School Finance
School Facilities
Bilingual Education
Charter Schools
School Safety
Child and Day Care
Special Education
School Accountability and Testing
Higher Education
School Employees
School Curriculum
Pupil Nutrition
Vocational Education
Miscellaneous
School Finance
SB 146 (Scott-D) School finance: attendance and enrollment
Commences a multiyear transition from average daily attendance to average monthly enrollment as the basis for funding public schools in California.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 460 (Florez-D) Kings Canyon Unified School District
Allows the Kings Canyon Unified School District to receive a necessary small school apportionment for the Dunlap High School as long as that school's average daily attendance does not exceed 286.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 667 (Hollingsworth-R) School finance
Appropriates $55,000 from the General Fund to the Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District to continue to operate the Palomar Mountain Elementary School.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2007
SB 681 (Torlakson-D) Pupil attendance: high school
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report to the Legislature, by 12/1/08, on the issue of each high school offering pupils a minimum of seven class periods per school day.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 802 (Romero-D) County community schools
Revises authorization and funding for alternative educational settings that primarily serve pupils that have been suspended, expelled, or referred by probation officers.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 25 (Brownley-D) Schools
Requires the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence and the P-16 Council, established by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to work together to develop a report, by 7/1/09, for submission to the Legislature, that provides adequate information to enable it to establish the reasonable costs of schools offering instruction in K-12, and to determine the best use of available resources so that the vast majority of pupils may meet academic performance standards established by the state.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 33* (Jeffries-R) School transportation costs: tax credit
Provides that for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/07, there shall be allowed as a credit against a taxpayer's net tax an amount equal to 20% of the school transportation costs paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year. Limits the definition of "school transportation costs" to any charge or fee imposed by a public school or public school district in California for home-to-school transportation.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 68 (Dymally-D) Schools: pupil services block grant
Establishes the pupil services block grant for the purpose of providing education, mental health, and social services support services to pupils. Provides that funds will be apportioned to school districts and used to hire, or expand services provided by, specified credentialed or certificated school professionals, including, among others, school psychologists, counselors, nurses, social workers, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists. Authorizes a school district to use these block grant funds to reduce the size of special education classes for pupils with low-incidence disabilities and other specified disabilities.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 73 (Dymally-D) School attendance
Revises the method of determining the average daily attendance in regular elementary, middle, and high schools. Specifies that school districts shall divide the sum of the active enrollment figures reported for those schools during each period by the number of school months in which those figures were calculated during that period, and requires that average daily attendance in continuation schools and classes be determined by dividing the total number of days of attendance allowed in all full school months in each period by the number of days the schools and classes are actually taught in all full school months in each period.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 127 (Beall-D) School finance: per pupil funding
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, by 6/1/09, a method by which a school district distributes resources to schools under its jurisdiction based on the specific needs of the pupils enrolled in a school and that allows pupil funding to follow, on an annual basis, the pupil who generates the funding when the pupil moves within a school district so that the funding generated by the pupil does not remain with a program after the pupil is no longer enrolled in that program.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 179 (De Leon-D) School finance
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to calculate revenue limits for school districts using a revised method commencing with the 2008-09 fiscal year if the Legislature makes funding available in the annual Budget Act for this purpose. Requires the SPI to calculate a minimum revenue limit for a school district using the average of revenue limits statewide and to increase that limit for a district using a weighted-pupil formula based on the number of pupils in the district who are economically disadvantaged, classified as English-language learners, are individuals with exceptional needs, or any combination thereof. Provides that the weighted-pupil formula shall reflect the costs associated with providing the instruction and associated services necessary for the specified groups of pupils to achieve the Academic Performance Index growth targets established for those groups.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 194* (Assembly Budget Committee) School finance
Provides $2 million on a one-time basis for the California School Information Services program to replace outdated server capacity, purchase automated testing tools, and address technical assistance workload. Restores $5 million in funding to the state pre-school 2007 State Budget item, and provides clarifying budget language assigning priority of these funds for wraparound care to children enrolled in pre-kindergarten and family literacy programs, as specified.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2007
AB 366 (Wolk-D) School finance: declining enrollment
Augments average daily attendance (ADA) calculated for funding purposes for school districts where the second principal apportionment ADA has declined for two consecutive years.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 415 (Karnette-D) Adult education: funding
Requires that, as of 2008-09, school districts with adult education programs must allow continuously enrolled high school students to participate in adult education in order to pass the high school exit examination and earn a high school diploma, and allows a district to claim adult education funding for these students without regard to the "cap" on adult average daily attendance that may be claimed for state funding.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 466 (Hancock-D) Pupils: average daily attendance
Deems a student serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be participating in independent studies for calculating a school district's average daily attendance for funding purposes.
Vetoed
AB 491 (Carter-D) Pupil counseling: supplemental school counseling
Changes the method of allocating funds for the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program from the existing per-pupil enrolled in grades 7-12 amount to an allocation based on the number of pupils who failed either section of the high school exit examination in the most recent 10th grade administration.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 586 (Coto-D) School finance: funding formula
Enacts the Pupil Funding Equity and Reform Act of 2007. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to begin implementing a new funding formula for K-12 and for school districts, defined as school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, commencing with the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 599 (Mullin-D) Education finance
Changes the method for calculating revenue limits for school districts commencing with the 2008-09 fiscal year. Requires the base revenues for the 2006-07 year to be used to calculate a base revenue amount per unit of average daily attendance.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 699 (Parra-D) Home-to-school transportation
Establishes a new funding formula for the Home-to-School Transportation program with the affect of providing local education agencies with additional funding that reduces their funding contribution for this program to 2%.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 710 (Parra-D) School finance: military dependents
Increases the average daily attendance (ADA) for specific school districts by the amount of ADA generated by the attendance of military dependents.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 835 (Krekorian-D) School finance: declining enrollment
Makes changes in the calculation of average daily attendance (ADA) used for computing funding allocations for school districts, county offices of education, and special education local plan areas where ADA is declining.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 850 (Torrico-D) School finance: special education
Modifies the special education formula funding model to require a cost-of-living adjustment for all special education funds tied to cost-of-living adjustments calculated for school districts' revenue limits.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1080 (Mullin-D) State preschool programs: funding
Revises the kindergarten transition and family literacy preschool program component to provide greater guidance to the Department of Education in the administration of the program.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2007
AB 1163 (Krekorian-D) Adult education
Increases the cap on adult education entitlement expenditures for approved distance learning programs, as defined, from five percent to 15 percent.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1320 (Carter-D) Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities
Deems a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board, or engaging in other leadership or civic engagement activities, as participating in independent study for the purpose of calculating average daily attendance.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1344 (Mendoza-D) State preschool programs
Appropriates funding for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years for prekindergarten and family literacy programs and specifies eligibility and programmatic requirements.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1601 (Hancock-D) School finance: Average Monthly Enrollment Pilot Program
Establishes, until 7/1/15, the Average Monthly Enrollment Pilot Program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate the revenue limits for school districts that are repaying emergency apportionment loans made by the state using average monthly enrollment, instead of average daily attendance, beginning in the 2008-09 fiscal year. Makes related changes to fiscal provisions. Requires the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to conduct a study of the use of average monthly enrollment in the program and to report its findings to the Legislature no later than 7/1/14.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1632 (Parra-D) Class size reduction: penalty: January 2007 freeze exemption
Exempts from funding deduction provisions, under the Class Size Reduction Program, a school district that exceeded the class size reduction limitations due to the January 2007 freeze and is wholly or partially located in a county declared in a state of emergency due to that freeze.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1638* (Houston-R) School finance: equalization
Distributes revenue limit (general purpose funding) equalization funding for the 2007-08 fiscal year under an existing formula, with the goal of increasing base revenue limits to 90 percent of the statewide average for the appropriate size and type of a district. Appropriates $150 million from the General Fund for this purpose.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1685* (Garrick-R) Before and after school programs: grants
Clarifies that the fiscal year 2005-06 funding level for the After School Education and Safety Program also includes adjustments related to increased reimbursement rates and maximum grant amounts for before-school programs.
Chapter 22, Statutes of 2007
School Facilities
SB 13 (Wyland-R) Career Technical Education Facilities
Requires the California Department of Education to include specified questions, related to career and vocational education, in the application for new construction plan approval.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2007
SB 18 (Perata-D) School facilities: labor compliance
Requires an awarding body that chooses to use funds for a public works project using the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 to monitor the project with a Department of Industrial Relations approved labor compliance program.
Vetoed
SB 35 (Torlakson-D) School facilities: joint-use facilities
Expands the types of projects, and local contributions, that are allowed in order to be eligible for School Facility Joint-Use Program funding.
Vetoed
SB 121 (Romero-D) School facilities: multitrack year-round education
Increases eligibility for state school construction funding for certain school districts by making an exception to current law requirements that a district that receives multitrack year-round education operational grants must have its eligibility for new construction funding reduced.
Vetoed
SB 176* (Denham-R) School facilities: multitrack year-round schools
Exempts a school that is located in a school district with 30% of its pupils attending a multitrack year-round school from specified building capacity requirements.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 614 (Simitian-D) Education: public works: design-build contracts
Authorizes school districts and community colleges to utilize design-build construction contracts for projects exceeding $2.5 million, rather than the $10 million currently provided in law. Extends the use of the design-build process to all community college districts, rather than just those that are currently specified in law.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2007
SB 658* (Romero-D) School facilities
Authorizes a school district that is experiencing at least two years of declining enrollment of less than 10% each year to retain its new construction eligibility until 1/1/13, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 668 (Torlakson-D) School property: housing: Field Act exemption
Exempts housing built on school property from the provisions of the Field Act and declares that the Department of General Services is not required to review plans or construction associated with this exemption.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 704 (Ducheny-D) New construction grant eligibility: special education pupils
Requires the new construction per-pupil grant for special education students to be increased by 6%, and authorizes a school district that has a new construction project approved on or after 7/1/06 that contains special education classrooms to apply to the State Allocation Board for a supplemental apportionment equal to the 6% grant increase.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 80 (Krekorian-D) School facilities: energy efficiency
Requires the State Architect to incorporate specified energy efficiency standards as a condition of certification for school facilities constructed or modernized with state funds.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 100 (Mullin-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2008 for the 11/4/08 statewide general election. Provides for the issuance of $9,087,000,000 of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts, county superintendents of schools, and county boards of education, the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 125 (Ma-D) School facilities
Establishes the Long-Term Capital Facilities (LTCF) Planning Pilot Program, beginning with the passage of a 2008 school facilities bond (or later) until 1/1/12, as specified. Authorizes the annual, independent performance audit, authorized by Proposition 39, to include reviews of the compliance by a school or community college district with its bond ballot language, design/construction procedures, and payment procedures, as specified. Requires the LTCF to provide 10 school districts with up to $1 million in state matching grant funds to develop 10-year capital facilities component life-span assessments, and establishes grant minimums based on the number of school facilities, with the smallest grant amount being $100,000 to $200,000 for districts with 1-25 facilities, and the largest amount being $500,000 to $1 million for districts that have over 150 facilities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 134 (Wolk-D) School facilities: new construction eligibility
Allows school districts to use the actual enrollment, rather than the seating capacity, to determine the eligibility for new construction funding for schools located on high-security military bases that restrict access for nonmilitary individuals.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 137 (DeVore-R) Civic Center Act
Specifies that a governing board of a school district may not grant the use of school property to a person or organization for any use in violation of Section 38135 of the Education Code, which specifies, in part, that any use by any individual or organization for the commission of any act intended to further any program or movement for the purpose of which is to accomplish the overthrow of the United States government or state government by force, violence, or other unlawful means shall not be permitted. For the purpose of determining whether or not an individual, society, group, or organization applying the use of the school property intends to violate Section 38135, the governing board shall require the making, and delivery to the governing board, by the applicant of a written statement of information.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 168 (Berg-D) New construction: minimum essential school facilities
Establishes the Minimum Essential School Facilities (MESF) program, administered by the State Allocation Board (SAB), and authorizes a school district that lacks or does not have a MESF, as specified, to apply to the SAB for school construction and modernization funds to construct or expand an MESF.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 260 (Fuller-R) School facilities: supplemental funding: project management
Authorizes a school district, with an average daily attendance of 2,500 or fewer pupils, to request supplemental funding assistance from the State Allocation Board (SAB) in order to manage new construction and modernization projects of the school district that are approved by the SAB after 1/1/08.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 471 (Carter-D) School facilities: joint-use projects
Requires the State Allocation Board, in providing grant funds for joint-use projects, utilizing the $29 million from the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 earmarked for joint-use projects, to assign preference to applicant school districts that propose active recreation projects, as defined.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 818 (Krekorian-D) School facilities
Allows school district that have been awarded facilities grants for Class B construction or modernization projects to have the grants increased to match the statewide cost index in effect in the ninth month after the date of apportionment by the State Allocation Board or the time of the bid opening date for the project's first construction phase, whichever comes first.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 956 (Nakanishi-R) Public contracts: school districts: relocatable buildings
Permits a school district, without advertising for bids, to authorize another public agency to purchase relocatable buildings for the district. (This process is commonly referred to as "piggybacking" because a school district places its order for personal property on top of another public agency's order.)
(In Assembly Business, Professions & Economic Development Committee)
AB 1011 (DeSaulnier-D) School facilities: modernization eligibility
Credits for purposes of determining the eligibility for modernization funding one additional year for each three-year period for which a school facility was in continual use on a multitrack year-round educational schedule.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1014 (Bass-D) School facilities
Changes the method of determining K-12 new construction eligibility. Authorizes a school district to submit an alternative five-year or ten-year enrollment projection, based upon specified factors, for purposes of determining eligibility for new construction funding.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2007
AB 1101 (Parra-D) Career Technical Education Facilities Program
Requires that new construction grants not exceed $3,500,000 per project per schoolsite (current law specifies $3,000,000 per project per schoolsite).
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1395 (Coto-D) School facilities: new construction
Requires that any school district with an enrollment greater than 2,500 have its ongoing eligibility for new construction funding retained for three years from the date of the approval by the State Allocation Board if the district has considered all alternatives for projecting enrollment, authorized by current law, and it has submitted an alternative enrollment projection which was denied by either the Department of Finance or the Office of Public School Construction.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1450 (Brownley-D) School facilities: replacement buildings: reconfiguration
Makes revisions to the single-story replacement grant program by allowing a school district to replace an existing building with a grade group configuration other than the current grade group configuration at the existing site, allowing the district to serve the current grade group configuration at a different site, deleting the requirement that the increase in pupil capacity on the site will be maximized by the multistory replacement building, and replacing "single-story" building with "existing" building.
Vetoed
AB 1490 (Mendoza-D) New construction: ongoing eligibility: portable classrooms
Requires the number of pupils housed in portable classrooms that are at least 30 years old to be subtracted from a school district's building capacity for the purpose of determining new construction funding.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1500 (Hancock-D) School facilities: modernization funding
Makes several changes to the state school modernization program, including establishing a new program to provide grant funding to school districts that previously used modernization funding for seismic evaluation, repair, reconstruction, or replacement, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Bilingual Education
AB 252 (Coto-D) Pupil testing: primary language assessments: dual immersion
Authorizes the Department of Education to make primary language assessment, developed pursuant to current law, available to public schools to assess nonlimited- english-proficient pupils enrolled in a dual language immersion program, and requires, beginning with the 2010-11 school year, the annual release of test items from the standards-based achievement tests in Spanish, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 280 (Coto-D) Instructional programs: State Seal of Biliteracy
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to be voluntarily affixed to the diploma or transcript of a high school graduate who has attained functional proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing skills in one or more languages, in addition to English.
Vetoed
AB 480 (De Leon-D) California high school exit examination: English learners
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to invite providers of innovative programs for English language learners (ELLs) to submit proposals of programs designed to provide intensive, intervention-focused, supplemental instruction to ELL pupils enrolled in grades 10-12 who have not passed the high school exit exam.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 590 (Solorio-D) Parental involvement: limited-English-proficient parents
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon an appropriation in the annual budget act or another enacted statute, to establish and implement a pilot program to provide matching grant awards to local education agencies to encourage the involvement of limited-English-proficient parents in their children's education. Sunsets the pilot program on 1/1/12.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1027 (Caballero-D) Teachers: professional development
Authorizes a local educational agency to use up to 25% of the Mathematics Reading and Professional Development program funds (except for funds appropriated for teachers of English language learners) for instruction and training that has not been approved by the Board of Education in order to provide teachers with intensive training in mathematical content.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1052 (Torrico-D) Preschool: teachers: limited-English-proficient children
Requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a pilot program that includes three counties in the state (one in each geographic region) to provide college coursework, training, and career ladder opportunities for preschool teachers who provide instruction to limited-English-proficient children.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1177 (Solorio-D) Accelerated English Acquisition and Literacy Pilot Program
Enacts the Accelerated English Acquisition and Literacy Pilot Program to provide for the development of instructional materials in English language development and literacy that are designed for English language learners and to assess the impact of these materials on English language development and reading/language arts achievement.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
Charter Schools
SB 20 (Torlakson-D) Charter schools
Clarifies and strengthens the process by which the Board of Education authorizes statewide benefit to charter schools. Makes a one-time appropriation of $18 million for purposes of the Charter School Facilities Grant Program.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2007
SB 92 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Charter schools: petitions: facilities
Makes changes to current law regarding statewide charter schools, and appropriates $18 million for the Charter School Facility Grant Program.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 345* (Aanestad-R) Charter schools
Makes revisions to provisions of the Education Code related to charter schools. Authorizes charter schools to pay teacher salaries on alternative schedules. Authorizes work permits to be issued for charter school pupils. Authorizes specified charter school general purpose funding for the Center for Advanced Research and Technology.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2007
SB 537 (Simitian-D) Charter schools: report
Requires the California Research Bureau to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before 1/8/09, a report on the key elements and actual costs of charter school oversight by the school's chartering agency (school district or county office), as specified.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2007
SB 647 (Romero-D) Charter schools: funding
Entitles a county-sponsored charter school authorized prior to 7/1/05 (the Soledad Enrichment Action Charter School is the school that qualifies) to receive additional funding through the charter school categorical block grant program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 908 (Simitian-D) Charter schools
Deletes the existing provision of law regarding whether or not the Board of Education is the authority that granted a charter to a school.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 143 (Coto-D) Charter schools: funding
Establishes a pilot program to authorize a charter school, beginning 7/1/08, which serves pupils who meet requirements for assignment to a community day school to receive community day school funding until 1/1/12.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 177 (Bass-D) Charter schools: at-risk pupils: county board of education
Extends authorization for the Los Angeles County Board of Education to charter the Soledad Enrichment Action Charter School from 6/30/08 to 6/30/13.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2007
AB 557 (Huff-R) Charter schools: revocation
Makes changes to the appeal process for charter school revocation.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 766 (Walters-R) Charter schools
Provides that persons participating in a school field trip or excursion are deemed to have waived claims of liability against a charter school in the same manner that school districts and the State of California are currently exempt from such claims.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2007
AB 1230 (Laird-D) Charter schools: pupil health screenings
Requires charter schools to provide pupils with specified health screenings, including a vision and hearing test and a scoliosis screening.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1281 (Soto-D) Charter schools
Requires charter school petitions to include specific information about providing for the special needs students, and revises procedures relating to pupil suspension or expulsion.
Vetoed
AB 1609 (Leno-D) Charter schools
Repeals, on 1/1/13, provisions of existing law authorizing the State Board of Education (SBE) to approve petitions submitted directly to the SBE to establish state charter schools that may operate at multiple sites throughout the state. Requires the California Research Bureau in the California State Library, on or before 2/1/12, to provide information to the Legislature regarding the implementation of that authorization.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
School Safety
SB 453 (Negrete McLeod-D) Schools and community colleges: district employees.
Requires personnel commissions at school and community college districts that utilize the merit system for classified employees, to determine compensation for, annually evaluate and supervise the personnel director. The personnel commissions would be required to write an annual written performance evaluation of the personnel director, in which the district administration and exclusive representatives of the classified employees may participate. The personnel commission would be authorized to impose disciplinary measures on the personnel director for cause, though the personnel director would be entitled to request a hearing in such cases.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 550 (Ashburn-R) Safe school zones: gangs
Provides that a defendant convicted of participation in a street gang or a felony for which a gang enhancement was imposed shall receive an additional sentence enhancement of one year if the crime occurred within 1,000 feet of a school or park.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 844 (Calderon-D) School zones: crime
Enhances the law concerning safe school zones, relative to crimes occurring in these zones.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
SCR 46 (Machado-D) California Anti-Bullying Week
Designates the second week in November 2007 as California Anti-Bullying Week.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2007
AB 229 (Strickland-R) School grounds: prohibited weapons
Makes it a misdemeanor or felony to bring or possess a box cutter, an exacto knife, or a knife with characteristics similar to an exacto knife upon the grounds of any public or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 321 (Nava-D) Schools: vehicles: speed limits
Allows a local government to declare a speed limit of 15 miles per hour in school zones and to expand the distance a 25 miles-per-hour school zone may be in force to 1,000 feet from the school.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2007
AB 331 (Emmerson-R) School safety: persistently dangerous schools
Requires schools to report information on the school accountability report card regarding the number of incidents of specified types of criminal violations that occurred at schools that have been identified as "persistently dangerous."
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 352 (Solorio-D) School grounds: weapons
Adds the act of bringing any instrument that expels a non-metallic BB or pellet to the crime of possessing such instrument on the grounds of, or bringing such instrument to, specified schools.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 394 (Levine-D) Safe schools: discrimination and harassment
Requires the Department of Education to assess local educational agencies, as part of the existing monitoring process, for compliance with specific anti-discrimination and harassment policies and procedures, and to display specified bias-related and discrimination and harassment information on their web site.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2007
AB 675 (Eng-D) School safety
Establishes the School Against Violence Emergency Response Project.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 743 (Solorio-D) School security officers
Requires every school district to maintain a minimum ratio of one school security officer for every 500 pupils enrolled at each of its middle schools and comprehensive high schools.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 810 (Lieu-D) School safety
Requires principals or schoolsite administrators (rather than the school district) to be solely responsible for notifying the Department of Education of their school's compliance with school safety plan requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Child and Day Care
SB 197 (Ducheny-D) Child care: eligibility: termination of services
Permits the transfer of child care benefits for children in foster care who are placed with a new foster parent.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 680 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Child care resource and referral programs: funding
Allocates funding from a specified budget source to child care resource and referral programs for the purpose of facilitating inclusion of children with disabilities into state-funded child care programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 693 (Ashburn-R) Child day care: payment programs
Specifies that payment to a child care provider shall not commence until the Department of Social Services confirms that the child care provider is a registered child care trustline provider or is exempted from trustline registration, and revises the scope of circumstances that require that the payment shall immediately cease. Applies these provisions only in counties in which the trustline automated registration process and the LiveScan system are operational, and makes additional changes to conform to existing law.
(In Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 944 (Padilla-D) Child care
Requires the Department of Education to collect, aggregate, and analyze specified child care and development data and annually report findings to the Legislature on the data beginning in January of 2010.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 170 (Saldana-D) Child care: state preschool programs
Excludes from income calculation the basic housing allowance received by active military personnel for purposes of determining eligibility for state preschool.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 313 (Benoit-R) Child day care facility rating system
Requires the Department of Social Services to develop and implement a licensed child care facility rating system that encompasses child health and safety by 1/1/10.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 344 (Huff-R) Child day care facilities
Exempts from the California Child Day Care Facilities Act any program that provides activities for children of an instructional nature in a classroom-like setting that is otherwise subject to the act if the instruction is based upon the language, customs, and traditions of a population group that is primarily located outside of the United States and the program is registered as a trustline provider.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 905 (Arambula-D) Child care eligibility
Allows for an extension of the period for which a child's eligibility for subsidized child care is based on the parents' or guardian's seeking of employment by an additional 60 working days upon the Superintendent of Public Instruction's determination that the initial eligibility period was not sufficient to find employment given local employment conditions.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2007
AB 975 (Solorio-D) Child care resource and referral programs
Appropriates $2.9 million (General Fund) from the Department of Education to allow child care resource and referral programs to continue providing support and training to license-exempt child care providers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1028 (Caballero-D) Child care: funding: audits
Establishes accounting rules and auditing practices for child care and development centers and agencies which contract with the Department of Education, and prohibits consideration of unrestricted donations in state funding determinations for child care contractors.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1059 (De Leon-D) Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program
Expands available awards and creates new eligibility criteria for the Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program, and expresses the intent of the Legislature to award up to 400 new grants each year, raising the value of such grants to $3,000 per year for applicants in four-year institutions and $2,000 per year for applicants in two-year institutions, contingent upon increases in federal funding to cover additional costs.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1164 (De Leon-D) Child care: provider organization: representation
Allows family child care home providers to form provider organizations for the purpose of negotiating reimbursements and other items with state agencies and for performing other specified duties.
Vetoed
AB 1400 (Hayashi-D) Child care resource and referral programs: funding
Appropriates $3.6 million to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to fund child care resource and referral programs for children with, or at high risk of being identified as having, disabilities or other special needs.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
AB 1571 (DeSaulnier-D) Child care: alternative payment programs: reimbursement
Increases the amount an Alternative Payment Program may request in reimbursement for actual and allowable costs incurred for additional service.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2007
Special Education
SB 418 (Migden-D) Local government finance: special education funding
Requires, starting with the fiscal year (FY) 2007-08, the auditor of a county whose educational revenue augmentation fund (ERAF) contains excess funds after funding is provided to schools, county offices of education, community colleges, and general special education programs, to provide funds to cover up to 50% of the costs of funding out-of-home care in licensed children's institutions (LCIs) within the county. Specifies that a county ERAF shall not be required to provide funding for LCIs for any FY prior to FY 2007-08 that it had not already provided prior to the start of that FY, and prohibits excess ERAF funds from being apportioned to any additional special education programs.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2007
SB 704 (Ducheny-D) New construction grant eligibility: special education pupils
Requires the new construction per-pupil grant for special education students to be increased by 6%, and authorizes a school district that has a new construction project approved on or after 7/1/06 that contains special education classrooms to apply to the State Allocation Board for a supplemental apportionment equal to the 6% grant increase.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 216 (Bass-D) Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools
Provides that for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, a nonpublic, nonsectarian school (NPS) shall provide pupils access to state-adopted, standards-based, core curriculum and instructional materials, and for grades 9 to 12, inclusive, requires an NPS to provide pupils access to standards-based, core curriculum and instructional materials used by any local educational agency that contracts with the NPS.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2007
AB 485 (Solorio-D) Special education: nonpublic schools and agencies
Prohibits a nonpublic school or agency whose certification has been revoked by the Superintendent of Public Instruction from being eligible to apply for recertification for two years.
Chapter 233, Statutes of 2007
AB 497 (Portantino-D) Special education: foster children: funding
Requires a local educational agency to include payment for services provided to a pupil prior to approval of an individualized education program that authorizes placement in the school if the pupil has been placed in a specified group home or community treatment facility by the county welfare or probation department, except as prescribed, the pupil was placed in the school by the person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, and an individualized education program is approved for the pupil that authorizes placement in the school.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 685 (Karnette-D) Special education
Makes technical changes to various provisions of law regarding individuals with exceptional needs and special education and related services to conform to the new federal regulations, updates cross-references, and makes other clarifying changes.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2007
AB 795 (Keene-R) Special education: funding
Requires the state, for out-of-county foster children residing in a licensed children's institution who have been certified as seriously emotionally disturbed by the mental health director from the county of jurisdiction, to assume the educational costs incurred in any fiscal year by a special education local plan area that are in excess of the revenues received.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 850 (Torrico-D) School finance: special education
Modifies the special education formula funding model to require a cost-of-living adjustment for all special education funds tied to cost-of-living adjustments calculated for school districts' revenue limits.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1503 (Huff-R) Pupils with disabilities: waivers
Revises the law concerning waivers for pupils with disabilities relative to the high school exit exam.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1659 (Lieber-D) Special education: procedural safeguards
Makes several changes to special education law and adds requirements to the special education dispute resolutions process, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1663* (Evans-D) Special education: conformance to federal law
Makes numerous substantive changes to provisions of law regarding individuals with exceptional needs and special education and related services to conform to federal special education regulations.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2007
School Accountability and Testing
SB 123 (Romero-D) High school exit examination
Provides eligible pupils with disabilities who have fulfilled all of the requirements for a high school diploma, except passage of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE), the opportunity to receive a diploma by demonstrating through a standardized evidence-based assessment that they have acquired the same knowledge and skills necessary to pass the CAHSEE.
Vetoed
SB 219 (Steinberg-D) Academic Performance Index: alternative education
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to modify the Academic Performance Index of schools to include information on tracking the progress of at-risk students.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2007
SB 305 (Ducheny-D) Pupil assessment: English learners
Requires, commencing in the 2008-09 fiscal year, an English-language-learner pupil who receives instruction in his or her primary language, and has been enrolled in a school in the United States for a specified period of time, to take a standards-aligned assessment in the pupil's primary language.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 637 (Wyland-R) Pupil assessment: high school exit examination
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to develop an additional section to be included in the high school exit examination that tests United States history and government. Requires the State Board of Education, by 1/1/09, to adopt a United States history and government section developed by the SPI for inclusion in the high school exit examination, to be available to pupils taking the test by the 2010-11 school year.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 679 (Romero-D) Independent study and alternative accountability systems
Establishes a process for monitoring the academic progress of pupils in independent study, and revises requirements for the establishment of an alternative accountability system for schools serving high-risk pupils, such as community schools and continuation schools.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 827* (Padilla-D) Pupil testing
Requires that pupils in kindergarten and first grade whose primary language is other than English be assessed in the areas of English listening, speaking, and early literacy.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 835 (Scott-D) School accountability: report card
Revises the items that must be reported on the School Accountability Report Card (SARC), and requires that school districts make the annually updated SARC available to the public no later than February 1 of the following year.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 144 (Coto-D) Pupil testing: Franklin-McKinley Elementary School District
Allows the Franklin-McKinley Elementary School District to administer the mathematics portion of the California High School Exit Exam to pupils enrolled in specified courses in grade 8. Provides that a pupil who passes the mathematics portion of the exam in grade 8 shall be considered to have passed that portion of the exam for purposes of satisfying the high school diploma requirement, but requires that the pupil take the exam again at 10th grade, and clarifies that pupils passing the mathematics portion are not required to take it a second time if exempt from a federal requirement to test mathematics during grades 10-12.
Vetoed
AB 252 (Coto-D) Pupil testing: primary language assessments: dual immersion
Authorizes the Department of Education to make a primary language assessment, developed pursuant to current law available to public schools to assess nonlimited-English pupils enrolled in a dual language immersion program, and requires, beginning with the 2010-11 school year, the annual release of test items from the standards-based achievement tests in Spanish, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 347* (Nava-D) High school exit examine: intensive instruction and services
Implements a proposed settlement agreement in the Valenzuela v. O'Connell lawsuit by placing conditions on the receipt of funding that requires school districts to provide intensive instruction and services to pupils who have not passed the high school exit examination by the end of the 12th grade.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2007
AB 400 (Nunez-D) Public school accountability
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to add dropout rates and course completion rates to the Academic Performance Index (API) for high schools through a process that begins in 2009-10 and ends with these indicators making up 50% of the high school API by 2013-14.
Vetoed
AB 438 (Price-D) Schools: accountability
Revises exit criteria for the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and the High Priority Schools Grant Program by requiring schools to meet or exceed Academic Performance Index growth targets averaged over three years.
Vetoed
AB 447 (Galgiani-D) Pupils: AVID program
Requires the Department of Education to expand the Advancement Via Individual Determination program to students in grades 4-8, in deciles 1 to 3 schools, as specified, subject to an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or other statute.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 477 (Levine-D) Pupils: dropouts: definition
Defines the term "dropout" for purposes of including dropout data in the Academic Performance Index.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 480 (De Leon-D) California high school exit examination: English learners
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to invite providers of innovative programs for English language learners (ELLs) to submit proposals of programs designed to provide intensive, intervention-focused, supplemental instruction to ELL pupils enrolled in grades 10-12 who have not passed the high school exit exam.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 491 (Carter-D) Pupil counseling: supplemental school counseling
Changes the method of allocating funds for the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling program from the existing per-pupil enrolled in grades 7-12 amount to an allocation based on the number of pupils who failed either section of the high school exit examination in the most recent 10th grade administration.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 494 (Huffman-D) State Board of Education: waivers
Requires the Department of Education to give notice prior to revising the schedule of an onsite compliance review, and extends the period of time between reviews under specified circumstances.
Vetoed
AB 925 (Hancock-D) School accountability: UC study
Requests the Regents of the University of California to research the meaning of the term "proficiency" and recommend a definition of that term to the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the state's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 939 (Soto-D) High school testing
Requires the Department of Education to provide online or in-person tutoring regarding preparation for the high school exit exam test to an individual who meets specified criteria, upon his/her request, until that individual passes the test or reaches 22 years of age, whichever occurs first.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1015 (Brownley-D) School accountability report card
Requires, for purposes of the school accountability report card, that the assessment of estimated expenditures per pupil include a reporting of the actual salaries paid to fully credentialed teachers and teachers with emergency teaching permits.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1061 (Mullin-D) School accountability: report card
Revises the items that must be reported by school districts on the School Accountability Report Card for each school in the district.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2007
AB 1216 (Laird-D) School accountability
Exempts schools ranked in deciles 6 to 10 in its most recent ranking on the Academic Performance Index from the requirements of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and repeals the program on 1/10/10. States legislative intent to create an accountability system that combines federal and state requirements. Allows local education agencies identified for program improvement to receive funding for four years, rather than two, subject to the availability of funds provided in the Budget Act. Adds several elements and requirements regarding the operation and tenure of district assistance and intervention teams.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1353* (Huff-R) Pupil assessment
Requires the county office of education to administer a designated achievement test to pupils in grade 2 on and after 7/1/07, until those provisions are repealed on 1/1/11.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1379 (Brownley-D) High schools: requirements for graduation
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to identify alternative means for high school pupils to demonstrate proficiency and graduate from high school instead of passing the high school exit exam.
Vetoed
AB 1482 (Leno-D) Supplemental instruction
Requires school districts, and permits charter schools, to offer supplemental instruction to pupils in grades 7-12 that are not demonstrating sufficient progress toward completing courses required for graduation. Requires that the first priority for funding pursuant to this item be provided to support pupils not demonstrating sufficient progress toward passing the high school exit exam.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1503 (Huff-R) Pupils with disabilities: waivers
Revises the law concerning waivers for pupils with disabilities relative to the high school exit exam.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1656 (Feuer-D) California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish and maintain a unique coding system for educational institutions, to be used for identifying and tracking enrollment, meeting reporting requirements, accountability, and fiscal purposes. Provides that this codifies the existing County-District-School code system used by the Superintendent.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AJR 23 (Hancock-D) No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: reauthorization
Urges the Congress of the United States to amend the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to provide states more flexibility in the implementation of the law and in the identification of schools in need of improvement in order to strategically target resources and interventions toward those schools and school districts that are most in need, to permit adequate yearly progress to accommodate a range of accountability models, and to respect parental choice. Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to fully fund the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for the life of the act.
Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2007
Higher Education
SB 1 (Cedillo-D) Student financial aid: California Dream Act
Enacts the California Dream Act. Makes California high school graduates who meet the nonresident in-state tuition requirements eligible for a fee waiver at community colleges and able to participate in the Cal Grant program.
Vetoed
SB 45 (Perata-D) Private postsecondary education
Extends limited state oversight of private postsecondary schools from 2/1/08 to 7/1/08. Extends for six months the provisions of AB 1525 (Cook), Chapter 67, Statutes of 2007, which include a continuation of matters pending before the Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education as of 6/30/07, authorization for schools to enter into voluntary agreements to comply with the law as it existed on 6/30/07, preservation of private rights of action for students, and continuation of the Student Tuition Recovery Fund under the administration of the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2007
SB 65 (Cedillo-D) San Jose State University-National Hispanic University
Creates the San Jose State University-National Hispanic University Collaboration. The mission of the National Hispanic University is to make a difference in the graduation of Hispanic professionals in education, technology, and business. Appropriates $3 million from the General Fund to the Office of the Chancellor of the California State University for these purposes.
Vetoed
SB 89* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Student financial aid: state student loan guarantee program
Authorizes the sale of, or an alternative financial arrangement to sell, the state student loan guarantee program.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2007
SB 91 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Student financial aid
Makes technical changes, including the repeal of EdFUND (the statutorily established auxiliary organization created to administer the Federal Family Education Loan Program) in order to effectuate the sale of the state student loan guarantee program.
Chapter 184, Statutes of 2007
SB 139 (Scott-D) Nursing education
Makes various clarifications and adjustments concerning eligibility to the terms of the State Nursing Assumption Program of Loans for Education and the Nurses in State Facilities Assumption Program of Loans for Education. Establishes a clearinghouse within the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to serve as the central source of health care workforce and educational data in the state.
Chapter 522, Statutes of 2007
SB 160 (Cedillo-D) Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act
Enacts the California Dream Act, which expands eligibility for state postsecondary financial aid and community college fee waiver programs to include students who are exempted from paying nonresident tuition under current law, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 166 (Negrete McLeod-D) Community college districts: emergency preparedness
Requires the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, by 1/1/09, to develop emergency preparedness standards and guidelines, as specified, to assist community college districts and campuses on the event of a natural disaster, hazardous conditions, or terrorist activity in or around campus.
Chapter 461, Statutes of 2007
SB 190 (Yee-D) Public postsecondary education
Modifies current law governing the meetings of the Regents of the University of California and the California State University Board of Trustees, and clarifies the requirements for meetings that must be open and public. Requires that actions on executive compensation, as specified, occur in open, public meetings.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2007
SB 235 (Negrete McLeod-D) California State University: vision care: annuitants
Allows annuitants of the California State University (CSU) system to participate in the newly created California State University Annuitant Vision Care Program for annuitants. Requires the Office of the Chancellor of the CSU to administer the program for all participating annuitants of the institution.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2007
SB 259 (Negrete McLeod-D) CSU academic employees' retirement: service credit
Allows academic employees of the California State University (CSU) to receive full service credit while they are on a reduced pay leave and for which they receive compensation in an amount less than full compensation, such as sabbatical leave. Requires the CSU to contribute all of the amount that is contributed by the employer if the member was not on a reduced pay leave, if that provision is agreed upon in collective bargaining.
Vetoed
SB 268 (McClintock-R) Public postsecondary education: nonresident tuition criteria
Excludes students without legal immigration status from provisions of current law that exempt a nonresident student meeting specified criteria from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 272 (Runner-R) Public postsecondary education: Armed Forces service
Requires every campus in the California State University and the California Community Colleges systems that uses a priority enrollment system to grant priority for course registration to any member or former member of the Armed Forces for any academic term within two years of their leaving active duty. Requests the University of California is to comply with this process.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2007
SB 283 (Maldonado-R) Community colleges: board of governors: membership
Establishes "a student organization recognized by the board of governors," rather than the "California Student Association of Community Colleges" as the entity responsible for submitting a list of at least three names of students to the Governor from which he/she will appoint the student member representative to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2007
SB 325 (Scott-D) Educational & Economic Goals for Higher Education
Requires the state to establish an accountability framework to biennially assess and report on the collective progress of the state's system of postsecondary education in meeting specified educational and economic goals, and declares legislative intent that the University of California, California State University, California Community Colleges, and the private and independent colleges and universities in California provide informational reporting for students and parents, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
SB 347 (Cogdill-R) Reimbursement of community college enrollment fees
Reimburses California Community College fees for students who transfer to, and graduate from, the University of California or the California State University within a specified timeframe.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 413 (Scott-D) Community colleges: inmate education programs
Enacts provisions related to California Community Colleges (CCC) courses for inmates of correctional facilities. Waives the open-course provisions for a CCC district that provides classes for inmates in state and other correctional facilities. Provides that attendance hours generated by credit instruction shall be funded at the credit, rate and hours generated by non-credit instruction shall be funded at the non-credit rate. Deletes an existing prohibition against funds for inmate education programs being considered part of base revenues in computing apportionments.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 481 (Runner-R) Student loan assistance: prosecutors and public defenders
Establishes the Public Safety Incentive Program, administered by the California Student Aid Commission, to provide up to $40,000 in loan assumption benefits over a five-year period to attorneys employed as prosecutors or public defenders, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 588 (Runner-R) Postsecondary education: community college school buildings
Gives the California Community Colleges (CCC) the option of constructing and renovating campus buildings pursuant to the California Building Standards Code (CBSC) in lieu of the Field Act. Authorizes the CCC Board of Governors, rather than the Division of the State Architect within the Department of General Services, to oversee design and construction of CCC buildings using the CBSC through a board-appointed system building official.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 595 (Alquist-D) Student financial aid: grant deadlines
Changes the annual deadline for submitting an application for a Cal Grant loan from March 2 to June 30.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 643 (Florez-D) Tuition programs: income tax deductions
Authorizes, beginning on or after 1/1/07, a tax deduction for the amounts contributed by a qualified taxpayer to a qualified tuition program, as defined. Requires the Scholarshare Investment Board (SIB) to make a one-time matching contribution in the amount of $50 to any qualified tuition program, as defined, established for any child born in this state on or after 1/1/08, before that child reaches one year of age. Appropriates from the General Fund to the SIB the amounts necessary to make the contributions. Declares the Legislature's intent to enact legislation to establish a one-time matching contribution program for contributions to qualified tuition programs for children under the age of seven.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 672 (Torlakson-D) Pupil instruction: courses of study: graduation requirements
Increases, commencing with the 2013-14 school year, high school graduation requirements by requiring students to complete two career technical education courses to receive a high school diploma.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 673 (Scott-D) Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Authorizes credentialed teachers to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education if they teach in low-performing schools ranked in decile one or two, as measured by the Academic Performance Index, and have not otherwise participated in the program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 766 (Alquist-D) Higher education: health insurance for students
Adds a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that requires the University of California, the California State University, and each community college district to each provide, as part of their respective health care services programs, health insurance coverage for each full-time student who is not otherwise covered by a private health insurance plan or by publicly financed health care coverage.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 769 (Alquist-D) Student financial aid: working group on Cal Grant deadlines
Requires the Student Aid Commission to establish a working group to consider whether altering existing deadlines for Cal Grant applications would lead to greater access to the grants by low-income and underrepresented pupils. Requires the report detailing the group's findings and recommendations be submitted to the Legislature by 9/30/08.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 807 (Machado-D) Holocaust and genocide: education
Extends the operation for the California Taskforce on Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance at the California State University, Chico, to 1/1/10.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 808 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public Service Customer Service Academy
Encourages the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to authorize the establishment of a Public Service Customer Service Academy to train state and local public agency employees in customer service and workplace skills and to undertake a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a Public Sector Professional Development Institute, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
SB 823 (Perata-D) Private postsecondary education
Enacts the California Private Postsecondary Act of 2007. Establishes the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education with specified functions, including administering and enforcing the act, approving institutions to operate in California, maintaining a web site of information for consumers, providing outreach to students, conducting on-site inspections of institutions, developing a specified enforcement program with assistance from the Attorney General, adopting regulations, and providing annual reports to the Legislature and Governor.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 826 (Padilla-D) Native American education
Requests the University of California to carry out specified responsibilities with respect to Native American education that are, under existing law, assigned to the State Librarian.
Vetoed
SB 832 (Corbett-D) College textbooks
Establishes the College Textbook Affordability Act and requires each textbook publisher to provide prospective purchasers at public and private postsecondary education institutions with specified information.
Vetoed
SB 854 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Students: voter registration
Requires every California Community College and California State University campus that operates an automated class registration system, on or before 1/1/08, to provide an automated program by 1/1/10, operated in coordination with the Secretary of State, that will permit students to elect during the class registration process to receive a preprinted voter registration form containing their personal information. Encourages the University of California to provide an automated voter registration program.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2007
SB 855 (Ridley-Thomas-D) California State University: revenue bonds
Revises the California State University revenue bond programs in order to cut costs and obtain lower interest rates.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2007
SB 890 (Scott-D) Students: college preparedness
Establishes the voluntary Early Commitment to College program designed to increase college preparation for low-income K-12 pupils. Provides participating pupils a community college fee waiver for two or more years of enrollment, as long as the pupil is a California resident and continues to show financial need on the free application for federal student aid.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 918 (Oropeza-D) Tuition: income tax
Allows a taxpayer to direct any portion of their personal income tax refunds into a qualified tuition program account.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 946 (Scott-D) Community College Early Assessment
Establishes for five years, beginning with the 2008-09 academic year, the Community College Early Assessment Pilot Program for the purpose of providing high school pupils with an indicator of their readiness for college-level English and math.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 979 (Maldonado-R) California State University
Requires the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, to establish a pilot program in the Agricultural Education and Communication Department relating to the teaching of career technical education, engineering, mathematics, and science.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SCA 3 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public postsecondary education: community college districts
Requires the Legislature to provide for an independent public postsecondary education system of local community college districts as part of the public school system.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SCR 34 (Alquist-D) SJSU: sesquicentennial anniversary celebration
Designates Monday, 4/30/07, as a day to honor San Jose State University for the 150th anniversary of its founding.
Resolution Chapter 61, Statutes of 2007
SCR 36 (Yee-D) California Community College Music Day
Designates 5/11/07, and each May 11 thereafter, as California Community College Music Day.
Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2007
SCR 52 (Yee-D) University of California Retirement Plan: shared governance
Memorializes the Regents of the University of California (UC) to provide for shared governance of the UC Retirement Plan.
Resolution Chapter 126, Statutes of 2007
AB 74 (Dymally-D) University of California: obesity/diabetes/related diseases
Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish and administer an Institute for the Study of the Phenomenon of Obesity and Diabetes Experimental Research at the University of California, Irvine, in coordination with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, to promote and conduct basic science research on obesity and diabetes, and to develop effective education and treatments.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 111* (Blakeslee-R) National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Extends the operative date for the National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education from 7/1/07 until 7/1/10.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 145 (Coto-D) San Jose State University-National Hispanic University
Requires the Trustees of the California State University to authorize San Jose State University and the National Hispanic University to enter into a collaboration agreement to include outreach, transfer, joint classes, and other programs of education, research, and public service.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 152 (Beall-D) Postsecondary education: Golden State Scholarshare Trust
Establishes the California Prepaid Tuition Program, to be administered by the Scholarshare Investment Board of the State Treasurer's Office, which is to be regulated in a manner consistent with Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to meet all criteria for federal tax-deferral or tax-exempt benefits.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 153 (Blakeslee-R) University of California: Energy Biosciences Institute
Calls for the establishment of an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in California. States the economic and environmental benefits of locating the EBI in California, urges the University of California (UC) to enter into a partnership with British Petroleum to establish the EBI, and declares legislative intent that the state provide UC with $40 million in the 2007-08 Budget Act to construct the EBI.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 171 (Beall-D) Student financial aid: assumption program: loans for law
Repeals the existing Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program and establishes the Assumption Program for Loans for Law in the Public Interest. Provides that the program, to be administered by the Student Aid Commission (SAC), assumes up to $11,000 worth of student loans for licensed attorneys residing in California who work for a (1) legal services organization, (2) prosecuting attorney's office, (3) criminal public defender's office, (4) child support agency, or (5) county counsel office, or other legal employers that meet criteria established by SAC.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 175 (Price-D) Cal Grant B awards: access costs
Establishes that awards for access costs in the Cal Grant B Program shall not be less than 20% of the indirect costs of the student budget allowance, as determined by the Student Aid Commission through a survey conducted triennially by the commission (the allowance is be increased by inflation in the intervening two years). Requires, beginning with the 2009-10 award year, the current maximum award for access costs be increased between 5% and 10% per year until the award has reached or exceeded the 20% goal described above.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 178 (Coto-D) High schools: College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program
Establishes the College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, to provide pupils in selected schools with a core curriculum that integrates college preparatory courses and career technical education.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 194* (Assembly Budget Committee) Community colleges: State Budget
Restores to the 2007 State Budget $33.1 million in funding for Basic Skills courses by modifying the allocation of funding to colleges, by taking into account the number of full-time equivalent students generated in basic skills by students transitioning from high schools. Adds budget bill language requiring a report to the Legislature on the annual accountability measures, as specified.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2007
AB 262 (Coto-D) Public postsecondary education
Urges the Regents of the University of California and requires the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to annually direct each of their campuses to disclose specified information regarding on-campus credit card marketing activities. Prohibits banks and other commercial entities from offering gifts to students in exchange for completing credit card applications. Extends the sunset on provisions outlining the regulatory adoption authority and process of the CSU Trustees from 2008 to 2013.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2007
AB 286 (Cook-R) Public postsecondary education: exemption: nonresidents
Deletes the exemption allowing aliens without lawful immigration status to pay resident tuition prices when attending the California Community Colleges or the California State University.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 302 (De La Torre-D) Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards: award amount
Eliminates the restriction in the Cal Grant B program that, in the first year of enrollment, denies tuition benefits, and instead provides a stipend for "access costs," (i.e. costs for books, supplies, living expenses, and transportation) to 98% of Cal Grant B recipients.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 359* (Karnette-D) Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE)
Expands the eligibility for the Assumption Program of Loans for Education program to also include persons who agree to obtain a service credential in speech-language pathology.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 365 (Portantino-D) Postsecondary education: workforce
Requires, on or before 3/1/08, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, in cooperation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to convene a task force with key stakeholders to address future workplace needs and report to the Legislature and Governor on their findings and recommendations. Clarifies the mission of the California Community Colleges economic and workforce development program.
Vetoed
AB 483 (Salas-D) Community colleges: Economic and Workforce Development
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to conduct a study of the public contracting limits established under specified Public Contract Code provisions to determine the effectiveness of these provisions for community college districts. Deletes a provision requiring a contracted evaluation from the Chancellor relating to the Economic and Workforce Development Program.
Vetoed
AB 488 (Portantino-D) California Community Colleges Access Grant Program
Establishes a campus-based financial aid system at the California Community Colleges, to be funded with 33% of student fee revenues.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 519* (Portantino-D) Private postsecondary education
Extends, from 2/1/08 to 7/1/08, limited state oversight of private postsecondary schools by the Department of Consumer Affairs, primarily by extending the provisions of AB 1515 (Cook), Chapter 67, Statutes of 2007.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 523* (De La Torre-D) Contracts: University of California
Revises change order processes for University of California (UC) construction projects, including those constructed as part of UC's "best value" pilot project at its San Francisco campus, and allows for binding arbitration between the UC Regents and contractors to settle change order disputes.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 559 (Ruskin-D) Public water systems: affect of drinking water disinfectants
Requests the University of California (UC) to direct the UC Center for Water Resources to study the potential adverse effects on human health of compounds used to disinfect drinking water and byproducts resulting from disinfection, with emphasis on chloramine use by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and to report the Center's findings to the Legislature by 7/1/09.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 573 (Horton-R) Community colleges: nursing education programs
Requires any community college district that offers a nursing education program to students to select the students to be enrolled in that program on the basis of its determination of which of those students possess more of the academic and other pertinent characteristics of a successful nursing student. Prohibits a community college district from using a lottery system, or any other random selection method, for choosing candidates for any nursing education program that it offers.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 577 (Ruskin-D) Community colleges: open education resources centers
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish a pilot program to provide resources for faculty and staff to establish open resource centers. Provides the grants will be awarded, once funding for this purpose is made available, through a competitive process, as specified. Specifies the Board will provide for an evaluation of the pilot program to be submitted to the Legislature no more than two years after the program is implemented.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 591 (Dymally-D) Community colleges: non-tenure track temporary faculty
Makes several statutory changes related to parity in salaries and benefits for part-time and temporary faculty in the California Community Colleges.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 621 (Smyth-R) Universities: reserve peace officers
Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the University of California to establish reserve peace officer programs to supplement their respective police departments.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 635 (Duvall-R) Community college: police
Includes community college and school district police, as specified, to provisions of law which make attempted murder on a peace officer a circumstance in aggravation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 659 (Ma-D) University of California: HIV study
Requests the University of California to conduct a three-year study on the clinical effects of HIV in individuals over the age of 50.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 665 (DeSaulnier-D) University of California study: growth management
Requests the University of California to produce a report on the best practices of transportation-land use planning and growth management, and requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to work in collaboration with the Office of Planning and Research to produce by 1/1/09, and once every five years thereafter, a Growth Management Information Report, to the extent funding is available.
Vetoed
AB 668 (Portantino-D) Community colleges: financial aid
Requires the California Community Colleges to develop statements for students regarding the availability of federal financial aid.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 2007
AB 767 (Walters-R) Student financial aid: veterans
Enacts the Golden State G.I. Bill of Rights for Higher Education, prohibiting any campus of the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges from charging any mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to a California resident who is a member of the armed services, were honorably discharged, and have used all of their Montgomery Bill G.I. benefits.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 798 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Community colleges: unemployment insurance
Deletes obsolete calendar periods which were formerly used to determine unemployment insurance benefits, and authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to obtain wage data from the Department of Employment Development on community college students.
Chapter 272, Statutes of 2007
AB 806 (De La Torre-D) Community colleges: career technical education
Authorizes adult education schools to participate in a career technical education grant program administered jointly by the Department of Education and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 819* (Sharon Runner-R) Tuition: income tax deduction
Allows a tax deduction for contributions made by a qualified taxpayer to another qualified tuition program.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 820 (Karnette-D) Higher education: recycling polystyrene
Prohibits the California State University, California Community Colleges and, upon approval of the Regents, the University of California from selling, possessing, or distributing expanded polystyrene food containers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 876 (Davis-D) Career technical education
Requires each school district with a high school that offers career technical education courses to consult with the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, the Chancellor of the California State University, and the President of the California State University to ensure that credits earned by pupils in these courses be honored by public postsecondary institutions.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 883 (Dymally-D) Student financial aid
Establishes a five-year pilot program to provide loan assumption for teachers and interns with the Compton Unified School District who agree to teach full-time in the district.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 906 (Eng-D) California Community Colleges
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to conduct five annual random audits to encourage compliance with existing law that requires CCC districts to expend 50% of their expense of education on the salaries of classroom instructors.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 925 (Hancock-D) School accountability: UC study
Requests the Regents of the University of California to research the meaning of the term "proficiency" and recommend a definition of that term to the Legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the state's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 931 (Ruskin-D) University of California Riverside: corrections study
Appropriates $149,000 to the Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies, located at the University of California, Riverside, for a study into correction alternatives in San Mateo County.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 950 (Salas-D) In-state tuition: military personnel
Extends, from one year to two years, the time period for which non-California members of the Armed Forces shall be entitled to resident classification for the purpose of paying fees for graduate study at the California State University.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2007
AB 1024 (Caballero-D) University of California at Davis: food safety
Creates the Fresh Produce Food Safety Research Fund, to be administered by the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security within the University of California, Davis. Specifies monies in the fund are to be used to finance research to significantly reduce the risk of contamination of fresh produce.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 1038 (Feuer-D) Postsecondary education: student fees
Establishes a new student fee policy for resident undergraduate students in the University of California and the California State University.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1168 (Jones-D) Social security numbers
Imposes a number of restrictions on the use of social security numbers (SSNs) in public records, requiring they be redacted or truncated prior to filing or disclosure to the public by specified dates. Requires the Office of Privacy Protection to create a task force to review the use of SSNs by colleges and universities.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2007
AB 1182 (Niello-R) California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008
Recasts and revises the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Act as the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008, to be in the Business and Professions Code.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1204 (Portantino-D) Contracts: community college districts
Authorizes the Los Angeles Community College District to engage in "job order contracting" as an alternative to traditional competitive bidding for smaller modernization and maintenance contracts.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1267 (Feuer-D) Civic service: Civic Service Loan Assumption Program
Establishes a new loan assumption program for prospective "civic" service in cities, counties, and community organizations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1279 (Coto-D) Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act
Makes California high school graduates who meet the non-resident in-state tuition requirements eligible for a fee waiver at community colleges and able to participate in the Cal Grant program, except for the Competitive Cal Grant Program. Requires public colleges and universities to disperse private student aid awards to students meeting the requirements.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
AB 1305 (Charles Calderon-D) Community colleges: employment of full-time faculty
Requires, by 12/31/10, that at least 75% of the hours of credit instruction at each district in the California Community Colleges (CCC) be taught by full-time faculty, and requires each CCC district, at the end of a fiscal year, to allocate any reserve funds exceeding 5% toward achieving this goal. Prohibits the CCC Board of Governors from waiving these requirements unless a district's reserves are 5% or less of the proposed expenditures for the new fiscal year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1329 (Houston-R) Occupational therapists
Requires the California State University, in coordination with the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and in consultation with interested groups, to assess the barriers to creation of additional occupational therapist training programs and report to the Legislature by 6/1/08.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1333 (Hancock-D) Regents of the University of California: retirement system
Requires the University of California (UC) Board of Regents to make actuarial studies available to the public at least 120 days prior to a change in employer or employee contributions to the UC Retirement System, and requires the UC to use a specific methodology and include specific elements in those studies.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1343 (Mendoza-D) Faculty and College Excellence Act
Requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University to achieve 75% full-time equivalent faculty by 2014-15, and to achieve certain standards in pro-rata salary and benefits. Provides preferential treatment for part-time faculty in the hiring process for new full-time faculty positions.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1368 (Mullin-D) Community colleges: bonds
Authorizes the governing board of a school district or a community college district to increase the maximum term of issuance for bond anticipation notes from one year to five years.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2007
AB 1409 (Portantino-D) Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Expands the use of concurrent enrollment between high schools and the California Community Colleges (CCC) by raising, and ultimately lifting, the cap on the percentage of high school pupils that principals may recommend for CCC summer sessions and by easing restrictions on the types of CCC courses that may be offered to high school pupils, pursuant to a partnership between the school district and the CCC.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1413 (Portantino-D) California State University: trustees
Authorizes an ex officio member of the California State University Board of Trustees to designate a staff person to attend trustee meetings on his/her behalf, and establishes new requirements governing executive compensation.
Vetoed
AB 1423 (Davis-D) Community colleges: salary schedules for academic employees
Requires all California community college district salary schedules for academic employees to be uniform in application and effect.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1522 (Brownley-D) Student financial aid
Requires the Student Aid Commission to develop and make available a software program, for use by potential applicants, to facilitate identifying and applying for institutional, state, and federal student aid programs.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1525* (Cook-R) Private postsecondary education
States legislative intent to protect the interests of students and private postsecondary institutions having any matter pending before the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education prior to its closure on 6/30/07, and asserts the urgency of these matters.
Chapter 67, Statutes of 2007
AB 1540 (Bass-D) Student financial aid: Cash for College Program
Establishes the Cash for College Program within the Student Aid Commission, to be operated in partnership with local private and community organizations, to support workshops aimed at assisting low-income and first generation college-bound students with state and federal financial aid applications.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2007
AB 1548 (Solorio-D) College Textbook Transparency Act
Establishes the College Textbook Transparency Act for the purposes of requiring publishers and college bookstores to disclose certain information and to require faculty and other textbook adopters to follow specified practices in the adoption and purchase of textbooks.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2007
AB 1559 (Berryhill-R) Community college registered nursing programs
Specifies, until 1/1/16, admission criteria that California Community Colleges registered nursing programs may use if the number of applicants exceeds the enrollment capacity of the registered nursing program.
Chapter 712, Statutes of 2007
AB 1578 (Leno-D) Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act
Enacts the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2007. Provides that current or former foster youth in their first year of postsecondary enrollment will be eligible for tuition and fee coverage under the Cal Grant B program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1586 (DeSaulnier-D) Higher education: curriculum
Requires the California State University Trustees, and urges the University of California Regents, to adopt prescribed minimum requirements in History/Social Science, English, Mathematics, Laboratory Science, Language Other Than English, Visual and Performing Arts, Applied Arts, and College-Preparatory Electives for applicants to admission to their respective segments as first-year undergraduate students.
(Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1598 (Price-D) Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption
Creates a new exception to the existing prohibition against the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages on the grounds of a public school to enable culinary arts programs at a campus of the California Community Colleges to buy, use, sell, or consume wine or beer only in connection with a sponsored dinner, course of instruction, or meal demonstration.
Chapter 149, Statutes of 2007
AB 1649 (Levine-D) University of California: retirement benefits
Requests the Regents of the University of California (UC) to implement a defined benefit plan that includes an employer contribution for employees who are ineligible to participate in the UC Retirement Plan.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1652 (Lieber-D) Student financial aid
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report on actions by the federal government and the State of New York to address issues regarding ethics standards in the student loan industry.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 21 (Portantino-D) University of California: academic partnerships
Urges the Regents of the University of California to establish a student exchange program, or another form of academic partnership, between one or more campuses of the University of California and one or more of the institutions that are classified as Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
ACR 69 (Price-D) Task Force on the Future of Compton Community College
Requests that the Task Force on the Future of Compton Community College be established. Requests the Special Trustee of the Compton Community College District to convene, and serve as the permanent chairperson of, the task force, and specifies the persons invited to participate in the meetings. Requests the task force to prepare a report discussing specified topics to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
AJR 1 (Dymally-D) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Respectfully memorializes the Congress and President of the United States to enact legislation to allow the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science to become a fully and legally designated Historically Black College and University and a Historically Black Graduate Institution, as those terms are defined in the federal Higher Education Act of 1965.
Resolution Chapter 45, Statutes of 2007
School Employees
SB 43 (Torlakson-D) Teacher credentialing
Provides for the issuance of a Preliminary Recruitment of Experienced Professionals credential to provide individuals changing careers, or retirees entering the teaching profession, with preparation more tailored to their needs.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SB 44 (Torlakson-D) Teacher development
Creates the Teacher Cadet Program to encourage high school students to consider teaching careers, and expresses legislative intent to create professional development schools for teacher education.
Vetoed
SB 52* (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: designated subjects: career technical
Modifies the requirements for credentials issued to Career Technical Education teachers, and requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to align the credential subject areas to the 15 industry sectors identified in the California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards adopted by the State Board of Education.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2007
SB 109 (Runner-R) School employees: compulsory leave of absence compensation
Authorizes a school district to prohibit a school employee who is placed on a mandatory leave of absence for certain drug-related offenses and who completes a drug diversion program from being compensated for that leave of absence.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 112 (Scott-D) Teachers
Exempts retired teachers who return to service from basic skills proficiency requirements, and specifies that retired teachers do not need to participate in induction programs for new teachers.
Chapter 191, Statutes of 2007
SB 193 (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: paraprofessional teacher training
Makes various administrative changes to the Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program and increases the per participant funding available through the program.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2007
SB 196 (Machado-D) Teacher credentialing: district interns
Eliminates the sunset of the district intern credential program that authorizes teaching credentials to persons to teach pupils with mild/moderate disabilities (i.e., visual and hearing impairments and physical and health impairments).
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2007
SB 232 (Ducheny-D) Instructional strategies: subject matter projects
Extends the sunset on the California Subject Matter Projects from 6/30/07 to 6/30/12, and requires the Regents of the University of California to prepare a final report.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 2007
SB 280 (Scott-D) Education
Cleans up provisions of various teacher credentialing reforms made by the Legislature in 2006. Also modifies the definition of "private college" for purposes of issuing revenue bonds through the California Education Finance Authority.
Chapter 345, Statutes of 2007
SB 322 (Ducheny-D) Math and Science Teacher Academy Pilot Program
Establishes the Math and Science Teacher Academy Pilot Program for the purpose of providing selected pupils in grades 7 through 9 with a course of study leading them, ultimately, to become highly qualified teachers in math or science.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 363 (Simitian-D) Teacher credentialing: identification number
Changes the term "teacher" to "educator" for the purpose of establishing an identification number for the California Integrated Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2007
SB 369 (Vincent-D) State teachers: retirement: health benefits
Requires the Board of the State Teachers' Retirement System to file with the Legislature a study, conducted over one full year, of school districts that do not provide health benefits for retired teachers.
(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 393 (Margett-R) School employees: Lottery Act allocation
Provides proceeds from the California State Lottery Education Fund allocated to schools, as specified, will not be used for salaries or employee benefits. In addition, makes several clarifying changes.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 453 (Negrete McLeod-D) Schools and community colleges: district employees
Requires personnel commissions at school and community college districts that utilize the merit system for classified employees, to determine compensation for, annually evaluate and supervise the personnel director. The personnel commissions are required to write an annual written performance evaluation of the personnel director, in which the district administration and exclusive representatives of the classified employees may participate. The personnel commissions are authorized to impose disciplinary measures on the personnel director for cause, though the personnel director is entitled to request a hearing in such cases.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 461 (Ashburn-R) State Teachers' Retirement System
Prohibits the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from investing public employee retirement funds in companies with business operations in a "foreign terrorist state" (as defined), and requires the boards of these retirement systems to sell or transfer any investments with these companies and report to the Legislature regarding these investments, as specified.
(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 601 (Torlakson-D) Physical Education Professional Development Program
Enhances the monitoring of local compliance with physical education requirements while clarifying existing law relating to high school physical education exemptions.
Chapter 720, Statutes of 2007
SB 673 (Scott-D) Assumption Program of Loans for Education
Authorizes credentialed teachers to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education if they teach in low-performing schools (ranked in decile one or two, as measured by the Academic Performance Index) and have not otherwise participated in the program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 858 (Scott-D) Teachers
Establishes the California Mathematics and Science Teacher Initiative to increase the number of credentialed math and science teachers programs. Makes various changes to district internship programs, such as authorizing intern programs to teach pupils with any level of disability rather than only mild and moderate disabilities, disallows districts to compensate intern supervisors through intern salary deductions, and requires that preservice training occur before the intern provides instructional services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 859 (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to issue and renew Visiting Faculty Permits authorizing instruction in departmentalized classrooms to qualified individuals with college teaching experience, and authorizes the CTC to issue professional, clear teaching credentials to permit holders who satisfy specified requirements.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2007
SB 879 (Calderon-D) State Teachers' Retirement System
Provides that a member is not to forfeit his or her additional credit for services under the State Teachers' Retirement System if he or she is reemployed within five years after retirement as a substitute teacher by a school district from which he or she retired.
(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 882 (Harman-R) Teacher credentialing: criminal history
Requires each applicant for a credential, or for the renewal of a credential, to submit, as directed by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), legible fingerprints and a personal description. Requires the CTC to submit to the Department of Justice (DOJ) fingerprint images and related information required by DOJ of all applicants for an initial credential, or for the renewal of a credential, for purposes of obtaining certain information relating to convictions, arrests, and bail.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 901 (Padilla-D) State teachers' retirement
Extends the sunset date, from 1/1/08 until 6/30/09, for various specified exemptions to the State Teachers' Retirement System's post-retirement earnings, and extends the effective retirement date for eligibility to use some of these exemptions from 1/1/04 to 1/1/06.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2007
SB 960 (Alquist-D) Teachers: professional development
Expands the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program to include training in science, and renames the program as the California Educators' Professional Development Program.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 961 (Scott-D) School administrators
Establishes the Leadership Coaching Program for Public School Administrators to provide local education agencies with incentive funding to support advanced leadership development of school principals.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 40 (Ackerman-R) Speech-language pathologists: shortage
Requests the Governor and other state agencies to work together to alleviate the critical shortage of speech-language pathologists in the state.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2007
AB 96 (Feuer-D) School administrators: Administrator Training Program
Requires the Department of Education (CDE), on or before 1/1/09, to submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor on the effectiveness of the Administrator Training Program in training participants to serve as administrators of high-priority schools and schools on behalf of which the applicable school district or districts have contracted with school assistance and intervention teams. Requires CDE to make recommendations in the report regarding what modifications should be made to the program.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 137 (DeVore-R) School employees
Seeks to address terrorism concerns by tasking public officials with the duty to question and fire any state or local government employee who is a financial supporter or member of an "extremist terrorist group," and by amending the state's Civic Center Act to require any group seeking to use public property as a meeting place to swear, under penalty of perjury, that the group does not advocate the overthrow of the government of the United States of America.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 139 (Bass-D) School bus drivers: medical exams
Authorizes a licensed advanced practice registered nurse qualified to perform a medical examination, or a licensed physician assistant, to give the medical examination required of an applicant for a certificate to drive a school bus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2007
AB 221 (Anderson-R) Teachers' Retirement System: Iran investments
Prohibits the Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System from investing public employee retirement funds in companies that have specified energy- or defense-related operations in Iran.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2007
AB 394 (Levine-D) Safe schools: discrimination and harassment
Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to (1) assess local educational agencies, as part of CDE's existing monitoring process, for compliance with specific anti-discrimination and harassment policies and procedures, and (2) display on their web site specific bias-related and discrimination and harassment information.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2007
AB 469 (Horton-R) Teacher credentialing: applications
Establishes timelines for submitting and processing applications for credentials issued to educators.
Chapter 133, Statutes of 2007
AB 580 (Smyth-R) Classified school employees
Allows the Los Angeles Unified School District to fill vacancies in specified job classifications from ranks other than the top three ranks of an employment list if specialized licenses, certifications, knowledge, or ability that cannot reasonably be acquired during the probationary period, or a specific gender, is required.
Chapter 528, Statutes of 2007
AB 618 (Karnette-D) Certificated school employees: salary payments
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to withhold state apportionments in an amount not to exceed one-half of the annual salary of the superintendent of a school district or county office of education (COE) if the district or COE fails to comply with salary payment schedule requirements for certificated and classified employees. Requires the SPI to hold these funds in trust until he/she determines the school district or COE is in compliance with statute.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 750 (Carter-D) Teaching credentials
Makes the teacher performance assessments consistent upon funding in the annual Budget Act.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 757 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Teachers: retirement and employment
Makes various technical and conforming changes to the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) Law to facilitate efficient administration of the STRS Defined Benefit Program, the STRS Defined Benefit Supplement Program, and the STRS Cash Balance Benefit Program.
Chapter 323, Statutes of 2007
AB 774 (Houston-R) Physical education: volunteer instructors
Allows a school district and a county office of education to establish a registry of volunteer after-school physical recreation instructors.
Chapter 162, Statutes of 2007
AB 789 (Mullin-D) State teachers' retirement
Restores, over time, the $500 million that was not transferred from the state General Fund to the State Teachers' Retirement System Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account in fiscal year 2003-04 by making additional General Fund transfers beginning 7/1/10 to 7/1/14.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 792* (Garcia-R) Teachers: affordable housing
Establishes the Affordable Housing for Teachers Program. Contains numerous additional provisions relating to the Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 883 (Dymally-D) Student financial aid
Establishes a five-year pilot program to provide loan assumptions for teachers and interns with the Compton Unified School District who are otherwise qualified to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education and who agree to teach full-time in the district.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1027 (Caballero-D) Teachers: professional development
Authorizes a local educational agency to use up to 25% of the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program funds (except for funds appropriated for teachers of English-language learners) for instruction and training that has not been approved by the State Board of Education in order to provide teachers with intensive training in mathematical content.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1052 (Torrico-D) Preschool: teachers: limited-English-proficient children
Requires the Department of Education to establish and implement a pilot program that includes three counties in the state (one in each geographic region) to provide college coursework, training, and career ladder opportunities for preschool teachers who provide instruction to limited-English-proficient children.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1160 (Niello-R) Certificated school employees: compensation
Encourages school districts to utilize alternative salary schedules for teachers, pursuant to the needs established by school district governing boards.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1194 (Karnette-D) School employees
Reestablishes the right of public school employees to represent themselves individually in their employment relations with a public school employer, except that any employee within a unit represented by an exclusive representative, as specified, is prohibited from meeting and negotiating with a public school employer.
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2007
AB 1242 (Karnette-D) Classified school employees
Allows the Los Angeles Unified School District to fill vacancies in three specified job classes from ranks other than the top three ranks of an employment list, provided that at least three candidates from the list are considered.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2007
AB 1316 (Bass-D) State teachers' retirement: disability
Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System's Defined Benefit Program who apply for disability to receive a service retirement allowance during the time it takes to process the disability application.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2007
AB 1317 (Mullin-D) Teachers' Retirement System: executive compensation
Expands the list of positions under which the State Teachers' Retirement System board has authority to set compensation and terms and conditions of employment to include the general counsel.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2007
AB 1415 (Brownley-D) Teacher credentialing: services credential
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, on or before 1/1/09, to adopt a data evaluation system capable of assessing the effectiveness of accredited programs that prepare educators for the administrative services credential, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1432 (Soto-D) State teachers' retirement
Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System's (STRS) Defined Benefit Program to purchase service credit for service performed while an employee of a foreign public school, as specified, and allows beneficiaries of STRS members other than spouses to roll over a benefit distribution.
Chapter 513, Statutes of 2007
AB 1463 (Eng-D) Public school employers: joint powers agencies
Expands the definition of "public school employer" and "employer" to include joint powers agencies for purposes of collective bargaining protection under the Education Employment Relations Act.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1537 (Mullin-D) Model civic education staff development program
Establishes the model civic education staff development program, to be administered by the Department of Education. Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to apply for grant funds to offer staff development to certificated employees.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1567 (Garrick-R) School districts: budgets: retired employee benefits
Requires each school district that provides retired employee health and welfare benefits other than pensions to develop a long-term plan that identifies the manner in which the district will fund those benefits for current and future retired employees and to include that plan in actions related to the development and review of the district's annual budget.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1593 (Blakeslee-R) School volunteer aides: background checks
Requires school districts that use non-teaching volunteer aides to adopt a screening policy for those volunteers and to define what a non-teaching volunteer aide is for this purpose. Requires, as a minimum criminal background check, that districts utilize the Department of Justice's "Megan's Law" web site, which tracks registered sex offenders in California.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1594 (Blakeslee-R) School teachers: adverse actions on credentials
Sets a priority for the Committee of Credentials when conducting formal reviews involving the consideration of adverse action. Requires the committee to give priority to hearings for which the applicant is subject to adverse action for conduct that exposes a child to physical harm.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
HR 18 (Karnette-D) California Substitute Educators Day
Resolves that every Friday of American Education Week be recognized as "California Substitute Educators Day."
Read and adopted
School Curriculum
SB 95 (Maldonado-R) Outdoor science program
Establishes eligibility criteria for a residential outdoor science program.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2007
SB 227 (Harman-R) Course of study: community service
Authorizes, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, public schools serving any of grades 7-12 to offer elective courses in community service.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 405 (Steinberg-D) Schools: curriculum: opportunities for pupils
Expands the requirements of the Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling program to include a review of a pupil's career goals and the availability of academic and Career Technical Education opportunities, and to provide pupils and their parents information on eligibility for admission to a four-year institution of postsecondary education.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2007
SB 507 (Torlakson-D) Schools: science instruction: grant program
Establishes the Science Instruction Augmentation Grant Program to provide grants to K-12 school districts for the purpose of providing greater access to science education and promoting knowledge, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and interest in all aspects of science.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 543 (Maldonado-R) Residential outdoor science programs
Establishes eligibility criteria for a residential outdoor science education program, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to apportion funds, contingent on appropriation, for economically disadvantaged students, of up to $10 per day per eligible pupil.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 551 (Cedillo-D) Pupil instruction: adopted course of study
Adds the instruction of the unconstitutional deportation of Mexican citizens and lawful permanent residents to Mexico during the Great Depression to the adopted course of study for grades 7-12 in the area of social studies. Requires the Department of Education to include information about these deportations in publications that provide examples of curriculum resources, and encourages professional development activities that provide information about these deportations.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 602 (Torlakson-D) Physical education
Eliminates various exemptions in current law regarding participation in physical education (PE) classes. Requires the Department of Education to monitor district compliance on specified PE offerings and publicize and report the findings. Requires districts to provide a specified physical fitness performance test annually to students requesting to take it. States legislative intent that students failing this test be enrolled in a PE course designed to help them pass.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 672 (Torlakson-D) Pupil instruction: graduation requirements
Increases, commencing with the 2013-14 school year, high school graduation requirements by requiring students to complete two career technical education courses to receive a high school diploma.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 675 (Torlakson-D) Instructional programs: Technology Integration Curriculum
Requires the Department of Education (CDE) to conduct a needs assessment survey to determine the availability and accessibility of courses and coursework in career technology and computer literacy, and provide a comprehensive plan for integrating technical skills training into the core curriculum of schools. Appropriates $300,000 from the General Fund to the CDE for the activities required by this bill.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 807 (Machado-D) The Holocaust, genocide, human rights, & tolerance
Extends the operation for the California Taskforce on the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance Education and the Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance until 1/1/10.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SCR 58 (Cedillo-D) School curriculum: The Mexican Repatriation Program
Recognizes the importance of including the events surrounding the Mexican Repatriation Program in the social studies curriculum and requests that the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission and the Board of Education include these events in the 2009 curriculum framework and makes several legislative findings and declarations regarding the aggressive, illegal and unconstitutional deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression.
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2007
AB 72 (Dymally-D) Curriculum: social science
Encourages social studies instruction on World War II to include instruction on the role of Filipinos in that war and an accurate history of the contributions of the Filipino American veterans, and encourages the instruction to include a component drawn from personal testimony, especially in the form of oral or video histories of Filipinos who were involved in World War II and those men and women who contributed to the war effort on the home front.
Vetoed
AB 88* (Lieu-D) Pupil instruction: Internet safety resources
Requires the Department of Education (DOE) to work with the Department of Consumer Affairs to ensure that, at a minimum, the resources included in the California Cyber Safety Resources Center encompass information regarding (1) safe and responsible navigation and communication, (2) keeping personal information and photographs private, (3) recognizing and reporting solicitations by sexual predators online, (4) recognizing and avoiding unsolicited communications, (5) spyware countermeasures, and (6) copyrights, plagiarism, and illegal file sharing. Provides that the DOE shall distribute, and make available on its web site, the list of Internet safety resources to local educational agencies.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 150 (Lieu-D) California Financial Literacy Initiative
Establishes the California Financial Literacy Initiative to offer instructional material for teachers and parents to provide financial literacy education for K-12 students. The stated goals of the initiative are to provide K-12 students with tools they will need after high school to manage their finances, including tools for the prevention of identity theft, and promote high-quality programs that provide instruction on pertinent financial literacy issues as determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Vetoed
AB 178 (Coto-D) High schools: College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program
Establishes the College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, to provide pupils in selected schools with a core curriculum that integrates college preparatory courses and career technical education.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 428 (Carter-D) High school curriculum: college preparatory
Requires school districts to include in their annual notification to parents specified information related to admission requirements for the University of California and the California State University.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2007
AB 666 (Karnette-D) Pupil instruction: home economics
Extends the sunset date for the Home Economics Careers and Technology Center Education Incentive Program by five years.
Vetoed
AB 1122 (Duvall-R) Pupil instruction: consumer credit
Requires the Department of Education to develop and make available to school districts information regarding the consumer credit system, including history, the manner of obtaining credit, the proper use of credit, and understanding credit reports, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1249 (Silva-R) Schools: sex education
Requires school districts to adopt a policy regarding teacher-led discussions in K-6 about human sexuality and sexual orientation. Encourages the adoption of a policy that those discussions occur at home. Requires a notice to parents regarding such discussions.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1325 (Mullin-D) Courses of study: weekly teaching requirement
Requires each school district to provide instruction in all required school subjects in grades 1-12 on a weekly basis, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1454 (Richardson-D) Content standards: periodic review
Repeals the authority of the State Board of Education to modify proposed academic content standards, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to appoint review panels to review and revise the academic content standards for English language arts and mathematics.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1599 (Mendoza-D) Instructional materials
Deletes the repeal date for the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program, thereby extending its provisions indefinitely. Clarifies that the existing definition of "supplementary instructional materials," under the instructional materials realignment program, may also be known as pupil support instructional materials. Establishes the Pupil Support Instructional Materials Account within the State Treasury and requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to administer it. Requires that the funds in the account be used to supplement, rather than to supplant, existing funds available for instructional materials, and authorizes the SBE to deny future funding if it determines that a school district has exhibited a pattern of a failure to exercise due diligence or of using the funding to supplant other funding sources.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1676 (DeVore-R) Instructional materials
Requires the instructional materials adopted by the governing board of a school district that accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity in our society also include the role and contributions of religious people and religious groups in historical events without advocating for or against the tenets of one faith, belief, or practice over another.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
Pupil Nutrition
SB 490 (Alquist-D) Pupil nutrition: trans fats
Prohibits schools and school districts from making available through vending machines or school food establishments foods containing artificial trans fat, as defined, or from using food containing artificial trans fat in the preparation of a food item served to pupils enrolled in elementary or middle schools.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2007
AB 86 (Lieu-D) School food: trans fat
Prohibits snack and entree food items sold to pupils from containing partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated vegetable oils, except to the extent that these oils are naturally occurring in the food item.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 90 (Lieu-D) Pupil nutrition: trans fats
Prohibits a school or school district, beginning 7/1/09, from serving or selling to K-12 students any food containing artificial trans fat, and prohibits the use of artificial trans fat in the preparation of food served or sold to those pupils. Specifies the ban on artificial trans fat applies to schools or school districts participating in the United States Department of Agriculture meal program and individually sold meal items (ala carte foods).
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 92 (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: school meals
Requires each schoolsite that meets the qualifications of the federal severe need reimbursement to offer breakfast, beginning with the 2008-09 school year. Authorizes the Department of Education to grant a waiver of the breakfast requirement if the local school governing board declares that providing breakfast is financially infeasible for the school and local education agency, even with a school breakfast start-up or expansion grant.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 967 (Nava-D) Farm Fresh Schools Program
Establishes the Farm Fresh Schools Program, administered jointly by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Public Health, in consultation with the Department of Education, for the purpose of reducing obesity, improving nutrition, and strengthening the regional agricultural economy by promoting the consumption of locally grown fruits and vegetables in public schools.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Vocational Education
SB 13 (Wyland-R) Career technical education facilities
Requires the Department of Education to include specified questions related to career and vocational education in the application for new construction plan approval.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2007
SB 15 (Wyland-R) Career Technical Education Vision Council
Creates the Career Technical Education Vision Council, to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding career technical education and to develop a workforce preparation and strategic plan by 12/31/08.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 21 (Torlakson-D) Regional Education and Economic Integration Initiative
Establishes the Regional Education and Economic Integration Initiative, administered by the California Workforce Investment Board, for the purpose of awarding grants to establish up to 20 regional collaborations that design and deliver career and college pathway programs, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 52* (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: designated subjects: career technical
Modifies the requirements for credentials issued to career technical education teachers, and requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to align the credential subject areas to the 15 industry sectors identified in the California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards adopted by the State Board of Education.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2007
SB 309 (Scott-D) Career technical education: subject requirements
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in conjunction with an advisory group, to contract for the development of standards-based core curricula for career technical education for at least five high-need industry sectors.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 314 (Wyland-R) Career technical education: advisory committee
Defines "career technical education (CTE) program" and requires a school district's CTE advisory committee to include industry sector members appointed by the governing board of the district from recommended lists provided by local industry organizations, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 372 (Steinberg-D) High-speed rail: educational and vocational training program
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to prepare, in conjunction with the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA), an inventory of future educational and vocational courses necessary for the high-speed train project. The SPI, in cooperation with HSRA and the California Community Colleges, will also be required to develop courses of study necessary to meet the need for skills associated with building and operating the project. Specifies the bill will not be operative until the date of the election in which the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act is approved by the voters.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 32 (Fuller-R) Career technical education: work certification training
Authorizes a pupil enrolled in a minimum of three high school courses to concurrently enroll in a California Community College (CCC) for the purpose of taking career and technical education (CTE) classes leading to work certification. Requires that the CTE class must not be available at the pupil's high school or a regional occupational center or program and the pupil must have parental permission. Requires the CCC to give enrollment priority to high school pupils who wish to attend CTE courses available in the afternoon. Requires the pupil to receive high school credit for CCC courses that he/she completes. Requires the CCC to not include enrollment growth attributable to a high school pupil enrolled in a CTE course as part of its annual budget request.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 284 (Smyth-R) Career technical education
Requires the appropriate governing body (school district, county office of education) to ensure that career technical education (CTE) instructors are given professional development opportunities that conform to contemporary business and industry. Requires CTE course reviews conducted every two years to ensure that each course identifies skills relevant in business and industry that comply with state standards and the needs of business and industry and is part of a multiyear, sequence-based curriculum that begins with introductory courses and concludes with courses that may include regional occupational program work.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 597 (Assembly Education Committee) Career technical education: web site pages
Makes the Department of Education responsible for the development of web site pages to provide comprehensive information about career technical education opportunities and programs available in the state.
Chapter 529, Statutes of 2007
AB 598 (Assembly Education Committee) Career technical education
Authorizes options for high school career technical education (CTE) course instruction, and authorizes pupils to earn high school credit for community college CTE coursework or training, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 806 (De La Torre-D) Career technical education
Authorizes adult education schools to participate in a career technical education grant program administered jointly by the Department of Education and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 876 (Davis-D) Career technical education
Requires each school district with a high school that offers career technical education courses to consult with the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, the Chancellor of the California State University, and the President of the California State University to ensure that credits earned by pupils in these courses be honored by public postsecondary institutions.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 911 (Strickland-R) Career technical education
Establishes a statutory formula for making annual equalizing adjustments to the revenue limits of regional occupational centers and programs, with a goal of raising per pupil revenue limits for each regional occupational center or program to the median level for any fiscal year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 973 (Fuller-R) Regional occupational centers and programs: fees
Requires state agencies to waive certificate, license, and examination fees for applicants that are public high school pupils, or have graduated from a public high school within a year, and fulfilled requirements for the license or certificate by completing a course offered by a regional occupational center or program.
Vetoed
AB 974 (Fuller-R) Regional occupational centers and programs
Authorizes a regional occupational center or program (ROC/P) to plan, establish, and maintain a partnership academy and deems an ROC/P a school district for these purposes. Authorizes an ROC/P that maintains a partnership academy to offer academic courses as part of that partnership academy.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 999 (Hancock-D) Partnership academies: green technology and goods movement
Establishes, commencing with the 2008-09 school year, the Green Technology Partnership Academies and the Goods Movement Partnership Academies as two new categories of partnership academies.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1116 (Nava-D) Career technical education: labor market needs
Requires the Department of Education to work with the Employment Development Department (EDD) to provide school districts and local agencies with job forecasting information from the Labor Market Information Division of EDD to enable development of career technical education.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1414 (Hancock-D) Career Technical Education Revitalization Act of 2007.
Establishes the Career Technical Education Revitalization Program, administered by the Department of Education, to support the creation and maintenance of quality, course-sequenced, career technical education programs in middle schools and foundational programs in grades 9 to 10, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1544 (Richardson-D) Career technical education
Requires the Department of Education to establish a career and vocational counseling program consisting of electronic information sharing between high school counselors, pupils, and community colleges, and establishes an online clearinghouse of information regarding career technical education in the state.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
Miscellaneous
SB 29 (Simitian-D) Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring
Prohibits, until 1/1/11, a public school, school district, and county office of education from issuing any device that uses radio waves to transmit personal information, as defined, or to enable personal information to be viewed remotely for the purposes of recording the attendance of a pupil at school, establishing or tracking the location of a pupil on school grounds, or both.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 69 (Runner-R) School districts: reorganization of large districts
Requires the reorganization of any unified school district enrolling at least 500,000 pupils into several school districts enrolling no more than 50,000 pupils by 7/1/11. Requires the establishment of a commission to aid in the reorganization process and develop a reorganization plan.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 70 (Florez-D) School buses: biodiesel
Authorizes the State of California, cities, counties, mass transit districts, and school districts to use a biodiesel fuel blend of greater than 20% biodiesel to operate all their diesel-powered vehicles, if certain conditions are met.
Vetoed
SB 80* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education
Makes statutory changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2007 relating to education.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2007
SB 132 (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Contains the annual Education clean-up bill that makes various non-controversial revisions to statute.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2007
SB 155 (Maldonado-R) Instructional programs: Online Classroom Program
Establishes the Online Classroom Pilot Program to monitor and evaluate pupil participation in course-based, asynchronous, interactive instruction conducted over the Internet.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 156 (Simitian-D) Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2008
Enacts the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Act of 2008 for submission to voters at the statewide general election (November 2008). Approves the issuance of $4 billion in general obligation bonds for the purpose of library construction and renovation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 168 (Denham-R) Physical education for the blind and visually impaired
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to utilize an existing task force for Braille education to develop guidelines for teachers so that functionally blind and visually impaired pupils may participate in physical education.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 170* (Denham-R) School attendance: residency requirements
Extends authorization for a pupil to enroll in school where the parent or guardian of that pupil is physically employed, rather than resides. Extends the inoperative date from 7/1/07 to 7/1/12.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2007
SB 273 (Ackerman-R) Education: American Indian education centers
Reinstates the State Board of Education as the only entity approving amendments and updates to the guidelines for selection and administration of California American Indian education centers (AIECs), and makes changes to other provisions governing the AIECs.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2007
SB 278 (Lowenthal-D) Pupils: excused absences
Adds attendance at an educational conference on the legislative or judicial process offered by a nonprofit organization to the list of personal reasons that justify a pupil's absence from school, if requested and approved by the school principal.
Chapter 204, Statutes of 2007
SB 288 (Yee-D) Pupils: comprehensive learning support system
Establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Learning Support System pilot program, which is intended to reduce dropout rates, lower the achievement gap, and ensure that pupils receive the support necessary to become responsible learners and citizens by more comprehensively integrating instructional and student support services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 344* (Steinberg-D) Pupils: drop-out prevention and intervention
Requires each school district to track and report (by school) to the Department of Education specified data related to at-risk dropouts for grades 6-9, and authorizes school districts to provide supplemental instruction to these students, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 348 (Migden-D) Pupil attendance: foster youth
Makes legislative findings with respect to the status of emancipated foster youth in the state and the state's legal responsibility to provide financial and support services as foster youth transition to self-sufficiency.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 406 (Steinberg-D) Pupils: work permits
Establishes criteria for the issuance of work permits to pupils, requires the individuals responsible for issuing work permits to review the academic and attendance records of pupils prior to issuing a work permit, and requires those authorized to issue work permits to have working knowledge of specified laws.
Vetoed
SB 564 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public School Health Center Support Program
Expands the definition of "school health centers" and requires the Department of Public Health, to the extent funds are appropriated for implementation of the Public School Health Center Support Program, to establish a grant program to provide technical assistance and funding for the expansion, renovation, and retrofitting of existing school health centers and the development of new school health centers, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 621 (Harman-R) Pupils: confidential medical services: parental notification
Requires school districts to include in the annual notification sent to parents and guardians a statement that a minor may obtain various medical, dental, mental health, and counseling services without the consent of his or her parent or guardian and the school authorities may excuse a pupil from school to obtain confidential medical services without that consent.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 662 (Wiggins-D) Education: Political Reform Act: conflict of interest codes
Designates the county board of education, instead of the county board of supervisors, as the conflict of interest code-reviewing body for a school district, other than a school district in a county with only one school district, for a joint powers authority composed of school districts or other educational agencies, or for a regional occupational center or program if the district, joint powers authority, or regional center or program has jurisdiction wholly within a single county.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 676 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Student health: immunizations
Adds a pertussis (whooping cough) booster to the list of immunizations required for seventh grade students prior to school admission.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 733 (Torlakson-D) Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program
Extends the Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program operative date from 7/1/07 to 7/1/13.
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2007
SB 734 (Torlakson-D) Instructional materials: reviews: fees
Reenacts provisions allowing for follow-up adoptions of instructional materials in addition to the primary adoption that occurs within a six-to-eight year cycle, requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations for social content reviews of instructional materials submitted outside of the primary and follow-up adoptions and to assess a fee for the review. Repeals the provisions of this bill on 1/1/11.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2007
SB 736 (Correa-D) Gifted and talented pupils: identification
Requires the Department of Education to ensure that each staff person providing or receiving services within specific education programs is provided training to allow and encourage the identification of gifted and talented pupils from underrepresented populations, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 741 (Ackerman-R) Pupils: identifying information
Encourages, and ultimately requires, school districts to omit the social security number and birth date of a pupil from materials mailed to the pupil's residence or to any authorized individuals.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 750 (Florez-D) Pupils: physical education
Increases state requirements for high school graduation by requiring that all students take four years of physical education, unless granted exemption, and adds an advisory to provisions for ill or injured students to be temporarily exempted from physical education.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 757 (Ridley-Thomas-D) CA Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund
Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to establish, until 1/1/14, a Community Supplemental Education Demonstration Grant Program and a Telemedicine Demonstration Grant Program, meeting certain requirements, with all funding for the programs coming from the moneys repaid to the fund from the moneys loaned by the fund to the General Fund in the annual Budget Act of 2003. Awards under the grant programs will be for the purpose of providing advanced telecommunications network services to community technology programs, to public libraries that deliver supplemental education services to pupils, and to health care facilities that provide telemedicine services.
(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 777 (Kuehl-D) Education: student civil rights
Enacts the California Student Civil Rights Act, revising the current list of prohibited bases of discrimination and the kinds of prohibited instruction, activities, and instructional materials in the Education Code, and instead refers to the protected characteristics contained in the definition of "hate crimes" in the Penal Code. Defines disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation for this purpose. Changes the current references to "handicapped" individuals in the Education Code to refer to individuals with physical disabilities.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2007
SB 789 (Margett-R) Chino Hills Unified School District
Authorizes the Chino Valley Unified School District to transfer certain surplus property to the City of Chino Hills for development of a joint-use park.
Vetoed
SB 830 (Kehoe-D) California Partnership Academies
Provides for the expansion of the number of California Partnership Academies, revises funding formulas and requirements for school districts operating academies, and revises the eligibility criteria to allow for the participation of ninth graders.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 909 (Simitian-D) School board members: compensation
Increases the statutory schedule of maximum monthly compensation allowed for local school board members.
Vetoed
SB 1003 (Romero-D) Instructional materials
Requires the State Board of Education (SBE), beginning 1/1/09, to annually solicit recommendations from local education agencies (as part of the regular six-or eight-year adoption cycle) regarding the adoption of standards-aligned instructional materials in specified academic content areas, including English language development, and to adopt these materials unless the SBE, within 120 days, makes written factual findings, as specified, that the materials are lacking in some manner.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SJR 3 (Aanestad-R) Federal Secure Rural Schools & Community Self-Determination
Urges the 110th Congress to reauthorize and fund the federal Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, which provides federal funding in lieu of property taxes to rural schools located on or near federal forest lands.
Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2007
SR 11 (Torlakson-D) National Library Week
Recognizes the week of 4/15/07 to 4/21/07 as National Library Week.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 16 (Hernandez-D) Pupil immunizations
Requires, effective 7/1/09, the State Public Health Officer, in consultation with the California Conference of Local Health Officers, to create a list of diseases, and required doses, for which immunization will be required prior to entry into a private or public elementary or secondary school, child day care center, day care center, or child care and development center. Prohibits those institutions from unconditionally admitting a pupil unless, prior to his/her first admission, he/she has been fully immunized against the diseases identified on the list.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 45 (Swanson-D) Oakland Unified School District: governance
Establishes a process for the return of areas of operational control of the Oakland Unified School District from the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the district's governing board, triggered by the findings of the Fiscal Crisis Management Team.
Vetoed
AB 50 (Soto-D) Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program
Revises the eligibility, funding, and other requirements of the Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program. Expands eligibility to schools operated by county offices of education. Expands the type of staff authorized to participate in home visits, including counselors, classified staff, teaching paraprofessionals, and other support staff. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, and to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 1/1/10, with specified information.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 57 (Soto-D) Highways: federal funds: Safe Routes to School
Deletes the sunset date of the Safe Routes to School program, and provides that any annual state budget allocation shall be in addition to any federal funding received which is designated for "Safe Routes to School" projects.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2007
AB 128 (Dymally-D) Pupils: Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot Programs
Establishes the Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot program, until 1/1/12, to provide gang alternative education, counseling, and support services to elementary and middle school pupils in the Compton Unified School District, the Long Beach Unified School District, the Oakland Unified School District, and the San Bernardino Unified School District.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 131* (Beall-D) The Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program
Allows county offices of education maintaining any of grades seven to 12, inclusive, to receive Supplemental School Counseling Program (SSCP) funding, requires a county office's governing board, as a condition of receiving funds, to adopt a program that includes specified provisions, as currently required for school districts applying for SSCP funds, and requires county offices, as a condition of receiving funds, to submit an annual report as is currently required for school districts that receive SSCP funds.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 146 (Smyth-R) School districts: reorganization of large districts
Requires the reorganization of any unified school district enrolling at least 500,000 pupils into several school districts enrolling no more than 50,000 pupils by 7/1/11. Requires the establishment of a commission to aid in the reorganization process and develop a reorganization plan.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 173* (Dymally-D) Pupils: academic support program: dropouts
Removes the dropout prevention and recovery programs from the list of programs for which funding was consolidated into the Pupil Retention Block Grant, establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Support program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and provides that district and school participation in the program shall be voluntary. Requires priority for participation be given to schools ranked in deciles one to three on the Academic Performance Index, and requires specified core elements be included in the program.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 180 (Bass-D) School districts: reorganizations
Requires the State Board of Education to render its decision on an appeal approving or disapproving a petition to transfer territory in the reorganization plan within 60 days of the date of receipt of the appeal.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 183 (Coto-D) Pupils: high schools: voter registration
Requires every school district with at least one high school to provide information, beginning with the 2009-10 school year and annually thereafter, on specified voter registration efforts, and requires affected school districts to publish the efforts prominently and annually on the web site of each of its high schools and in parent newsletters or other communication vehicles used within the school community.
Vetoed
AB 270* (Huff-R) Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers
Extends the sunset for the "school district of choice" interdistrict transfer authorization from 7/1/07 to 7/1/09, and requires school districts (electing to accept transfers) to maintain records on the number of requests it receives, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 333 (Hancock-D) School libraries: online databases: subscriptions
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a county office of education, upon approval by the State Board of Education and an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, to develop and fund a statewide online research database purchase, and convene an Online Database Advisory Committee to assist in developing an online database selection process.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 342 (Saldana-D) Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs
Reinstates public health nurses to the list of qualified persons allowed to assist individuals with exceptional needs with specialized physical health care services during the regular school day, and allowed to supervise other qualified designated school personnel trained in the administration of specialized physical health care services.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2007
AB 477 (Levine-D) Pupils: dropouts: definition
Defines the term "dropout," for purposes of including dropout data in the Academic Performance Index.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 486 (De La Torre-D) School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling
Prohibits a school district, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, from operating a multitrack year-round education program if 50% of the district's schools receive federal Title I funds.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 556 (Huff-R) International Baccalaureate Programs
Repeals provisions of existing law authorizing start-up grants for International Baccalaureate Programs, and specifies that second priority for annual grant funding be given to high schools and middle schools that have the highest percentage of pupils from low-income families.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 2007
AB 571 (Jones-D) Preschool: access
Requires all three-and four-year-olds from low-income families to have access to state preschool programs by 2011-12, with priority for four-year-old children.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 584 (Swanson-D) Alternative education and work center
Reauthorizes a school district that participates in school-based program coordination to establish an alternative education and work center for school dropouts and pupils at risk at a continuation high school or adult school, or to contract with a private nonprofit community-based organization to provide the center. The center is required to teach basic academic skills, operate on a clinical, client-centered basis, and provide programs that include specified qualities.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 589 (Levine-D) Pupils: teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention
Requires school districts to develop policies, procedures, and training regarding the prevention of teen dating violence and sexual violence, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 622 (Mullin-D) High school equivalency certificates: confined persons
Provides confined/incarcerated students with an alternative path to the California high school equivalency certificate.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2007
AB 629 (Brownley-D) Sex education programs: requirements
Enacts the Sexual Health Education Accountability Act and requires sexual health education programs to provide information that is medically accurate, current, and objective, include content that is age appropriate for its targeted population, be culturally and linguistically appropriate for its targeted populations, and provide information about the effectiveness and safety of at least one or more drug or device approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for preventing pregnancy and for reducing the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2007
AB 647 (Salas-D) Tobacco use programs
Consolidates three existing grant programs administered by the Department of Education for tobacco education programs into one competitive grant process, beginning 1/1/09.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2007
AB 683 (Sharon Runner-R) Pupil admission
Moves up the date by three months by which a child must be five years to enroll in kindergarten and six years old to enroll in first grade.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 760 (Coto-D) Pupil health: school health services
Requires each school district to report to the Department of Education the number of pupils who have acute or chronic health conditions, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 764 (Soto-D) California Technology Assistance Projects
Reauthorizes and makes various changes to the regional California Technology Assistance Projects and the statewide educational technology service programs.
Vetoed
AB 1002 (Anderson-R) Pupils: notification: sex offenders
Requires school districts to provide information about the Megan's Law web site.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1029 (Caballero-D) Law enforcement: apprenticeship program
Establishes the Law Enforcement Apprenticeship Grant program, to be administered by the Department of Education. Makes the program contingent on funds provided in the Budget Act, and repeals the program on 1/1/11.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1030 (Caballero-D) Libraries: literacy and English acquisition services
Authorizes the California Library Literacy and English Acquisition Program to provide services targeting young adults 16 years of age and older who are not enrolled in school, as specified, and eliminates the requirement that the local jurisdiction certify that it will provide the same level of local and private funding as it did in the preceding fiscal year.
Vetoed
AB 1085 (Richardson-D) Pupils with hearing impairment
Requires parents of a hearing impaired child to file a written certificate with the school district stating that he or she, or a family member, has completed an age-appropriate course on specified communication options for his or her child.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1148 (Brownley-D) Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program
Specifies duties for the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction and reporting requirements for the Department of Education relating to publisher costs and how those costs impact local school districts.
Vetoed
AB 1233 (Galgiani-D) State Library: homework assistance
Requires the State Librarian to enter into a contract with an entity to establish and maintain a program of online homework assistance that is free of charge through public libraries in the state.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1236 (Mullin-D) Compulsory school attendance: kindergarten readiness program
Moves up the date by three months by which a child must be five years old to enroll in kindergarten and six years old to enroll in first grade, beginning in 2011-12. Makes kindergarten compulsory, beginning in 2010-11, and establishes the Kindergarten Readiness Program, beginning in 2011-12.
( In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1319 (Houston-R) Schools: athletes: steroid testing
Requires the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) to amend its constitution and bylaws to require, as a condition of participation in interscholastic sports, school districts to prohibit a pupil from participating in high school athletics involving a CIF-sanctioned or sponsored athletic competition unless that pupil has consented, in writing, to random urinalysis testing for anabolic steroids, and acknowledged, in writing, the description of laws regarding anabolic steroids.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1320 (Carter-D) Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities
Deems a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election, or engaging in other leadership or civic engagement activities, to be participating in independent studies for the purpose of calculating a school district's average daily attendance for funding purposes.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1342 (Mendoza-D) Surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials
Changes the restrictions placed on the State Board of Education and school districts in the disposal of surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1346 (Silva-R) Education
Adds "religion" as a protected characteristic to several nondiscrimination sections of the Education Code.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1368 (Mullin-D) School bonds
Authorizes the governing board of a school district or a community college district to increase the maximum term of issuance for bond anticipation notes from one year to five years.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2007
AB 1403 (Arambula-D) Local educational agencies: administration
Establishes the Central Valley District Improvement Program for the purposes of authorizing the county superintendents of Fresno and Tulare to assume greater responsibility for the operation, oversight, and monitoring of academic progress of school districts identified for program improvement or corrective action under provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1409 (Portantino-D) Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Expands the use of concurrent enrollment between high schools and the California Community Colleges (CCC) by raising and ultimately lifting the cap on the percentage of high school pupils that principals may recommend for CCC summer sessions and by easing restrictions on the types of CCC courses that may be offered to high school pupils, pursuant to a partnership between the school district and the CCC.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1465 (Richardson-D) School districts: pupil attendance alternatives
Requires the Compton Unified School District and the Los Angeles Unified School District to abide by their interdistrict transferee agreement, specifically with regards to the provision that a transfer shall not be required to resubmit a new application annually in order to remain enrolled in the school district.
Vetoed
AB 1577 (Richardson-D) School districts: pupil attendance alternatives
Establishes a specific interdistrict transfer authorization between the Paramount Unified School District and the Long Beach Unified School District.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1698 (Eng-D) Truancy: state mandate
Requires the Commission on State Mandates to amend the parameters and guidelines for claiming mandated costs regarding the notification of truancy in order to modify the definition of a truant to conform to a more recently enacted definition.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2007
ACR 18 (Ruskin-D) Arts Education Month
Declares March 2007 to be Arts Education Month.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2007
ACR 32 (Mendoza-D) Read Across America Day
Recognizes 3/2/07 as Read Across America Day.
Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2007
ACR 40 (Lieu-D) Financial Literacy Month
Declares the month of April 2007 as Financial Literacy Month, in order to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2007
ACR 54 (Salas-D) Physical Education and Sport Week/Month
Acknowledges the value of high-quality daily physical education programs for all youth, encourages local governments to support, and local educational agencies to provide, high-quality daily physical education experiences for all California children in K-12, and proclaims 5/1/07 through 5/7/07 as "Physical Education and Sport Week" and May 2007 as "Physical Fitness and Sport Month."
Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2007
ACR 55 (Mullin-D) Public schools: character education
Urges the State Board of Education, county offices of education, and local school governing bodies to examine their current practices and to increase emphasis on character, citizenship, and ethics.
Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2007
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 1 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: California Dream Act | Higher Education |
| SB 13 | Wyland-R Career Technical Education Facilities | School Facilities Vocational Education |
| SB 15 | Wyland-R Career Technical Education Vision Council | Vocational Education |
| SB 18 | Perata-D School facilities: labor compliance | School Facilities |
| SB 20 | Torlakson-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| SB 21 | Torlakson-D Regional Education and Economic Integration Initiative | Vocational Education |
| SB 29 | Simitian-D Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring | Miscellaneous |
| SB 35 | Torlakson-D School facilities: joint-use facilities | School Facilities |
| SB 43 | Torlakson-D Teacher credentialing | School Employees |
| SB 44 | Torlakson-D Teacher development | School Employees |
| SB 45 | Perata-D Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| SB 52* | Scott-D Teacher credentialing: designated subjects: career technical | School Employees Vocational Education |
| SB 65 | Cedillo-D San Jose State University-National Hispanic University | Higher Education |
| SB 69 | Runner-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 70 | Florez-D School buses: biodiesel | Miscellaneous |
| SB 80* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education | Miscellaneous |
| SB 89* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Student financial aid: state student loan guarantee program | Higher Education |
| SB 91 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Student financial aid | Higher Education |
| SB 92 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Charter schools: petitions: facilities | Charter Schools |
| SB 95 | Maldonado-R Outdoor science program | School Curriculum |
| SB 109 | Runner-R School employees: compulsory leave of absence compensation | School Employees |
| SB 112 | Scott-D Teachers | School Employees |
| SB 121 | Romero-D School facilities: multitrack year-round education | School Facilities |
| SB 123 | Romero-D High school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 132 | Assembly Education Committee Education | Miscellaneous |
| SB 139 | Scott-D Nursing education | Higher Education |
| SB 146 | Scott-D School finance: attendance and enrollment | School Finance |
| SB 155 | Maldonado-R Instructional programs: Online Classroom Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 156 | Simitian-D Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2008 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 160 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act | Higher Education |
| SB 166 | Negrete McLeod-D Community college districts: emergency preparedness | Higher Education |
| SB 168 | Denham-R Physical education for the blind and visually impaired | Miscellaneous |
| SB 170* | Denham-R School attendance: residency requirements | Miscellaneous |
| SB 176* | Denham-R School facilities: multitrack year-round schools | School Facilities |
| SB 190 | Yee-D Public postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| SB 193 | Scott-D Teacher credentialing: paraprofessional teacher training | School Employees |
| SB 196 | Machado-D Teacher credentialing: district interns | School Employees |
| SB 197 | Ducheny-D Child care: eligibility: termination of services | Child and Day Care |
| SB 219 | Steinberg-D Academic Performance Index: alternative education | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 227 | Harman-R Course of study: community service | School Curriculum |
| SB 232 | Ducheny-D Instructional strategies: subject matter projects | School Employees |
| SB 235 | Negrete McLeod-D California State University: vision care: annuitants | Higher Education |
| SB 259 | Negrete McLeod-D CSU academic employees' retirement: service credit | Higher Education |
| SB 268 | McClintock-R Public postsecondary education: nonresident tuition criteria | Higher Education |
| SB 272 | Runner-R Public postsecondary education: Armed Forces service | Higher Education |
| SB 273 | Ackerman-R Education: American Indian education centers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 278 | Lowenthal-D Pupils: excused absences | Miscellaneous |
| SB 280 | Scott-D Education | School Employees |
| SB 283 | Maldonado-R Community colleges: board of governors: membership | Higher Education |
| SB 288 | Yee-D Pupils: comprehensive learning support system | Miscellaneous |
| SB 305 | Ducheny-D Pupil assessment: English learners | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 309 | Scott-D Career technical education: subject requirements | Vocational Education |
| SB 314 | Wyland-R Career technical education: advisory committee | Vocational Education |
| SB 322 | Ducheny-D Math and Science Teacher Academy Pilot Program | School Employees |
| SB 325 | Scott-D Educational & Economic Goals for Higher Education | Higher Education |
| SB 344* | Steinberg-D Pupils: drop-out prevention and intervention | Miscellaneous |
| SB 345* | Aanestad-R Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| SB 347 | Cogdill-R Reimbursement of community college enrollment fees | Higher Education |
| SB 348 | Migden-D Pupil attendance: foster youth | Miscellaneous |
| SB 363 | Simitian-D Teacher credentialing: identification number | School Employees |
| SB 369 | Vincent-D State teachers: retirement: health benefits | School Employees |
| SB 372 | Steinberg-D High-speed rail: educational and vocational training program | Vocational Education |
| SB 393 | Margett-R School employees: Lottery Act allocation | School Employees |
| SB 405 | Steinberg-D Schools: curriculum: opportunities for pupils | School Curriculum |
| SB 406 | Steinberg-D Pupils: work permits | Miscellaneous |
| SB 413 | Scott-D Community colleges: inmate education programs | Higher Education |
| SB 418 | Migden-D Local government finance: special education funding | Special Education |
| SB 453 | Negrete McLeod-D Schools and community colleges: district employees. | School Safety School Employees |
| SB 460 | Florez-D Kings Canyon Unified School District | School Finance |
| SB 461 | Ashburn-R State Teachers' Retirement System | School Employees |
| SB 481 | Runner-R Student loan assistance: prosecutors and public defenders | Higher Education |
| SB 490 | Alquist-D Pupil nutrition: trans fats | Pupil Nutrition |
| SB 507 | Torlakson-D Schools: science instruction: grant program | School Curriculum |
| SB 537 | Simitian-D Charter schools: report | Charter Schools |
| SB 543 | Maldonado-R Residential outdoor science programs | School Curriculum |
| SB 550 | Ashburn-R Safe school zones: gangs | School Safety |
| SB 551 | Cedillo-D Pupil instruction: adopted course of study | School Curriculum |
| SB 564 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public School Health Center Support Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 588 | Runner-R Postsecondary education: community college school buildings | Higher Education |
| SB 595 | Alquist-D Student financial aid: grant deadlines | Higher Education |
| SB 601 | Torlakson-D Physical Education Professional Development Program | School Employees |
| SB 602 | Torlakson-D Physical education | School Curriculum |
| SB 614 | Simitian-D Education: public works: design-build contracts | School Facilities |
| SB 621 | Harman-R Pupils: confidential medical services: parental notification | Miscellaneous |
| SB 637 | Wyland-R Pupil assessment: high school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 643 | Florez-D Tuition programs: income tax deductions | Higher Education |
| SB 647 | Romero-D Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 658* | Romero-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| SB 662 | Wiggins-D Education: Political Reform Act: conflict of interest codes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 667 | Hollingsworth-R School finance | School Finance |
| SB 668 | Torlakson-D School property: housing: Field Act exemption | School Facilities |
| SB 672 | Torlakson-D Pupil instruction: courses of study: graduation requirements | Higher Education School Curriculum |
| SB 673 | Scott-D Assumption Program of Loans for Education | Higher Education School Employees |
| SB 675 | Torlakson-D Instructional programs: Technology Integration Curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 676 | Ridley-Thomas-D Student health: immunizations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 679 | Romero-D Independent study and alternative accountability systems | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 680 | Ridley-Thomas-D Child care resource and referral programs: funding | Child and Day Care |
| SB 681 | Torlakson-D Pupil attendance: high school | School Finance |
| SB 693 | Ashburn-R Child day care: payment programs | Child and Day Care |
| SB 704 | Ducheny-D New construction grant eligibility: special education pupils | School Facilities Special Education |
| SB 733 | Torlakson-D Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 734 | Torlakson-D Instructional materials: reviews: fees | Miscellaneous |
| SB 736 | Correa-D Gifted and talented pupils: identification | Miscellaneous |
| SB 741 | Ackerman-R Pupils: identifying information | Miscellaneous |
| SB 750 | Florez-D Pupils: physical education | Miscellaneous |
| SB 757 | Ridley-Thomas-D CA Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund | Miscellaneous |
| SB 766 | Alquist-D Higher education: health insurance for students | Higher Education |
| SB 769 | Alquist-D Student financial aid: working group on Cal Grant deadlines | Higher Education |
| SB 777 | Kuehl-D Education: student civil rights | Miscellaneous |
| SB 789 | Margett-R Chino Hills Unified School District | Miscellaneous |
| SB 802 | Romero-D County community schools | School Finance |
| SB 807 | Machado-D Holocaust and genocide: education | Higher Education School Curriculum |
| SB 808 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public Service Customer Service Academy | Higher Education |
| SB 823 | Perata-D Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| SB 826 | Padilla-D Native American education | Higher Education |
| SB 827* | Padilla-D Pupil testing | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 830 | Kehoe-D California Partnership Academies | Miscellaneous |
| SB 832 | Corbett-D College textbooks | Higher Education |
| SB 835 | Scott-D School accountability: report card | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 844 | Calderon-D School zones: crime | School Safety |
| SB 854 | Ridley-Thomas-D Students: voter registration | Higher Education |
| SB 855 | Ridley-Thomas-D California State University: revenue bonds | Higher Education |
| SB 858 | Scott-D Teachers | School Employees |
| SB 859 | Scott-D Teacher credentialing | School Employees |
| SB 879 | Calderon-D State Teachers' Retirement System | School Employees |
| SB 882 | Harman-R Teacher credentialing: criminal history | School Employees |
| SB 890 | Scott-D Students: college preparedness | Higher Education |
| SB 901 | Padilla-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| SB 908 | Simitian-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| SB 909 | Simitian-D School board members: compensation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 918 | Oropeza-D Tuition: income tax | Higher Education |
| SB 944 | Padilla-D Child care | Child and Day Care |
| SB 946 | Scott-D Community College Early Assessment | Higher Education |
| SB 960 | Alquist-D Teachers: professional development | School Employees |
| SB 961 | Scott-D School administrators | School Employees |
| SB 979 | Maldonado-R California State University | Higher Education |
| SB 1003 | Romero-D Instructional materials | Miscellaneous |
| SCA 3 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public postsecondary education: community college districts | Higher Education |
| SCR 34 | Alquist-D SJSU: sesquicentennial anniversary celebration | Higher Education |
| SCR 36 | Yee-D California Community College Music Day | Higher Education |
| SCR 40 | Ackerman-R Speech-language pathologists: shortage | School Employees |
| SCR 46 | Machado-D California Anti-Bullying Week | School Safety |
| SCR 52 | Yee-D University of California Retirement Plan: shared governance | Higher Education |
| SCR 58 | Cedillo-D School curriculum: The Mexican Repatriation Program | School Curriculum |
| SJR 3 | Aanestad-R Federal Secure Rural Schools & Community Self-Determination | Miscellaneous |
| SR 11 | Torlakson-D National Library Week | Miscellaneous |
| AB 16 | Hernandez-D Pupil immunizations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 25 | Brownley-D Schools | School Finance |
| AB 32 | Fuller-R Career technical education: work certification training | Vocational Education |
| AB 33* | Jeffries-R School transportation costs: tax credit | School Finance |
| AB 45 | Swanson-D Oakland Unified School District: governance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 50 | Soto-D Nell Soto Parent/Teacher Involvement Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 57 | Soto-D Highways: federal funds: Safe Routes to School | Miscellaneous |
| AB 68 | Dymally-D Schools: pupil services block grant | School Finance |
| AB 72 | Dymally-D Curriculum: social science | School Curriculum |
| AB 73 | Dymally-D School attendance | School Finance |
| AB 74 | Dymally-D University of California: obesity/diabetes/related diseases | Higher Education |
| AB 80 | Krekorian-D School facilities: energy efficiency | School Facilities |
| AB 86 | Lieu-D School food: trans fat | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 88* | Lieu-D Pupil instruction: Internet safety resources | School Curriculum |
| AB 90 | Lieu-D Pupil nutrition: trans fats | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 92 | Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: school meals | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 96 | Feuer-D School administrators: Administrator Training Program | School Employees |
| AB 100 | Mullin-D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act | School Facilities |
| AB 111* | Blakeslee-R National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education | Higher Education |
| AB 125 | Ma-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 127 | Beall-D School finance: per pupil funding | School Finance |
| AB 128 | Dymally-D Pupils: Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot Programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 131* | Beall-D The Middle and High School Supplemental Counseling Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 134 | Wolk-D School facilities: new construction eligibility | School Facilities |
| AB 137 | DeVore-R Civic Center Act | School Facilities School Employees |
| AB 139 | Bass-D School bus drivers: medical exams | School Employees |
| AB 143 | Coto-D Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| AB 144 | Coto-D Pupil testing: Franklin-McKinley Elementary School District | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 145 | Coto-D San Jose State University-National Hispanic University | Higher Education |
| AB 146 | Smyth-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 150 | Lieu-D California Financial Literacy Initiative | School Curriculum |
| AB 152 | Beall-D Postsecondary education: Golden State Scholarshare Trust | Higher Education |
| AB 153 | Blakeslee-R University of California: Energy Biosciences Institute | Higher Education |
| AB 168 | Berg-D New construction: minimum essential school facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 170 | Saldana-D Child care: state preschool programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 171 | Beall-D Student financial aid: assumption program: loans for law | Higher Education |
| AB 173* | Dymally-D Pupils: academic support program: dropouts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 175 | Price-D Cal Grant B awards: access costs | Higher Education |
| AB 177 | Bass-D Charter schools: at-risk pupils: county board of education | Charter Schools |
| AB 178 | Coto-D High schools: College Readiness and Equity Pilot Program | Higher Education School Curriculum |
| AB 179 | De Leon-D School finance | School Finance |
| AB 180 | Bass-D School districts: reorganizations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 183 | Coto-D Pupils: high schools: voter registration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 194* | Assembly Budget Committee School finance | School Finance Higher Education |
| AB 216 | Bass-D Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools | Special Education |
| AB 221 | Anderson-R Teachers' Retirement System: Iran investments | School Employees |
| AB 229 | Strickland-R School grounds: prohibited weapons | School Safety |
| AB 252 | Coto-D Pupil testing: primary language assessments: dual immersion | Bilingual Education School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 260 | Fuller-R School facilities: supplemental funding: project management | School Facilities |
| AB 262 | Coto-D Public postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 270* | Huff-R Pupil attendance: interdistrict transfers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 280 | Coto-D Instructional programs: State Seal of Biliteracy | Bilingual Education |
| AB 284 | Smyth-R Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 286 | Cook-R Public postsecondary education: exemption: nonresidents | Higher Education |
| AB 302 | De La Torre-D Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards: award amount | Higher Education |
| AB 313 | Benoit-R Child day care facility rating system | Child and Day Care |
| AB 321 | Nava-D Schools: vehicles: speed limits | School Safety |
| AB 331 | Emmerson-R School safety: persistently dangerous schools | School Safety |
| AB 333 | Hancock-D School libraries: online databases: subscriptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 342 | Saldana-D Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 344 | Huff-R Child day care facilities | Child and Day Care |
| AB 347* | Nava-D High school exit examine: intensive instruction and services | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 352 | Solorio-D School grounds: weapons | School Safety |
| AB 359* | Karnette-D Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE) | Higher Education |
| AB 365 | Portantino-D Postsecondary education: workforce | Higher Education |
| AB 366 | Wolk-D School finance: declining enrollment | School Finance |
| AB 394 | Levine-D Safe schools: discrimination and harassment | School Safety School Employees |
| AB 400 | Nunez-D Public school accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 415 | Karnette-D Adult education: funding | School Finance |
| AB 428 | Carter-D High school curriculum: college preparatory | School Curriculum |
| AB 438 | Price-D Schools: accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 447 | Galgiani-D Pupils: AVID program | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 466 | Hancock-D Pupils: average daily attendance | School Finance |
| AB 469 | Horton-R Teacher credentialing: applications | School Employees |
| AB 471 | Carter-D School facilities: joint-use projects | School Facilities |
| AB 477 | Levine-D Pupils: dropouts: definition | School Accountability and Testing Miscellaneous |
| AB 480 | De Leon-D California high school exit examination: English learners | Bilingual Education School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 483 | Salas-D Community colleges: Economic and Workforce Development | Higher Education |
| AB 485 | Solorio-D Special education: nonpublic schools and agencies | Special Education |
| AB 486 | De La Torre-D School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling | Miscellaneous |
| AB 488 | Portantino-D California Community Colleges Access Grant Program | Higher Education |
| AB 491 | Carter-D Pupil counseling: supplemental school counseling | School Finance School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 494 | Huffman-D State Board of Education: waivers | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 497 | Portantino-D Special education: foster children: funding | Special Education |
| AB 519* | Portantino-D Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 523* | De La Torre-D Contracts: University of California | Higher Education |
| AB 556 | Huff-R International Baccalaureate Programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 557 | Huff-R Charter schools: revocation | Charter Schools |
| AB 559 | Ruskin-D Public water systems: affect of drinking water disinfectants | Higher Education |
| AB 571 | Jones-D Preschool: access | Miscellaneous |
| AB 573 | Horton-R Community colleges: nursing education programs | Higher Education |
| AB 577 | Ruskin-D Community colleges: open education resources centers | Higher Education |
| AB 580 | Smyth-R Classified school employees | School Employees |
| AB 584 | Swanson-D Alternative education and work center | Miscellaneous |
| AB 586 | Coto-D School finance: funding formula | School Finance |
| AB 589 | Levine-D Pupils: teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention | Miscellaneous |
| AB 590 | Solorio-D Parental involvement: limited-English-proficient parents | Bilingual Education |
| AB 591 | Dymally-D Community colleges: non-tenure track temporary faculty | Higher Education |
| AB 597 | Assembly Education Committee Career technical education: web site pages | Vocational Education |
| AB 598 | Assembly Education Committee Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 599 | Mullin-D Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 618 | Karnette-D Certificated school employees: salary payments | School Employees |
| AB 621 | Smyth-R Universities: reserve peace officers | Higher Education |
| AB 622 | Mullin-D High school equivalency certificates: confined persons | Miscellaneous |
| AB 629 | Brownley-D Sex education programs: requirements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 635 | Duvall-R Community college: police | Higher Education |
| AB 647 | Salas-D Tobacco use programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 659 | Ma-D University of California: HIV study | Higher Education |
| AB 665 | DeSaulnier-D University of California study: growth management | Higher Education |
| AB 666 | Karnette-D Pupil instruction: home economics | School Curriculum |
| AB 668 | Portantino-D Community colleges: financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 675 | Eng-D School safety | School Safety |
| AB 683 | Sharon Runner-R Pupil admission | Miscellaneous |
| AB 685 | Karnette-D Special education | Special Education |
| AB 699 | Parra-D Home-to-school transportation | School Finance |
| AB 710 | Parra-D School finance: military dependents | School Finance |
| AB 743 | Solorio-D School security officers | School Safety |
| AB 750 | Carter-D Teaching credentials | School Employees |
| AB 757 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Teachers: retirement and employment | School Employees |
| AB 760 | Coto-D Pupil health: school health services | Miscellaneous |
| AB 764 | Soto-D California Technology Assistance Projects | Miscellaneous |
| AB 766 | Walters-R Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 767 | Walters-R Student financial aid: veterans | Higher Education |
| AB 774 | Houston-R Physical education: volunteer instructors | School Employees |
| AB 789 | Mullin-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| AB 792* | Garcia-R Teachers: affordable housing | School Employees |
| AB 795 | Keene-R Special education: funding | Special Education |
| AB 798 | Assembly Insurance Committee Community colleges: unemployment insurance | Higher Education |
| AB 806 | De La Torre-D Community colleges: career technical education | Higher Education Vocational Education |
| AB 810 | Lieu-D School safety | School Safety |
| AB 818 | Krekorian-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 819* | Sharon Runner-R Tuition: income tax deduction | Higher Education |
| AB 820 | Karnette-D Higher education: recycling polystyrene | Higher Education |
| AB 835 | Krekorian-D School finance: declining enrollment | School Finance |
| AB 850 | Torrico-D School finance: special education | School Finance Special Education |
| AB 876 | Davis-D Career technical education | Higher Education Vocational Education |
| AB 883 | Dymally-D Student financial aid | Higher Education School Employees |
| AB 905 | Arambula-D Child care eligibility | Child and Day Care |
| AB 906 | Eng-D California Community Colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 911 | Strickland-R Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 925 | Hancock-D School accountability: UC study | School Accountability and Testing Higher Education |
| AB 931 | Ruskin-D University of California Riverside: corrections study | Higher Education |
| AB 939 | Soto-D High school testing | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 950 | Salas-D In-state tuition: military personnel | Higher Education |
| AB 956 | Nakanishi-R Public contracts: school districts: relocatable buildings | School Facilities |
| AB 967 | Nava-D Farm Fresh Schools Program | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 973 | Fuller-R Regional occupational centers and programs: fees | Vocational Education |
| AB 974 | Fuller-R Regional occupational centers and programs | Vocational Education |
| AB 975 | Solorio-D Child care resource and referral programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 999 | Hancock-D Partnership academies: green technology and goods movement | Vocational Education |
| AB 1002 | Anderson-R Pupils: notification: sex offenders | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1011 | DeSaulnier-D School facilities: modernization eligibility | School Facilities |
| AB 1014 | Bass-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 1015 | Brownley-D School accountability report card | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1024 | Caballero-D University of California at Davis: food safety | Higher Education |
| AB 1027 | Caballero-D Teachers: professional development | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| AB 1028 | Caballero-D Child care: funding: audits | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1029 | Caballero-D Law enforcement: apprenticeship program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1030 | Caballero-D Libraries: literacy and English acquisition services | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1038 | Feuer-D Postsecondary education: student fees | Higher Education |
| AB 1052 | Torrico-D Preschool: teachers: limited-English-proficient children | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| AB 1059 | De Leon-D Child Development Teacher and Supervisor Grant Program | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1061 | Mullin-D School accountability: report card | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1080 | Mullin-D State preschool programs: funding | School Finance |
| AB 1085 | Richardson-D Pupils with hearing impairment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1101 | Parra-D Career Technical Education Facilities Program | School Facilities |
| AB 1116 | Nava-D Career technical education: labor market needs | Vocational Education |
| AB 1122 | Duvall-R Pupil instruction: consumer credit | School Curriculum |
| AB 1148 | Brownley-D Instructional Materials Funding Realignment Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1160 | Niello-R Certificated school employees: compensation | School Employees |
| AB 1163 | Krekorian-D Adult education | School Finance |
| AB 1164 | De Leon-D Child care: provider organization: representation | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1168 | Jones-D Social security numbers | Higher Education |
| AB 1177 | Solorio-D Accelerated English Acquisition and Literacy Pilot Program | Bilingual Education |
| AB 1182 | Niello-R California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2008 | Higher Education |
| AB 1194 | Karnette-D School employees | School Employees |
| AB 1204 | Portantino-D Contracts: community college districts | Higher Education |
| AB 1216 | Laird-D School accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1230 | Laird-D Charter schools: pupil health screenings | Charter Schools |
| AB 1233 | Galgiani-D State Library: homework assistance | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1236 | Mullin-D Compulsory school attendance: kindergarten readiness program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1242 | Karnette-D Classified school employees | School Employees |
| AB 1249 | Silva-R Schools: sex education | School Curriculum |
| AB 1267 | Feuer-D Civic service: Civic Service Loan Assumption Program | Higher Education |
| AB 1279 | Coto-D Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1281 | Soto-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 1305 | Charles Calderon-D Community colleges: employment of full-time faculty | Higher Education |
| AB 1316 | Bass-D State teachers' retirement: disability | School Employees |
| AB 1317 | Mullin-D Teachers' Retirement System: executive compensation | School Employees |
| AB 1319 | Houston-R Schools: athletes: steroid testing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1320 | Carter-D Pupil attendance: leadership and civic engagement activities | School Finance Miscellaneous |
| AB 1325 | Mullin-D Courses of study: weekly teaching requirement | School Curriculum |
| AB 1329 | Houston-R Occupational therapists | Higher Education |
| AB 1333 | Hancock-D Regents of the University of California: retirement system | Higher Education |
| AB 1342 | Mendoza-D Surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1343 | Mendoza-D Faculty and College Excellence Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1344 | Mendoza-D State preschool programs | School Finance |
| AB 1346 | Silva-R Education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1353* | Huff-R Pupil assessment | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1368 | Mullin-D Community colleges: bonds | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| AB 1379 | Brownley-D High schools: requirements for graduation | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1395 | Coto-D School facilities: new construction | School Facilities |
| AB 1400 | Hayashi-D Child care resource and referral programs: funding | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1403 | Arambula-D Local educational agencies: administration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1409 | Portantino-D Pupils: concurrent enrollment | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| AB 1413 | Portantino-D California State University: trustees | Higher Education |
| AB 1414 | Hancock-D Career Technical Education Revitalization Act of 2007. | Vocational Education |
| AB 1415 | Brownley-D Teacher credentialing: services credential | School Employees |
| AB 1423 | Davis-D Community colleges: salary schedules for academic employees | Higher Education |
| AB 1432 | Soto-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| AB 1450 | Brownley-D School facilities: replacement buildings: reconfiguration | School Facilities |
| AB 1454 | Richardson-D Content standards: periodic review | School Curriculum |
| AB 1463 | Eng-D Public school employers: joint powers agencies | School Employees |
| AB 1465 | Richardson-D School districts: pupil attendance alternatives | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1482 | Leno-D Supplemental instruction | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1490 | Mendoza-D New construction: ongoing eligibility: portable classrooms | School Facilities |
| AB 1500 | Hancock-D School facilities: modernization funding | School Facilities |
| AB 1503 | Huff-R Pupils with disabilities: waivers | Special Education School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1522 | Brownley-D Student financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 1525* | Cook-R Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 1537 | Mullin-D Model civic education staff development program | School Employees |
| AB 1540 | Bass-D Student financial aid: Cash for College Program | Higher Education |
| AB 1544 | Richardson-D Career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 1548 | Solorio-D College Textbook Transparency Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1559 | Berryhill-R Community college registered nursing programs | Higher Education |
| AB 1567 | Garrick-R School districts: budgets: retired employee benefits | School Employees |
| AB 1571 | DeSaulnier-D Child care: alternative payment programs: reimbursement | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1577 | Richardson-D School districts: pupil attendance alternatives | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1578 | Leno-D Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1586 | DeSaulnier-D Higher education: curriculum | Higher Education |
| AB 1593 | Blakeslee-R School volunteer aides: background checks | School Employees |
| AB 1594 | Blakeslee-R School teachers: adverse actions on credentials | School Employees |
| AB 1598 | Price-D Alcoholic beverages: places of consumption | Higher Education |
| AB 1599 | Mendoza-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 1601 | Hancock-D School finance: Average Monthly Enrollment Pilot Program | School Finance |
| AB 1609 | Leno-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 1632 | Parra-D Class size reduction: penalty: January 2007 freeze exemption | School Finance |
| AB 1638* | Houston-R School finance: equalization | School Finance |
| AB 1649 | Levine-D University of California: retirement benefits | Higher Education |
| AB 1652 | Lieber-D Student financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 1656 | Feuer-D California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1659 | Lieber-D Special education: procedural safeguards | Special Education |
| AB 1663* | Evans-D Special education: conformance to federal law | Special Education |
| AB 1676 | DeVore-R Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 1685* | Garrick-R Before and after school programs: grants | School Finance |
| AB 1698 | Eng-D Truancy: state mandate | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 18 | Ruskin-D Arts Education Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 21 | Portantino-D University of California: academic partnerships | Higher Education |
| ACR 32 | Mendoza-D Read Across America Day | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 40 | Lieu-D Financial Literacy Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 54 | Salas-D Physical Education and Sport Week/Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 55 | Mullin-D Public schools: character education | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 69 | Price-D Task Force on the Future of Compton Community College | Higher Education |
| AJR 1 | Dymally-D Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science | Higher Education |
| AJR 23 | Hancock-D No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: reauthorization | School Accountability and Testing |
| HR 18 | Karnette-D California Substitute Educators Day | School Employees |