fund to Section A of the State School Fund during the fiscal year additional amounts necessary to meet computed apportionments of general purpose funding for charter schools.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2002
AB 1100* (Simitian-D) Education finance
Revises provisions relative to funding for charter schools and basic aid school districts by changing SB 955 (Alpert-D), Chapter 586, Statutes of 2001, which limits, to the lesser of the charter school's revenue limit or the basic aid district's property tax per pupil, the amount of property tax transferred in support of pupils who reside in a basic aid district, but attend a charter school in a non-basic aid district. The changes clean up the bill, and impose a three-year (30-50-70 percent) phase-in of SB 955 to ultimately implement a 70 percent in-lieu property tax transfer (marginal cost formula) for basic aid districts.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 1852 (Runner-R) Charter schools: joint powers agreements
Authorizes a charter school to be considered a public agency, as defined by that act, for the purpose of being eligible for membership in a joint powers agreement.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1930 (Wyland-R) Charter schools
Authorizes a granting authority to grant up to a 15-year charter renewal to a school under specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1966 (Matthews-D) Charter schools: establishment
Requires a charter school that is granted a charter from a county board of education or from a school district may only operate within the geographical boundaries of that county or the county within which that school district is located, or within the geographical boundaries of a county that is immediately adjacent to that county or the county within which the school district is located, respectively.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1994 (Reyes-D) Charter schools: operation
Provides both technical and substantive changes in the charter school law.
Chapter 1058, Statutes of 2002
AB 2503 (Diaz-D) Charter schools: establishment
Requires petitions to establish charter schools be initially submitted to the governing board of the school district in which the charter school intends to operate.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2628 (Leach-R) Charter schools: oversight authority
Allows a county superintendent of schools to investigate a charter school located within that county whose charter was approved by a local education agency (or the state board) outside of the county. Requires charter schools to notify the local county superintendent of their location.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2781* (Oropeza-D) Education finance
Contains provisions necessary to implement the education portion of the 2002 Budget Act.
Chapter 1167, Statutes of 2002
Similar legislation was AB 2999 (Assembly Budget Committee), which died on the Assembly Third Reading File.
AB 2912 (Florez-D) Charter schools: funding
Allows school districts that have converted all of their schools to charter schools to continue to base their annual revenue limit funding on the greater of current or prior year average daily attendance.
Chapter 930, Statutes of 2002
ACR 183 (Zettel-R) Charter Schools Week
Asks the Legislature to declare that the week of April 29 through May 3, 2002, be designated as Charter Schools Week.
Resolution Chapter 74, Statutes of 2002
Class Size Reduction
SB 29 (Machado-D) Class size reduction
Permits the expansion of the existing high school class size reduction program to additional specified courses in grades nine through 12, and will, for the 2002-03 fiscal year, authorize the use of grant funds for facilities purposes related to program implementation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 692 (Escutia-D) Class size reduction
Allows school districts to qualify for Class Size Reduction (CSR) funding, if each class in the CSR program maintains an annual participating school site average of not more than 20 pupils per class and if the maximum number of pupils in a class participating in CSR does not exceed 22.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 231 (Nakano-D) Class size reduction
Authorizes the Torrance Unified School District and the Poway Unified School District to implement an alternative class size reduction program in kindergarten and grades one through five, inclusive, to 23 pupils, utilizing the state funding that the districts would otherwise receive under the K-3 Class Size Reduction program.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 526 (Briggs-R) Class size reduction
Authorizes school districts maintaining a district wide average of 20 pupils in all district classes participating in the Class Size Reduction Program to qualify for funding.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1498 (Rod Pacheco-R) Junior high school class size reduction
Expands the Class Size Reduction Program to 7th grade mathematics and language arts courses.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School Safety
SB 1440 (Oller-R) Pupils: discipline
Provides that a pupil may not be suspended or expelled from school for possession of "a dangerous object" unless the principal or superintendent of the school determines that the pupil had the intent to use the object in a manner harmful to others.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1667 (Vasconcellos-D) School violence
Establishes the Double Your CASH Program to guide the development of school safety plans that assure a safe physical school environment, assure that every school is a safe accepting nurturing emotional environment and provide every pupil with resiliency skills.
Chapter 506, Statutes of 2002
AB 355 (Havice-D) Peace officers: training
Allows school districts to use School Community Policing Partnership Grant Program funding for the school resource officer positions established after January 1, 2003.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2002
AB 725 (Vargas-D) School violence
Enacts the "Statewide School Violence Prevention Hotline Act", which requires the State Department of Justice, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish, operate, and maintain a statewide 24/7 toll-free school safety hotline for the purpose of receiving reports of violence and threats of violence, or feared acts of aggression that affect the safety and well-being of any school's population.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 2046 (Corbett-D) School Safety Advisory Council
Creates the California School Safety Advisory Council within the State Department of Education; and specifies that the purpose of the council is to consider and make recommendations on methodology, legislation, and resources needed to ensure preparedness for emergency management and school safety, including natural disasters, terrorism, and school violence.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2198 (Lowenthal-D) Schools: violent crime
Authorizes a school principal or the principals designee to notify, in writing, each pupil's parent or guardian and each school employee of a violent crime occurring at that schoolsite.
Chapter 735, Statutes of 2002
AB 2201 (Corbett-D) School safety: emergency manager
Requires every school district to appoint an emergency manager. Specifies the duties of the emergency manager shall include (1) establishing emergency response plans, as specified, for all schoolsites in the district; (2) training school district employees to implement emergency response plans; (3) ensuring each schoolsite in the district is equipped with supplies necessary for responding to an emergency; and (4) helping each school in the district conduct emergency preparation exercises and drills.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2484 (Jackson-D) School violence prevention
Adds the provision of curricula and materials designed to equip pupils to prevent school violence by recognizing and reporting threats of school violence to the list of acceptable uses of school safety block grant funding.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2002
AB 2593 (Rod Pacheco-R) School safety plans
Revises the law concerning unauthorized persons on school campuses to impose the current misdemeanor on persons who, after having been directed to leave a campus or facility, return without following the posted requirements to contact the administrative offices of the campus, as specified.
Chapter 343, Statutes of 2002
AB 2708 (Mountjoy-R) School safety plan
Requires that schools that begin offering classes to pupils after March 1, 2001, must adopt a comprehensive school safety plan within one year.
Chapter 91, Statutes of 2002
Child and Day Care
SB 390 (Escutia-D) Child care and development: state master plan
Requires the State Department of Education to establish a commission of stakeholders to develop a child care and development master plan. Specifies that the plan is to address the long-term policy issues and challenges of providing high-quality child care and development services to all children in California.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 541 (Scott-D) Child care: family support
Enacts the Child Care Family Support and Accountability Act to provide a comprehensive system of child care and development services through full- and part-time programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 543 (Scott-D) Child care: family support
Specifies the duties of alternative payment providers and requires a study of misuse or fraudulent use of child care subsidies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 572* (O'Connell-D) School construction funding
Authorizes school districts, whose application for hardship assistance was approved by the State Allocation Board, on or after July 1, 2002, to use hardship funds to reimburse the costs of loan origination fees incurred from bridge financing obtained to begin new construction or modernization projects while awaiting state bond funding.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 646 (Ortiz-D) Child care employee registry: pilot program
Authorizes the State Department of Social Services to operate a substitute child care employee registry pilot program in order to permit employee registries to make child care staff who have a criminal background and child abuse index clearance available to child care providers.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2002
SB 1335* (Dunn-D) Child day care facilities: criminal record information
Requires the State Department of Social Services to disclose to parents or guardians, upon request, certain criminal conviction information about persons who have been granted an exemption to work in a licensed child day care facility.
(Died on Senate Third Reading)
SB 1499 (Johnson-R) Child care: court records
Deletes a requirement that the State Department of Social Services forward a copy of a specified court record to the appropriate county child protective services agency. The requirement pertains to a court record that shows a judicial officer has determined a child may have been injured while in the care of a licensed day care provider.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2002
SB 1596 (Scott-D) Child care: family support
Codifies, clarifies and defines current practice related to the responsibilities and requirements of alternative payment programs, which facilitate state child care and development services. Proposes new fraud prevention measures and ensures the continuation of family support services provided by alternative payment programs.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 1724* (Speier-D) Income tax credit: child care
Exempts the Child and Dependent Care Credit to conform to recently-enacted federal changes.
Chapter 824, Statutes of 2002
AB 396 (Papan-D) Child care services
Requires the State Department of Education to report on the effect of using regional median income in the definition of "income eligible", rather than state median income, for determining eligibility standards for state subsidized child care. Provides that a parent fee schedule in effect on December 31, 1997 continues to be applicable until a new schedule is adopted.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 444* (Assembly Budget Committee) Human services
Makes changes in the law relative to (1) child support, (2) community services and development, (3) alcohol and drug programs, (4) statewide health planning and development, (5) employment development, (6) health and human services data center, (7) social services, and (8) rehabilitation. Includes various elements that implement the human service provisions of the 2002-03 State Budget.
Chapter 1022, Statutes of 2002
AB 1257* (Cardenas-D) Taxes: child care facilities
Establishes two separate tax credits for expenditures and interest on loans used in the construction or expansion of licensed child care facilities in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1358 (Pescetti-R) Child care facilities
Requires licensing inspections of child care facilities to take place when the facility is in operation.
Chapter 122, Statutes of 2002
AB 1545 (Florez-D) Child care facilities: criminal record information
Requires disclosure of criminal background information on any individual working in a child care facility to parents of children in child care.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 2255 (Wright-D) Day care centers: activity space
Requires the State Department of Social Services to conduct a pilot project in the City of Los Angeles, if the city is willing to lower the required outdoor activity space in licensed child care centers, and to analyze regulatory barriers to licensure of child care programs.
(Failed passage in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)
AB 2311 (Chu-D) Child care and development services
Makes technical, clarifying, and conforming changes to the laws governing child care and development programs administered by the State Department of Education.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2002
AB 2453 (Steinberg-D) Child care and development services
Makes available specified unencumbered funds for allocation through the budget process for quality improvement activities to preschool education projects operated by specified public television stations.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2470 (Jackson-D) Minors: out-of-court statements
Allows certain out-of-court statements by minors under 12 years of age to be admissible in administrative licensing hearings for child care providers.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2002
AB 2555 (Leach-R) Child care and development services: local contracts
Authorizes the State Department of Education to immediately suspend or terminate (on 90-day notice) a contract for child care and development services, if an agency has placed a person convicted of burglary, forgery, counterfeiting, larceny, embezzlement, or extortion in a position of fiscal responsibility or control.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2002
AB 2785 (Oropeza-D) Education finance
Makes corrections to AB 3008 (Oropeza-D), Chapter 99, Statutes of 2002, which appropriated $503,433,000 to adult education programs. Reappropriates $290,433,000 from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account, $42,000,000 from the balance of the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund, and $171,033,000 from a variety of other education programs funded in the 1999, 2000, and 2001 Budget Acts.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2002
AB 2874 (Florez-D) Childcare licensing
Provides that any license-exempt family day care home providing care for children shall be restricted to six children at any one time who are receiving state or federal subsidies, except that this restriction shall not limit the number of children for whom the family day care home may provide care for whom no state or federal subsidy is received.
Vetoed by the Governor
Special Education
SB 2012 (Margett-R) Special education: interagency agreements
Conforms California special education statutes to federal laws and regulations relating to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in the area of interagency agreements.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2002
AB 164 (Harman-R) Special education: alternative dispute resolution
Authorizes grants, subject to the availability of federal funds, to be allocated and administered by the State Department of Education to support special education local plan areas in conducting alternative dispute resolution programs for resolving special education disputes.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 323 (Pavley-D) Special education: juvenile courts
Requires the State Department of Education, in conjunction with the State Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst, to conduct a sample study to examine and assess the special education needs of pupils who are enrolled in juvenile court schools operated by county offices of education.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 1859 (Papan-D) Special education: pupil suspension and expulsion
Conforms state law concerning special education to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2002
AB 1895 (Wright-D) Education: special education
Allows an employee or contractor of a school district, county office of education, or Special Education Local Plan Area, to assist a parent or guardian of a pupil with exceptional needs to obtain services or accommodations for that pupil without interference from the employee's or contractor's employer.
Chapter 944, Statutes of 2002
AB 1907 (Dickerson-R) Special education: funding
Requires the State to "pass through" to school districts any increase in federal special education funding received by the State, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2444 (Dutra-D) State special schools and diagnostic centers: salaries
Requires the State Department of Personnel Administration to consider making salaries for teachers, specialists, and administrators of the state special schools and diagnostic centers competitive with the salaries of similarly qualified personnel who are employed by nearby school districts.
Chapter 1043, Statutes of 2002
AB 2507 (Rod Pacheco-R) State special schools
Requires the state special schools for blind and deaf pupils to put in place certain assessment and accountability measures for employees and students.
Vetoed by Governor
AB 2520 (Bates-R) Special education
Allows the Orange County Office of Education to pilot test a program to provide services to pupils in licensed children's institutions or foster care homes rather than place these pupils in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2781* (Oropeza-D) Education finance
Contains provisions necessary to implement the education portion of the 2002 Budget Act.
Chapter 1167, Statutes of 2002
School Accountability and Testing
SB 84* (O'Connell-D) Pupil testing
Converts the March 2001 administration of the high school exit exam from a test that ninth grade pupils may pass to a practice test, and eliminates ninth grade pupils from all future administrations of the exam, thereby requiring that all pupils take the high school exit exam in the tenth grade. Eliminates various statutory deadlines for the reporting of STAR test scores in order to accommodate non-traditional school calendars. Requires the State Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish a process for annual public release of a sample of scored test items from the high school exit test.
(Died in Conference)
SB 204 (Vasconcellos-D) Pupil Achievement Software Incentive Program
Establishes the Pupil Achievement Software Incentive Program to encourage school principals and teachers to acquire and use computer software that monitors the test performance of pupils over time and provides information that allows local educators to devise instructional strategy tailored to the needs of the pupils.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 508* (Vasconcellos-D) Education: pupils
Makes non-controversial, technical changes to the High Priority School Grant Program for Low Performing Schools, to be administered by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for schools who participate in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, with first priority being given to schools ranked in decile one of the Academic Performance Index.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2002
SB 1310 (Alpert-D) School accountability: sanctions
Makes several substantive changes to the Public School Accountability Act related to the implementation of sanctions against schools that fail to meet their growth targets and do not achieve significant growth after participating in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program.
Chapter 1035, Statutes of 2002
SB 1408 (Vasconcellos-D) Education: high school exit examination
Requires school districts to annually compile information on the number of students who failed any part of the high school exit exam and on criteria related to adequate and appropriate educational opportunities.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1453* (Alpert-D) Pupil records
Creates the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System and requires, subject to the availability of federal funds, the State Department of Education to contract for the development of proposals which will provide for the retention and analysis of longitudinal pupil achievement data on the STAR, high school exit examination, and English language development assessments.
Chapter 1002, Statutes of 2002
SB 1476 (O'Connell-D) High school exit examination
Provides for local school board waiver of the exit exam requirement for high school graduation for pupils whose disability prevents them taking either part of the exam without modification.
Chapter 808, Statutes of 2002
SB 1597 (Karnette-D) School accountability: physical performance testing
Adds the physical education performance assessment to (1) the list of tests to include in the calculation of the Academic Performance Index, and (2) for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to consider when selecting a "distinguished school" under the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program under the Public Schools Accountability Act.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1813 (Alarcon-D) Pupil achievement
Requires, for purposes of ranking schools on the Academic Performance Index, that schools that operate on specified calendars be compared to other schools that operate on the same calendar, to allow for a more meaningful comparison of pupil achievement.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1995 (Alarcon-D) School District Organizational Leadership and Development
Establishes the School District Organizational Leadership and Development Training program, jointly administered by the State Superintendent of Public Education and the Secretary for Education in partnership with others, as specified, to assist school districts in acquiring the leadership and organizational skills for improving pupil performance.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1285* (Reyes-D) Supplemental Instruction: Fresno Unified School District
Allows Cooper Middle School in the Fresno Unified School District to offer to pupils, whose performance on the English language arts and mathematics parts of the California Standardized Tests is at or below or far below basic levels, an extra 60 minutes of supplemental instruction during the actual school day, as opposed to before or after school or on weekends.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2002
AB 1525 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance
Appropriates $429,191,000 in 2003-04 to the School Improvement Program and $45,809,000 in 2003-04 for the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program and makes other changes to education finance.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File awaiting concurrence)
AB 1794 (Chavez-D) High school exit examination
Allows a school district to include in its adult education program, courses of supplemental instruction in preparation for the high school exit examination (HSEE) for persons who complete grade 11 and have not passed the HSEE.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 1920 (Hollingsworth-R) High school exit examination
Requires the high school exit exam to include history/social science and specified historical content, in addition to language arts and mathematics.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2217 (Strom-Martin-D) Education: Quality Education Model
Creates a commission to develop a Quality Education Model, to identify the educational components, educational resources and corresponding costs, that are necessary to provide the opportunity for a quality education to every pupil in California.
Chapter 1026, Statutes of 2002
AB 2531 (Steinberg-D) School accountability: pupil performance
Establishes the High School Pupil Success Act, administered by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of Education in consultation with a specified partnership, to provide grants and consultation to school districts with high schools, to develop a reform and redesign plan for their high school systems to raise pupil achievement.
Chapter 1028, Statutes of 2002
AB 2558 (Leach-R) Education: School Report Card
Requires the State Department of Education to develop and implement a system for collecting and reporting performance indicators form each public school.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2600* (Pavley-D) High school exit examination: alternate assessment
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, guidelines for assessments that could serve as alternatives to the high school exit examination for those individuals with disabilities who cannot participate in the high school exit examination regardless of accommodation or modification.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2607 (Leach-R) Exceptionally gifted pupils
Permits an exceptionally gifted pupil to take a State Department of Education administered exam to verify proficiency in basic skills and establishes these students eligibility to receive a California high school equivalency certificate.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2675 (Wyland-R) State Department of Education: pupil reading scores
Requires the State Department of Education (DOE) to make the results of the reading portion and mathematics of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program achievement test available on the DOE web site. Requires the web site to indicate the average percentile score in reading and mathematics for each grade level in each school for which scores are reported for the achievement test and prescribes the format and content for reporting that information.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2676 (Wyland-R) Pupil testing
Requires the governing board of a school district to discuss Standardized Testing and Reporting test scores, the English language development test and local assessments at the public meeting where the governing board discusses the school district's Academic Performance Index ranking, as required by law.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3003 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance
Appropriates $429.2 million for the School Improvement Program in the 2003-04 fiscal year, $45.8 million for the Standardized Reporting and Testing Program in the 2003-04 fiscal year, and $406 million for equalization in budget year plus one. Requires that Proposition 98 Maintenance Factor be fully restored in the 2003-04 fiscal year.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading File awaiting concurrence)
Higher Education
SB 18 (Alarcon-D) Transportation
Requests the University of California, in consultation with other specified entities, to conduct a study of the membership and governance of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and requires a report on their findings to the Legislature. Declares that transit districts should adopt a California Transit Riders' Bill of Rights.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2002
SB 216 (McPherson-R) Calif. Postsecondary Education Commission: strategic plan
Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to prepare a strategic action plan for foreign language development, teaching, and learning.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 276 (Speier-D) Public postsecondary education: residence determination
Entitles the first 20 undergraduate students, who are members of the U.S. Armed Forces and were accepted for admission to the California State University and the University of California, while on active duty in a foreign country, to resident classification for the purpose of determining the amount of mandatory systemwide fees for the first academic year of their enrollment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 277 (Chesbro-D) Public employee health care benefits: rural areas
Includes California State University employees in the rural health care equity program.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)
SB 631 (Polanco-D) Postsecondary education: reciprocal program
Expresses legislative intent that the California Postsecondary Education Commission develop and submit to the Legislature a proposal to establish a reciprocal program for 1,000 California residents to attend postsecondary institutions in Mexico and 1,000 Mexican residents to attend postsecondary institutions in California, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 737* (Alarcon-D) Community colleges
Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to develop recommendations for a new enrollment growth funding formula based on the statewide increase in full-time equivalent students.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 902 (Karnette-D) Precinct board members: public postsecondary education
Requires community college and California State University campuses to post notices in specified locations promoting the service of precinct board members.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1070 (Ortiz-D) Student Aid Commission
Establishes an information dissemination and outreach program about college academic and financial planning for students and their families to be administered by the Student Aid Commission (SAC); requires the SAC to fund community financial aid forums, as specified; and establishes the College Opportunity Corps Program to be administered by the SAC to provide stipends to up to 3,000 college students, as specified. Appropriates $5 million from the General Fund to the SAC for the above three programs, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1162 (Polanco-D) Biotechnology
Requests the Regents of the University of California, as a component of the current assessment of the University of California medical education program, to consider the expansion of the joint Charles R. Drew/UCLA Undergraduate Medical Education Program.
Chapter 1140, Statutes of 2002
SB 1175 (Soto-D) Higher education labor relations
Amends the Higher Education Employee Relations Act, which governs employment practices at the University of California and the California State University. Specifically authorizes the State Public Employment Relations Board to require either an employer or an employee organization that has committed repeated unfair practices, as specified, to pay part or all of the opposing party's litigation expenses.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1214 (Romero-D) California State University: auxiliary organizations
Requires that any auxiliary organization of the California State University that receives a majority of its funding from student fees shall have at least a majority of voting students on the governing board of that auxiliary organization.
Chapter 252, Statutes of 2002
SB 1266 (Battin-R) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
Exempts contributions made to the State Teachers' Retirement System from being included when calculating an applicant's income and asset levels for purposes of determining eligibility for a Cal Grant award.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1273* (Haynes-R) Income and bank and corporation taxes: credit
Creates a tax credit for donations to a non-profit educational assistance organization that provides scholarships for students to attend private elementary or secondary schools.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1299 (Haynes-R) Exemption from nonresident tuition
Exempts, from non-resident student fees, former members of the United States Armed Forces who are not California residents and their children, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1339 (Vasconcellos-D) Postsecondary education: admissions
Requests the Office of the President of the University of California (UC) to assist high schools in maintaining accurate UC-approved course lists, as specified. Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to advise high schools of the importance of making available the current course lists.
Chapter 320, Statutes of 2002
SB 1382 (Karnette-D) Community colleges: board of governors report
Requests the California Community College Board of Governors to review and report to the Legislature, as specified, on its policies regarding the percent of instruction to be taught by full-time faculty.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1398 (Murray-D) Institute for the Preservation of Jazz
Makes changes to the California State University Institute for the Preservation of Jazz. Deletes the January 1, 2003 sunset date for the institute.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1412 (Romero-D) Voter registration: university and college campuses
Enacts the Student Voter Registration Act of 2002, which requests the Regents of the University of California, and requires the Trustees of the California State University and the board of governors of each community college district, to distribute voter registration forms, as well as information on how to obtain those forms to students and requires those officials to make voter registration forms available at central campus locations.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1419 (Alarcon-D) Personal services contracting
Establishes standards for the use of personal service contracts in California school districts and community college districts.
Chapter 894, Statutes of 2002
SB 1450 (Romero-D) California State University: instructional funding
Requires expenditures for California State University (CSU) administrative costs be capped at the level expended in fiscal year 2001-02 and reduced annually, by five percent, for the next three fiscal years. Specifies that, thereafter, the annual growth in administrative costs, at CSU overall and at each campus, cannot exceed the percentage growth in CSU's budget.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1565 (Polanco-D) First Responder Training for Terrorism Preparedness
Establishes a Terrorism First Responder Preparedness Training program to be established through the California Community Colleges (CCC). Provides that, upon availability of sufficient non-state funds, the Board of Governors of the CCC shall consult with the Office of Emergency Services regarding the state's basic standardized terrorism awareness curriculum for the purposes of providing a model to be used by CCCs for training of first responder personnel.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1566 (Polanco-D) EdNet Program
Reauthorizes the California Community Colleges Economic Development Program (also known as the EdNet program) as the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program and extends the program's sunset date to January 1, 2008.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2002
SB 1771 (Alarcon-D) Curriculum and research on diversity: institute
Requests the Regents of the University of California to report to the Legislature, by March 1, 2003, identifying those resources and efforts that currently exist for the development and coordination of curriculum and research on diversity.
Chapter 1083, Statutes of 2002
SB 1819 (Romero-D) Professional and graduate education
Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to collect data about the state's high school graduation and college enrollment growth. Requires the data to be disaggregated according to race, ethnicity, and gender. Requires the CPEC to collaborate with state demographers to present this data, and to report this information to the Legislature annually.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1820 (Romero-D) California Postsecondary Education Commission
Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, to collect graduation rate and persistence rate data based on, but not limited to, gender, ethnicity, age, and full-time or part-time student status and, when available, data based on income, for each campus and report this data to the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1825 (Ortiz-D) Student financial aid: California State Work-Study Program
Requires the State Work-Study Program to include up to 250 awards, each academic year, to college students who will work with the staffs of public high schools with larger populations of pupils from low-income families to educate seniors at those schools about the Cal Grant Program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 2008 (Speier-D) Nursing: Assumption Program of Loans for Nursing Education
Establishes, until January 1, 2010, an Assumption Program of Loans for Nursing Education, a student financial aid program, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission (SAC). The program assumes educational loans of up to $11,000 for students who become registered nurses and agree to work in specified capacities. Under the program, the SAC could enter into up to 250 agreements for the assumption of student loans.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2019 (Speier-D) Health care practitioners: student loans
Authorizes a licensing agency to cite, fine, and deny the license renewal of a health care practitioner, or reject the license application of a prospective practitioner, who is in default on any specified educational loan.
Chapter 683, Statutes of 2002
SB 2028 (Vasconcellos-D) Community colleges: equal employment opportunity hiring
Creates, commencing January 1, 2004, the Equal Employment Opportunity Fund within the State Treasury to be administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCCs), for the purpose of promoting equal employment opportunity in hiring and promotion within the CCCs.
Chapter 1169, Statutes of 2002
SB 2066 (Burton-D) Higher education labor relations
Requires the University of California, at any new facility, to show good cause before it utilizes a service contractor for work traditionally performed by represented university employees.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCR 49 (McPherson-R) Public postsecondary education: student fees
Expresses legislative intent that public higher education student fees at the California Community Colleges, the California State University and the University of California not be increased.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SCR 54 (Alpert-D) College Awareness Month
Proclaims February 2002 as College Awareness Month, and encourages students to earn a college education so they may contribute to the economic, social and political future of California.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SCR 93 (Alpert-D) Joint doctoral programs
Expresses legislative support for the Joint Education Doctorate Initiative of the California State University and the University of California. Encourages the Joint Ed.D. Board and the respective universities to take actions, including the submission of periodic joint reports to the Legislature, that will implement these joint doctoral programs.
Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2002
SCR 98 (Vasconcellos-D) Community college funding
Resolves that the California Community Colleges be provided with sufficient funding to enable community colleges to address equity, educational opportunity, and access issues.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 172 (Reyes-D) Scholarships
Provides up to 100 Cal Grants (A's and B's) to the surviving spouse or children of a member of the United States armed forces who was killed as a result of service during Operation Enduring Freedom, as specified. Sunset January 1, 2023.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 195 (Alquist-D) Student charges
Requires that all mandatory systemwide student fees be established at least six months prior to the term in which they will take effect. Makes a variety of findings, declarations and statements, as specified, regarding undergraduate student fees for public postsecondary education.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
Similar legislation was AB 1894 (Bogh-R), which died in Assembly Higher Education Committee.
AB 338 (Correa-D) Demonstration project: nursing shortage in Orange County
Creates a demonstration project for addressing the nursing shortage in Orange County as a public/private partnership. Appropriates $1.7 million to specified California Community Colleges and the California State University, Fullerton. Provides that none of the funds appropriated may be encumbered unless and until matching funds have been received.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 622 (Runner-R) California State University: offsite campus centers
Provides that specified instructions, upon application to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education for specified exemptions, be approved for the sole purpose of the eligibility for the institution to train veterans who may receive veterans' educational benefits at the institution.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 878 (Liu-D) Cal Grant Program
Requires the Student Aid Commission, which administers the Cal Grant program, to allow Cal Grant recipients to "defer" or "reserve" their award, as specified, for future use, and provides specified notice to recipients about payment options for maximizing use of their awards. Authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish and maintain an electronic database, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 907 (Goldberg-D) Community colleges: faculty
Requires community college districts to give qualified part-time faculty a preferred right of retention, and prorated salary and benefits, as received.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1000 (Simitian-D) Public works: design-build contracts
Authorizes specified community college governing boards to enter into design-build contracts for construction of school facilities costing in excess of $10 million.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2002
AB 1008 (Lowenthal-D) Housing assistance: property tax notices
Authorizes the University of California to request specified property tax information from the State Controller for purposes of study. Makes a number of statutory changes to realign existing code enforcement statutes with the requirements of the Housing Bond.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2002
AB 1159* (Robert Pacheco-R) Community colleges: funding
Restores $98 million in funding for basic maintenance and instructional equipment and library materials for community college campuses statewide.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1342 (Alquist-D) Postsecondary education: international education
Encourages public and private postsecondary education institutions in California to develop and promote international education courses and programs. Encourages the provision of specified programs and courses and accomplishments of specified activities.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2002
AB 1348 (Robert Pacheco-R) California State Polytechnic University
Finds and declares that the roads at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) are deteriorating, that they are unable to accommodate bus traffic, and that Cal Poly lacks the necessary funds for their reconstruction. Declares legislative intent to examine and determine funding sources for the repair and construction of private roadways at Cal Poly.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1381 (Florez-D) Postsecondary education: Governor's Scholarship Programs
Allows students to be eligible for a Governor's Scholars Award or Governor's Distinguished Mathematics and Science Scholars Award, if they have been enrolled at a California public school for at least 100 days of the school year in which the test is administered and at least 110 days of the school year immediately preceding the administration of the qualifying tests.
Chapter 1055, Statutes of 2002
AB 1543* (Firebaugh-D) Exemption from nonresident tuition
Limits the legal exposure for the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, if a state court finds unlawful existing provisions of law which exempt specified nonimmigrant alien students who, in part, have attended California high schools for three or more years, from paying nonresident tuition.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2002
AB 1710 (Negrete McLeod-D) Part-time community college employees: retirement plans
Authorizes part-time classified employees of community college districts to participate in the Cash Balance Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement System. Requires community college districts to offer social security coverage and an alternative retirement plan to part-time employees and imposes a minimum contribution rate for employers of four percent of salary and a total contribution rate of eight percent.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1722 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Community colleges
Recasts and reorganizes the statutes in the Education Code relating to community colleges. Authorizes apportionments to be made available for community college classes held inside state or federal prisons and for classes for prison inmates that are not open to the public. Makes numerous nonsubstantive technical and conforming changes in statutes relating to community colleges.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1746 (Liu-D) Postsecondary education: tuition and fees
Prohibits the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and the California Community Colleges (CCCs) from charging mandatory systemwide fees to the surviving dependent of any California resident killed in the September 11, 2001 attack, as specified. Expands, to include CCCs, a UC and CSU, fee waiver provided to surviving dependents of law enforcement and fire suppression killed in active duty.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2002
AB 1747 (Briggs-R) Postsecondary education: Tulare County
Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to conduct a study of the statewide need for new higher education facilities, including but not limited to the higher education needs of Tulare County. Appropriates $75,000 from the General Fund to the CPEC to conduct this study.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1756 (Bogh-R) Higher education: noncitizen students: reporting
Requires California's higher education institutions, as well as other educational and exchange visitor programs, to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service when an admitted international student, as defined, fails to enroll or participate in classes within 30 days of registration for the current term.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1766 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Student financial aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards
Authorizes the Student Aid Commission to use any reasonable means to ensure that the total amount of Cal Grant A and B awards are granted each fiscal year.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1788 (Reyes-D) University of California: cardcheck agreements
Provides that the University of California, if it agrees to do so, shall require its service contractors to enter into cardcheck agreements with any labor organization that requests such for the purposes of seeking representation of the contractor's employees.
Chapter 1040, Statutes of 2002
AB 1841 (Hollingsworth-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification
Provides resident status, for the purpose of determining the amount of tuition and fees, to a member of the armed forces reserves, a veteran, as specified, or a member of their immediate families. (Current law provides this resident status only to a member of the United States armed forces stationed in this state on active duty.)
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1863 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) California State University: regulations
Extends the sunset date, from January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2008, for provisions that outline the procedure for the adoption of regulations by the California State University Board of Trustees. Requires the trustees to submit an annual report relative to all regulatory actions taken the previous year.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2002
AB 1965 (Bogh-R) Public postsecondary education: Medal of Honor recipients
Provides California State University and California Community College tuition and fee waivers to Congressional Medal of Honor recipients and their dependents, as specified.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2002
AB 1991 (Liu-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant A and B Awards
Permits a community college pupil who is selected for a Cal Grant A to receive the award for up to two years at a community college, and up to three years of full-time study eligibility at a baccalaureate degree granting institution.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1996 (Thomson-D) University of California: analysis of legislation
Requests the University of California (UC) to assess legislation proposing a mandated benefit of service, and to prepare a written analysis with relevant data on the public health, medical and economic impact of proposed health care service plan (health plan) and health insurance benefit mandate legislation. Requires, for fiscal years 2002-03 to 2005-06, health plans and insurers to be assessed an annual fee in an amount determined through regulation to fund the actual and necessary expenses of UC in implementing this bill, and caps the total annual assessment on health plans and insurers at $2 million. Sunsets January 1, 2007.
Chapter 795, Statutes of 2002
AB 2026 (Longville-D) California State University: Center for Chicano Studies
Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to establish a Center for Chicano Studies at California State University, San Bernardino, with nonpublic funds or with other funds that the California State University, San Bernardino is authorized to expend for, and make available for, this purpose.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2034 (Horton-D) Reporting of improper governmental activities
Authorizes the State Personnel Board to recover costs for specified hearings from local community college districts, instead of the Board of Governors of the Community Colleges.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2002
AB 2068 (Briggs-R) Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Expands the settings in which a credentialed special education teacher participating in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE) may teach to include specified pre-K programs. Under current law, all APLE participants, including credentialed special education teachers, are restricted to teaching in a K-12 setting.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2077 (Koretz-D) Nursing: education resources
Establishes the Community College Nursing Education Fund, to be administered by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCCs), to "provide an additional allocation per nursing student that is beyond the full-time equivalent (FTE) student allocation that is provided for non-nursing students" to community college districts that have a nursing program, as specified. Appropriates $125,000 from the General Fund to the CCC Board of Governors, to be distributed in 2002-03 to eligible district's based on their FTE nursing student enrollment.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2115 (Goldberg-D) Schools: athletic team names and mascots
Prohibits all public schools, community colleges, the California State University, and the University of California from using specified American Indian tribal names for schools, athletic team names, mascots or nicknames, as specified.
(Passage refused on Assembly Floor)
AB 2146 (Chu-D) Community colleges: intersession terms
Excludes intersession terms at the California Community Colleges from the computation of service requirements for the classification of a regular employee, if the exclusion is consistent with an applicable bargaining agreement.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2002
AB 2202 (Alquist-D) Gerontology: service delivery personnel: training
Requires the California State University to provide courses and training in gerontology for professional service delivery personnel providing services to the senior population, as specified.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2002
AB 2225 (Lowenthal-D) California State University: personal services contracting
Establishes standards for the use of personal services contracts within the California State University, excludes public projects and public works, as defined, from its provisions, and specifies application of the bill's provisions to personal services contracts between $25,000 and $300,000, inclusive.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2231 (Robert Pacheco-R) Community colleges: Board of Governors
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to determine whether a proposed regulation imposes a state mandated cost.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2243 (Chu-D) Accounting, budget controls and audits
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCCs) to make available, via the Internet, the Budget and Accounting Manual approved by the CCC Board of Governors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2314 (Thomson-D) Nursing education
Requires the California Community Colleges (CCC) and the California State University (CSU), by September 1, 2005, to standardize all nursing program prerequisites on a statewide basis for the CCCs and the CSUs and enter into articulation agreements among all the CCCs and all the CSUs that have nursing programs.
Chapter 1093, Statutes of 2002
AB 2398 (Robert Pacheco-R) Community colleges: surplus personal property
Allows California Community College districts to exchange, sell or donate surplus property with other public entities and raises the value ceiling to $5,000.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2002
AB 2429 (Robert Pacheco-R) Public education finance: community college funding
Creates an alternative funding formula, as specified, for the California Community Colleges (CCCs), beginning with the 2003-04 fiscal year. Requires, beginning in 2004-05, that funding for the CCCs shall be not less than the 2003-04 appropriation level, plus the percentage increase in school district average daily attendance.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2494* (Rod Pacheco-R) Student Aid Commission
Requires any funds appropriated to the Student Aid Commission (SAC) for the purposes of the Cal Grant Entitlement program, but unencumbered as of June 30 of each fiscal year, be reappropriated to the Competitive Cal Grant Program. Requires public and private high schools to electronically report to the SAC the grade-point average of each senior who is potentially eligible for a Cal Grant and for whom the school has a personal identifier acceptable to the SAC.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2497 (Negrete McLeod-D) California State University: employees
Authorizes a probationary employee of the California State University, who is rejected during the probationary period, to appeal to the State Personnel Board (SPB), as specified. Requires the SPB, when holding a requested hearing for any employee dismissed, suspended, or demoted, to follow the same procedures as in state civil service proceedings, including the discover procedure.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2527 (Diaz-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant C
Authorizes the Student Aid Commission to use any reasonable means to ensure that the total number of Cal Grant C student financial awards are granted each fiscal year.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2533 (Jackson-D) Postsecondary education: campus crime reporting
Directs the State Auditor to audit and evaluate the data gathering and reporting of a specified sample of the annual security reports prepared by California institutions of higher education. Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to provide a web link to each institution's criminal statistics information.
Chapter 804, Statutes of 2002
AB 2536 (Bill Campbell-R) University of California: Islet Cell Transplant Facility
Appropriates $10 million from the General Fund to the University of California for the purposes of establishing an Islet Cell Transplant Facility at the Irvine campus.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2549 (Nation-D) Public employees' retirement: part-time employees
Allows part-time faculty of the California State University who teach six teaching units for two consecutive semesters or three consecutive quarters to qualify for membership in the State Public Employees' Retirement System, if agreed to through collective bargaining on or after July 1, 2004.
Chapter 1045, Statutes of 2002
AB 2571 (Hollingsworth-R) Reporting of information concerning alien national students
Provides for additional reporting of non-resident alien students.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2583 (Chu-D) Postsecondary education: sexual assault
Establishes the California Campus Sexual Assault Task Force, to be administered by the Office of Criminal Justice Planning, to gather and review information regarding sexual assault issues on California higher education campuses and to report, as specified, to the Legislature by April 1, 2004.
Chapter 1066, Statutes of 2002
AB 2616 (Lowenthal-D) California State University: visually impaired pupils
Requires the Trustees of the California State University to assess the current status of the universities credential programs that prepare teachers to work with blind and visually impaired students. Requires the Trustees to report to the Legislature by April 1, 2003, concerning the status of these programs and other similar measurers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2808 (Washington-D) Community colleges: homeland defense security training
Provides for a pilot program at the California Community Colleges to provide training in domestic security.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2811* (Migden-D) Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program
Deletes the June 30, 2002, sunset date for the state-administered, but federally funded, Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program. Repeals the Child Development Teacher Loan Assumption Program.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2002
AB 2883 (Aroner-D) Higher education labor relations: impasse procedures
Requires the findings and recommendations related to a dispute between faculty and librarians of the University of California and the Hastings College of the Law must be made public, as specified.
Chapter 1046, Statutes of 2002
AB 2900 (Longville-D) Television broadcast facilities
Appropriates $5 million to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community colleges that maintain Corporation for Public Broadcasting qualified, noncommercial television broadcast facilities as of January 1, 2002. Specifies the funds are for building new facilities for updating existing facilities for the purpose of complying with Federal Communications Commission's requirement that all television broadcast facilities provide a digital signal.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2903 (Kehoe-D) Use of district property
Authorizes the use of school district or community college district resources for the distribution or posting of written materials prepared and paid for by an employee organization urging the support or defeat of any ballot measure or candidate. Specifies that distribution will be limited to members of the bargaining unit.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2920 (Aroner-D) California Center on Social Work Careers
Establishes the California Center on Social Work Careers (Center), which will recruit qualified individuals into the social work profession, and also establish the Social Work Careers Concurrence Committee to set priorities and goals for the Center, evaluate the Center, and assure the Center's compliance.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2960 (Florez-D) Student financial aid: Student Aid Commission
Requires future members of the California Student Aid Commission to be chosen as representative of the various geographical areas of the state.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2967 (Wright-D) Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
Makes various changes related to the oversight of private postsecondary educational and vocational institutions by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, including complaint reporting, the time of appealing a denial of a school's approval to operate, and the method for assessing and paying assessments to the Student Tuition Recovery Fund.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2002
AB 3008 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget implementation: education finance
Reappropriates $1,796,591,000 in Proposition 98 funding to the California State University in the current fiscal year, and appropriates $503.4 million from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account to Adult Education programs in the current fiscal year.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2002
AB 3043 (Alquist-D) Student Senate of the California Community Colleges
Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to request, as part of its annual budget process, local assistance funding for community college student participation in system governance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3044 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) University of California: rules and regulations
Authorizes the Regents of the University of California to adopt rules or regulations relating to the governing of their buildings and grounds, the violation of which will be a misdemeanor.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2002
AB 3045* (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Student financial aid: Golden State Scholarshare Trust
Makes a variety of technical and conforming changes to the Golden State Scholarshare program. Makes a variety of conforming and other changes, including transferring from the State Treasurer's Office to the Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board specified responsibilities as it relates to the California Memorial Scholarship Program.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2002
AB 3046 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Zoning: community college district
Provides that the non-educational facilities, as defined in a Government Code section on zoning, consist of those facilities that are not considered educational facilities within an existing Education Code definition.
(Died in Assembly Local Government)
ACR 74 (Leach-R) National Scholarship Month
Recognizes May 2001 as National Scholarship Month.
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2002
ACR 84 (Kelley-R) Public postsecondary education: Imperial County
Requests the California State University to conduct a study of the postsecondary education needs of the residents of Imperial County, as specified, and requests that the results of that study be provided to the California Postsecondary Education Commission on or before May 1, 2002.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
ACR 159 (Aroner-D) Public higher education: student housing
Expresses the Legislature's recognition of the University of California and the California State University obligation to provide adequate student housing, and urges those institutions to accept this obligation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 178 (Diaz-D) University of California: admissions process
Requests the Regents of the University of California to implement a comprehensive approach in graduate and professional school admissions, as specified.
Resolution Chapter 142, Statutes of 2002
ACR 189 (Longville-D) California State University, San Bernardino
Urges the Trustees of the California State University (CSU) to consider establishing a Chicano/Latino Studies Department at CSU, San Bernardino.
Resolution Chapter 170, Statutes of 2002
ACR 215 (Aroner-D) Social work education program
Urges the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to expand their enrollment in social work preparation programs. Requests the development of the state master plan for social work education that addresses the shortage of social workers and reflects the state's diverse population.
Resolution Chapter 174, Statutes of 2002
ACR 235 (Richman-R) University of California: divestiture of funds
Urges the University of California to reject calls to divest its pension funds from companies with ties to Israel. Urges leaders of the Palestinian Authority to clearly renounce terrorism as a form of political expression and to embrace peaceful negotiations.
Resolution Chapter 177, Statutes of 2002
School Employees
SB 319 (Alarcon-D) Teaching As A Priority Block Grant
Makes changes to the eligibility requirements outlined in the Teaching As A Priority Program Block Grant.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2002
SB 326 (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: registered sex offenders
Amends current law by specifying that the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing deny the application of any applicant, or revoke the credential of any teacher, who is required to register as a sex offender under any other state or federal law.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 377 (Polanco-D) Education: instructional materials: certification
Requires school district governing boards to include an inventory of required instructional materials in a currently required inventory of equipment.
(Died in Senate Appropriation Committee)
SB 391 (McPherson-R) Health delivery services: consulting nurse
Specifies legislative intent to enact subsequent legislation to require every county office of education to employ, to the extent sufficient funds are available in future years, a credentialed school nurse as a consultant to provide leadership and coordination necessary to yield cost-effective continuity of health services to pupils, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 461 (Torlakson-D) Catastrophic Prescription Drug Insurance Program
Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System to establish and administer a high deductible Catastrophic Prescription Drug Insurance Program and that the program be effective January 1, 2003.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 792 (Sher-D) Teacher credentialing
Creates a new avenue for individuals to earn a teaching credential. This will be an "individualized" avenue, as specified, rather than an internship or traditional avenue as provided under current law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 850 (Scott-D) School business officials: training
Requires the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to facilitate and provide training that leads to certification of competency in all areas of school business management services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1238 (Brulte-R) Public school employment: meetings
Provides that any meeting or negotiation discussion between a public school employer and a recognized employee organization is exempt from the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act and the Ralph M. Brown Act.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1250 (Vincent-D) Teachers: state basic skills proficiency test
Exempts, for purposes of employment by a school district, retired certificated employees who have taught for 15 years or more, as specified, from having to take and pass the state basic skills proficiency test (a.k.a. the California Basic Education Skills Test).
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1318* (Karnette-D) State teachers' retirement: member contributions
Allows a school employer to pay all or part of their employees' required member contributions to the State Teachers' Retirement System.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2002
SB 1360 (Soto-D) Public employees' retirement: school member death benefits
Provides two death benefits to surviving spouses of school members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) that presently are available for surviving spouses of PERS members.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1405 (O'Connell-D) Paraprofessionals: instructional aides
Requires paraprofessionals to meet the same requirements as an instructional aide and requires a school district that employs a paraprofessional, instructional aide, or a teacher aide to ensure that they have demonstrated, through local assessment, knowledge of, and ability to assist in instruction reading, writing, and mathematics and sets forth specific requirements for a paraprofessional who is supported by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Chapter 1080, Statutes of 2002
SB 1547 (Soto-D) Teacher credentialing
Makes a number of additions to teacher preparation programs as it relates to the teaching of English language learners.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1580 (Burton-D) State Teachers' Retirement System Board of Administration
Revises the composition of the membership of the State Teachers' Retirement System's (STRS) Board of Administration and provides for three of the members to be selected by the members of STRS.
Chapter 1049, Statutes of 2002
SB 1639 (McPherson-R) Educational counseling
Clarifies the authority and responsibilities of credentialed school counselors.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 1646 (Alpert-D) Teacher credentialing
Requires that all campuses of the California State University establish a baccalaureate degree in elementary education, culminating in a multiple subject preliminary teaching credential.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1655* (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: administrative services credential
Authorizes the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue administrative services credentials in an alternative expedited manner.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2002
SB 1656* (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: registered sex offenders
Requires the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing deny the application of any applicant, or revoke the credential of any teacher, who is required to register as a sex offender under any other state or federal law.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2002
SB 1685 (Morrow-R) Schoolbus: warning light systems
Clarifies that school bus drivers, when approaching a schoolbus stop that does not require the activation of flashing red signal lights or the stop signal arm, do not have to activate the flashing amber light warning system.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2002
SB 1883 (Morrow-R) School employee liability
Enacts provisions identical to federal law that limit the liability of teachers and other school-related personnel for damages caused to others by acts within the scope of employment in furtherance of maintaining discipline and control of the classroom or school. Federal law applies to public and private schools and home schools that receive federal funding. Extends the protections provided under the federal law to teachers and others who work in private schools that do not receive federal funds.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1944 (O'Connell-D) Educator
Provides, for the purposes of any references made to the section added by this bill, the term educator and defines it to mean a certificated person holding a valid California teaching credential or a valid California services credential issued by the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing, who is employed by a local education agency, or special education local planning area and who is not employed as an independent contractor or consultant.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 1968 (Alarcon-D) School employees: due process
Requires that a determination not to reelect a probationary employee at the end of his or her probationary period be made only for "cause". Establishes a process for school districts and employees to follow when a probationary teacher is not reelected.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1983 (Soto-D) Teachers' Retirement Law
Makes several changes to the benefit and investment programs administered by the State Teachers' Retirement System, including (1) allowing a retired member to name a new beneficiary after a member's spouse dies under certain circumstances, and (2) allowing STRS to acquire and develop surplus land owned by school districts through joint ventures and limited partnerships for sale to third parties and leaseback to school districts.
Chapter 903, Statutes of 2002
SB 2029 (Alarcon-D) Teacher certification: district interns
Authorizes the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing, until January 1, 2008, to issue district intern certificates to school district employees to provide classroom instruction to pupils with mild and moderate disabilities. Authorizes a pilot program currently operating in the Los Angeles Unified School District to be expanded statewide.
Chapter 1087, Statutes of 2002
SB 2064 (Burton-D) Employee bargaining units: salary deductions
Amends existing law to include a reference to exclusive representative notification requirements resulting from a 1999 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case. Also requires a school employer to transmit money collected or deducted from an employee's salary for employee organization dues or fair share fees to transmit the money to the employee organization within 15 days, imposes upon the employer an interest penalty if this requirement is not met.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCR 101 (Johnson-R) Parent-Teacher Association Membership Month
Proclaims September 2002 as Parent-Teacher Association Membership Month in California, and commends parents, grandparents, and other citizens who are involved. Encourages participation across the state to provide children and youth with a health and productive learning environment.
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2002
AB 118 (Migden-D) Public Employees' Retirement System
Reduces the contribution rate for school members of the State Public Employees' Retirement system from seven percent to five percent of compensation.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 500 (Goldberg-D) School districts: short-term employees
Prohibits the number of short-term employees of school districts and community college districts from exceeding 20 percent of the district's total classified workforce, as specified. Requires the governing board of a school district or community college district, before employing a short-term employee, to specify the service required to be performed and certify the estimated ending date of the service.
Chapter 867, Statutes of 2002
AB 520 (Koretz-D) Teacher paperwork
Requires each school district and county superintendent of schools that imposes reporting or paperwork requirements beyond those required by law, to meet with the exclusive representative of the certificated employees to discuss and develop policies and procedures for implementation of those requirements.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
AB 979* (Cedillo-D) Employees: call to active military duty: War on Terrorism
Provides certain benefit compensations to certified or classified employees who are called into active military service as a result of the war on terrorism or other national emergency.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1462 (Nakano-D) Teacher training
Requires the State Department of Education to establish and provide a teacher career technical instruction development program. Requires the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing to commission a study to determine programs and processes that will improve the quantity and quality of the career technical education workforce.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1802 (Nation-D) School employees: classified service
Allows classified employees of school districts and community college districts to use sick leave and long term differential pay leave consecutively, instead of concurrently, as now required.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
The annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 1975 (Koretz-D) Community college employees
Amends existing law to require that a community college district grant any employee, upon request, a leave of absence to serve as an employee of any public employee organization.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2053 (Jackson-D) Teachers
Permits special education teachers to participate in the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2065* (Oropeza-D) Teacher tax credit
The omnibus revenue and taxation budget trailer bill, which, among other provisions, suspends the teacher tax credit for one year.
Chapter 488, Statutes of 2002
AB 2120 (Simitian-D) Teacher Support and Development Act of 2002
Creates the Teacher Support and Development Act of 2002 by consolidating the funding of numerous existing teacher preparation, support and development programs into a formula-based block grant, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2137 (Lowenthal-D) State teachers' retirement: service credit
Grants two years of additional service credit to classroom teachers, counselors, or administrators who serve for three years in low-performing schools, subject to specified conditions. Requires the State Teacher's Retirement System Board of Administration to report to the Legislature, by March 1, 2008, regarding the effectiveness of that provision in encouraging teachers, counselors, and administrators to serve in low-performing schools.
(Died in Assembly Public Employment, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2160 (Goldberg-D) Public school employees: scope of representation
Provides that, upon the request of either the governing board of a school district or the exclusive representative of certificated employees in the district, an "academic partnership" program shall be formed.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2241 (Chu-D) Educational counseling
Requires each high school, where 20 percent or more of the pupil population is eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals, to employ one full-time counselor whose primary responsibility is to provide college counseling services, including, but not limited to, information on financial aid.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2269 (Horton-D) Substitute teachers: training
Creates, commencing with the 2003-04 school year, an optional substitute teacher training pilot project to be administered by the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2288 (Chavez-D) Teacher credentialing: Troops to teachers
Requires the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a task force to study the implementation and possible expansion of the Troops to Teachers programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2444 (Dutra-D) State special schools and diagnostic centers: salaries
Requires the State Department of Personnel Administration to consider making salaries for teachers, specialists, and administrators of the state special schools and diagnostic centers competitive with the salaries of similarly qualified personnel who are employed by nearby school districts.
Chapter 1043, Statutes of 2002
AB 2451 (Salinas-D) State teachers' retirement: credit for sick leave
Requires that part-time community college faculty, who are participating in the State Teachers' Retirement System Cash Balance Program, or an alternative retirement plan, receive credit for their unused sick leave at the time of retirement.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2506 (Steinberg-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: investment products
Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System to establish a registry for vendors who provide tax-deferred retirement products.
Chapter 1095, Statutes of 2002
AB 2540 (Steinberg-D) Superintendent training program
Establishes the Superintendent Training Program to provide incentive funding for local educational agencies to train county and school district superintendents.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2566 (Pavley-D) Pre-Internship Teaching Program
Requires all school districts and county offices of education, with the approval of the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to establish pre-internship teaching programs by January 1, 2004, for teachers who have emergency permits.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2572 (Mountjoy-R) Psychotropic drugs
Prohibits employees of school districts and county boards of education, except medical personnel authorized to prescribe medicine, from recommending the use by pupils of psychotropic drugs. Makes it a crime for a person to knowingly prescribe, administer, dispense, or furnish psychotropic drugs, as defined, to a minor without first obtaining the written consent of a minor's parent or guardian after disclosure of known side effects.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2575 (Leach-R) Teacher credentialing
Provides an alternative to meeting the preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential subject matter requirement. Permits the subject matter requirement for the preliminary multiple or single subject teaching credential to also be satisfied by obtaining approval of a State Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) approved evaluation agency of the candidate's undergraduate course work and graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education in the subject or in a closely related subject, as determined by the CTC.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2604 (Oropeza-D) Teacher training: cultural differences
Requires the California Research Bureau, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to contract with an independent evaluator to conduct a study of the availability and effectiveness of cross-cultural professional development programs for teachers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2614 (Havice-D) Pupil counseling services
Requires, commencing in the 2003-04 fiscal year, the first priority for School Safety and Violence Prevention Act funds, up to $4 million per fiscal year, shall be to hire additional licensed or certificated school counselors in middle schools or in high schools that maintain grade 9 and are ranked in the first decile of the Academic Performance Index.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2646 (Liu-D) State teachers' retirement: health benefits
Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System to pay the premium of Medicare Part B for specified retired members of the Defined Benefit Program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2767 (Pavley-D) State teachers' retirement: federal benefits
Requires the State Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a study on the impact of the federal Windfall Elimination Provision and the federal Government Pension Offset to determine if these laws deter certain individuals from entering the teaching profession. Requires DOE to complete the study and report findings and recommendations to the Legislature and Governor by July 1, 2004.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2781* (Oropeza-D) Education finance
Contains provisions necessary to implement the education portion of the 2002 Budget Act.
Chapter 1167, Statutes of 2002
AB 2849 (Washington-D) Classified school employees
Requires that employees engaged in part-time playground positions be included as part of the classified service, if they also work part-time in existing classified positions.
Chapter 1100, Statutes of 2002
AB 2982 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State teachers' retirement
Makes grammatical, technical and conforming changes to the State Teachers' Retirement System Law to facilitate efficient administration of the State Teacher's Retirement System.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2002
ACR 137 (Chan-D) School health
Proclaims January 23, 2002, as School Nurse Day and January 21, 2002 to January 25, 2002, as School Health Week to support the learning and health needs of California's children to ensure academic success.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
ACR 177 (Diaz-D) Foreign teacher recruitment and support
Urges school districts, schools, and school administrators to review and renew their systematic and sustained efforts to fully support the teachers they recruit from other countries and to provide those credentialed teachers with improved access to professional development, teacher induction, mentoring, and orientation programs and activities.
Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2002
ACR 197 (Strom-Martin-D) Day of the Teacher
States that the day of May 8, 2002, shall be claimed Day of the Teacher, and should be a day for school districts, parents, public officials, and the community to recognize the dedication and commitment of teachers.
Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2002
HR 86 (Havice-D) School Crossing Guards Week
Proclaims the week of September 1, 2002, as "School Crossing Guards Week", and that the Assembly offers their most sincere thanks, on behalf of the people of California, to school crossing guards for keeping our children safe, for displaying warmth of spirit in the conduct of their duties, and for the selfless acts of bravery.
Adopted by the Assembly
School Curriculum
SB 811 (O'Connell-D) Curriculum
Expresses the Legislature's intent that, whenever relevant, state and local professional development activities provide teachers with content background and resources to assist in teaching that promote compassion and respect for both humans and animals. Requires that the promotion of compassion and respect for both humans and animals be considered, where relevant, in the next cycle in which the science and history/social science curricula frameworks and the accompanying instructional materials are adopted.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1053 (Knight-R) Centennial of Flight Commemoration Program
Creates a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Education (SDE), to commemorate the Centennial of Flight in schools. Allows the SDE to provide school districts with information on flight aviation field trips and resources regarding flight aviation practices.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1367 (Karnette-D) Curriculum content standards
Requires the State Board of Education, beginning in 2010, to provide for the periodic review of the adopted statewide academically, rigorous core curriculum content standards and other specified standards through regional hearings, as specified under current law.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1548 (Alarcon-D) Content standards: visual and performing arts
Requires the State Department of Education, through the California Arts Assessment Network, to develop a pool of diagnostic assessment items that may be used by school districts to assist in determining the extent to which pupils are mastering content standards in visual and performing arts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1554* (Battin-R) Instruction: WISE pilot project
Creates the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) pilot project, which provides web-based learning environments for middle and high school inquiry science projects through collaboration with existing programs such as the WISE project at the University of California at Berkeley. Will only be implemented if funding is provided for this purpose in the Budget Act.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1562 (Speier-D) Drug education: performance enhancing substances
Requires the State Department of Education to develop a model curriculum, procedures, and materials, for use in grades 7 to 12, designed to instruct on the effects of the use of anabolic steroids, adrostenedione, creatine, and ephedra, which are commonly found in performance enhancing substances and weight loss products.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1770 (Burton-D) School districts: cursive handwriting
Encourages school districts to comply with specified strategies on cursive handwriting standards, whereby pupils write fluidly and legibly.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2002
SB 1934 (McPherson-R) Career technical education
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with an advisory group, to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, a curriculum framework for career technical education.
Chapter 989, Statutes of 2002
SB 1973 (Polanco-D) Curriculum: voter participation
Creates the Young Voters Task Force for the purpose of developing a model curriculum, procedures, and materials appropriate for inclusion in a 12th grade social studies class, designed to improve voter participation among young voters.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1377 (Wiggins-D) School curriculum: information collection
Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to collect information from all public high schools on existing academic and career-related curriculum for the purposes of establishing a clearinghouse of information, as specified. In addition, requires the SDE to notify all school districts in writing, and via the Internet, by September 30, 2003, that this information is available upon request.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1407 (Lowenthal-D) Pupil instruction: Algebra Incentive Program
Establishes the Algebra Incentive Program (AIP), a Governor-sponsored bill, upon approval by the State Board of Education and implemented by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The AIP would provide school districts additional funding, based on the number of pupils who have taken the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, standards-based aligned algebra test.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1751 (Alquist-D) Secondary school courses of study
Requires school districts maintaining a high school to prescribe a separate course of study regarding the economics of higher education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1900 (Nakano-D) Labor History Week
Deems the first week of April to be Labor History Week and encourages school districts to commemorate that week with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role that the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.
Chapter 366, Statutes of 2002
AB 2001 (Diaz-D) Ethnic studies
Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission, within the State Department of Education, to identify model programs, standards, and curricula relating to ethnic studies at the high school level.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2003 (Koretz-D) The Holocaust and genocide
Establishes the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education Act of 2003. Outlines the activities which the task force and the center are to accomplish. Encourages that survivor testimony be incorporated into the teaching of human rights, genocide, and the Holocaust. Requires the Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide be made available to schools in grades 7-12 as soon as funding is made available for that purpose.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2002
AB 2069 (Reyes-D) Social sciences: leadership skills
Establishes the Leadership Curriculum Pilot Project to encourage social science instruction in grades 6, 7, and 8 to include an elective course that develops leadership skills.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2541 (Negrete McLeod-D) School-to-career initiatives
Requires an applicant for a School-to-Career Interagency Partnership grant, to demonstrate, in addition to other existing requirements, an instructional program advising pupils of an employee's and an employer's rights and obligations in the workplace.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2002
AB 2668 (Zettel-R) Pupil curricula: brain and spinal cord injury prevention
Requires the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to review, acquire and circulate curricula focused on the prevention of brain and spinal cord injuries for use, on a voluntary basis, by school districts.
Chapter 755, Statutes of 2002
AB 2709 (Wyland-R) Education: curriculum
Requires that instruction in the social sciences include instruction on World War II and the American role in that war.
Chapter 739, Statutes of 2002
AB 2711 (Wyland-R) Curriculum
Requires the State Department of Education to monitor and enforce Proposition 227. Requires parents to provide a written legitimate educational reason for a waiver, as specified. Requires all English learners to spend the first 30 days of each school year in English immersion, if they are in a bilingual classroom with an approved waiver.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2768 (Longville-D) Education: AIDS prevention instruction
Requires each pupil to receive at least four hours of AIDS prevention instruction in middle/junior high school and at least four hours in high school.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2817 (Maddox-R) Sex education: course content
Requires that instruction for sex education courses must advise pupils of a provision of current law that allows mothers to anonymously surrender an infant up to 72-hours-old at a hospital emergency room or other designated location without fear of prosecution.
Chapter 1099, Statutes of 2002
AB 2950 (Strom-Martin-D) Instructional strategies: subject matter projects
Extends the sunset date for the University of California-administered California Subject Matter Projects from January 1, 2003, to January 1, 2008, and also extends the due dates for several related reporting requirements.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2002
Miscellaneous
SB 33* (Soto-D) School-parent compacts
Allows the Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program to continue, with the focus on schools ranked in the lowest two deciles on the Academic Performance Index.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2002
SB 56 (Escutia-D) Pupil health: nutrition
Clarifies and makes technical corrections to SB 19 (Escutia-D), Chapter 913, Statutes of 2001, relating to student nutrition, including deleting a provision prohibiting food items from exceeding 12 ounces per serving, which was intended to apply only to beverages. Clarifies that operation of the existing law is subject to funding being appropriated on or before January 1, 2004.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2002
SB 204 (Vasconcellos-D) Pupil Achievement Software Incentive Program
Establishes the Pupil Achievement Software Incentive Program to encourage school principals and teachers to acquire and use computer software that monitors the test performance of pupils over time and provides information that allows local educators to devise instructional strategy tailored to the needs of the pupils.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 258 (Costa-D) Voluntary desegregation
Authorizes a group of Fresno area school districts, in collaboration, to apply for voluntary desegregation program funding, beginning in the 2001-02 fiscal year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 287 (Alarcon-D) Apprenticeship education
Specifies that any excess state apportionments to school districts and community college districts for student apprenticeship education programs shall be allocated according to a specified order.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 508* (Vasconcellos-D) Education: pupils
A product of the Low Performing School Conference, Committee, this bill makes non-controversial, technical changes to the High Priority School Grant Program for Low Performing Schools, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for schools who participate in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, with first priority being given to schools ranked in decile one of the Academic Performance Index.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2002
SB 554 (Vasconcellos-D) Service learning
Establishes the Statewide Service Learning Center, expands the Student Academic Partnership Program, and requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to develop a Master Plan for Service Learning.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 606 (Vasconcellos-D) Pupil health
Requires the existing student eye examination, conducted upon enrollment and every third year thereafter through 8th grade, to include screening for binocular function, ocular alignment, ocular motility, and near visual acuity.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 850 (Scott-D) County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team
Requires the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to facilitate and provide training that leads to certification of competency in all areas of school business management services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 874 (Dunn-D) Adult education
Allows a district to report for state apportionment average daily attendance adult education classes that are not open to the general public under specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1020 (Escutia-D) Schools
Establishes the California Middle Grades Extended Year Incentive Program and the Targeted Instructional Improvement Block Grant. Repeals existing authorizations of authorizations for Economic Impact Aid, Court-ordered Desegregation, and Voluntary Integration reimbursement.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1113 (Polanco-D) Education: guidance counseling
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the California Workforce Investment Board to jointly develop a model high school counseling program, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1248 (Knight-R) Patriotic exercise
Requires all pupils to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America no less than two times each week.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1253 (Figueroa-D) Pupils: signaling devices
Allows school district governing boards to regulate the possession and use of electronic signaling devices (cell phones, pagers, etc.) by pupils while on campus or attending school functions.
Chapter 253, Statutes of 2002
Similar legislation was SB 1375 (Margett-R), which died in Senate Education Committee.
SB 1308 (Alpert-D) School districts: boards of education
Adjusts the statutory ceiling on compensation for members of a school board, a county board of education, or a community college board.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1419 (Alarcon-D) Personal services contracting
Establishes standards for the use of personal service contracts in California school districts and community college districts.
Chapter 894, Statutes of 2002
SB 1474 (Alpert-D) Independent study
Provides that independent study pupils may attend classes in a classroom or laboratory setting and receive "time value" credit for the work accomplished, provided that no one pupil generate more than one unit of average daily attendance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1478 (McPherson-R) Community learning center program
Establishes the 21st Century Community Learning Centers, meant to complement the existing Before and After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program by utilizing the existing funding provided under that existing program, and to provide the local flexibility needed to implement the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers program through direct grants.
Chapter 1036, Statutes of 2002
SB 1520 (Ortiz-D) Schools: pupil nutrition: carbonated beverages
Limits the sale of beverages on school campuses to specified fruit-based drinks, drinking waters, specified sports drinks, and milk, as defined. Makes this limitation effective on elementary school campuses in 2004, middle and junior high school campuses in 2005, and high school campuses in 2007.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1535 (Knight-R) Selective Service Act: registration: high school
Requires school district governing boards to appoint a selective service registrar for each high school in order to help pupils register for a potential draft, as required by federal law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1632 (Perata-D) Pupils: sun protection
Requires every schoolsite to allow pupils to use sunscreen during the school day, without a physician's note or prescription, and authorizes schoolsites to set a policy related to the use of sunscreen.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2002
SB 1671 (Escutia-D) Supplemental instruction
Continues the current authorization to offer supplemental instruction to pupils at risk of retention in grades two through six and two through nine.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1677 (Alpert-D) Surrogate parents
Strengthens and clarifies requirements regarding surrogate parents and responsible adults who make educational decisions for children.
Chapter 785, Statutes of 2002
SB 1747 (Polanco-D) School districts: physical education
Requires the State Department of Education to direct school districts offering instruction to kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to the extent that resources are available, to provide quality daily physical education that develops the knowledge, attitudes, skills, behavior, and motivation needed to be physically active for life, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1842* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Instructional materials
Contains provisions necessary to implement the education portions of the budget. Allows charter schools to receive funding for instructional materials through the charter school categorical block grant.
(Died on Assembly Third Reading)
SB 1868 (Torlakson-D) Physical education
Makes changes to current law related to the physical performance assessment. Requires the State Department of Education to encourage school districts offering instruction to provide quality physical education, to the extent that resources are available, that develops the knowledge, attitudes, skills, behavior, and motivation needed to be physically fit for life.
Chapter 1166, Statutes of 2002
SB 1937 (Costa-D) Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act
Establishes the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program to designate three voluntary public and private partnerships to train youth, aged 13 to 18, in digital media arts.
Chapter 980, Statutes of 2002
SB 1988 (Polanco-D) Environmental education fund
Creates an Environmental Education Fund for the purpose of providing (1) grants for environmental education to public schools, and (2) funding to a non-profit organization for training district attorneys and others on the fair and uniform enforcement of environmental laws and the advancement of environmental justice. Specifies that funding from public or private organizations and judgements of a state or federal court could be deposited into the fund.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 2017 (Karnette-D) Purchase of perishable foodstuffs, supplies, and equipment
Clarifies existing law so that districts do not have to go to lowest bidder when making purchases that impact the health and safety of students.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCA 10 (Speier-D) Public library facilities: bonds: vote requirement
Allows voters to approve a bond for public library facilities with a 55 percent majority, rather than a two-thirds majority. Allows ad valorem tax on real property to exceed the one percent limitation to pay for library facility bonds.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SCR 60 (Murray-D) Arts Education Month
Designates March 2002 as Arts Education Month and encourages California educational communities to celebrate the arts through activities and programs designed for that purpose.
Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2002
SCR 92 (Alpert-D) Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education
Continues the existence of the Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education Kindergarten through University until November 30, 2004, extends the authority for the ongoing operations of the committee until November 30, 2004, requires the committee to submit a report on its activities to the Legislature at the end of the 2001-02 Regular Session, and renames the committee the "Joint committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education."
Resolution Chapter 156, Statutes of 2002
AB 65 (Strom-Martin-D) Reading First Plan
Establishes the Reading First Plan, administered by the State Department of Education, to provide reading instruction to pupils in grades K-3 and to special education pupils in grades K-12. Establishes that this plan be funded for money allocated from the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2002
AB 259 (Chavez-D) Adult education: average daily attendance audits
Refers unresolved adult education attendance audits for the years 1990-91, 1991-92, and 1992-93 to the Education Audit Appeals Panel that will be established by AB 1834 (Migden-D).
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 312* (Strom-Martin-D) Public education
Contains the product from the conference report on low-performing schools. Establishes the School System of School Support and allocates federal and state funding for the purposes of school sanction issues related to the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and federal law. Establishes the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Liaison Team, as specified.
Chapter 1020, Statutes of 2002
AB 336 (Goldberg-D) School library pilot program
Requires, until July 1, 2006, the State Department of Education to select and allocate funds to seven school districts that will commit to pay one-half of the costs of a credentialed library media teacher and a classified library technician in one low-performing school in the district for a five-year period. Requires a contractor to analyze the pilot program and conduct other specified analyses.
(Died in Conference Committee)
AB 481 (Firebaugh-D) Education: pupil health: diabetes
Requires that schools without school nurses, where diabetic pupils are enrolled, train and designate administrators to assist diabetic children who are unable to perform their own blood sugar tests or administer their own diabetes medication. Makes such assistance contingent on a waiver by parents/guardians relieving the school employee of liability for negligence.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 615 (Calderon-D) Pupil motivation and maintenance
Makes several changes to the Pupil Motivation and Maintenance program (M and M). Among other provisions, this bill raises the qualifications of new outreach consultants subject to the availability of specified funding, states intent to provide a growth adjustment of 2.5 percent to fund new programs commencing in 2003-04, and requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide information on M & M programs to schools which qualify for the High Priority Schools Grant program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 634 (Wesson-D) Education: minimum age of compulsory school attendance
Applies the compulsory education law to a child, and the parents and guardian of a child, between the ages of five and six, who is enrolled in a public school kindergarten and attends the kindergarten for at least 30 days during the school year.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 662 (Vargas-D) Pupil suspension and expulsion
Adds selling, negotiating, arranging or offering to sell, the prescription drug Soma to the list of acts for which a pupil may be suspended or expelled from school.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2002
AB 849 (Pavley-D) Pupil services
Requires school districts and county offices of education to provide a request form that parents may use to request information concerning the Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families Programs when making available the application for participation in the free or reduced-price meal program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 912 (Wesson-D) Mathematics and Science Challenge Grant Program
Establishes the Mathematics and Science Challenge Grant, a Governor sponsored program, to be administered by the Office of the Secretary of Education. Becomes operative pursuant to an allocation in the Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 947 (Jackson-D) Pesticides: schoolsites
Provides greater protections for children and others from accidental exposures to pesticides drifting over schools by clarifying the permissive authority of county agricultural commissioners to regulate pesticide applications and for schools to prepare emergency plans.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2002
AB 1077* (Mountjoy-R) Sales and use taxes: public school exemption
Exempts from the imposition of the state portion of the sales and use tax, items purchased by and for use by a K-12 public school or K-12 public school district.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1096 (Wright-D) Pupil health: eye examinations
Establishes a three-year pilot program to provide comprehensive eye examinations for poor readers.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 1131 (Frommer-D) Apprenticeship programs
Restricts state funding of apprenticeship training programs to those programs which have been approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the State Department of Industrial Relations.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2002
AB 1240 (Alquist-D) Pediatric literacy programs
Establishes the California Reach Out and Read (ROR) Grant program, and authorizes recognized ROR program sites to apply to the State Library for grant funds to purchase developmentally and culturally appropriate books to be distributed free of charge to children from two-months to five-years of age who are clinic patients.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1285* (Reyes-D) Supplemental Instruction: Fresno Unified School District
Allows Cooper Middle School in the Fresno Unified School District to offer to pupils, whose performances on the English language arts and mathematics parts of the California Standardized Tests is at or below or far below basic levels, an extra 60 minutes of supplemental instruction during the actual school day, as opposed to before or after school or on weekends.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2002
AB 1293 (Hollingsworth-R) Schools: Military recruiting access: federal law
Clarifies what constitutes a violation of federal law regarding school district prohibition of on-campus access to the military for recruiting purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1299* (Rod Pacheco-R) Adult education
Provides that a district that contracts their adult education program to another district can receive its apportionment under the adult education cap, even if the students are not directly under the supervision of the teachers in the district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1317 (Liu-D) Pupils: expulsion
Provides that, in addition to any other immunity that may exist, any testimony of a pupil witness at the expulsion hearing of another student is expressly deemed to be a communication protected from liability by Civil Code Section 47(b).
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2002
AB 1412 (Wright-D) Career education
- Specifies that terms vocational-technical education and career technical education, for purposes of the Education Code, have the same meaning, as specified.
- Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education, to adopt standards for a career technical education course of study by January 1, 2005.
- Requires the Trustees of the California State University and requests the Regents of the University of California to develop procedures that will allow courses to satisfy coursework admission requirements.
Chapter 988, Statutes of 2002
AB 1634 (Chan-D) Nutrition education
Requires the State Department of Education (DOE) to (1) incorporate nutrition education curriculum content with the health curriculum framework at its next revision and (2) establish an instructional school garden competitive grant program, as specified. Appropriates $200,000 in federal funding to DOE for the school garden program.
Chapter 1163, Statutes of 2002
AB 1781 (Hertzberg-D) Instructional materials: funding
Establishes the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program, which provides funding to school districts to purchase instructional materials. Authorizes school districts to use funding from the Instructional Materials Fund to purchase supplemental materials and classroom library materials. Repeals specified provisions of the California Classroom Library Materials Act of 1999.
Chapter 802, Statutes of 2002
AB 1793 (Migden-D) Education: physical education
Renumbers existing code sections and makes changes to existing law pertaining to physical education.
Chapter 943, Statutes of 2002
AB 1817 (Leslie-R) Schools: moment of quiet thought
Authorizes the governing board of any school district to adopt a policy permitting, or even requiring, a teacher in charge of the first regularly scheduled class or activity period to conduct a "moment of quiet thought".
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1818* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Is the annual omnibus education bill that makes a number of non-controversial, conforming, correcting, and technical changes to various education statutes and budget items.
Chapter 1168, Statutes of 2002
AB 1879 (Horton-D) Inglewood Unified School District
Extends special investigative authority to the Inglewood Unified School District's Inspector General, including the authority to conduct hearings, administer oaths, and subpoena witnesses and records.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1886 (Jackson-D) Vehicles: school zone fines
Allows for the creation of double fine zones in specifically posted school zones in Alameda, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
Chapter 590, Statutes of 2002
AB 1888 (Daucher-R) Class size reduction
Permits school districts to implement a kindergarten through grade 3 class size reduction (K-3 CRS) program without regard to grade-level priority, and claim full funding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1898 (Nakano-D) Class size
Authorizes the Torrance Unified School District and the Poway Unified School District to implement an alternative class size reduction pilot program to reduce class size to no more than 23 pupils in kindergarten through grade 5.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1901 (Cohn-D) Pupils: expulsion
Expands the activities for which a pupil may be suspended or recommended for expulsion to include theft or damage to school property, including electronic files and databases, and intentional harassment of school district personnel.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2002
AB 1904* (Reyes-D) West Fresno Elementary School District
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to assume all the legal rights, duties, and powers of the governing board of the West Fresno Elementary School District and authorizes the SPI to appoint an administrator to exercise this authority over the school district.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1905 (Longville-D) Type 2 diabetes mellitus: pupil screening
Establishes a three-year pilot program that screens pupils for the risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1984 (Steinberg-D) After school programs: high school pupils
Establishes the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens program to offer incentives for after school enrichment programs for high school pupils.
Chapter 1025, Statutes of 2002
AB 2024 (Nakano-D) After school programs: nutrition education
Authorizes nutrition education to be provided as part of the educational enrichment in after school programs.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2002
AB 2025 (Corbett-D) Master plan for pupil support services
Requires the State Department of Education to convene a voluntary working group, as specified, and, in consultation with this working group, develop a five-year master plan for pupil support services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2027 (Goldberg-D) Year-round schools
Eliminates, effective July 1, 2008, the authority of school districts to operate multi-track year-round schools with as few as 163 days of instruction (commonly known as Concept 6 year-round schools).
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2066 (Briggs-R) Fresno Unified School District
Allows the mayor of Fresno to appoint a new Fresno Unified School District Board of Education and abolishes the current elected board.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2084 (Briggs-R) Pupils: attendance
Restricts school officials from allowing a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any grades 1 to 12, inclusive, from leaving the school campus before the end of the school day, for any reason, without the written permission of the pupil's parents.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2115 (Goldberg-D) Schools: athletic team names and mascots
Prohibits all public schools, community colleges, the California State University, and the University of California from using specified American Indian tribal names for schools, athletic team names, mascots or nicknames, as specified.
(Refused passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 2130 (Simitian-D) Supplemental instruction
Continues the current authorization to offer supplemental instruction to pupils at risk of retention in grades 2 through 6 without imposing a cap on state reimbursement for such instruction that is otherwise scheduled to take effect January 1, 2003.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2136 (Florez-D) Public schools: State School Health Advisory Council
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to appoint a State School Health Advisory Council (SSHAC) to identify model school health services programs and practices that directly serve students by January 1, 2004. Appropriates $144,000 from the General Fund for the costs of the SSHAC. Requires the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Services to develop school health services and school nursing services criteria.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2176 (Hollingsworth-R) Pupil records: access to directory information
Prohibits a school district, in adopting a specified policy governing the release of pupil directory information, from purposefully excluding any military service representative from access to that information.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2188 (Liu-D) Regional career technical high schools
Establishes the regional career technical high schools pilot program to allow the establishment of regional career technical high schools as comprehensive high schools, in the same manner as regional occupational centers.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2207 (Salinas-D) Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program
Requires school participating in the Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program to take into consideration the needs of parents who work nontraditional hours, such as service workers and farmworkers, and to make every effort to accommodate those parents in establishing the sites and times of community-based meetings.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2212 (Alquist-D) Pupil Data Portfolio Pilot Program
Authorizes the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, in collaboration with the California Center for Baldridge in Education, to establish and administer the Pupil Data Portfolio Pilot Program, a pilot program for 12 schools to train educators in the development and use of individualized pupil data portfolios. Appropriates $165,000 in federal Title II funds to conduct the pilot.
Vetoed by the Governor
Similar legislation was SB 1543 (McPherson-R), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 2223 (Keeley-D) School indoor air quality
Requires (1) the State and Consumer Services Agency to develop guidelines to enhance indoor air quality in new and existing public schools, (2) every school district to vote on adopting these guidelines, and (3) schools to make available inspection records on heating and cooling systems.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2236 (Chu-D) Education: pupil rights
Specifies legislative intent to develop and operate a system of public schools that provides high quality educational opportunities, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2249 (La Suer-R) Public schools: vocational education
Prohibits the State Board of Education, or any local school district governing board, from requiring pupil participation in specified work experiences, job training and vocational programs for grade level promotion or high school graduation.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2254 (Salinas-D) Reorganization of school districts
Makes various technical, clarifying, and other changes to Education Code and Government Code statutes affecting school district reorganization.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2264 (Wyland-R) Home economics and career technical education
Extends the sunset date for the Home Economics Careers and Technology Career Technical Education Incentive Program from January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2008.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2002
AB 2295 (Oropeza-D) School-sponsored athletic programs
Requires the State Department of Education and the California Postsecondary Education Commission to jointly contract with an independent evaluator to prepare a report on interscholastic athletics in the state.
Chapter 1060, Statutes of 2002
AB 2310 (Chu-D) High school equivalency certificates
Revises procedures for issuance of California high school equivalency certificates by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Chapter 163, Statutes of 2002
AB 2324 (Diaz-D) After school programs
Authorizes the State Department of Education to approve an alternative plan for operating hours of a Before and After School Program where the unique needs of a community, supported by documented evidence, supports such an exception.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2002
AB 2326 (Frommer-D) Braille reading standards
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to form an advisory task force to develop standards for Braille and requires the task force to report to the Governor and to the Legislature's Education Committees by June 30, 2004.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2002
AB 2363 (Firebaugh-D) State Board of Education
Prescribes qualifications for four members of the State Board of Education.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2372 (Steinberg-D) School transportation
Authorizes a local education agency to enter into an agreement with a local public transportation agency to provide reduced price bus or rail passes to pupils in middle school or high school for home to school transportation.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2395 (Goldberg-D) School Breakfast Program
Requires local boards that do not offer school breakfast programs to discuss the need for, and cost of, such programs during a regularly scheduled meeting of the board. Gives districts that hold such discussions priority for school breakfast start-up funding, if they choose to apply for it.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2403 (Steinberg-D) Schools: foster children
Requires county offices of education and school districts to report the number of foster children enrolled in education programs as part of the reporting requirements for the California Basic Educational Data System and the California School Information Services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2425 (Richman-R) The Los Angeles Unified School District: Inspector General
Extends the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Inspector General's authority to conduct hearings, administer oaths, and subpoena witnesses and records from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2015, and authorizes the LAUSD Inspector General to perform audits, as specified.
Chapter 462, Statutes of 2002
AB 2512 (Richman-R) School districts: expenditures
Requires a district superintendent, by September 15 of each fiscal year, to approve and submit to the local school board, on a single form prescribed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as statement of the district's expenditures, a specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2532 (Rod Pacheco-R) Textbook weight
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt maximum weight standards for textbooks used by students in elementary and secondary schools.
Chapter 1096, Statutes of 2002
AB 2547 (Nation-D) Tamalpais Union High School District
Authorizes, until July 1, 2005, the Tamalpais Union High School District, on a pilot project basis, to reduce class size in grade 9 to an average of 25 pupils per class in each of the four core subject areas of English, mathematics, science, and social science, subject to an agreement with the exclusive representative for certificated staff.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2556 (Leach-R) Education: pupils: interdistrict transfers
Extends the sunset, from July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2005, for three interdistrict transfer statutes, which are programs allowing interdistrict transfers for students based on parental childcare needs and location of employment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2626 (La Suer-R) Gifted pupils: enrollment in community college courses
Provides for school districts use of independent study to arrange for enrollment in community college courses, reimburse the community college for appropriate costs and authorize the purchase of appropriate instructional materials, supplies and equipment, for exceptionally gifted pupils.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2657* (Bogh-R) Instruction: grade point average
Delays implementation of recently enacted law regarding how high schools can calculate a student's grade point average and, instead, commencing with the 2005-06 school year, establishes a four-year "phase-in" schedule for implementation, as specified.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2002
AB 2681 (Maldonado-R) School pupil activity buses: passenger restraint systems
Requires that certain school pupil activity buses be equipped with a passenger restraint system by July 1, 2004.
Chapter 260, Statutes of 2002
AB 2730 (Washington-D) Public libraries: resources for youths
Establishes a program to award grants to public libraries for the extension of academic, informational, and mentoring services to teenagers.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2738 (Chan-D) Working group: pupil health screening
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group, as specified, to examine how the current system of school entry health screening/assessments can better determine the health status of pupils before they enter school.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2741 (Chan-D) Children's School Readiness and Health Council
Creates the Children's School Readiness and Health Council within the State Health and Human Services Agency, for the purpose of promoting policy and coordinating programs that address children's school readiness and health. Specifies that the council is required to report to the Legislature on progress involving the duties of the council, as specified, commencing January, 2004.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2782 (Cogdill-R) Categorical programs: temporarily inoperative
Suspends specified categorical aid programs during "a low revenue fiscal year."
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2807 (Firebaugh-D) Arts education
Extends the sunset date for the Local Arts Education Partnership Program from January 1, 2003, to January 1, 2008.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2002
AB 2834 (Migden-D) School districts: audits
Revises statutes governing the annual fiscal and compliance audits of school districts.
Chapter 1128, Statutes of 2002
AB 2841 (Horton-D) Public contracts: job order contracting
Authorizes the Los Angeles Unified School District to implement job order contracting, as defined, as an alternative to traditional competitive bidding for smaller modernization and maintenance contracts, until December 1, 2006, and requires the district to report to the Legislature regarding its implementation.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2867 (Kehoe-D) Joint powers agency: San Diego
Allows the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Diego, the Housing Authority of the City of San Diego, the San Diego Housing Commission, the San Diego Unified School District, and the City of San Diego to enter a joint powers agreement to create a joint powers agency to develop and construct a model school project in the City Heights Project Area.
Chapter 961, Statutes of 2002
AB 2881 (Chan-D) Pupil health screening: pilot program
Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a working group of school nurses, teachers, administrators and representatives of the State Department of Education, the State Department of Health Services School Health Connections Office to develop core competency curriculum about how to identify basic health issues that commonly affect students' school performance.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2903 (Kehoe-D) School and community colleges districts
Authorizes the use of school district or community college district resources for the distribution or posting of written materials prepared and paid for by an employee organization urging the support or defeat of any ballot measure or candidate. Specifies that distribution will be limited to members of the bargaining unit.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2956 (Wiggins-D) Technology Career Academy Grant
Extends, from January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2005, the repeal date for the California Information Technology Career Academy Grant Initiative. Extends the date of creation of the information technology career academies to the 2002-03 school year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2998* (Assembly Budget Committee) Instructional materials
Conforms statutes to changes made in the budget to charter school block grant funds.
Vetoed by the Governor
ACR 154 (Washington-D) 48th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Designates May 17 as California's official day to commemorate the Brown v. Board of Education court case of 1954.
Resolution Chapter 168, Statutes of 2002
ACR 158 (Wiggins-D) Career and vocational education
States that the Legislature is committed to improving career and technical education programs and practices ad ensuring that they are a major component in efforts to improve K-12 education.
Resolution Chapter 169, Statutes of 2002
ACR 193 (Hollingsworth-R) Career technical education
Expresses legislative support for the protection and encouragement of career technical education in secondary public schools as a means of ensuring economic and educational opportunities for all high school students.
Resolution Chapter 143, Statutes of 2002
ACR 194 (Maldonado-R) Physical education
Proclaims May 1 through 7, 2002, as Physical Education and Sports Week and the Month of May as Physical Fitness and Sports Month in this state.
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2002
AJR 47 (Jackson-D) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Recognizes the 30th anniversary of the passage of Title IX Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) and petitions the President and Congress of the United States to uphold and enforce its provisions.
Resolution Chapter 117, Statutes of 2002
Index (in Bill Order)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
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SB 18 |
Alarcon-D Transportation |
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SB 21 |
Escutia-D Lead-safe schools |
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SB 29 |
Machado-D Class size reduction |
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SB 33* |
Soto-D School-parent compacts |
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SB 56 |
Escutia-D Pupil health: nutrition |
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SB 84* |
O'Connell-D Pupil testing |
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SB 92* |
Torlakson-D School: state audits |
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SB 115 |
Haynes-R School facilities |
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SB 192* |
O'Connell-D Education technology |
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SB 204 |
Vasconcellos-D Pupil Achievement Software Incentive Program |
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SB 216 |
McPherson-R Calif. Postsecondary Education Commission: strategic plan |
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SB 218 |
Dunn-D Adult education |
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SB 240 |
Morrow-R Education: school districts |
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SB 250* |
McPherson-R School finance: Pacific Unified School District |
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SB 258 |
Costa-D Voluntary desegregation |
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SB 276 |
Speier-D Public postsecondary education: residence determination |
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SB 277 |
Chesbro-D Public employee health care benefits: rural areas |
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SB 284 |
Polanco-D School facilities |
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SB 287 |
Alarcon-D Apprenticeship education |
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SB 319 |
Alarcon-D Teaching As A Priority Block Grant |
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SB 326 |
Scott-D Teacher credentialing: registered sex offenders |
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SB 377 |
Polanco-D Education: instructional materials: certification |
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SB 382 |
Haynes-R Compton Unified School District: education certificates |
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SB 390 |
Escutia-D Child care and development: state master plan |
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SB 391 |
McPherson-R Health delivery services: consulting nurse |
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SB 440 |
Monteith-R School facilities funding: ranking mechanism |
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SB 461 |
Torlakson-D Catastrophic Prescription Drug Insurance Program |
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SB 491 |
Vincent-D School facility funding: school building capacity |
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SB 508* |
Vasconcellos-D Education: pupils |
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SB 541 |
Scott-D Child care: family support |
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SB 543 |
Scott-D Child care: family support |
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SB 554 |
Vasconcellos-D Service learning |
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SB 572* |
O'Connell-D School construction funding |
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SB 606 |
Vasconcellos-D Pupil health |
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SB 631 |
Polanco-D Postsecondary education: reciprocal program |
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SB 634 |
Murray-D Lead poisoning prevention |
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SB 646 |
Ortiz-D Child care employee registry: pilot program |
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SB 692 |
Escutia-D Class size reduction |
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SB 709 |
Alpert-D School facilities |
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SB 737* |
Alarcon-D Community colleges |
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SB 792 |
Sher-D Teacher credentialing |
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SB 811 |
O'Connell-D Curriculum |
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SB 850 |
Scott-D School business officials: training |
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SB 874 |
Dunn-D Adult education |
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SB 902 |
Karnette-D Precinct board members: public postsecondary education |
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SB 1020 |
Escutia-D Schools |
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SB 1043 |
Soto-D School facility funding |
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SB 1053 |
Knight-R Centennial of Flight Commemoration Program |
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SB 1070 |
Ortiz-D Student Aid Commission |
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SB 1091 |
Alarcon-D School facilities: multitrack year-round schools |
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SB 1113 |
Polanco-D Education: guidance counseling |
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SB 1162 |
Polanco-D Biotechnology |
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SB 1175 |
Soto-D Higher education labor relations |
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SB 1214 |
Romero-D California State University: auxiliary organizations |
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SB 1229* |
Johnson-R School facilities funding: local match |
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SB 1238 |
Brulte-R Public school employment: meetings |
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SB 1248 |
Knight-R Patriotic exercise |
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SB 1250 |
Vincent-D Teachers: state basic skills proficiency test |
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SB 1253 |
Figueroa-D Pupils: signaling devices |
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SB 1266 |
Battin-R Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program |
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SB 1273* |
Haynes-R Income and bank and corporation taxes: credit |
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SB 1289 |
Haynes-R Riverside Alvord Unified School Districts: adult education |
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SB 1299 |
Haynes-R Exemption from nonresident tuition |
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SB 1308 |
Alpert-D School districts: boards of education |
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SB 1310 |
Alpert-D School accountability: sanctions |
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SB 1318* |
Karnette-D State teachers' retirement: member contributions |
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SB 1335* |
Dunn-D Child day care facilities: criminal record information |
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SB 1339 |
Vasconcellos-D Postsecondary education: admissions |
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SB 1360 |
Soto-D Public employees' retirement: school member death benefits |
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SB 1367 |
Karnette-D Curriculum content standards |
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SB 1382 |
Karnette-D Community colleges: board of governors report |
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SB 1397 |
Costa-D Charter schools: funding |
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SB 1398 |
Murray-D Institute for the Preservation of Jazz |
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SB 1405 |
O'Connell-D Paraprofessionals: instructional aides |
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SB 1408 |
Vasconcellos-D Education: high school exit examination |
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SB 1412 |
Romero-D Voter registration: university and college campuses |
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SB 1416 |
Polanco-D Charter schools: community day schools |
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SB 1419 |
Alarcon-D Personal services contracting |
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SB 1440 |
Oller-R Pupils: discipline |
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SB 1450 |
Romero-D California State University: instructional funding |
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SB 1453* |
Alpert-D Pupil records |
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SB 1474 |
Alpert-D Independent study |
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SB 1476 |
O'Connell-D High school exit examination |
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SB 1478 |
McPherson-R Community learning center program |
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SB 1485 |
McClintock-R Public school expenditures |
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SB 1499 |
Johnson-R Child care: court records |
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SB 1520 |
Ortiz-D Schools: pupil nutrition: carbonated beverages |
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SB 1535 |
Knight-R Selective Service Act: registration: high school |
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SB 1546 |
Haynes-R School facilities funding: pay-as-you-go |
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SB 1547 |
Soto-D Teacher credentialing |
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SB 1548 |
Alarcon-D Content standards: visual and performing arts |
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SB 1550* |
Battin-R Thermal Powerplant sites and related facilities: schools |
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SB 1554* |
Battin-R Instruction: WISE pilot project |
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SB 1562 |
Speier-D Drug education: performance enhancing substances |
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SB 1565 |
Polanco-D First Responder Training for Terrorism Preparedness |
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SB 1566 |
Polanco-D EdNet Program |
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SB 1580 |
Burton-D State Teachers' Retirement System Board of Administration |
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SB 1595 |
Escutia-D Pupils: English learners |
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SB 1596 |
Scott-D Child care: family support |
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SB 1597 |
Karnette-D School accountability: physical performance testing |
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SB 1606 |
Soto-D Specialized secondary programs |
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SB 1624 |
Romero-D Educational facilities |
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SB 1632 |
Perata-D Pupils: sun protection |
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SB 1639 |
McPherson-R Educational counseling |
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SB 1646 |
Alpert-D Teacher credentialing |
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SB 1655* |
Scott-D Teacher credentialing: administrative services credential |
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SB 1656* |
Scott-D Teacher credentialing: registered sex offenders |
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SB 1665 |
Polanco-D Pupils: English learners |
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SB 1667 |
Vasconcellos-D School violence |
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SB 1671 |
Escutia-D Supplemental instruction |
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SB 1673 |
McPherson-R School facilities funding: replacement buildings |
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SB 1677 |
Alpert-D Surrogate parents |
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SB 1685 |
Morrow-R Schoolbus: warning light systems |
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SB 1708 |
Poochigian-R Charter schools: special education funding |
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SB 1709 |
Poochigian-R Charter schools: audits |
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SB 1724* |
Speier-D Income tax credit: child care |
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SB 1747 |
Polanco-D School districts: physical education |
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SB 1770 |
Burton-D School districts: cursive handwriting |
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SB 1771 |
Alarcon-D Curriculum and research on diversity: institute |
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SB 1789 |
Poochigian-R Assessed valuation of all taxable property: reports |
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SB 1813 |
Alarcon-D Pupil achievement |
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SB 1819 |
Romero-D Professional and graduate education |
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SB 1820 |
Romero-D California Postsecondary Education Commission |
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SB 1825 |
Ortiz-D Student financial aid: California State Work-Study Program |
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SB 1830* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education funding |
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SB 1842* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Instructional materials |
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SB 1868 |
Torlakson-D Physical education |
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SB 1883 |
Morrow-R School employee liability |
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SB 1904 |
Vasconcellos-D School facilities construction and modernization |
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SB 1915 |
Alarcon-D Deferred maintenance |
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SB 1921 |
Romero-D Adult education: average daily attendance audits |
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SB 1934 |
McPherson-R Career technical education |
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SB 1937 |
Costa-D Digital Arts Studio Partnership Demonstration Program Act |
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SB 1944 |
O'Connell-D Educator |
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SB 1968 |
Alarcon-D School employees: due process |
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SB 1973 |
Polanco-D Curriculum: voter participation |
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SB 1983 |
Soto-D Teachers' Retirement Law |
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SB 1988 |
Polanco-D Environmental education fund |
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SB 1995 |
Alarcon-D School District Organizational Leadership and Development |
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SB 2008 |
Speier-D Nursing: Assumption Program of Loans for Nursing Education |
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SB 2012 |
Margett-R Special education: interagency agreements |
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SB 2017 |
Karnette-D Purchase of perishable foodstuffs, supplies, and equipment |
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SB 2019 |
Speier-D Health care practitioners: student loans |
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SB 2028 |
Vasconcellos-D Community colleges: equal employment opportunity hiring |
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SB 2029 |
Alarcon-D Teacher certification: district interns |
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SB 2039* |
O'Connell-D Charter schools |
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SB 2064 |
Burton-D Employee bargaining units: salary deductions |
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SB 2066 |
Burton-D Higher education labor relations |
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SB 2083* |
Polanco-D English language learners |
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SCA 10 |
Speier-D Public library facilities: bonds: vote requirement |
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SCR 49 |
McPherson-R Public postsecondary education: student fees |
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SCR 54 |
Alpert-D College Awareness Month |
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SCR 60 |
Murray-D Arts Education Month |
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SCR 92 |
Alpert-D Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education |
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SCR 93 |
Alpert-D Joint doctoral programs |
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SCR 98 |
Vasconcellos-D Community college funding |
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SCR 101 |
Johnson-R Parent-Teacher Association Membership Month |
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AB 14 |
Goldberg-D School facilities |
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AB 16* |
Hertzberg-D Education facilities |
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AB 47* |
Simitian-D Juvenile court schools and county community schools |
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AB 65 |
Strom-Martin-D Reading First Plan |
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AB 118 |
Migden-D Public Employees' Retirement System |
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AB 164 |
Harman-R Special education: alternative dispute resolution |
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AB 168* |
Nation-D Charter schools: funding |
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AB 172 |
Reyes-D Scholarships |
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AB 193 |
Thomson-D School finance: equalization adjustment |
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AB 195 |
Alquist-D Student charges |
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AB 200 |
Runner-R School facilities |
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AB 231 |
Nakano-D Class size reduction |
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AB 259 |
Chavez-D Adult education: average daily attendance audits |
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AB 312* |
Strom-Martin-D Public education |
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AB 320 |
Reyes-D Portable classrooms |
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AB 323 |
Pavley-D Special education: juvenile courts |
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AB 336 |
Goldberg-D School library pilot program |
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AB 338 |
Correa-D Demonstration project: nursing shortage in Orange County |
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AB 355 |
Havice-D Peace officers: training |
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AB 396 |
Papan-D Child care services |
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AB 444* |
Assembly Budget Committee Human services |
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AB 481 |
Firebaugh-D Education: pupil health: diabetes |
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AB 500 |
Goldberg-D School districts: short-term employees |
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AB 520 |
Koretz-D Teacher paperwork |
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AB 526 |
Briggs-R Class size reduction |
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AB 542 |
Runner-R Pupil capacity: multitrack year-round program |
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AB 615 |
Calderon-D Pupil motivation and maintenance |
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AB 622 |
Runner-R California State University: offsite campus centers |
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AB 634 |
Wesson-D Education: minimum age of compulsory school attendance |
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AB 662 |
Vargas-D Pupil suspension and expulsion |
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AB 693 |
Longville-D School facilities improvement districts: elections |
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AB 725 |
Vargas-D School violence |
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AB 741 |
Firebaugh-D English language instruction |
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AB 768 |
Shelley-D School property: modification of structures |
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AB 818 |
Dutra-D Fremont Unified School District: minimum instructional time |
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AB 849 |
Pavley-D Pupil services |
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AB 878 |
Liu-D Cal Grant Program |
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AB 885 |
Daucher-R Average daily attendance: Internet classroom |
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AB 907 |
Goldberg-D Community colleges: faculty |
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AB 912 |
Wesson-D Mathematics and Science Challenge Grant Program |
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AB 947 |
Jackson-D Pesticides: schoolsites |
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AB 979* |
Cedillo-D Employees: call to active military duty: War on Terrorism |
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AB 1000 |
Simitian-D Public works: design-build contracts |
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AB 1008 |
Lowenthal-D Housing assistance: property tax notices |
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AB 1077* |
Mountjoy-R Sales and use taxes: public school exemption |
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AB 1096 |
Wright-D Pupil health: eye examinations |
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AB 1100* |
Simitian-D Education finance |
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AB 1131 |
Frommer-D Apprenticeship programs |
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AB 1159* |
Robert Pacheco-R Community colleges: funding |
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AB 1227 |
Canciamilla-D Minimum instructional time: penalty waiver |
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AB 1240 |
Alquist-D Pediatric literacy programs |
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AB 1255 |
Cardenas-D School construction funding: smaller schools |
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AB 1257* |
Cardenas-D Taxes: child care facilities |
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AB 1285* |
Reyes-D Supplemental Instruction: Fresno Unified School District |
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AB 1293 |
Hollingsworth-R Schools: Military recruiting access: federal law |
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AB 1299* |
Rod Pacheco-R Adult education |
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AB 1317 |
Liu-D Pupils: expulsion |
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AB 1342 |
Alquist-D Postsecondary education: international education |
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AB 1348 |
Robert Pacheco-R California State Polytechnic University |
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AB 1358 |
Pescetti-R Child care facilities |
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AB 1377 |
Wiggins-D School curriculum: information collection |
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AB 1381 |
Florez-D Postsecondary education: Governor's Scholarship Programs |
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AB 1407 |
Lowenthal-D Pupil instruction: Algebra Incentive Program |
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AB 1412 |
Wright-D Career education |
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AB 1430 |
Cardenas-D School facilities |
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AB 1462 |
Nakano-D Teacher training |
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AB 1498 |
Rod Pacheco-R Junior high school class size reduction |
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AB 1506 |
Wesson-D Public works |
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AB 1511 |
Frommer-D Public school facilities |
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AB 1525 |
Assembly Budget Committee Education finance |
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AB 1543* |
Firebaugh-D Exemption from nonresident tuition |
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AB 1545 |
Florez-D Child care facilities: criminal record information |
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AB 1580 |
Cardenas-D School facilities: allocation of funds |
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AB 1623 |
Nakano-D School facilities |
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AB 1634 |
Chan-D Nutrition education |
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AB 1710 |
Negrete McLeod-D Part-time community college employees: retirement plans |
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AB 1722 |
Assembly Higher Education Committee Community colleges |
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AB 1746 |
Liu-D Postsecondary education: tuition and fees |
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AB 1747 |
Briggs-R Postsecondary education: Tulare County |
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AB 1751 |
Alquist-D Secondary school courses of study |
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AB 1756 |
Bogh-R Higher education: noncitizen students: reporting |
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AB 1766 |
Assembly Higher Education Committee Student financial aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards |
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AB 1781 |
Hertzberg-D Instructional materials: funding |
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AB 1788 |
Reyes-D University of California: cardcheck agreements |
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AB 1789 |
Reyes-D Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District |
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AB 1793 |
Migden-D Education: physical education |
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AB 1794 |
Chavez-D High school exit examination |
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AB 1795 |
Reyes-D Kerman Unified School District |
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AB 1802 |
Nation-D School employees: classified service |
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AB 1817 |
Leslie-R Schools: moment of quiet thought |
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AB 1818* |
Assembly Education Committee Education |
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AB 1841 |
Hollingsworth-R Public postsecondary education: resident classification |
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AB 1848 |
Diaz-D Targeted Instructional Improvement Grants |
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AB 1852 |
Runner-R Charter schools: joint powers agreements |
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AB 1859 |
Papan-D Special education: pupil suspension and expulsion |
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AB 1863 |
Assembly Higher Education Committee California State University: regulations |
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AB 1879 |
Horton-D Inglewood Unified School District |
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AB 1886 |
Jackson-D Vehicles: school zone fines |
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AB 1888 |
Daucher-R Class size reduction |
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AB 1895 |
Wright-D Education: special education |
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AB 1898 |
Nakano-D Class size |
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AB 1900 |
Nakano-D Labor History Week |
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AB 1901 |
Cohn-D Pupils: expulsion |
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AB 1904* |
Reyes-D West Fresno Elementary School District |
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AB 1905 |
Longville-D Type 2 diabetes mellitus: pupil screening |
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AB 1907 |
Dickerson-R Special education: funding |
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AB 1920 |
Hollingsworth-R High school exit examination |
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AB 1930 |
Wyland-R Charter schools |
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AB 1965 |
Bogh-R Public postsecondary education: Medal of Honor recipients |
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AB 1966 |
Matthews-D Charter schools: establishment |
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AB 1973* |
Richman-R Instructional day |
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AB 1975 |
Koretz-D Community college employees |
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AB 1984 |
Steinberg-D After school programs: high school pupils |
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AB 1991 |
Liu-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant A and B Awards |
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AB 1994 |
Reyes-D Charter schools: operation |
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AB 1996 |
Thomson-D University of California: analysis of legislation |
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AB 2001 |
Diaz-D Ethnic studies |
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AB 2003 |
Koretz-D The Holocaust and genocide |
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AB 2024 |
Nakano-D After school programs: nutrition education |
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AB 2025 |
Corbett-D Master plan for pupil support services |
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AB 2026 |
Longville-D California State University: Center for Chicano Studies |
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AB 2027 |
Goldberg-D Year-round schools |
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AB 2034 |
Horton-D Reporting of improper governmental activities |
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AB 2046 |
Corbett-D School Safety Advisory Council |
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AB 2053 |
Jackson-D Teachers |
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AB 2065* |
Oropeza-D Teacher tax credit |
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AB 2066 |
Briggs-R Fresno Unified School District |
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AB 2068 |
Briggs-R Assumption Program of Loans for Education |
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AB 2069 |
Reyes-D Social sciences: leadership skills |
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AB 2077 |
Koretz-D Nursing: education resources |
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AB 2084 |
Briggs-R Pupils: attendance |
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AB 2115 |
Goldberg-D Schools: athletic team names and mascots |
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AB 2120 |
Simitian-D Teacher Support and Development Act of 2002 |
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AB 2128 |
Ashburn-R Hot Springs Elementary School District |
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AB 2130 |
Simitian-D Supplemental instruction |
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AB 2136 |
Florez-D Public schools: State School Health Advisory Council |
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AB 2137 |
Lowenthal-D State teachers' retirement: service credit |
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AB 2138 |
Firebaugh-D School districts |
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AB 2146 |
Chu-D Community colleges: intersession terms |
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AB 2153 |
Firebaugh-D School facilities |
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AB 2160 |
Goldberg-D Public school employees: scope of representation |
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AB 2176 |
Hollingsworth-R Pupil records: access to directory information |
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AB 2188 |
Liu-D Regional career technical high schools |
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AB 2198 |
Lowenthal-D Schools: violent crime |
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AB 2201 |
Corbett-D School safety: emergency manager |
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AB 2202 |
Alquist-D Gerontology: service delivery personnel: training |
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AB 2207 |
Salinas-D Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program |
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AB 2212 |
Alquist-D Pupil Data Portfolio Pilot Program |
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AB 2217 |
Strom-Martin-D Education: Quality Education Model |
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AB 2223 |
Keeley-D School indoor air quality |
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AB 2225 |
Lowenthal-D California State University: personal services contracting |
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AB 2231 |
Robert Pacheco-R Community colleges: Board of Governors |
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AB 2236 |
Chu-D Education: pupil rights |
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AB 2241 |
Chu-D Educational counseling |
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AB 2243 |
Chu-D Accounting, budget controls and audits |
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AB 2249 |
La Suer-R Public schools: vocational education |
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AB 2254 |
Salinas-D Reorganization of school districts |
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AB 2255 |
Wright-D Day care centers: activity space |
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AB 2264 |
Wyland-R Home economics and career technical education |
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AB 2269 |
Horton-D Substitute teachers: training |
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AB 2288 |
Chavez-D Teacher credentialing: Troops to teachers |
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AB 2295 |
Oropeza-D School-sponsored athletic programs |
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AB 2310 |
Chu-D High school equivalency certificates |
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AB 2311 |
Chu-D Child care and development services |
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AB 2314 |
Thomson-D Nursing education |
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AB 2319 |
Cogdill-R School facilities construction and modernization |
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AB 2324 |
Diaz-D After school programs |
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AB 2326 |
Frommer-D Braille reading standards |
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AB 2363 |
Firebaugh-D State Board of Education |
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AB 2372 |
Steinberg-D School transportation |
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AB 2395 |
Goldberg-D School Breakfast Program |
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AB 2398 |
Robert Pacheco-R Community colleges: surplus personal property |
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AB 2403 |
Steinberg-D Schools: foster children |
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AB 2424 |
Goldberg-D Local school construction authority |
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AB 2425 |
Richman-R The Los Angeles Unified School District: Inspector General |
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AB 2429 |
Robert Pacheco-R Public education finance: community college funding |
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AB 2444 |
Dutra-D State special schools and diagnostic centers: salaries |
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AB 2451 |
Salinas-D State teachers' retirement: credit for sick leave |
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AB 2453 |
Steinberg-D Child care and development services |
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AB 2466 |
Firebaugh-D Deferred maintenance |
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AB 2470 |
Jackson-D Minors: out-of-court statements |
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AB 2484 |
Jackson-D School violence prevention |
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AB 2494* |
Rod Pacheco-R Student Aid Commission |
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AB 2497 |
Negrete McLeod-D California State University: employees |
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AB 2503 |
Diaz-D Charter schools: establishment |
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AB 2506 |
Steinberg-D State Teachers' Retirement System: investment products |
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AB 2507 |
Rod Pacheco-R State special schools |
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AB 2512 |
Richman-R School districts: expenditures |
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AB 2520 |
Bates-R Special education |
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AB 2527 |
Diaz-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant C |
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AB 2531 |
Steinberg-D School accountability: pupil performance |
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AB 2532 |
Rod Pacheco-R Textbook weight |
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AB 2533 |
Jackson-D Postsecondary education: campus crime reporting |
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AB 2536 |
Bill Campbell-R University of California: Islet Cell Transplant Facility |
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AB 2540 |
Steinberg-D Superintendent training program |
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AB 2541 |
Negrete McLeod-D School-to-career initiatives |
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AB 2547 |
Nation-D Tamalpais Union High School District |
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AB 2549 |
Nation-D Public employees' retirement: part-time employees |
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AB 2555 |
Leach-R Child care and development services: local contracts |
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AB 2556 |
Leach-R Education: pupils: interdistrict transfers |
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AB 2558 |
Leach-R Education: School Report Card |
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AB 2566 |
Pavley-D Pre-Internship Teaching Program |
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AB 2571 |
Hollingsworth-R Reporting of information concerning alien national students |
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AB 2572 |
Mountjoy-R Psychotropic drugs |
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AB 2575 |
Leach-R Teacher credentialing |
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AB 2583 |
Chu-D Postsecondary education: sexual assault |
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AB 2585 |
Aroner-D Education finance |
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AB 2588 |
Hertzberg-D School facilities: collaborative community planning |
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AB 2593 |
Rod Pacheco-R School safety plans |
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AB 2600* |
Pavley-D High school exit examination: alternate assessment |
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AB 2604 |
Oropeza-D Teacher training: cultural differences |
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AB 2607 |
Leach-R Exceptionally gifted pupils |
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AB 2614 |
Havice-D Pupil counseling services |
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AB 2616 |
Lowenthal-D California State University: visually impaired pupils |
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AB 2626 |
La Suer-R Gifted pupils: enrollment in community college courses |
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AB 2627 |
Leach-R School Fairness in Education Funding Act |
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AB 2628 |
Leach-R Charter schools: oversight authority |
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AB 2646 |
Liu-D State teachers' retirement: health benefits |
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AB 2657* |
Bogh-R Instruction: grade point average |
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AB 2668 |
Zettel-R Pupil curricula: brain and spinal cord injury prevention |
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AB 2675 |
Wyland-R State Department of Education: pupil reading scores |
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AB 2676 |
Wyland-R Pupil testing |
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AB 2681 |
Maldonado-R School pupil activity buses: passenger restraint systems |
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AB 2708 |
Mountjoy-R School safety plan |
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AB 2709 |
Wyland-R Education: curriculum |
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AB 2711 |
Wyland-R Curriculum |
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AB 2730 |
Washington-D Public libraries: resources for youths |
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AB 2738 |
Chan-D Working group: pupil health screening |
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AB 2741 |
Chan-D Children's School Readiness and Health Council |
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AB 2750 |
Wesson-D Adult education: classes in correctional facilities |
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AB 2767 |
Pavley-D State teachers' retirement: federal benefits |
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AB 2768 |
Longville-D Education: AIDS prevention instruction |
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AB 2781* |
Oropeza-D Education finance |
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AB 2782 |
Cogdill-R Categorical programs: temporarily inoperative |
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AB 2785 |
Oropeza-D Education finance |
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AB 2803 |
Cogdill-R School transportation |
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AB 2807 |
Firebaugh-D Arts education |
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AB 2808 |
Washington-D Community colleges: homeland defense security training |
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AB 2811* |
Migden-D Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program |
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AB 2817 |
Maddox-R Sex education: course content |
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AB 2834 |
Migden-D School districts: audits |
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AB 2841 |
Horton-D Public contracts: job order contracting |
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AB 2849 |
Washington-D Classified school employees |
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AB 2859 |
Aroner-D School finance |
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AB 2867 |
Kehoe-D Joint powers agency: San Diego |
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AB 2874 |
Florez-D Childcare licensing |
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AB 2881 |
Chan-D Pupil health screening: pilot program |
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AB 2883 |
Aroner-D Higher education labor relations: impasse procedures |
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AB 2894 |
Strom-Martin-D Manchester Union Elementary School District |
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AB 2900 |
Longville-D Television broadcast facilities |
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AB 2903 |
Kehoe-D Use of district property |
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AB 2912 |
Florez-D Charter schools: funding |
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AB 2920 |
Aroner-D California Center on Social Work Careers |
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AB 2950 |
Strom-Martin-D Instructional strategies: subject matter projects |
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AB 2956 |
Wiggins-D Technology Career Academy Grant |
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AB 2960 |
Florez-D Student financial aid: Student Aid Commission |
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AB 2967 |
Wright-D Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education |
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AB 2982 |
Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State teachers' retirement |
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AB 2998* |
Assembly Budget Committee Instructional materials |
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AB 3003 |
Assembly Budget Committee Education finance |
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AB 3005* |
Assembly Budget Committee Education |
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AB 3008 |
Assembly Budget Committee Budget implementation: education finance |
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AB 3011 |
Assembly Budget Committee Education |
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AB 3043 |
Alquist-D Student Senate of the California Community Colleges |
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AB 3044 |
Assembly Higher Education Committee University of California: rules and regulations |
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AB 3045* |
Assembly Higher Education Committee Student financial aid: Golden State Scholarshare Trust |
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AB 3046 |
Assembly Higher Education Committee Zoning: community college district |
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ACA 20 |
Leach-R School finance: equalization adjustment |
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ACR 74 |
Leach-R National Scholarship Month |
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ACR 84 |
Kelley-R Public postsecondary education: Imperial County |
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ACR 137 |
Chan-D School health |
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ACR 154 |
Washington-D 48th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education |
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ACR 158 |
Wiggins-D Career and vocational education |
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ACR 159 |
Aroner-D Public higher education: student housing |
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ACR 177 |
Diaz-D Foreign teacher recruitment and support |
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ACR 178 |
Diaz-D University of California: admissions process |
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ACR 183 |
Zettel-R Charter Schools Week |
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ACR 189 |
Longville-D California State University, San Bernardino |
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ACR 193 |
Hollingsworth-R Career technical education |
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ACR 194 |
Maldonado-R Physical education |
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ACR 197 |
Strom-Martin-D Day of the Teacher |
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ACR 215 |
Aroner-D Social work education program |
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ACR 235 |
Richman-R University of California: divestiture of funds |
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AJR 47 |
Jackson-D Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 |
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HR 86 |
Havice-D School Crossing Guards Week |
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