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School Finance
SB 63* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance
Makes changes to a variety of education related statutes as part of the 2005-06 Budget Act covering funding associated with the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program to better correspond to the state's before and after school programs and ensure that federal funds are expended in an efficient and expeditious manner.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2005
SB 65* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance
Makes technical and clarifying changes to the education portion of the budget bill and the education budget trailer bill, including corrections to inadvertent errors.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2005
SB 219 (Alquist-D) School finance
Establishes the California Commission on Restructuring School Finance for Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires the commission to, among other things, propose simple, flexible, and workable funding programs that enable schools to meet the special needs of each individual pupil. Requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study regarding public school funding.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 260 (Denham-R) Education finance: average daily attendance: apportionments
Requires the State Board of Education to select 50 school districts that may claim apportionments for students assigned to in-school suspension classrooms supervised by a noncertificated school employee.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 812 (Soto-D) Instructional materials
Authorizes a school district to purchase, or lease, computers, servers and networking equipment using state categorical instructional materials funding.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 821 (Perata-D) School districts: state-appointed administrators
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state appointed administrator of a school district under state control to annually report on the fiscal recovery plan prepared for that district at a regularly scheduled school board meeting. Requires a local education agency that is subject to corrective action under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to provide notices, convene meetings, and appoint a school site planning team related to restructuring the school.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 867 (Alarcon-D) Education finance
States the intent of the Legislature and makes various findings and declarations regarding specified categorical block grants and the programs that are funded by those grants.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SB 958 (Simitian-D) School districts: declining enrollment
Allows school districts, county offices of education, and Special Education Local Plan Areas to base their general purpose funding on a two- or three-year running average of average daily attendance.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1053 (Scott-D) School site funding: Local Improvement Program
Establishes the Local Improvement pilot project to provide participating schools with flexibility in the development and implementation of instructional programs to support and improve pupil learning, with provisions to sunset the pilot program in 2010.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 2005
SB 1077 (Simitian-D) Education finance: revenue limit equalization
Establishes, for fiscal year 2005-06, an equalization adjustment for school district base revenue limits, creating entitlements to equalization funding computed on a goal of raising all per pupil revenue limits to a level above which no more than 10 percent of the average daily attendance in the state is funded.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1078* (Simitian-D) Education finance: charter schools
Corrects and expands the currently inoperative law that provides for transfer of property tax revenues from basic aid school districts to charter schools.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1080 (Campbell-R) Adult education
Authorizes, until July 1, 2011, a school district to report for state funding average daily attendance and a community college district full time equivalent students, respectively, in adult education classes that are not open to the general public if (1) the classes are offered at a work site primarily for the benefit of employees, (2) intended primarily to develop literacy and English language skills, and (3) instructed by a credentialed employee of the school district.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1X (Perata-D) School finance: local control
Requires the apportionment of school funds on a weighted per pupil basis, in lieu of revenue limit funding, as specified. Allocates certain additional funds to eligible schools for implementation of school action plans and requires each school to establish a school site council as a condition of the receipt of these funds.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 9 (Coto-D) Education finance: sales and use taxes: services
Requires the Legislature and the Governor to ensure that the current per pupil level of funding for California's K-12 public schools grows by at least 20 percent annually, beginning in the 2006-07 fiscal year, until it reaches a level of at least $10,200 per pupil in current dollars. Requires that additional funding first be used to reduce teacher-pupil ratios so that they are equal to or less than the average teacher-pupil ratio of the ten states with the lowest ratios for public elementary and high schools. Requires that per pupil funding equals or exceeds the average of the top ten states by the 2011-12 fiscal year, and that it remain among the top ten each year thereafter. Establishes a sales tax on specialized services to increase funding for K-12 education and specifies the services that fall within that category.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 23* (Liu-D) Adult education finance
Establishes limits on the adult education funding that may be claimed by specified districts thereby settling adult education audit issues that have been unresolved for more than 10 years and provides for the reallocation of unclaimed adult education funding capacity.
Chapter 502, Statutes of 2005
AB 60 (Nunez-D) School finance: revenue limit equalization
Establishes a new revenue limit equalization calculation for school districts beginning in the 2005-06 fiscal year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 97 (Cohn-D) School budget reserves
Allows a school district that faces a reduction in average daily attendance and, as a result is subject to a higher minimum reserve requirement, to phase in the reserve increase in equal installments over a three-year period.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 128* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance
Contains changes to the budget act and education-related statutes, in accordance with budget agreements, including specifying how $20 million in funds appropriated by the 2005-06 Budget Act can be spent to help schools assist students in passing the California High School Exit Exam.
Chapter 234, Statutes of 2005
AB 307 (Chavez-D) Education technology: grants: requirements
Requires a high school, before receiving funding under the Digital High School Education Technology Grant Act of 1997, to develop a plan to educate pupils and teachers on the value of copyrighted material, the significance of a copyright, and the implications of illegal peer-to-peer network filing sharing, and to provide that plan to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 607 (Goldberg-D) Class size reduction
Specifies the conditions by which an individual school site may qualify for the class size reduction program based on the annual Academic Performance Index decile ranking.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 659* (Chan-D) School districts: reserve for economic uncertainties
Authorizes a school district to continue to maintain one-half of its normally-required reserve for economic uncertainties for fiscal year (FY) 2005-06, and requires a school district to restore its reserve to three-fourths of the required level in FY 2006-07. Requires the minimum reserve level to be restored to the percentage required by regulation in FY 2007-08.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 682 (Karnette-D) Professional development block grant: funding
Specifies that professional development block grant funding is to be allocated based on the proportion of funding received by a school district in fiscal year 2003-04 for the component programs of the block grant, and makes technical corrections to existing law.
Chapter 678, Statutes of 2005
AB 951 (Coto-D) Bonds: interest accrued: deposit in general fund
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to transfer from the interest and sinking fund of the school district to the general fund of the school district the interest that accrues on the proceeds of bonds of the district if the transfer is authorized by the terms of a bond act approved by the electors on or after January 1, 2006.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 952 (Coto-D) Surplus school property: use of proceeds
Authorizes the East Side Union High School District, the Oak Grove Elementary School District, and the San Jose Unified School District, under specified conditions, to deposit proceeds from the sale of surplus real property and any personal property located thereon, into the general fund of the school district or county office of education and to use the proceeds for any one-time general fund purpose.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 973 (Jerome Horton-D) Los Angeles Unified School District
Requires the Board of Education of the Los Angeles Unified School District to establish a budget oversight committee for the purpose of providing independent oversight over the budget of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Specifies the membership composition, governance, functions, and responsibilities relating to the to the committee and requires the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide support to the committee, including, among other things, technical and administrative assistance and financial resources.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1053 (Bogh-R) Beaumont Unified School District: sale of land
Authorizes the Beaumont Unified School District to sell surplus real property and any personal property located thereon and requires the school district to use the proceeds to repay the State Allocation Board for apportionments that are or have been rescinded on projects.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1071* (Chu-D) Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program
Increases the 2004-05 Budget Item schedule that sets aside federal funds for state monitored schools by $4,048,050 in order to reflect the addition of 17 new schools in the state monitored status of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program.
Chapter 192, Statutes of 2005
AB 1073 (Liu-D) Average daily attendance: growth formula
Establishes a method for reallocating authorized, but unused, adult education growth to other districts that served adult education pupils in excess of their authorized level and requires that redistributed growth be used to offer career-technical education courses.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1076 (Jerome Horton-D) Public education: Williams case settlement: implementation
Contains provisions for implementation of the Williams Case. A cleanup bill for SB 550 (Vasconcellos), Chapter 900, Statutes of 2004, one of several bills presented in the 2003-04 legislative session to resolve the Williams v. State of California lawsuit, filed on behalf of students in deciles 1-3 schools that claimed neglect by the State.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1107 (Berg-D) Small school district transportation
Establishes the purchase of new school buses to replace buses manufactured prior to January 1, 1987, as the third priority for state funds provided to small school districts for replacement or reconditioning of school buses, and establishes the reconditioning of school buses manufactured prior to January 1, 1987, as the fourth priority.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1110 (Parra-D) School Transportation Block Grant
Establishes the School Transportation Block Grant composed of funding from the existing home-to-school transportation and special education transportation programs and requires allocations to school districts for this block grant to be adjusted annually for inflation and enrollment growth beginning with the 2005-06 school year.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1136* (Dymally-D) Pupil retention block grants
Removes supplemental instruction programs (commonly termed summer school) from the pupil retention block grant (PRBG), reinstating the programs as they were prior to the block grant. Deletes the requirement that school districts receive an initial allocation of only 75 percent of PRBG and provisions requiring the redirection of PRBG funds to cover deficiencies in funding for mandated supplemental instruction. Clarifies and makes operative consistent with current practice the provisions of dropout prevention programs.
Chapter 402, Statutes of 2005
AB 1191 (Benoit-R) Transportation: equalization adjustment
Establishes the Equalization Adjustment for Special Education and Regular Home-to-School Transportation and requires that for any fiscal year in which funds are specifically appropriated for the equalization of special education and regular home-to-school transportation apportionments pursuant to this bill, the Superintendent of Public Instruction apportion to each school district and county office of education an equalization amount calculated as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1216 (Leslie-R) Local agency investments: school districts
Authorizes a school district to invest any portion of the funds that it receives by gift, bequest, or devise, from private sources, in any manner that it deems wise or expedient.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1303* (Daucher-R) School finance: emergency apportionments and lease financing
Revises statutes and terms pertaining to the lease financing that the state is using to replace General Fund financing of school district emergency loans.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 2005
AB 1377 (Dymally-D) School attendance
Requires, beginning July 1, 2006, a school district's revenue limit funding to be calculated based on active enrollment, rather than average daily attendance (as required by current law). Requires the State Board of Education to adopt standards of accountability for pupil attendance, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1420 (Niello-R) School districts: unification and funding
Requires the unified school district that results from the unification of the Grant Joint Union High School District and the Del Paso Heights Elementary School District to retain the revenue limits of the affected school districts.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1482 (Canciamilla-D) School district bonds
Requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to offer bonds for sale through a competitive bid process. Authorizes the governing board of a K-12 school district to sell bonds by negotiated sale, rather than competitive bid, if specified conditions apply. Requires the negotiated sales to be approved by the county treasurer or the State Treasurer.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1503 (Mullin-D) Declining enrollment: average daily attendance: adjustment
Authorizes, beginning in the 2005-06 fiscal year, a school district that reports a decline in units of average daily attendance (ADA) for two or more consecutive years, to establish a method to provide additional funding equal to 40 percent of the amount of funding it has lost due to the decline in ADA.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1569 (Cogdill-R) Rural county unified school districts: funding
Requires the county superintendent of schools to calculate an increase to the revenue limit funding of any school district that meets specified criteria for the attendance of pupils at a comprehensive high school. The criteria of the bill are expected to limit this adjustment to the Mariposa Unified School District.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1578 (Bermudez-D) Transportation: East Whittier City School District
Requires, beginning in the 2006-07 fiscal year and every year after, home-to-school transportation funding for the East Whittier City School District to be calculated as if it will receive $175,000 in the 2005-06 school year. This allocation is contingent upon an increase in the home-to-school transportation funding appropriated in the annual budget act specifically for this purpose.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1758* (Umberg-D) High Priority Schools Grant Program
Establishes, as it relates to the High Priority Schools Grant Program, program exit criteria, provides for program implementation in additional schools and sets funding rates for state assistance and intervention.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
School Facilities
SB 362 (Torlakson-D) School facilities: existing school building capacity
Increases a school district's eligibility for state new school construction bond funds by excluding certain types of portable classrooms from the calculation of school building capacity.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 711 (Dutton-R) School facilities: civic centers
Repeals the requirement that a school district charge a fee for the use of its facilities for religious services and also repeals other specified restrictions on the use of school facilities for religious services.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 813 (Denham-R) School facilities
Requires the State Allocation Board to review the adequacy of hardship funding available to school districts and provide recommendations to the Legislature by March 15, 2006.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1035 (Hollingsworth-R) School facilities maintenance: cleaning costs
Allows school districts, for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 fiscal years only, to use up to one-third of their three percent of general fund restricted maintenance account for regular routine cleaning.
(Refused passage on Senate Floor)
AB 58 (Nunez-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, and provides for its submission to the voters at that election.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 315 (Hancock-D) School facilities: energy efficiency: design standards
Requires the State Allocation Board, by July 1, 2007, to adopt regulations for design standards for energy efficient school facilities that meet the minimum design and construction criteria established by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
AB 491 (Goldberg-D) Public schools
Provides alternative methods for an applicant in the Critically Overcrowded School Facilities Program to calculate enrollment for purposes of determining eligibility for a final apportionment for a project funded by the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2004. Establishes a process for allocating $1.8 million in funds remaining of a $15 million appropriation in 2004 to reimburse county offices of education for extraordinary costs associated with school site visits required pursuant to the Williams v. State of California settlement agreement. Clarifies the authority of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to offer variable interest rates on bonds.
Chapter 710, Statutes of 2005
AB 494 (Montanez-D) School facilities: replacement buildings
Requires the State Allocation Board to provide a supplemental grant equal to 50 percent of the replacement cost of a building if a school district proposes to demolish the building and replace it with a multistory building if the cost of the demolition of the building and construction of a new multistory building, including site acquisition costs, if any, is less than the cost of providing a new school facility, including land, for the additional number of students housed as a result of the multistory replacement building.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 539 (Daucher-R) School facilities: new construction: modernization
Requires the State Allocation Board to provide an inflation adjustment to school facility construction and modernization apportionments at the time of the bid opening, or nine months after the apportionment, whichever comes first, if certain criteria are met.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 670 (Goldberg-D) School facilities: new construction: modernization
Increases new construction and modernization grant levels and repeals provisions that give priority for new construction funds to the multi-track year round schools.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 882 (Nation-D) Contracts with certified architects or structural engineers
Requires a school district that reuses architectural and engineering plans and retains another certified architect or structural engineer to prepare those plans for reuse, to indemnify and hold harmless the original certified architect or structural engineer from any claims arising from the reuse.
Chapter 28, Statutes of 2005
AB 956 (Coto-D) Joint powers regional occupational center
Authorizes two joint powers authority (JPA) regional occupational centers (ROCs) to be school districts for school modernization funding purposes of the School Facility Program if the centers would not otherwise qualify for school modernization funding. Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt specified regulations and makes these JPA ROCs ineligible for financial hardship assistance.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1076 (Jerome Horton-D) Public education: Williams case settlement: implementation.
Contains provisions for the implementation of the Williams Case.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1097 (Mullin-D) School facilities: lease-leaseback contracts
Repeals the authority of a governing board to lease real property for the purpose of constructing school facilities for a minimum of $1 without advertising for bids and establishes a competitive-bidding process for the construction of school facilities by lease and leaseback until January 1, 2010.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1270 (Gordon-D) Modernization reimbursement
Releases the El Segundo Unified School District from repaying a grant for a school modernization project which was not in compliance with State Allocation Board regulations.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2005
AB 1292 (Evans-D) School facilities: air quality
Requires a school district to ensure that facilities, including, but not limited to, classrooms for pupils, have heating and ventilation and air-conditioning systems that meet the minimum requirements of indoor air quality regulations pursuant to Labor Code Section 142.3.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1297 (Evans-D) Buildings: rehabilitation
Requires a school district to ensure that facilities, including, but not limited to, classrooms for pupils that have heating and ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems are inspected by contractors or school district employees who have been certified by one of three organizations, and requires a school district to utilize contractors or school district employees who have been certified by one of three organizations to maintain or repair HVAC systems to issue HVAC inspection reports.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1300 (Arambula-D) School facilities: modernization apportionments
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to permit a school district to use a portion of a modernization apportionment in an amount no greater than the funding provided for 100 eligible pupils for an alternative school site.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1358 (Mullin-D) Acquisition of proposed school sites: notice
Requires any school district or charter school to give the Department of Education written notice before acquiring title to or leasing property if the site is within two miles of an airport runway or potential runway.
Chapter 229, Statutes of 2005
AB 1416 (Goldberg-D) Critically overcrowded schools: Concept 6 Program
Makes school construction projects that reduce reliance on the Concept 6 Program eligible under the Critically Overcrowded School Facilities (COSF) Program. Requires the State Allocation Board, to the extent COSF program specific bond funds remain available after certain applications are filed, to accept applications for preliminary apportionments for those projects.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1451* (Montanez-D) School facilities
Increases eligibility for state school construction funding for most school districts by eliminating current reductions to eligibility calculations required if a district receives multi-track year round education (MTYRE) grants or does not have sufficient MTYRE schools.
(In Senate Education Committee)
Bilingual Education
SB 368 (Escutia-D) English language learners: database
Declares legislative intent to conduct a pilot study to track the educational progress of English language learners with the intent of developing a database, or expanding an existing database, containing information on K-12 pupils.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
SB 782 (Escutia-D) English language tutoring
Deletes the current ten year limitation on the appropriation of $50 million annually from the General Fund for the purposes of the Community Based English Tutoring Program. Appropriates $50 million annually from the General Fund for five additional fiscal years.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 482 (Hancock-D) Pupil assessment: English language learners
Requires school districts to test English learners in their primary language if students are instructed in their primary language or if they have been enrolled in a school in the United States for less than 12 months.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 680 (Chan-D) English language learners
Requires the State Department of Education to monitor adherence of public schools and school districts to regulations requiring the provision to parents of school notices and documents in primary languages other than English by means of the regular Coordinated Compliance Review to determine the types of documents a school district must translate into a primary language other than English, to notify by August 1 of each year the schools within the school district for which translation of documents is required, and the primary language other than English spoken by 15 percent or more of students enrolled in each school.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 950 (Coto-D) Teachers: English language learner project
Establishes, contingent upon an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, an English language learner staff development action research project in the 2006-07 school year for the purpose of providing classroom teachers with an opportunity to develop best practices regarding the instruction of English language learners.
(Failed passage in Senate Education; reconsideration granted)
AB 1196 (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.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1215 (Wyland-R) English language instruction
Requires schools to provide parents requesting a waiver from English immersion instruction with specified information, including certain test score data of English learner pupils enrolled in bilingual education classes and requires the parent to sign a document stating that he or she understands the information. Prohibits teachers and administrators from recommending a pupil receive bilingual education instead of English immersion instruction. Requires pupils enrolled in bilingual education classes to receive a certain percentage of class time instruction in English depending on the grade level.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1254 (Coto-D) Preschool teachers: limited English proficiency
Authorizes the State Department of Education to award grants to establish and maintain training and career ladder opportunities for teachers who provide preschool instruction to limited English proficient children.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Charter Schools
SB 166 (Soto-D) Charter schools: charter renewal
Authorizes a charter school to be renewed for a period of between two and four years as an alternative to the five-year renewal period.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 319 (Migden-D) Charter schools: funding
Specifies how a unified school district calculates its revenue limit funding (general purpose funding) as it relates to charter schools, including "conversion" of charter schools (a public school converted into a charter school).
Chapter 355, Statutes of 2005
SB 430 (Runner-R) Charter schools
Makes several changes in the laws governing charter schools, primarily as they relate to fiscal oversight by a county superintendent of schools, and services by the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2005
SB 462 (Morrow-R) Facilities in adjacent counties: waiver
Authorizes charter schools to seek a waiver of the requirement that the pupils served by the school be residents of the same county as the school before the charter may operate a resource center in an adjacent county.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 535 (Runner-R) Charter schools
Makes a number of changes governing charter schools, including extending the duration of a charter renewal to a range of from five to 15 years, if the charter is seeking a loan, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 604 (Aanestad-R) Charter schools: funding
Makes charter schools that project a ten percent or greater increase in pupil enrollment eligible to receive an advance apportionment.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 741 (Ducheny-D) Charter schools: average daily attendance
Provides, until January 1, 2009, that students over 20 years of age are eligible to generate apportionments for charter schools.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 844 (Poochigian-R) Charter schools: chartering authority
Authorizes the University of California, the California State University, the governing board of a community college district, or the president of an accredited private California university to submit a request to the State Board of Education (SBE) for authority to approve petitions to establish charter schools within the county in which their campus is located. Authorizes parents to apply directly to the SBE for approval of a charter school if the school meets specified "underperforming" criteria. The provisions of the bill will not apply to UC unless the Regents adopt a resolution to so do.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 846 (Aanestad-R) Charter school funding
Authorizes a county treasurer of the charter-authorizing local education agency (i.e., the treasurer located in the jurisdiction of the school district or county office of education that authorized the charter school) to temporarily transfer funds to a charter school if all of the charter schools' funds are in the county treasurer's custody and constitutional requirements are met.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 970 (Perata-D) Charter schools: funding
Allows school districts to adjust their declining enrollment credit for the attendance of pupils who return from district sponsored charter schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1054 (Soto-D) Charter schools: California Building Standards Code
Requires charter schools, effective January 1, 2007, to comply with the California Building Code, as adopted and enforced by a local building enforcement agency, if they are not otherwise required to comply with the Field Act.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2005
SB 1078* (Simitian-D) Education finance: charter schools
Corrects and expands the currently inoperative law that provides for transfer of property tax revenues from basic aid school districts to charter schools.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 39 (Walters-R) Charter schools: alternative authority
Establishes a pilot program that authorizes the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, or the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to authorize no more than 10 campuses within their respective segments to approve and administer one charter school each.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 412 (Dymally-D) Charter schools
Authorizes a school district, county board of education, and the State Board of Education to not approve a petition to establish a charter school between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006, during which time a study will be required.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 692 (Chan-D) School facilities: charter schools
Authorizes funds from the 2004 Charter School Facilities Account to also fund new construction that is physically located in a high school attendance area with insufficient new construction eligibility provided certain specified criteria are met. Makes an appropriation by authorizing an expenditure from the 2004 Charter School Facilities Account for this new purpose.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 740* (Huff-R) Charter schools: funding
Repeals, as of July 1, 2006, the current Charter School Categorical Block Grant and establishes a new block grant to provide charter schools with funding for general education and disadvantaged pupil programs that is in-lieu of the funding provided through various categorical education programs.
Chapter 349, Statutes of 2005
AB 883 (Plescia-R) Funding: pupils over the age of 19
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, working jointly with the Department of Corrections, serving the Rainbow Conservation Camp and the Puerta La Cruz Conservation Camp from the requirement that in order to remain eligible for charter school apportionments, a pupil over 19 years of age be continuously enrolled in public school and make satisfactory progress towards the award of a high school diploma.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1171 (Haynes-R) Revocation of charter: notice and appeal procedures
Establishes a standard of proof for revocation of a charter and notice and appeal procedures.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1610 (Wolk-D) Charter schools
Adds required components to petitions that are presented to a county office of education in order to establish a countywide charter school, extends the sunset of charter school waiver authority, requires that a pupil's school district of residence be notified when that pupil drops out of a charter school, prohibits charter schools from claiming funding for pupils older than 25, as specified, and allows the State Board of Education to waive fiscal penalties for charter school failure to offer instructional time.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 2005
School Safety
SB 949 (Machado-D) Education
Extends from July 1, 2005 to July 1, 2010, the date upon which the Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act becomes inoperative. The act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide funds to school districts serving pupils in any of grades 8 to 12, inclusive, for the purpose of promoting school safety and reducing school site violence.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 506 (Montanez-D) Teen dating violence: prevention and education
Establishes the Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program. Requires each school district to establish a policy and protocol, as specified, for dealing with incidents of teen dating violence involving middle school and high school students.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 831* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Makes various changes to the codes to correct cross references, errors and make existing provisions of law workable. Reinstates the Carl Washington Safety School and Violence Prevention Act that was inadvertently repealed by AB 825 (Firebaugh), Chapter 871, Statutes of 2004, leaving schools without legislative direction regarding the appropriate use of these school safety funds.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2005
Child and Day Care
SB 358 (Scott-D) Child care
Allows foster parents, approved relative caregivers or approved non-relative extended family members to hire short-term babysitters to supervise the foster child without the health screening and fingerprinting required of licensed or certified foster parents.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 2005
SB 512* (Senate Education Committee) Education omnibus
Is the annual Senate Education Committee "clean-up" bill that makes various non-controversial revisions to statute.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2005
SB 539 (Ashburn-R) Child day care: CalWORKs child care program
Prohibits payments to license-exempt subsidized child care providers until a background clearance has been obtained.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 638 (Torlakson-D) After School Education and Safety Program
Requires that training and support provided by the California Department of Education for After School Education and Safety Programs include the development and distribution of voluntary guidelines for physical activity programs that expand learning opportunities during the school day.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 640 (Escutia-D) Child care resource and referral programs: funding
Appropriates $5 million in federal child development funds to continue local programs of training and technical assistance to child care providers to increase their capacity to care for children with disabilities.
Chapter 379, Statutes of 2005
SB 701* (Migden-D) Child care subsidies: City and County of San Francisco
Creates a pilot project to establish an individualized child care subsidy plan for the City and County of San Francisco utilizing existing child care funds, to address the particular child care needs and barriers of low-income families in a high cost county.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2005
AB 122 (Spitzer-R) Family day care
Requires family day care providers to submit insurance-related affidavits to the Department of Social Services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 266 (DeVore-R) Large family day care homes: permits
Places strict caps on the amount of time a local government may take to approve or deny a conditional use permit for a large family day care home and the amount the government may charge for the permit.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 507 (Daucher-R) Criminal history checks: health studio child care providers
Requires criminal background checks of people who are employed by "health studios" to provide child care.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 617 (Benoit-R) Child day care facilities: rating system
Requires the Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup to develop a proposal for a rating system for licensed child care in California by April 1, 2006.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 633 (Benoit-R) Child day care facilities: licensing
Increases the amount of licensing information required to be posted and made available to child care centers. Requires every child day care facility licensed by the Department of Social Services to post a public copy of any licensing report or documentation regarding investigations, conferences or intent to revoke the facility's license.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 788 (Montanez-D) Family Child Career Ladder pilot project
Creates a pilot project administered by the California Department of Education to provide continuing training and education for family day care providers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 927 (Mullin-D) State preschool programs
Consolidates various existing full-day child development programs, statutorily establishes them as the Full-Day Preschools program, and requires both part- and full-day programs to incorporate existing State preschool child development and early learning standards.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1032 (Jones-D) Preschool teachers: professional learning
Establishes the Preschool Teacher Instructional Support Grant program, which authorizes state-funded preschool, child care development, and family literacy programs serving preschool age children to apply to the California Department of Education to provide training for teachers and classroom aides.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1095* (Mullin-D) Child care: center-based programs: schedule: staff training
Authorizes an entity that is under contract with the California Department of Education for the provision of center-based child care to schedule up to two days of staff training using state reimbursement funding.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1285 (Montanez-D) Child care services
Authorizes the County of Los Angeles to use funds allocated for the retention of child care employees for providers in licensed programs which do not contract with the California Department of Education.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2005
AB 1565 (Pavley-D) Child day care facilities: star quality rating system: study
Requires the California Department of Education to oversee a contract to be awarded to an independent contractor, for the study of the development, implementation, and evaluation of the effectiveness of a quality rating system for child day care centers and family day care homes.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1601 (Laird-D) Child care: provider registration: background checks
Adds aunts and uncles to the set of persons who must undergo criminal record and child abuse central index clearances to be paid for caring for state-mandated children, and more quickly suspends from payment any person who is determined to have a criminal record of more than traffic infractions.
(Failed passage in Senate Human Services Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1697 (Pavley-D) Day care centers licensure: location
Prohibits the licensure of a day care center that is located within 650 feet of a high traffic roadway or industrial site.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Special Education
SB 63* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance: budget trailer bill
Implements statutory changes to provisions relating to special education items of the state budget.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2005
SB 485 (Migden-D) Local government finance
Makes changes to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund. Specifies that allocations made to county superintendents of schools for special education programs do not offset state aid made pursuant to other specified statutes.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 605 (Machado-D) Special education: alternative dispute resolution
Requires the California Department of Education to administer a grant program for alternative dispute resolution to resolve special education disputes.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 626 (Soto-D) Special education: staff development
Authorizes special education local plan areas to develop staff development programs for paraprofessionals serving students with special needs to ensure paraprofessionals meet the requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and requires federal IDEA funds be used to establish this program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1073 (Simitian-D) Special education: out-of-home care
Requires special education funding to be calculated for students who reside in a care facility, as specified, correcting an inadvertent error in last years' education trailer bill.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 468 (Yee-D) Interagency responsibilities over handicapped children
Requires a local education agency referring a special education student to community mental health services to provide parents with an opportunity to provide their advance consent to the community mental health assessment at the same time they provide consent to the referral.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 829 (Daucher-R) Alternative dispute resolution: pilot program
Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to increase the number of special education local plan areas (SELPAs) from 20 to 40 that participate in a current alternative dispute resolution (ADR) pilot program, which mitigates special education disputes. Appropriates $300,000 from the General Fund for this expansion. Requires the SDE to ensure that the 20 additional SELPAs include SELPAs comprised primarily of low-income families with a high number of English language learners.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 897 (Coto-D) Braille standards
Requires the development of Braille math standards and requires local education agencies to provide opportunities for students who are visually impaired to master the Braille reading and math standards.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2005
AB 1092* (Daucher-R) Special education: conformity with law
Makes changes to state special education statutes to bring them into strict conformity with federal changes enacted through the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1260 (Hancock-D) Pupils in out-of-home placement
Makes technical and conforming cleanup changes to AB 1858 (Steinberg), Chapter 163, Statutes of 2004 and SB 1108 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 216, Statutes of 2004.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1417 (Daucher-R) Special education: due process hearing
Revises requirements and rights relating to notification of parties to a special education due process hearing by the party initiating the hearing, and clarifies the admissibility of evidence at a due process hearing.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1662* (Lieber-D) Special education: conformance to federal law
Makes changes to state special education statutes to bring them into harmony with federal changes enacted through the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2005
School Accountability and Testing
SB 385 (Ducheny-D) Pupil assessment
Requires the development and administration of primary language achievement tests for pupils literate in or receiving instruction in their primary language and who have attended school in the United States for less than three years. Requires the California Department of Education to eliminate unnecessary linguistic complexity in specified assessment instruments.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 517 (Romero-D) High school graduation
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to certify that each high school ranked in the bottom 30 percent of the Academic Performance Index (API) and identified for review per the Williams vs. State of California settlement offers full and equal access for all pupils to pass the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE). Requires the state to hire an independent consultant, as specified, to make recommendations regarding the CAHSEE by December 1, 2006.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 586 (Romero-D) High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities
Provides a process to receive a high school diploma for pupils with disabilities who have not fulfilled the requirement of passing the California High School Exit Exam. This includes the interim settlement agreement in the case of Chapman v. California Department of Education, et al, with some simple modifications.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 687 (Simitian-D) School accountability report card: reporting requirements
Requires that estimated expenditures per pupil, as reported on the annual School Accountability Report Card (SARC), reflect the actual salaries of personnel assigned to a school site and be subtotaled by restricted and unrestricted revenue sources, requires that the actual average teacher salary of teachers assigned to a school be reported on the SARC, and requires specific revisions to the standardized template for the SARC. Incorporates additional changes to be operative only if AB 1609 (Liu) and this bill are both chaptered.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 2005
SB 755* (Poochigian-R) California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science
Changes some requirements of the Standardized Testing and Reporting program. Extends the sunset on the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2005
AB 420 (Shirley Horton-R) Alternative language assessments: Filipino language
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to establish guidelines to determine the adequacy of alternative assessments, performed by outside organizations, for languages that do not currently have a subject matter examination. Requires the CTC to submit an expenditure plan for the development of a subject matter examination in the Filipino language to the Department of Finance no later than January 8, 2006.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2005
AB 482 (Hancock-D) Pupil assessment: English language learners
Requires that a pupil who is identified as limited English proficient and who receives instruction in his or her primary language, or who has been enrolled in a school in the United States for less than 12 months, must take a second test in his or her primary language, if such tests are available, and in addition to the state required standardized test offered in English.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 726 (Goldberg-D) Adult instruction
Requires the Department of Education to contract with a consultant to evaluate specified performance accountability measures to determine the effectiveness of the Community Based English Tutoring Program.
Chapter 513, Statutes of 2005
AB 953* (Coto-D) Local educational agency intervention
Amends the state program to support local educational agencies and schools in Program Improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Repeals authorization for a self-help program for school districts in danger of program improvement intervention and revises the processes for distributing federal funding to school districts identified as needing program improvement.
Chapter 513, Statutes of 2005
AB 1057 (De La Torre-D) Adult instruction
Requires the California high school exit exam (CAHSEE) to be offered to a person regularly enrolled in an adult education program, and expands the definition of "accommodations" under CAHSEE to include administration of the test on a Saturday and other times and locations convenient for a person regularly enrolled in an adult education program. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to require at least one administration per year on a Saturday beginning with the 2007-08 school year.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1100 (Mullin-D) Content standards: review panels
Establishes a systematic procedure to review and, if necessary, revise the state academic content standards.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1212 (Wyland-R) California Local Education Accountability Reform Act
Establishes the California Local Education Accountability Reform Act pilot program for the purpose of supporting and implementing a comprehensive education system designed to improve pupil achievement. This program sunsets on July 1, 2011.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1409 (Baca-D) Academic assessment
Provides, beginning with the 2003-04 school year, the option for a student completing grade 12 to score at least "proficient" on the English language arts and mathematics portions of the California Standards Tests as a condition of a high school graduation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1483 (Arambula-D) Pupil testing: English language learners
Requires the tests that assess English language development to have sufficient range to assess pupils in grades 2 through 12, inclusive, in English listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and requires pupils in kindergarten and grade 1 to be assessed in English listening, speaking, and literacy skills. Requires the California Department of Education, in the development of the test for pupils in kindergarten and grade 1, to consider minimizing testing time and to ensure that the test is age and developmentally appropriate.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1531 (Bass-D) High school exit examination
Authorizes local school districts to create alternative performance assessments in English and mathematics that allow students to graduate from high school if they are unable to pass the current California High School Exit Examination.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1592 (Goldberg-D) Increased Instructional Time for Improving Schools Program
Creates the Increased Instructional Time for Improving Schools Program, which requires a school district that has jurisdiction over a school that is ranked by any of deciles 1-3 on the Academic Performance Index (API) and that maintains K-12 to provide an additional 40 days of instructional time for that school (over and above the required 180 days), beginning with the school year following the receipt of the specified API ranking.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1695 (Goldberg-D) Diagnostic reading test
Requires a school district, by January 1, 2007, to select a diagnostic reading test for administration to each pupil in grade 2 in that district.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Higher Education
SB 5 (Morrow-R) Public postsecondary education: Student Bill of Rights
Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California to develop guidelines and implement a Student Bill of Rights, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 30* (Speier-D) Tax deductions: 529 College Savings Plans
Allows qualified taxpayers deductions for contributions to eligible college savings plans.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 55 (Lowenthal-D) Community college district governing boards: meeting agendas
Requires that votes of no confidence by a local community college academic senate, under specified circumstances, be placed on the meeting agenda of that local governing board, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 63* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget trailer bill: higher education
Implements various statutory changes relative to higher education as part of the 2005-06 Budget.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2005
SB 73* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Public postsecondary education: master's degree in nursing
Appropriates $3.44 million, on a one-time basis, for infrastructure needed to establish entry-level master's programs for nursing at the California State University and the University of California.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2005
SB 160 (Cedillo-D) Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act
Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges to establish procedures that enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition to apply for, and participate in, all student aid programs administered by these segments to the extent permitted by federal law. Applies to the University of California only if the Regents act to make it applicable.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 191 (Cedillo-D) Voter registration: public institutions of higher education
Urges the University of California, and requires the California State University and the California Community College districts, to provide voter registration materials.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 337 (Maldonado-R) Postsecondary education: public postsecondary institutions
Requires the local governing board of a community college district and the Trustees of the California State University (CSU), and requests the University of California Regents, to immediately dismiss any student convicted, pleading guilty to, or being adjudicated a delinquent minor with respect to specified rioting provisions of the Penal Code. Prohibits campuses of the California Community Colleges or the CSU from admitting these students for one year, declares legislative intent that the Regents adopt the same or a more stringent admissions policy, and restricts these students' Cal Grant eligibility.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 349 (McClintock-R) Public postsecondary education: non-resident admissions
Excludes students without legal immigration status from provisions of current law that exempt a non-resident student meeting specified criteria from paying non-resident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 361 (Scott-D) Community colleges: funding
Replaces the current system of program-based funding for the California Community Colleges with a new funding allocation mechanism, effective July 1, 2006, that generally provides a single rate per full-time equivalent student for all districts, with some exceptions.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 407 (Margett-R) Corporate taxes: Postsecondary Education Trust Fund
Allows taxpayers that are subject to the taxes imposed under the Corporation Tax Law to designate on their corporate tax returns that a specified amount in excess of their tax liability be transferred to the Postsecondary Education Fund, which is created by this bill.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 445 (Ducheny-D) Commission on Statewide Postsecondary Education Policy
Repeals provisions of law that establish and prescribe the functions and responsibilities of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, replaces it with the California Commission on Statewide Postsecondary Education Policy and Planning and provides for the new Commission's membership and duties.
(Failed passage in Senate Education; reconsideration granted)
SB 531 (Ortiz-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
Requires the annual budget submitted by the Governor to take into consideration any increases in tuition and fees at California colleges and universities.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 569 (Torlakson-D) Public postsecondary education: alumni disclosure
Authorizes the governing bodies and alumni associations of the California State University (CSU), the University of California (UC) and the Hastings College of Law to distribute the names and addresses of alumni to "affinity partners" (nonaffiliated entities with contractual agreements with CSU and UC) to, among other things, offer alumni commercial products and services, provided certain privacy requirements are met.
Chapter 454, Statutes of 2005
SB 652 (Scott-D) Public postsecondary education: transfers
Requests the University of California to establish, by June 1, 2006, a system wide lower division transfer curriculum for California Community College transfer students.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
SB 659 (Scott-D) Student financial aid: state-funded: Scholarshare account
Requires that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no assets held in trust under the Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act by a lower income household, or any member of that household, may be counted with respect to any means-tested, state-funded student financial aid program administered by the Student Aid Commission. Specifically references this requirement in the Cal Grant Act.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 661 (Migden-D) Public postsecondary education: California State University
Establishes the California Student Athlete Fair Opportunity Act of 2005 that requires the California State University to provide summer athletic scholarships to certain athletes, to undertake comprehensive planning for the academic support of student athletes and to report on student-athlete academic issues on a regular basis.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2005
SB 667 (Migden-D) Public contracts: competitive bidding
Allows the University of California (UC) to select the lowest responsible bidder for a project on the basis of price, qualifications, relevant experience, and demonstrated management competency, as determined by the UC. Requires the UC, if this method is used, to adopt and publish procedures and criteria used in the selection process.
(In Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 672 (Cox-R) Community colleges: inmate education programs: computation
Authorizes a community college that generates units of full-time equivalent student (FTES) in classes for inmates to add and count credit attendance hours for state apportionment purposes and expands the existing authority of a community college to receive FTES for inmate education programs to include state correctional facilities.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 709 (Speier-D) Community colleges: audits
Expands the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges existing annual reporting requirements to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Requires BOG to establish a system of collecting information from students, for specified purposes, and to examine the formula for funding courses to determine whether modification can assist in preventing inaccurate reporting of enrollment for apportionments.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 724 (Scott-D) Public postsecondary education: California State University
Authorizes the California State University to award the Doctor of Education degree, focused on preparing administrative leaders for California public elementary and secondary schools and community colleges.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2005
SB 780 (Ortiz-D) University of California: medical schools: admissions
Requests that the University of California (UC) Board of Regents require UC medical schools to consider specified criteria in admissions applications.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 860 (Bowen-D) Credit card processing fees: state agents
Prohibits the University of California, the California State University, or the community colleges from imposing any processing fee or charge for the use of a credit or debit card as payment for any state service or obligation.
(In Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)
SB 871 (Scott-D) Postsecondary education accountability
Adds the California Postsecondary Accountability Act of 2005 to the Donahoe Higher Education Act. Establishes a statewide California Postsecondary Education Accountability structure that annually provides an assessment of the progress made by the state's system of postsecondary education in meeting the educational needs of Californians. Specifies the information to be collected through a statewide reporting system that the bill establishes.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 918 (Speier-D) Public postsecondary education: academic standards
Delays until January 31, 2006, the deadline for development and implementation of the speedy process for high school course approval under the Donahoe Higher Education Act.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 930 (Ducheny-D) Community colleges: Board of Governors
Revises the appointment requirements for two members of the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges (CCC). Specifies that the two members of the CCC BOG appointed by the Governor to represent current or former elected members of the local CCC shall be appointed by the Governor from a list of names furnished by the statewide association representing CCC governing boards.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1040* (Dunn-D) Public postsecondary education: fees and tuition: waiver
Expands to include stepchildren in an existing program which provides fee waivers for students attending the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges who are the surviving spouse or child of a police officer or firefighter killed during active duty.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
AB 162 (Leslie-R) Community colleges: facilities
Requires (1) the Department of General Services (DGS) to review community college facility design plans and to determine the scope and related costs of these reviews, (2) DGS and the California Community Colleges to collaboratively provide training for specified employees involved in school building, design, construction, or inspection and in the plan review process established by the bill's provisions, and (3) DGS to evaluate the costs, savings, and overall efficacy of the plan approval process established by the bill and to report. Repeals the provisions on January 1, 2010.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 165 (Dymally-D) African American Political and Economic Institute
Eliminates the statutory restriction that private funds be donated in an amount sufficient to defray costs before an advisory board may be established for a previously authorized African American Political and Economic Institute (AAPEI) at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and stipulates that no fees or any other form of compensation shall be paid to members of the AAPEI advisory board.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2005
AB 167 (Cohn-D) Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act
Establishes the Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act. Establishes, in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), a state nursing contract program with accredited schools and programs that educate and train licensed vocational nurses and registered nurses to increase the supply of nurses in California. Requires OSHPD to give priority to programs that include training specifically designed for medically underserved multicultural communities, lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, or rural communities, and prepare program graduates for service in those neighborhoods and communities. Requires the state nursing contract program to be funded under the federal Workforce Investment Act discretionary funding.
(In Assembly Health Committee)
AB 196 (Liu-D) Postsecondary education: accountability
Repeals the Higher Education Accountability Program which requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) to report annually on significant indicators of performance of the state's postsecondary institutions. Specifies the state's priorities for higher education and establishes a statewide California Postsecondary Education Accountability structure that requires CPEC to assess the progress made by the state's postsecondary institutions in meeting specified policy goals.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 232 (Arambula-D) Registered nursing programs: California Community Colleges
Requires specified designees of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCCs) and the Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) to adopt prerequisites for registered nurse training programs that will be accepted by both the CCCs and the CSU for admission to their nursing programs.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 317 (Dymally-D) Community college finance
Provides for the allocation of an additional $80 million of funding in the 2005 state budget for the California Community Colleges toward equalizing per-student funding, and applies the same distribution methodology as was used for equalization funding provided in the 2004 Budget Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 318 (Dymally-D) Community colleges: funding
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, when calculating the enrollment growth rate for a community college district pursuant to current law, to increase the growth rate otherwise specified for the district if the district served more than 102 percent of the district's enrollment cap in the preceding fiscal years. Makes these provisions contingent upon the enactment of SB 361 (Scott-D) by January 1, 2006.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 358 (Liu-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
Establishes a new policy to determine the maximum Cal Grant for students attending nonpublic colleges and universities, provides a phase-in period for the new policy, and requires a report related to issues in Cal Grant B.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 473 (Liu-D) Community colleges: student fees
Establishes a process for local community college districts to assess student-approved fees, requires the California Community Colleges (CCC) Board of Governors to develop a fee policy, and establishes other CCC student fee related policies, as specified.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 476* (Baca-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: funding
Redirects unused funding for the Cal Grant Entitlement Program to financial aid programs serving students preparing to become teachers.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 523 (Negrete McLeod-D) Private postsecondary institutions: instructors/standards
Provides that a private postsecondary institution, in determining the placement rate of an institution, may count a student who drops out of a program after completing 75 percent of the program because the student has obtained employment in an occupation included in the Standard Occupational Classification system, as specified. Clarifies the definition of "sole owner" as it relates to serving as a director of an institution.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 529 (Goldberg-D) California State University: employees
Provides California State University employees who are denied a request for reasonable accommodation for disability with procedural rights similar to those granted to civil service employees via the State Personnel Board.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 589 (Emmerson-R) Public postsecondary education: nonresident admissions
Excludes students without legal immigration status from eligibility for an exemption from nonresident tuition.
(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 700 (Jerome Horton-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
Changes the eligibility requirements for the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Program by eliminating eligibility criteria related to age.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 702 (Koretz-D) Nursing education
Provides authority to the Health Professions Education Foundation to expand the criteria for scholarship and loan repayment programs in the Registered Nurse Education Program to include persons who commit to teaching in California nursing schools.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2005
AB 706 (Parra-D) California State University: improper governmental activity
Enacts the California State University (CSU) Employee Reporting of Improper Governmental Activities Act. Establishes a procedure for the investigation of written complaints submitted to a designated administrator of CSU by employees of, or applicants for, employment at CSU.
Chapter 310, Statutes of 2005
AB 708 (Karnette-D) California State University: whistleblower protection
Authorizes the California State University to employ an independent investigator on all complaints received from employees covered by whistleblower protection.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 720 (Villines-R) California State University: observance of Veterans Day
Requires the California State University to observe Veterans Day on November 11 annually and not on any other day of the year.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2005
AB 786 (Ruskin-D) Identity theft: California State University employees
Requires that, upon request of a California State University (CSU) employee, following disclosure by the CSU of a breach in security of data containing their personal information, the employee shall have four hours of paid leave to deal with any problems associated with the security breach.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 827 (Goldberg-D) Private postsecondary education: instruments of indebtedness
Prohibits a lender or a private postsecondary or vocational education institution that is regulated by the Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education from enforcing a "tuition loan" against a debtor student unless the school has Bureau approval to operate.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 828 (Cohn-D) Public postsecondary education: tuition and fee waiver
Provides that any person who is honorably serving in, or has been honorably discharged from, the armed forces of the United States and any person who is a member of the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia, and who is, or previously has been called to active service, will not be subject to tuition or fees at any campus of the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges if he/she is a California resident.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 840 (Arambula-D) Private postsecondary education: accreditation
Changes the process for reviewing and approving programs offered by nationally accredited private, for-profit colleges in California.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 870* (Bermudez-D) Public postsecondary education: limitations on tuition
Limits annual student fee increases at the state's three public higher education systems, beginning in 2005-06, to two percent unless at least one-third of the revenue from the fee increase is used to fund student financial aid programs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 918 (Wyland-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification
Requires each campus of the California State University (CSU) to recognize for the purposes of admissions and grade point average calculations, high school career technical education (CTE) courses in those subject matter areas in which the CSU offers majors, provided that the CTE courses meet or exceed state-approved standards.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 933 (Emmerson-R) Public postsecondary education: statewide student fee policy
Requires, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, the level of mandatory system wide fees for resident undergraduate students at the University of California, the California State University, and any campus of the California Community Colleges to be set as an unspecified percentage of the total cost of instruction.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 947* (Liu-D) California Educational Facilities Authority
Expands the definition of a private college for the purposes of obtaining financing through the California Educational Facilities Authority to include nonprofit affiliates of one or more private colleges that provide administrative support or research services.
Chapter 191, Statutes of 2005
AB 961 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Postsecondary education: Golden State Scholarshare Trust
Makes various technical, clarifying, conforming, and administrative changes to provisions related to the Golden State Scholarshare Trust Act, the California Educational Facilities Authority and the California State University.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2005
AB 967 (Canciamilla-D) Concurrent enrollment: high school and community college
Exempts from an enrollment cap on concurrent enrollment at the California Community Colleges (CCC) a student recommended by his/her principal for enrollment in a college level advanced scholastic summer session course, or in a vocational CCC summer session course, if specified criteria are met. Requires the governing board of a CCC district to assign a low enrollment priority to the above student in order to ensure these students do not displace regularly admitted students.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2005
AB 982 (Laird-D) Community colleges: fees
Deletes the requirement that low-income California Community College students be exempt from paying health supervision and services fees.
Chapter 320, Statutes of 2005
AB 1070 (Cogdill-R) Community colleges: district instructional equipment: fees
Authorizes a California Community College district to charge a student fee to replace or repair instructional equipment that has been lost or damaged by that student. Specifies the amount of the fee charged to any student for this purpose shall not exceed a good-faith estimate of the costs incurred to replace or repair the equipment that the student lost or damaged.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1072 (Liu-D) California Commission on Higher Education
Establishes the California Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). Repeals the provisions of current law that establish and prescribe the functions and responsibilities of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, replaces it with CCHE, and provides for CCHE membership and duties.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1088 (Oropeza-D) Public postsecondary education: mandatory orientation
Requires the governing board of each California Community College district and the Trustees of the California State University, and requests the Regents of the University of California, to undertake various activities to provide students with educational and preventive information regarding sexual violence.
Chapter 647, Statutes of 2005
AB 1137 (Dymally-D) Community colleges: appointment of trustee
Prescribes statutorily the processes to be followed, beginning January 1, 2008, by the California Community College (CCC) Board of Governors to authorize the Chancellor of the CCCs to suspend the authority of the board of trustees of a California community college district and to appoint a special trustee to administer and oversee a district's operations.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1241 (Matthews-D) Student Aid Commission: reports from high schools
Contains a variety of provisions to monitor and to improve the rate of submission of high school grade point averages for the Cal Grant Programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1280 (Maze-R) California Community College Baccalaureate Partnership
Establishes the California Community College (CCC) Baccalaureate Partnership Program, formed for the purpose of offering baccalaureate degree programs on participating CCC campuses. Authorizes the Office of the Chancellor of CCC to annually award two grants, not to exceed $50,000 each, to a collaborative, consisting of at least one CCC and at least one baccalaureate degree granting institution, formed for the purpose of offering a baccalaureate degree program at participating CCCs.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2005
AB 1315 (Liu-D) Community colleges: textbook supplemental grant
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to establish a pilot program that will enable a city to help its residents who are community college students to obtain textbooks. Requires a city that submits an application to commit to establish a pilot program that provides grants of up to $1,000 for each eligible full-time community college student in the participant city. The grant funds will be used for course-related textbooks and other course-related instructional materials, including, but not necessarily limited to, laboratory equipment. Requires the Chancellor to establish and appoint the membership of a nine-member Community Colleges Textbook Supplemental Grant Pilot Program Oversight Committee.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1350* (Cogdill-R) Public postsecondary education: dual admissions program
Requires that any student who participates in the dual admission program will have his/her community college fees waived for up to two academic years, irrespective of financial need.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1366 (Lieber-D) Community colleges: fiscal accountability
Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to request the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to assist a CCC district to establish or maintain sound fiscal practices.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2005
AB 1402 (Blakeslee-R) Community colleges: property tax revenues
Establishes an automatic funding adjustment to the California Community Colleges General Fund apportionments in order to compensate for errors in projections of the system's local property tax and student fee revenues.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1425 (Daucher-R) Community colleges economic and workforce development
Establishes a new hiring category at the California Community Colleges (CCC) and requires the Chancellor of CCC in consultation with the Department of Labor, to determine what occupation fields will be eligible for the new category.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1436* (Baca-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: military veterans
Expands eligibility for Cal Grants to include military veterans meeting specified criteria.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1452 (Nunez-D) Public postsecondary education: admissions policies
Authorizes the University of California and the California State University to consider race, ethnicity, national origin, geographic origin, and household income, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions, so long as no preference is given and such consideration takes place if and when the university, campus, college, school, or program is attempting to obtain educational benefit through the recruitment of a multi-factored, diverse student body.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1468 (McCarthy-R) School and community college districts: classified employees
Deletes conditions school districts and community college districts must meet to approve contracts expected to result in cost savings on services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1480 (Maze-R) Agricultural education: California Community Colleges
Requires the California Community College (CCC) Statewide Agricultural and Natural Resources Advisory Committee to identify and develop criteria to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of CCC agricultural education programs. Requires the criteria to be submitted in a written report to the Chancellor of the CCC and the Legislature by June 30, 2007.
Chapter 362, Statutes of 2005
AB 1490 (Canciamilla-D) Teacher credentialing: waiver
Authorizes the hiring of a person who does not have a credential or other certification, to teach adult education, career technical education, or vocational education, or to teach in a regional occupation center or program, if the governing board or superintendent, as applicable, determines, and makes findings, that the person possesses the skills, education, training, or experience that meet a demand with respect to the education of pupils that the school district, county office of education, or community college district is otherwise unable to fill.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1492 (Evans-D) Community college districts: property: sale or lease
Authorizes the sale-sale back or lease-leaseback of energy efficient community college facilities, and authorizes an apportionment intercept for the payment of debt service obligations for bonds or short-term loans.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2005
AB 1532 (Bass-D) Private postsecondary institution: complaints for damages
Enacts detailed procedures, including specific timeframes, for the filing of complaints and responses to these complaints, the disposition of these complaints by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, and the execution of the Bureau's decisions with respect to these complaints.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1604 (Saldana-D) Community colleges: annual Budget Act
Provides that if a state budget has not been enacted by July 1 of any fiscal year, the California Community Colleges shall receive a monthly allotment from the State Controller consistent with the monthly allotments from the previous fiscal year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1646* (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Public postsecondary education: community colleges
Authorizes California Community College districts to exempt college students who were displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina from nonresident tuition and makes various technical, conforming, clarifying and minor nonsubstantive changes to the Education Code related to higher education.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2005
AB 1655* (Jerome Horton-D) Public postsecondary education: fees and tuition: waiver
Specifies that certain stepchildren of deceased law enforcement and firefighting personnel may qualify for tuition and fee waivers at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and the California State University.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2005
AB 1690 (Laird-D) Municipal services: University of California
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office, in collaboration with other entities, to conduct a review of the planning processes used by the University of California.
Vetoed by the Governor
ACR 22 (Dymally-D) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Urges the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Board of Trustees of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (University) to enter into a joint agreement to name a Chief Executive Officer to be granted full authority of the joint operations of the University and the Martin Luther King General Hospital.
Resolution Chapter 79, Statutes of 2005
ACR 34 (Liu-D) Public higher education facilities: space planning
Revises existing public higher education space utilization standards.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
ACR 56 (Chu-D) California State University: campus budget accountability
Urges each campus of the California State University to provide detailed accounting of budget allocations and expenditures of General Fund monies.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AJR 26 (Chu-D) Federal TRIO programs: Upward Bound and Talent Search
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to remove from the President's 2006 budget proposal the recommendation that eliminates the federal TRIO programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search. Requests that the federal TRIO programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search, continue to be funded.
Resolution Chapter 144, Statutes of 2005
School Employees
SB 63* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Teachers: Budget Trailer Bill
Allows an accredited teachers education program to approve and electronically submit credential applications to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Chapter 73, Statutes of 2005
SB 142 (Florez-D) Local government employment contracts
Adds "malfeasance" to the list of illegal fiscal practices which result in a limited cash or noncash settlement to a district superintendent. Establishes new limits on eligibility for severance pay and benefits and authorizes a reduction in apportionments for districts that violate the existing prohibition against payment of more than six months severance pay.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 170 (Vincent-D) School employees: termination
Extends the authority of the Los Angeles County Office of Education to retain the certificated employees of a juvenile camp program until the effective date of the closure or reduction in services in the program, as specified, to include staff reductions initiated during the 2005-06 school year.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2005
SB 352* (Scott-D) Chief Business Officer Training Program
Creates an incentive program to encourage school districts to provide instruction and training in school finance, school operations and leadership, as specified, to school chief business officers.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2005
SB 404 (Migden-D) Teachers: California Preliminary Credential
Reestablishes, until January 1, 2011, the California Preliminary Credential program which sunsets on January 1, 2005.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 428 (Scott-D) Teachers
Repeals the California Basic Educational Skills Test and eliminates, for out-of-state teachers, the requirement to complete a fifth year of study, or the equivalent of a fifth year, as determined by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 498 (Cox-R) California Troops to Teachers Program
Creates the California Troops to Teachers Program to provide additional financial incentives to members of the Armed Forces who are participants in the federal Troops to Teachers Program.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SB 525 (Torlakson-D) State teachers' retirement: benefits
Reduces the time period a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System, Defined Benefit Supplement Program, or a participant of the Cash Balance Benefit Program, must wait before receiving a termination benefit under either program from one year to six months.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2005
SB 559 (Torlakson-D) Physical education
Establishes the Physical Education Professional Development program, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and removes specific authority for a student to be excused from physical education classes, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 758* (Maldonado-R) State Teachers' Retirement System: postretirement earnings
Creates an exemption to the post-retirement earnings limit for retired members of the State Teachers' Retirement System who mentor a school principal under specified circumstances.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 847 (Ducheny-D) Career technical education: highly qualified teachers
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in consultation with the California Department of Education, to adopt regulations to ensure that a teacher assigned to provide instruction in a career technical education course is highly qualified, as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 971 (Poochigian-R) Assault: school employees
Provides that the offense of assaulting a school employee, as defined, is also punishable as a felony. Under existing law, it is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both the fine and imprisonment.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1055 (Bowen-D) State Teachers' Retirement Board
Provides that confirmation by the Senate of members of the State Teacher's Retirement Board shall occur within a 90-day period. Prohibits persons appointed by the Governor from sitting on the board or voting on any proposal before the board until after being confirmed by the Senate.
(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1072 (Simitian-D) Professional development block grant consolidation
Expands the Professional Development Block Grant by consolidating various categorically funded programs related to teacher training support and development programs into a formula allocated block grant.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1094 (Soto-D) State Teachers' Retirement Plan: creditable compensation
Specifies that housing stipends and car allowances are fringe benefits that are excluded from the definition of creditable compensation for purposes of the Defined Benefits Program of the State Teacher's Retirement Plan.
(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SCR 41 (Machado-D) School crossing guards
Recognizes the significant task of men and women who serve as school crossing guards of ensuring the safety of school children.
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2005
SJR 15 (Dutton-R) Retirement benefits: teachers
Requests that the President and Congress remove two offset reductions that apply to teachers and other public employees in the state.
(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 29* (Nava-D) Income taxation: credentialed teachers' credit
Allows a specified credit. Under existing law, the Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against taxes imposed by those laws for credentialed teachers, in an amount equal to specified amounts, depending upon years of service as a teacher. This credit is allowed for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2000, and before January 1, 2002, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2003, and before January 1, 2004, and for each taxable year beginning on and after January 1, 2006. Allows that credit for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2004.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 55 (Mullin-D) State teachers' retirement: appropriations
Restores $500 million that was not transferred from the General Fund to the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account in fiscal year 2003-04, by making additional appropriations beginning July 1, 2008 to July 1, 2012. Provides for an adjustment in the July 1, 2012 payment to reflect actual earnings on STRS' investments from July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2012.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 123 (Dymally-D) Teacher credentialing
Eliminates the Commission on Teacher Credentialing as its own entity and, instead, establishes them as part of the California Department of Education.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 224 (Negrete McLeod-D) Teachers' retirement
Makes various technical and conforming changes in the Teachers' Retirement Law to facilitate efficient administration of the State Teachers' Retirement Plan, which includes the Defined Benefits Program, the Defined Benefit Supplement Program and the Cash Balance Benefit Program.
Chapter 351, Statutes of 2005
AB 309 (Walters-R) Teacher credentialing: pupil achievement
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to conduct a study to determine whether a positive correlation exists between the employment of credentialed teachers and pupil achievement. Requires the study to compare pupil achievement of pupils taught by teachers who received their teaching credentials from the California State University in the years 2001 and 2003, inclusive, with pupil achievement of pupils taught by teachers working under emergency permits.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 387 (Arambula-D) School districts: post-retirement employee benefits
Requires the development of standards and criteria for actuarial studies of retired employee health and welfare benefit liabilities, requires school districts to develop long-term plans that identify how they will fund the benefits for current and future retirees, requires county superintendents of schools to determine whether the adopted budgets include funding identified in the plans, and to identify the amount of funding necessary to fully fund the plans, requires school districts to provide copies of actuarial studies to county offices of education by January 30, 2006, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit reports concerning the outstanding liabilities of school districts for retired employee health and welfare benefits.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 420 (Shirley Horton-R) Alternative language assessments: Filipino language
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to establish guidelines to determine the adequacy of alternative assessments, performed by outside organizations, for languages that do not currently have a subject matter examination. Requires the CTC to submit an expenditure plan for the development of a subject matter examination in the Filipino language to the Department of Finance no later than January 8, 2006.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2005
AB 430 (Nava-D) Principal Training Program
Extends the sunset date for the Principal Training Program by six years to 2012, renames it to the Administrator Training Program, expands eligibility for participation in the program to include state special schools, and adds required components to the training.
Chapter 364, Statutes of 2005
AB 693 (Goldberg-D) Commission on Teacher Credentialing: study
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to conduct a study on how any or all components identified on the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills report can be integrated into existing teacher training programs to better prepare pupils for the workforce.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 705 (Nakanishi-R) Public employees' retirement: school members
Allows former employees of the Independent Data Processing Center, a State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) public agency that was terminated, who took a refund of member contributions at the time of termination, to redeposit those contributions and interest in PERS and thereby receive credit for that service. Revises the method for calculating contributions the member must make in order to receive the service credit.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 751 (Chu-D) County superintendent of schools: employees
Requires county superintendents of schools to apply permanent classification and dismissal procedures of existing law to all employees in positions requiring certification, rather than just those employees who are in teaching positions and clarifies that this change does not affect existing authority of the county superintendent of schools to employ certificated administrators.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 950 (Coto-D) Teachers: English language learner project
Establishes, contingent upon an appropriation for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, an English language learner staff development action research project, as specified, in the 2006-07 school year for the purpose of providing classroom teachers with an opportunity to develop best practices regarding the instruction of English language learners.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1076 (Jerome Horton-D) Public education: Williams case settlement: implementation
Contains provisions for the implementation of the Williams Case. Is a clean-up bill for SB 550 (Vasconcellos), Chapter 900, Statutes of 2004, one of several bills presented in the 2003-04 legislative session to resolve the Williams v. State of California lawsuit, filed on behalf of students in deciles 1-3 schools that claimed neglect by the State.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1213 (Wyland-R) Teacher identifier
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt a unique teacher identifier for teachers in public schools.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1214 (Wyland-R) Instruction: science
Requires the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed science teacher as a science resource teacher for each elementary school, to coordinate and provide instruction in an experimental science curriculum, as specified, and mentor other teachers in the provision of that curriculum.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1254 (Coto-D) Preschool teachers: limited English proficiency
Authorizes the State Board of Education to award grants to establish and maintain training and career ladder opportunities for teachers who provide preschool instruction to limited English proficient children.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1256 (Bermudez-D) Vehicles: school bus drivers
Authorizes a licensed chiropractor (in addition to a licensed physician authorized by existing law) to conduct a medical examination for applicants for an original or renewal certificate to drive a school bus, school pupil activity bus, youth bus, general public paratransit vehicle, or farm labor vehicle.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1306 (Liu-D) School personnel
Requires each school to report the following on its School Accountability Report Card: (1) the total number of fully credentialed administrators and pupil personnel services staff, (2) the number of emergency credentialed certificated employees, and (3) the availability of fully credentialed pupil support services personnel. Makes legislative findings regarding the purpose and goal of an educational counseling program and the role and duties of school counselors.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1404 (Coto-D) Teacher credentialing
Deletes a repeal date. Existing law provides that a credential candidate who is continuously enrolled in an integrated program of professional preparation is not subject to any new requirements added by statute, regulations, or commission standards if the candidate meets specified conditions. Existing law provides that such a candidate is eligible for a 12-month extension to complete program requirements. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2006. Deletes that repeal date, making those provisions effective indefinitely.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1468 (McCarthy-R) School and community college districts: classified employees
Deletes conditions school districts and community college districts must meet to approve contracts expected to result in cost savings on services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1490 (Canciamilla-D) Teacher credentialing: waiver
Authorizes the hiring of a person who does not have a credential or other certification, to teach adult education, career technical education, or vocational education, or to teach in a regional occupation center or program, if the governing board or superintendent, determines, and makes findings, that the person possesses the skills, education, training, or experience that meet a demand with respect to the education of pupils that the school district, county office of education, or community college district is otherwise unable to fill.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1570 (Salinas-D) Teacher credentialing: certificates
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to administer the current Bilingual, Cross-Cultural, Language, and Academic Development (BCLAD) examination and use the requirements of the BCLAD certification until newly developed examination and requirements for certification are approved by the CTC.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1691 (Lieber-D) Teachers: criminal records checks
Authorizes the Department of Justice to directly contact an applicant for a teaching credential if issues arise in the process of conduction of the background check and require clarification and further documentation.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1770* (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State Teachers' Retirement System: military service
Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System to receive up to one year service credit for time spent in the uniformed services without paying any employee contribution if the period of service occurred between September 11, 2001 and July 30, 2006.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1772 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Classified school employees
Makes various changes regarding school personnel procedures relative to classified employees.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2005
ACR 55 (Jerome Horton-D) Day of the Teacher
Proclaims May 11, 2005, to be Day of the Teacher and urges Californians to remember and honor all teachers who give the gift of knowledge through teaching.
Resolution Chapter 40, Statutes of 2005
School Curriculum
SB 338 (Maldonado-R) School curricula: Internet safety
Authorizes the State Department of Education to identify existing Internet safety programs and make the information available on its web site for use in public schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 384 (Maldonado-R) Public schools: instruction: Declaration of Independence
Prohibits a school district from prohibiting instruction on the Declaration of Independence.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 684 (Alquist-D) Social sciences curriculum
States that the Legislature encourages instruction in the area of social sciences to accurately portray the role of affected populations in the continent of Asia, the subcontinent of South Asia, and the Pacific Islands in the many historical events leading up to and during World War II.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1043 (Hollingsworth-R) Schools: health and family life instruction
Reestablishes the ability of parents to excuse their children from instruction in family life education.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)
SCA 10 (Runner-R) Education courses: preparation for employment
Amends the provisions of the California Constitution to declare that a general diffusion of skills, knowledge, and intelligence is essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people and requires the Legislature to encourage the promotion of vocational improvement.
(At Assembly Desk)
SCR 2 (Scott-D) Arts Education Month
Proclaims the month of March 2005 as Arts Education Month.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2005
AB 1 (Baca-D) Instruction: labor history
Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum and framework for grades 4, 8, and 11, where appropriate, include instruction on the history of the labor movement in the United States and that the criteria for selecting textbooks include this information as well.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 15 (Jerome Horton-D) Curriculum: social studies
Encourages classroom instruction to include a component of personal testimony of Filipinos who were involved in World War II in the Philippines and on the home front in oral or video format.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 226* (Bermudez-D) Automotive technology education
Creates the Automotive Career and Technical Education Account within the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund. Funds within the account will be awarded as matching grants to high schools and community colleges for the purpose of providing automotive education programs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 349 (Mountjoy-R) Prohibited instruction: sexual instruction or counseling
Prohibits certain sexual instruction or counseling of pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 through 6, inclusive, and requires a school district to provide notice and obtain the written approval of the parent or guardian of a pupil to provide this instruction or counseling to a pupil in grades 7 through 12, inclusive, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 390 (Canciamilla-D) Pupil instruction: social sciences
Provides that the State Board of Education, at the next revision of curriculum frameworks in social sciences shall include the role and contribution of Italian Americans to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 506 (Montanez-D) Teen dating violence: prevention and education
Establishes the Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program. Requires each school district to establish a policy and protocol, as specified, for dealing with the incidents of teen dating violence involving middle school and high school students.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 689 (Nava-D) Nutrition and physical activity curriculum
Requires the State Board of Education to adopt content standards for health education, only if sufficient funds are available for this purpose.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2005
AB 723 (Chu-D) Public school curriculum: tolerance instruction
Requires the State Board of Education to integrate instruction on intergroup relations and tolerance into existing curriculum frameworks, where appropriate.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 741 (Goldberg-D) Courses of study: curriculum recommendations
Requires the State Department of Education to submit recommendations to the Legislature to ensure that K-8 curriculum contains specified components.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1214 (Wyland-R) Instruction: science
Requires the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed science teacher as a science resource teacher for each elementary school, to coordinate and provide instruction in an experimental science curriculum, as specified, and mentor other teachers in the provision of that curriculum.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1217 (Wyland-R) Sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention education
Requires comprehensive sexual health education to provide instruction and materials on sex outside of marriage, and on refraining from making and accepting unwanted physical and verbal sexual advances.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1246 (Wolk-D) Preschool learning standards
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to develop and adopt preschool learning standards and to develop preschool curriculum guides in four subject areas. Requires the SPI to conduct regional hearings prior to adopting the standards and to review the standards every seven years. Requires the SPI to use existing funding and resources from the federal Child Care and Development Fund.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1253 (Coto-D) Pupils: graduation requirements
Prescribes alternate high school curricula. Sunsets the current high school graduation requirements on July 1, 2005 and, instead, beginning with the 2008-09 school year, specifies that a pupil will not receive a high school diploma if he or she does not complete a college preparatory curriculum that is required for admission to the California State University or the University of California (also known as the A-G requirements).
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1685 (Klehs-D) Education: animal slaughter
Prohibits the slaughter of any agricultural animal on the grounds of any public school operating programs in grades K-12, not including property owned or operated by a school district that is adjacent to or not within the main campus of a school.
(Refused passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 1721 (Pavley-D) Environmental education
Makes technical and clean-up changes to AB 1548 (Pavley), Chapter 665, Statutes of 2003. Places decision making authority, regarding the incorporation of environmental principles into academic content standards and instructional materials, with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2005
Pupil Nutrition
SB 12 (Escutia-D) School food nutrition
Removes the requirement that SB 19 (Escutia), Chapter 913, Statutes of 2001, be funded in order to be implemented, thereby implementing nutrition standards in elementary schools, and extends the standards to secondary schools. Modifies nutrition standards.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2005
SB 281* (Maldonado-R) California Fresh Start Pilot Program
Establishes the California Fresh Start Pilot Program, administered by the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Health Services. Specifies the California Fresh Start pilot program is intended to encourage public schools maintaining grades K-12 to provide fruits and vegetables that have not been deep fried to pupils in order to supplement other non-fried fruits and vegetables currently available to students, in order to promote consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables by school age children.
Chapter 236, Statutes of 2005
SB 567 (Torlakson-D) Pupil nutrition: school wellness policy
Requires, consistent with federal law, a school district participating in federal school meal programs to implement a school wellness policy by the beginning of the 2006-07 school year.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 965 (Escutia-D) Pupil nutrition: beverages
Revises and extends to high schools, on a phased-in basis beginning July 1, 2007, current restrictions imposed on K-8 pupils relating to the sale of certain beverages.
Chapter 237, Statutes of 2005
AB 334 (Chan-D) Instructional school garden program
Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to allocate state and federal funds for Instructional School Garden Program grants.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 443 (Yee-D) School food sales
Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to review and revise, as appropriate, existing regulations related to student organization food sales. Authorizes the SBE to review school district compliance with those regulations as part of the coordinated review effort pursuant to the National School Lunch Program.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 444 (Yee-D) School food: nutrition guidelines
Adds to the requirement that the California Department of Education develop nutrition guidelines for all food and beverages sold on public school campuses to include all food and beverages served, as well as sold. Expands the nutritional information contained in the guidelines to include sugar and sodium.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 569 (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: food service
Makes the entire campus of an elementary, junior high, or middle school, a food service area during breakfasts and lunch periods. Prohibits the sale or serving of foods of minimal nutritional value during those periods and requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations to implement the prohibition.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1385 (Laird-D) School meals
Requires the California Department of Education to develop and implement a data matching system to directly certify recipients of public assistance programs for enrollment in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2005
AB 1392 (Umberg-D) Free or reduced-price meals
Changes the conditions under which the State Board of Education is required to grant a waiver to school districts and county offices of education from participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Allows districts to use funds from other meal programs on the Summer Food Service Program.
Chapter 651, Statutes of 2005
AB 1667 (Saldana-D) Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs
Expands the definition of specialized physical health care services to include the administration of medication, and expands the pool of students with health care needs that may be assisted by specified qualified individuals while at school.
(On Senate Inactive File)
Vocational Education
SB 70 (Scott-D) Vocational education
Provides resources for the support of career technical education programs at middle schools, high schools, regional occupational centers and programs and community colleges.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2005
SB 665 (Migden-D) California Career Resource Network
Establishes the California Career Resource Network to provide career development information and training, primarily to middle and high school students, and repeals the California Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, which formerly compiled labor market data.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2005
SB 794 (Scott-D) Vocational education: requirements
Requires the California Community Colleges to enhance economic and workforce regional economic development through improved Career Technical Education.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 825 (Maldonado-R) Career Technical Education Accountability Act of 2005
Establishes the Career Technical Education Accountability Act of 2005 and requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of the Secretary of Education, to develop and adopt regulations that state the standards for a quality career technical education program, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 845 (Scott-D) Vocational education: requirements
Revises the minimum requirements for the designated subjects preliminary vocational education and adult education teaching credentials.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 917 (Wyland-R) The Career Technical Education Vision Council
Creates the Career Technical Education Vision Council to make recommendations regarding career technical education and to develop a workforce preparation and strategic plan by December 31, 2007.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1089 (Umberg-D) Career technical programs
Requires a school district offering career technical education (CTE) courses to adopt quality criteria designed to promote positive pupil outcomes and accountability of CTE courses and programs.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1410 (Baca-D) Regional Career Technical High School Pilot Program
Establishes the Regional Career Technical High School Pilot Program administered by the Department of Education for the purpose of establishing five regional career technical high schools, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1608 (Liu-D) Vocational education: requirements
Requires the governing board of a school district maintaining a middle school, or grades seven and eight, to prescribe courses of study designed to provide the skills and knowledge required for adult life for pupils attending the schools within its school district, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1609 (Liu-D) Vocational education: requirements
Adds specific information concerning career-technical education to the list of items that must be annually reported to the public on the School Accountability Report Card.
Chapter 354, Statutes of 2005
Miscellaneous
SB 37 (Speier-D) Prohibited substances
Requires the Department of Health Services to provide to the California Department of Education, on or before March 30, 2006, the United States Anti-Doping Agency Guide to Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods of Doping. Makes changes relating to the 1998 California High School Coaching Education Program.
Chapter 673, Statutes of 2005
SB 136 (Denham-R) School attendance requirements
Specifies that a school district may enroll a pupil in a school in the school district where the parent or guardian of that pupil is employed provided the parent or guardian is employed for a minimum of 20 hours per week within the boundaries of the school district. Encourages school districts to annually verify a parent's employment in these districts.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 161 (Soto-D) California Youth Access to Information Act
Requires the California Department of Education to post on its web site, a statement in English and Spanish that delineates certain rights of students relative to health and safely issues.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 327 (Lowenthal-D) Public contracts: school districts
Prohibits modular school buildings from being purchased or installed by a school district through piggyback contracting, thereby requiring competitive bidding for the purchase and installation of modular school buildings.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 405 (Battin-R) Library district: Banning Unified School District
Authorizes the Board of Trustees of the Banning Unified School District to provide, by resolution, that the Banning Unified School District Library District shall be governed by a separate governing board.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2005
SB 414 (Alquist-D) Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program
Extends, until July 1, 2012, the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program, which is due to sunset on July 1, 2006.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 514 (Assembly Education Committee) Education technology
Makes changes to the Education Technology Grant Act of 2002, altering the minimum amount and stating legislative intent that if available funding does not permit a grant at a specified level, the Superintendent of Public Instruction will be required to ensure that funding is allocated to all eligible applicants.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 559 (Torlakson-D) Physical education
Establishes the Physical Education Professional Development program, administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and removes specific authority for a student to be excused from physical education classes, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 562 (Torlakson-D) Physical education: California Interscholastic Federation
Deletes the January 2007 sunset date for the California Interscholastic Federation and specifies that the report submitted to the Legislature and the Governor contain information related to Title IX, the quality of coaching and officiating, and health and safety of students, coaches, officials, and sponsors.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 622 (Speier-D) Correctional facilities: educational programs
Requires the Department of Corrections to implement a continuous education program that includes both an intake assessment as well as "appropriate educational services" for inmates at each state and privately operated facility within 180 days of the effective date of the bill. Requires the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency to report annually its findings, outcomes and statistics pertaining to the program to the Legislature.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 657 (Escutia-D) Instructional materials
Requires the State Board of Education to solicit recommendations annually from school districts regarding the adoption of instructional materials.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 660 (Kuehl-D) Public school pupils: interrogation
Requires an elementary school principal to obtain the oral consent of a parent, guardian, or responsible relative of a pupil before making that pupil available to a peace officer for questioning, and requires a high school principal to inform a pupil of his or her right to request his or her parent, guardian, or responsible relative be present during questioning.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 688 (Speier-D) The Skin Cancer Prevention Act for California Schools
Requires the California Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health Services, to develop a skin cancer prevention policy to educate pupils in grades 1 through 6.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 694 (Morrow-R) School districts: report on undocumented alien pupils
Requires school districts and county superintendent of schools to obtain proof of pupils' legal citizenship or legal residency, as specified. Failure to provide this information does not prohibit a pupil from enrolling in school. The information shall be confidential and shall be annually submitted by school districts and county superintendent of schools on their California Basic Education Data System report.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 698 (Poochigian-R) Schoolbus replacement
Appropriates $50 million, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year and ending with the 2010-11 fiscal year, from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account to the Clean Air and Schoolbus Safety Fund for the purpose of replacing school buses. Authorizes the California Energy Commission to use up to five percent of the funds appropriated to administer this program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 707 (Kehoe-D) Before and after school programs
Gives greater flexibility to the After School Education and Safety programs with regards to attendance requirements and ability to use and transfer funds.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2005
SB 753 (Morrow-R) Pupils: confidential medical services: parental notification
Revises the parent notification process relating to a school district's authority to excuse a student from school to obtain confidential medical services without parental consent.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 767* (Romero-D) Los Angeles Unified School District: board members
Establishes the Mayoral Leadership to Improve Education in Los Angeles Act to allow the Mayor of Los Angeles to appoint seven members of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board of Education as those positions become vacant and after determining that the district is in "educational failure" as defined. Authorizes the Mayor of Los Angeles to appoint the Superintendent of the LAUSD, under specified circumstances. Provides for the 27 other cities with territory in the LAUSD, and the Orange County Board of Supervisors, to form a committee to appoint two additional members to the LAUSD Board of Education.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 854* (Ashburn-R) Community learning centers
Makes several changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program including increasing the per student daily reimbursement rate for after school programs from $5 to $7.50 and for before school programs $3.33 to $5 as well as increasing the maximum total grant amounts.
Chapter 555, Statutes of 2005
SB 875 (Runner-R) Career technical education
Expands the educational enrichment component of the After School Education and Safety Program to include career technical education.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2005
SB 912 (Ducheny-D) State Board of Education: membership composition
Increases diversity in the State Board of Education (SBE). Requires, beginning January 1, 2006, and as vacancies occur, the 10-member SBE members appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, to include the following representation: (1) a public school teacher with experience in teaching and working with English language learners in the public school system, (2) a classified employee of a school district, (3) a professor of education employed by a postsecondary educational institution, (4) an onsite school administrator, (5) a school district superintendent or an associate superintendent, (6) three elected members of school district governing boards, (7) two members of the general public, and (8) at least one member representing a school district from each of the seven counties, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 925 (Alarcon-D) High schools: college preparatory courses
Expresses legislative intent that, beginning with the 2007-08 academic year, all public high school pupils be enrolled in core curriculum that will enable them to pursue postsecondary options, including career technical training and attending a university. Specifies that a school district cannot deny a pupil access from enrolling in college-prep courses, if he or she has met the prerequisite coursework.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 933 (Machado-D) Dropout prevention act
Extends the inoperative date to July 1, 2010, of The Elementary and Secondary School Dropout Prevention Act of 1969, administered by the California Department of Education, which authorizes the establishment of programs for the purpose of reducing the number of children who do not complete their elementary and secondary education. Under existing law, this act will become inoperative on July 1, 2005, and will be repealed as of July 1, 2006.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 1004 (Margett-R) Suspended pupils: missed assignments and tests
Requires each school district to adopt a policy regarding completion of assignments, homework, and any make-up work for suspended pupils.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1006 (Soto-D) Educational technology access and instructional integration
Requires the California Department of Education to develop common data elements, collect and analyze data, and post the data on the Internet on the levels of access to and integration of technology into instruction in public schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCR 31 (Simitian-D) Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Education
Establishes the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Education to provide for continuous review of the master plan and the conditions of education in California and terminates the joint committee on November 30, 2006.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
SCR 63 (Florez-D) California school bus emissions reduction
Encourages the Public Utilities Commission to work with the regulated utilities to consider developing and possibly to develop, a program to retrofit diesel school busses in the state to reduce particulate matter emissions, while not increasing nitrogen dioxide emissions, with a minimal increase in the utility rate.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SR 13 (Escutia-D) Educational Options Month
Proclaims the month of May as Educational Options Month and encourages Californians to work together to ensure the future success of all pupils participating in educational options in California.
Read and adopted
AB 3* (Blakeslee-R) Income tax: deduction: education savings
Allows a deduction for contribution, not exceeding specified amounts, made by a taxpayer to a qualified tuition program, as defined.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 13 (Goldberg-D) California Racial Mascots Act
Establishes the California Racial Mascots Act that prohibits, commencing on January 1, 2007, all public schools from using the term Redskins for school or athletic team names, mascots, or nicknames.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 36 (Strickland-R) Bonded indebtedness
Applies provisions of existing law governing the allocation of bonded indebtedness in school district reorganizations to debt incurred on or after January 1, 2001, by approval of 55 percent of the voters.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 49 (Benoit-R) Contracting for noninstructional services
Repeals provisions authorizing school districts and community college districts to enter into contracts for personal services customarily performed by classified employees to achieve cost savings if prescribed conditions are met. Authorizes, instead, school districts and community college districts to contract for any noninstructional services, as prescribed. Declares that existing employer-employee relations provisions do not limit the authority of the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University, to enter into contracts with third parties for noninstructional services, as prescribed.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 66 (Pavley-D) Kindergarten
Authorizes 23 specified school districts to operate a two-year kindergarten pilot program at one or more schools, as specified, until July 1, 2015.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 93 (Jerome Horton-D) Instructional materials: donation or sale
Specifies ways in which local education agencies may dispose of surplus and obsolete instructional materials. Allows school districts to sell surplus and obsolete instructional materials to any organization that agrees to use the materials only for educational purposes and that agrees not to sell the materials for a profit.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 103 (Cohn-D) School districts: contraceptives
Prohibits the governing board of a school district from prohibiting a licensed health clinic from entering upon, and dispensing contraceptives on, a school site.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 110 (Ruskin-D) Public education: reporting requirements
Deletes certain reporting requirements contained in existing law, and modifies procedures that apply to data collection relating to pupil expulsions.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2005
AB 171 (Yee-D) Pupils
Establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Learning Support System pilot program, to increase the success of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in reducing the achievement gap and to reduce the high school dropout rate.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 172 (Chan-D) Universal preschool
Makes certain findings and states the intent of the Legislature with regard to universal preschool. Was introduced as a companion to the Preschool For All initiative which is proposed for the June 2006 ballot. The primary goal of the initiative is to implement voluntary preschool programs.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 208 (Gordon-D) Priority for attendance: children of military personnel
Allows school districts that have elected to become a school district of choice prior to April 1, 2005, to give priority for transfers to the children of military personnel, and establishes specific timelines within which such a transfer may be requested by the enlisted parent or guardian, and must be resolved by the school district.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2005
AB 264 (Chan-D) Schools: asthma management
Requires a school district that is given a plan developed by a student's health care provider to control a student's asthma to keep the "asthma action plan" in a centralized location, and requires districts to make information on preventing and treating asthma attacks available to any teacher of any student for whom an asthma action plan is submitted.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 322 (Oropeza-D) Athletes' Bill of Rights
Enacts the Athletes' Bill of Rights and requires the California Department of Education to post these rights on its web site to ensure that female students are aware of the rights guaranteed to them under federal Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 law.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 2005
AB 384 (Nation-D) Class size reduction
Authorizes the Petaluma Joint Union School District, on a pilot project basis and subject to a collective bargaining agreement with certificated employees, to implement a modified grade 9 class size reduction plan.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 388 (Canciamilla-D) Instructional materials: adoption process
Establishes certain requirements for publishers or manufacturers of state adopted core instructional materials and for the State Board of Education when adopting core instructional materials.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 416 (Plescia-R) Civic centers
Repeals the requirement that a school district charge a fee for the use of its facilities for religious services and also repeals other specified restrictions on the use of school facilities for religious services.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 455 (Goldberg-D) Educational counseling: pupil plans: at-risk pupils
Authorizes a governing board of a school district to provide counseling that includes development of an at-risk pupil plan for each at-risk pupil.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 490 (Parra-D) Formal bids: notices
Requires a school district, when the school district will incur no publishing costs, to mail a notice calling for contract bids to specified construction trade journals at least 30 calendar days before the date of opening the bids.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 532 (Levine-D) Public contracts: schools: procurement
Establishes an alternate process for school districts to procure bids for the acquisition of computers, software, telecommunications equipment, microwave equipment, and other related electronic equipment and apparatus.
Chapter 509, Statutes of 2005
AB 548* (Garcia-R) Sales and use tax: exemptions: back-to-school products
Provides a sales tax exemption from the sale of back-to-school products.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 561 (Montanez-D) Prison education
Provides that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall assess the educational needs of each inmate and provides for specific courses of instruction that shall be included in the statewide educational program.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 564 (Karnette-D) Basic instructional materials: review
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to review instructional materials for grades 9 through 12 to determine whether the materials are aligned to California academic content standards. The review process will be supported by the fees paid by publishers who submit materials to be reviewed.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 572 (Wolk-D) Supplemental instruction: pupils recommended for retention
Requires school districts to offer supplemental instruction programs for kindergarten and first grade pupils who are recommended for retention.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 656 (Hancock-D) Pupil attendance: county school attendance review boards
States that rules and regulations adopted by county school attendance review boards may include a procedure for the submission of any recommendation of the board to the appropriate school district personnel.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 756 (Goldberg-D) Instructional materials: page limitation
Prohibits the adoption of any instructional materials exceeding 200 pages in length by the State Board of Education or any local governing board.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 796 (Wolk-D) Library districts
Allows the selection of a name for a library district that sufficiently distinguishes the library district from an existing school district.
Chapter 27, Statutes of 2005
AB 831* (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Makes various changes to the codes to correct cross references, errors and make existing provisions of law workable. Carries an urgency clause so its provisions may take effect prior to the end of the 2004-05 fiscal year.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2005
AB 835 (Huff-R) School districts: organization: governing board trustees
Allows a county committee on a school district organization to abolish, as well as establish, a common governing board for two school districts, if the action is approved by the voters. Requires that signatures on petitions proposing school district reorganization must be obtained within 180 days of submission of the proposal to the county committee on school district organization.
Chapter 31, Statutes of 2005
AB 846 (Liu-D) Driver education: Internet: private secondary schools
Provides that private schools are not required to offer driver education or driver training. Establishes new conditions that private schools that provide Internet-based distance-learning driver education must satisfy.
Chapter 314, Statutes of 2005
AB 872 (Bogh-R) School buses: school districts: reporting of driver incident
Requires school districts to report to the Department of the California Highway Patrol any incidents in which the actions of a school bus driver may have placed the health, well-being, or safety of the pupils being transported at risk.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 949 (Coto-D) Instructional time: alternative schools
Requires a school district operating an alternative attendance schedule in any of grades 9 through 12, inclusive, pursuant to that authorization, to offer instructional time totaling 64,800 minutes per school year, and require pupils to addend classes for that amount of time.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 967 (Canciamilla-D) Concurrent enrollment
Exempts from an enrollment cap on current enrollment at the California Community Colleges, a student recommended by his/her principal for enrollment in a college level advanced scholastic summer session course, or in a vocational community college summer session course, if specified criteria are met. Requires the governing board of a community college district to assign a low enrollment priority to the above student in order to ensure that students do not displace regularly admitted students.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2005
AB 1052 (Leslie-R) Driver drug and alcohol testing
Requires drivers of school transportation vehicles to comply with required drug and alcohol testing.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2005
AB 1076 (Jerome Horton-D) Public education: Williams case settlement: implementation
Implementation of the Williams Case. Is a clean-up bill for SB 500 (Vasconcellos), Chapter 900, Statutes of 2004, one of several bills presented in the 2003-04 legislative session to resolve the Williams v. State of California lawsuit, filed on behalf of students in deciles 1-3 schools that claimed neglect by the State.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1077 (Chan-D) Pupil health
Requires a pupil attending a public school to present proof of having received, while in kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 6th grade, an oral health assessment by a licensed dentist or other licensed or registered dental health professional before January 15th of the school year.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1154 (La Suer-R) School districts: excused absences: parental consent
Prohibits school authorities from excusing any pupil from the school or any reason without consent of the pupil's parent or guardian and deletes the existing notice requirements.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1177* (Chan-D) Smaller Learning Environment Grant Program
Establishes the Small Learning Environments Grant Program for schools that are subject to school improvement, corrective action or restructuring pursuant to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, to encourage large schools to create smaller learning environments.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1181 (Matthews-D) Concept 6 program
Authorizes the Los Banos Unified School District to operate a Concept 6 program at the Los Banos Junior High School starting in 2006-07 school year and requires the Los Banos Unified School District to present to the California Department of Education a comprehensive action plan detailing the strategy and steps to be taken annually to eliminate the use of the Concept 6 program as soon as practicable, and no later than July 1, 2012.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1218 (Wyland-R) The William J. "Pete" Knight Memorial Act
Requires that the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America be recited each day during the school year at each elementary and secondary school. Declares that a pupil or school employee who does not wish to participate in that recitation may remain silent and seated in the classroom during the exercise.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1219 (De La Torre-D) Public education: school operations: school transportation
Sunsets the multi-track year-round education schedule on July 1, 2015 and limits, beginning on or before July 1, 2009, the length of time pupils can spend on buses, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1228 (Daucher-R) Internet connectivity
Establishes the K-12 High Speed Internet Network for the purpose of providing high-speed, high-bandwidth Internet connectivity to local education agencies.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1246 (Wolk-D) Preschool learning standards
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to develop and adopt preschool learning standards and to develop preschool curriculum guides in four subject areas. Requires the SPI to conduct regional hearings prior to adopting the standards and to review the standards every seven years. Requires the SPI to use existing funding and resources from the federal Child Care and Development Fund.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1261 (Leno-D) Foster children: education
Clarifies provisions related to the education of foster youth in the areas of educational placement, coursework credit, record transfer, and educational programs offered to foster youth, and revises the definition of "nonpublic, nonsectarian schools" and makes changes to some provisions in the Education Code relating to nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2005
AB 1262* (Haynes-R) Tax credit: Educational Assistance Organizations
Authorizes a tax credit for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2006, in an amount equal to 75 percent of the amount contributed by the taxpayer to a qualified educational assistance organization, as defined. Requires the Secretary of Education to annually clarify eligible organizations as "qualified educational organizations," as specified.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 1319 (Liu-D) Adult education: community college districts
Makes a number of declarations and findings about the importance and need for adult education programs, expresses the intent of the Legislature to clarify the mission of adult education and develop a clear and coordinated system between the California Department of Education and the California Community College system, and deletes the requirement that community college districts provide adult education programs and classes only if a mutual agreement is adopted between a high school or unified school district and a community college district.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1320 (Canciamilla-D) Residency requirements: exceptions
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to adopt a policy regarding the approval of an affidavit by a caregiver, executed as the basis for a determination that the pupil lives in the home of the caregiver.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1394 (Sharon Runner-R) Kindergarten entrance date
Moves up the date by which a child must be the appropriate age in order to enroll in specified grades.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1440 (Baca-D) School communications networks
Requires the California Department of Education to conduct a review and evaluation of programs that enable schools and parents to form a communications network.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1496 (Goldberg-D) High school attrition rates
Requires the California Department of Education to compile an attrition rate for high school pupils in California pursuant to a specified formula.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2005
AB 1548 (Pavley-D) Instructional materials: electronic format
Requires, as a pilot program and until January 1, 2016, the California Department of Education to authorize 12 schools to either (1) purchase electronic equipment bundled with standards based state adopted instructional materials from monies received from the State Instructional Materials Fund or (2) request a publisher that makes basic instructional materials available in a hard copy format to make instructional materials available in electronic multimedia format.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1592 (Goldberg-D) Increased Instructional Time for Improving Schools Program
Creates the Increased Instructional Time for Improving Schools Program, which requires a school district that has jurisdiction over a school that is ranked in any of deciles 1-3 on the Academic Performance Index (API) and that maintains grades K-12 to provide an additional 40 days of instructional time for that school (over and above the required 180 days), beginning with the school year following the receipt of the specified API ranking.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1642 (Salinas-D) School districts: reorganization
Revises and recasts various provisions concerning the processing and approval of school district reorganizations.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2005
AB 1680 (Daucher-R) Kindergarten
Authorizes a school district to operate a two-year kindergarten program, or a three-year combined kindergarten and grade 1 program by changing the age at which a child is required to be admitted to kindergarten for one or more schools in the school district so that a child will be admitted to kindergarten at the beginning of the school year at any later time in the school year, if the child will have his or her 5th birthday on or before December 2 of the school year.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1685 (Klehs-D) Education: animal slaughter
Prohibits the slaughter of any agricultural animal on the grounds of any public school operating programs in grades K-12, not including property owned or operated by a school district that is adjacent to or not within the main campus of a school.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 1758* (Umberg-D) High Priority Schools Grant Program
Establishes exit criteria for the High Priority School Grant Program and Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, and provides for program implementation in additional schools and sets funding rates for state assistance and intervention.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
ACA 21 (Daucher-R) School districts: home rule compacts
Authorizes the governing body of a school district or the home rule compact commission of a school district to propose, to the electors of the school district, a home rule compact, to be adopted if approved by two-thirds of the electors voting on the question. Allows the home rule compact to authorize a school district to adopt and enforce resolutions governing the affairs of the school district, subject only to restrictions and limitations provided in the compact and the California Constitution and those general laws governing educational matters of statewide concern, as described in the measure. Prohibits the Legislature from imposing on a home rule school district, as a condition of its eligibility for or receipt of funds under state law, a requirement that conflicts with the scope of school district authority conferred by the measure.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
ACR 6 (Koretz-D) Financial literacy education
Declares April 2005 as Financial Literacy Month, in order to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2005
ACR 17 (Karnette-D) Language education
Recognizes 2005 as the Year of Languages, and encourages all educational communities to celebrate languages and cultures with meaningful pupil activities and programs that demonstrate learning and understanding of the diversity of languages and cultures in California, and urges all citizens to become interested in, and to give full support to, quality language and cultural programs for all pupils in California schools.
Resolution Chapter 26, Statutes of 2005
ACR 26 (Liu-D) Arts Education Month
Proclaims the month of March 2005 as Arts Education Month and encourages all educational communities to celebrate the arts and urges all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality school arts programs for children and youth.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 30 (McCarthy-R) Civic mission of schools
Urges the State Board of Education and local school boards to examine current practice and develop plans to increase and broaden emphasis on principles of democracy in the schools.
Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2005
ACR 45 (Assembly Education Committee) School Library Media Month
Proclaims April 2005 as State Library Media Month.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
ACR 57 (Salinas-D) Automated external defibrillator programs
Encourages all California public schools maintaining grades K-12 to set as a top priority the implementation of an automated defibrillator program.
Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2005
ACR 74 (Saldana-D) Title IX: 33rd anniversary of its enactment
Acknowledges the 33rd anniversary of the enactment of Title IX and urges California colleges and universities to refrain from relying on a single survey for determination of compliance.
Resolution Chapter 133, Statutes of 2005
ACR 78 (Nava-D) Digital arts: training and promotion
Calls upon all agencies with purview over schools, arts programs, and economic and workforce development to make the training of teacher and youth in digital media arts and communication technologies a high priority.
(In Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
AJR 22 (Bass-D) School records
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to enact an exception to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to allow schools to share relevant pupil records with interagency child death teams.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2005
ACA 2X (Daucher-R) School districts: annual financial reports
Requires a school district to prepare, and make available to the public, an annual report disclosing, for each fiscal year, specified financial information, including revenues from any source, personnel expenses, and outstanding obligations.
(In Education Finance and the Teaching Profession Committee)
Index (in Bill Order)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
SB 5 | Morrow-R Public postsecondary education: Student Bill of Rights | |
SB 12 | Escutia-D School food nutrition | |
SB 30* | Speier-D Tax deductions: 529 College Savings Plans | |
SB 37 | Speier-D Prohibited substances | |
SB 55 | Lowenthal-D Community college district governing boards: meeting agendas | |
SB 63* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance | |
SB 65* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance | |
SB 70 | Scott-D Vocational education | |
SB 73* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Public postsecondary education: master's degree in nursing | |
SB 136 | Denham-R School attendance requirements | |
SB 142 | Florez-D Local government employment contracts | |
SB 160 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: eligibility: California Dream Act | |
SB 161 | Soto-D California Youth Access to Information Act | |
SB 166 | Soto-D Charter schools: charter renewal | |
SB 170 | Vincent-D School employees: termination | |
SB 191 | Cedillo-D Voter registration: public institutions of higher education | |
SB 219 | Alquist-D School finance | |
SB 260 | Denham-R Education finance: average daily attendance: apportionments | |
SB 281* | Maldonado-R California Fresh Start Pilot Program | |
SB 319 | Migden-D Charter schools: funding | |
SB 327 | Lowenthal-D Public contracts: school districts | |
SB 337 | Maldonado-R Postsecondary education: public postsecondary institutions | |
SB 338 | Maldonado-R School curricula: Internet safety | |
SB 349 | McClintock-R Public postsecondary education: non-resident admissions | |
SB 352* | Scott-D Chief Business Officer Training Program | |
SB 358 | Scott-D Child care | |
SB 361 | Scott-D Community colleges: funding | |
SB 362 | Torlakson-D School facilities: existing school building capacity | |
SB 368 | Escutia-D English language learners: database | |
SB 384 | Maldonado-R Public schools: instruction: Declaration of Independence | |
SB 385 | Ducheny-D Pupil assessment | |
SB 404 | Migden-D Teachers: California Preliminary Credential | |
SB 405 | Battin-R Library district: Banning Unified School District | |
SB 407 | Margett-R Corporate taxes: Postsecondary Education Trust Fund | |
SB 414 | Alquist-D Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program | |
SB 428 | Scott-D Teachers | |
SB 430 | Runner-R Charter schools | |
SB 445 | Ducheny-D Commission on Statewide Postsecondary Education Policy | |
SB 462 | Morrow-R Facilities in adjacent counties: waiver | |
SB 485 | Migden-D Local government finance | |
SB 498 | Cox-R California Troops to Teachers Program | |
SB 512* | Senate Education Committee Education omnibus | |
SB 514 | Assembly Education Committee Education technology | |
SB 517 | Romero-D High school graduation | |
SB 525 | Torlakson-D State teachers' retirement: benefits | |
SB 531 | Ortiz-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program | |
SB 535 | Runner-R Charter schools | |
SB 539 | Ashburn-R Child day care: CalWORKs child care program | |
SB 559 | Torlakson-D Physical education | |
SB 562 | Torlakson-D Physical education: California Interscholastic Federation | |
SB 567 | Torlakson-D Pupil nutrition: school wellness policy | |
SB 569 | Torlakson-D Public postsecondary education: alumni disclosure | |
SB 586 | Romero-D High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities | |
SB 604 | Aanestad-R Charter schools: funding | |
SB 605 | Machado-D Special education: alternative dispute resolution | |
SB 622 | Speier-D Correctional facilities: educational programs | |
SB 626 | Soto-D Special education: staff development | |
SB 638 | Torlakson-D After School Education and Safety Program | |
SB 640 | Escutia-D Child care resource and referral programs: funding | |
SB 652 | Scott-D Public postsecondary education: transfers | |
SB 657 | Escutia-D Instructional materials | |
SB 659 | Scott-D Student financial aid: state-funded: Scholarshare account | |
SB 660 | Kuehl-D Public school pupils: interrogation | |
SB 661 | Migden-D Public postsecondary education: California State University | |
SB 665 | Migden-D California Career Resource Network | |
SB 667 | Migden-D Public contracts: competitive bidding | |
SB 672 | Cox-R Community colleges: inmate education programs: computation | |
SB 684 | Alquist-D Social sciences curriculum | |
SB 687 | Simitian-D School accountability report card: reporting requirements | |
SB 688 | Speier-D The Skin Cancer Prevention Act for California Schools | |
SB 694 | Morrow-R School districts: report on undocumented alien pupils | |
SB 698 | Poochigian-R Schoolbus replacement | |
SB 701* | Migden-D Child care subsidies: City and County of San Francisco | |
SB 707 | Kehoe-D Before and after school programs | |
SB 709 | Speier-D Community colleges: audits | |
SB 711 | Dutton-R School facilities: civic centers | |
SB 724 | Scott-D Public postsecondary education: California State University | |
SB 741 | Ducheny-D Charter schools: average daily attendance | |
SB 753 | Morrow-R Pupils: confidential medical services: parental notification | |
SB 755* | Poochigian-R California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science | |
SB 758* | Maldonado-R State Teachers' Retirement System: postretirement earnings | |
SB 767* | Romero-D Los Angeles Unified School District: board members | |
SB 780 | Ortiz-D University of California: medical schools: admissions | |
SB 782 | Escutia-D English language tutoring | |
SB 794 | Scott-D Vocational education: requirements | |
SB 812 | Soto-D Instructional materials | |
SB 813 | Denham-R School facilities | |
SB 821 | Perata-D School districts: state-appointed administrators | |
SB 825 | Maldonado-R Career Technical Education Accountability Act of 2005 | |
SB 844 | Poochigian-R Charter schools: chartering authority | |
SB 845 | Scott-D Vocational education: requirements | |
SB 846 | Aanestad-R Charter school funding | |
SB 847 | Ducheny-D Career technical education: highly qualified teachers | |
SB 854* | Ashburn-R Community learning centers | |
SB 860 | Bowen-D Credit card processing fees: state agents | |
SB 867 | Alarcon-D Education finance | |
SB 871 | Scott-D Postsecondary education accountability | |
SB 875 | Runner-R Career technical education | |
SB 912 | Ducheny-D State Board of Education: membership composition | |
SB 918 | Speier-D Public postsecondary education: academic standards | |
SB 925 | Alarcon-D High schools: college preparatory courses | |
SB 930 | Ducheny-D Community colleges: Board of Governors | |
SB 933 | Machado-D Dropout prevention act | |
SB 949 | Machado-D Education | |
SB 958 | Simitian-D School districts: declining enrollment | |
SB 965 | Escutia-D Pupil nutrition: beverages | |
SB 970 | Perata-D Charter schools: funding | |
SB 971 | Poochigian-R Assault: school employees | |
SB 1004 | Margett-R Suspended pupils: missed assignments and tests | |
SB 1006 | Soto-D Educational technology access and instructional integration | |
SB 1035 | Hollingsworth-R School facilities maintenance: cleaning costs | |
SB 1040* | Dunn-D Public postsecondary education: fees and tuition: waiver | |
SB 1043 | Hollingsworth-R Schools: health and family life instruction | |
SB 1053 | Scott-D School site funding: Local Improvement Program | |
SB 1054 | Soto-D Charter schools: California Building Standards Code | |
SB 1055 | Bowen-D State Teachers' Retirement Board | |
SB 1072 | Simitian-D Professional development block grant consolidation | |
SB 1073 | Simitian-D Special education: out-of-home care | |
SB 1077 | Simitian-D Education finance: revenue limit equalization | |
SB 1078* | Simitian-D Education finance: charter schools | |
SB 1080 | Campbell-R Adult education | |
SB 1094 | Soto-D State Teachers' Retirement Plan: creditable compensation | |
SCA 10 | Runner-R Education courses: preparation for employment | |
SCR 2 | Scott-D Arts Education Month | |
SCR 31 | Simitian-D Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Education | |
SCR 41 | Machado-D School crossing guards | |
SCR 63 | Florez-D California school bus emissions reduction | |
SJR 15 | Dutton-R Retirement benefits: teachers | |
SR 13 | Escutia-D Educational Options Month | |
SB 1X | Perata-D School finance: local control | |
AB 1 | Baca-D Instruction: labor history | |
AB 3* | Blakeslee-R Income tax: deduction: education savings | |
AB 9 | Coto-D Education finance: sales and use taxes: services | |
AB 13 | Goldberg-D California Racial Mascots Act | |
AB 15 | Jerome Horton-D Curriculum: social studies | |
AB 23* | Liu-D Adult education finance | |
AB 29* | Nava-D Income taxation: credentialed teachers' credit | |
AB 36 | Strickland-R Bonded indebtedness | |
AB 39 | Walters-R Charter schools: alternative authority | |
AB 49 | Benoit-R Contracting for noninstructional services | |
AB 55 | Mullin-D State teachers' retirement: appropriations | |
AB 58 | Nunez-D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act | |
AB 60 | Nunez-D School finance: revenue limit equalization | |
AB 66 | Pavley-D Kindergarten | |
AB 93 | Jerome Horton-D Instructional materials: donation or sale | |
AB 97 | Cohn-D School budget reserves | |
AB 103 | Cohn-D School districts: contraceptives | |
AB 110 | Ruskin-D Public education: reporting requirements | |
AB 122 | Spitzer-R Family day care | |
AB 123 | Dymally-D Teacher credentialing | |
AB 128* | Assembly Budget Committee Education finance | |
AB 162 | Leslie-R Community colleges: facilities | |
AB 165 | Dymally-D African American Political and Economic Institute | |
AB 167 | Cohn-D Nursing Workforce Education Investment Act | |
AB 171 | Yee-D Pupils | |
AB 172 | Chan-D Universal preschool | |
AB 196 | Liu-D Postsecondary education: accountability | |
AB 208 | Gordon-D Priority for attendance: children of military personnel | |
AB 224 | Negrete McLeod-D Teachers' retirement | |
AB 226* | Bermudez-D Automotive technology education | |
AB 232 | Arambula-D Registered nursing programs: California Community Colleges | |
AB 264 | Chan-D Schools: asthma management | |
AB 266 | DeVore-R Large family day care homes: permits | |
AB 307 | Chavez-D Education technology: grants: requirements | |
AB 309 | Walters-R Teacher credentialing: pupil achievement | |
AB 315 | Hancock-D School facilities: energy efficiency: design standards | |
AB 317 | Dymally-D Community college finance | |
AB 318 | Dymally-D Community colleges: funding | |
AB 322 | Oropeza-D Athletes' Bill of Rights | |
AB 334 | Chan-D Instructional school garden program | |
AB 349 | Mountjoy-R Prohibited instruction: sexual instruction or counseling | |
AB 358 | Liu-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program | |
AB 384 | Nation-D Class size reduction | |
AB 387 | Arambula-D School districts: post-retirement employee benefits | |
AB 388 | Canciamilla-D Instructional materials: adoption process | |
AB 390 | Canciamilla-D Pupil instruction: social sciences | |
AB 412 | Dymally-D Charter schools | |
AB 416 | Plescia-R Civic centers | |
AB 420 | Shirley Horton-R Alternative language assessments: Filipino language | |
AB 430 | Nava-D Principal Training Program | |
AB 443 | Yee-D School food sales | |
AB 444 | Yee-D School food: nutrition guidelines | |
AB 455 | Goldberg-D Educational counseling: pupil plans: at-risk pupils | |
AB 468 | Yee-D Interagency responsibilities over handicapped children | |
AB 473 | Liu-D Community colleges: student fees | |
AB 476* | Baca-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: funding | |
AB 482 | Hancock-D Pupil assessment: English language learners | |
AB 490 | Parra-D Formal bids: notices | |
AB 491 | Goldberg-D Public schools | |
AB 494 | Montanez-D School facilities: replacement buildings | |
AB 506 | Montanez-D Teen dating violence: prevention and education | |
AB 507 | Daucher-R Criminal history checks: health studio child care providers | |
AB 523 | Negrete McLeod-D Private postsecondary institutions: instructors/standards | |
AB 529 | Goldberg-D California State University: employees | |
AB 532 | Levine-D Public contracts: schools: procurement | |
AB 539 | Daucher-R School facilities: new construction: modernization | |
AB 548* | Garcia-R Sales and use tax: exemptions: back-to-school products | |
AB 561 | Montanez-D Prison education | |
AB 564 | Karnette-D Basic instructional materials: review | |
AB 569 | Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: food service | |
AB 572 | Wolk-D Supplemental instruction: pupils recommended for retention | |
AB 589 | Emmerson-R Public postsecondary education: nonresident admissions | |
AB 607 | Goldberg-D Class size reduction | |
AB 617 | Benoit-R Child day care facilities: rating system | |
AB 633 | Benoit-R Child day care facilities: licensing | |
AB 656 | Hancock-D Pupil attendance: county school attendance review boards | |
AB 659* | Chan-D School districts: reserve for economic uncertainties | |
AB 670 | Goldberg-D School facilities: new construction: modernization | |
AB 680 | Chan-D English language learners | |
AB 682 | Karnette-D Professional development block grant: funding | |
AB 689 | Nava-D Nutrition and physical activity curriculum | |
AB 692 | Chan-D School facilities: charter schools | |
AB 693 | Goldberg-D Commission on Teacher Credentialing: study | |
AB 700 | Jerome Horton-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program | |
AB 702 | Koretz-D Nursing education | |
AB 705 | Nakanishi-R Public employees' retirement: school members | |
AB 706 | Parra-D California State University: improper governmental activity | |
AB 708 | Karnette-D California State University: whistleblower protection | |
AB 720 | Villines-R California State University: observance of Veterans Day | |
AB 723 | Chu-D Public school curriculum: tolerance instruction | |
AB 726 | Goldberg-D Adult instruction | |
AB 740* | Huff-R Charter schools: funding | |
AB 741 | Goldberg-D Courses of study: curriculum recommendations | |
AB 751 | Chu-D County superintendent of schools: employees | |
AB 756 | Goldberg-D Instructional materials: page limitation | |
AB 786 | Ruskin-D Identity theft: California State University employees | |
AB 788 | Montanez-D Family Child Career Ladder pilot project | |
AB 796 | Wolk-D Library districts | |
AB 827 | Goldberg-D Private postsecondary education: instruments of indebtedness | |
AB 828 | Cohn-D Public postsecondary education: tuition and fee waiver | |
AB 829 | Daucher-R Alternative dispute resolution: pilot program | |
AB 831* | Assembly Education Committee Education | |
AB 835 | Huff-R School districts: organization: governing board trustees | |
AB 840 | Arambula-D Private postsecondary education: accreditation | |
AB 846 | Liu-D Driver education: Internet: private secondary schools | |
AB 870* | Bermudez-D Public postsecondary education: limitations on tuition | |
AB 872 | Bogh-R School buses: school districts: reporting of driver incident | |
AB 882 | Nation-D Contracts with certified architects or structural engineers | |
AB 883 | Plescia-R Funding: pupils over the age of 19 | |
AB 897 | Coto-D Braille standards | |
AB 917 | Wyland-R The Career Technical Education Vision Council | |
AB 918 | Wyland-R Public postsecondary education: resident classification | |
AB 927 | Mullin-D State preschool programs | |
AB 933 | Emmerson-R Public postsecondary education: statewide student fee policy | |
AB 947* | Liu-D California Educational Facilities Authority | |
AB 949 | Coto-D Instructional time: alternative schools | |
AB 950 | Coto-D Teachers: English language learner project | |
AB 951 | Coto-D Bonds: interest accrued: deposit in general fund | |
AB 952 | Coto-D Surplus school property: use of proceeds | |
AB 953* | Coto-D Local educational agency intervention | |
AB 956 | Coto-D Joint powers regional occupational center | |
AB 961 | Assembly Higher Education Committee Postsecondary education: Golden State Scholarshare Trust | |
AB 967 | Canciamilla-D Concurrent enrollment: high school and community college | |
AB 973 | Jerome Horton-D Los Angeles Unified School District | |
AB 982 | Laird-D Community colleges: fees | |
AB 1032 | Jones-D Preschool teachers: professional learning | |
AB 1052 | Leslie-R Driver drug and alcohol testing | |
AB 1053 | Bogh-R Beaumont Unified School District: sale of land | |
AB 1057 | De La Torre-D Adult instruction | |
AB 1070 | Cogdill-R Community colleges: district instructional equipment: fees | |
AB 1071* | Chu-D Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program | |
AB 1072 | Liu-D California Commission on Higher Education | |
AB 1073 | Liu-D Average daily attendance: growth formula | |
AB 1076 | Jerome Horton-D Public education: Williams case settlement: implementation | |
AB 1077 | Chan-D Pupil health | |
AB 1088 | Oropeza-D Public postsecondary education: mandatory orientation | |
AB 1089 | Umberg-D Career technical programs | |
AB 1092* | Daucher-R Special education: conformity with law | |
AB 1095* | Mullin-D Child care: center-based programs: schedule: staff training | |
AB 1097 | Mullin-D School facilities: lease-leaseback contracts | |
AB 1100 | Mullin-D Content standards: review panels | |
AB 1107 | Berg-D Small school district transportation | |
AB 1110 | Parra-D School Transportation Block Grant | |
AB 1136* | Dymally-D Pupil retention block grants | |
AB 1137 | Dymally-D Community colleges: appointment of trustee | |
AB 1154 | La Suer-R School districts: excused absences: parental consent | |
AB 1171 | Haynes-R Revocation of charter: notice and appeal procedures | |
AB 1177* | Chan-D Smaller Learning Environment Grant Program | |
AB 1181 | Matthews-D Concept 6 program | |
AB 1191 | Benoit-R Transportation: equalization adjustment | |
AB 1196 | Coto-D Instructional programs: State Seal of Biliteracy | |
AB 1212 | Wyland-R California Local Education Accountability Reform Act | |
AB 1213 | Wyland-R Teacher identifier | |
AB 1214 | Wyland-R Instruction: science | |
AB 1215 | Wyland-R English language instruction | |
AB 1216 | Leslie-R Local agency investments: school districts | |
AB 1217 | Wyland-R Sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention education | |
AB 1218 | Wyland-R The William J. "Pete" Knight Memorial Act | |
AB 1219 | De La Torre-D Public education: school operations: school transportation | |
AB 1228 | Daucher-R Internet connectivity | |
AB 1241 | Matthews-D Student Aid Commission: reports from high schools | |
AB 1246 | Wolk-D Preschool learning standards | |
AB 1253 | Coto-D Pupils: graduation requirements | |
AB 1254 | Coto-D Preschool teachers: limited English proficiency | |
AB 1256 | Bermudez-D Vehicles: school bus drivers | |
AB 1260 | Hancock-D Pupils in out-of-home placement | |
AB 1261 | Leno-D Foster children: education | |
AB 1262* | Haynes-R Tax credit: Educational Assistance Organizations | |
AB 1270 | Gordon-D Modernization reimbursement | |
AB 1280 | Maze-R California Community College Baccalaureate Partnership | |
AB 1285 | Montanez-D Child care services | |
AB 1292 | Evans-D School facilities: air quality | |
AB 1297 | Evans-D Buildings: rehabilitation | |
AB 1300 | Arambula-D School facilities: modernization apportionments | |
AB 1303* | Daucher-R School finance: emergency apportionments and lease financing | |
AB 1306 | Liu-D School personnel | |
AB 1315 | Liu-D Community colleges: textbook supplemental grant | |
AB 1319 | Liu-D Adult education: community college districts | |
AB 1320 | Canciamilla-D Residency requirements: exceptions | |
AB 1350* | Cogdill-R Public postsecondary education: dual admissions program | |
AB 1358 | Mullin-D Acquisition of proposed school sites: notice | |
AB 1366 | Lieber-D Community colleges: fiscal accountability | |
AB 1377 | Dymally-D School attendance | |
AB 1385 | Laird-D School meals | |
AB 1392 | Umberg-D Free or reduced-price meals | |
AB 1394 | Sharon Runner-R Kindergarten entrance date | |
AB 1402 | Blakeslee-R Community colleges: property tax revenues | |
AB 1404 | Coto-D Teacher credentialing | |
AB 1409 | Baca-D Academic assessment | |
AB 1410 | Baca-D Regional Career Technical High School Pilot Program | |
AB 1416 | Goldberg-D Critically overcrowded schools: Concept 6 Program | |
AB 1417 | Daucher-R Special education: due process hearing | |
AB 1420 | Niello-R School districts: unification and funding | |
AB 1425 | Daucher-R Community colleges economic and workforce development | |
AB 1436* | Baca-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: military veterans | |
AB 1440 | Baca-D School communications networks | |
AB 1451* | Montanez-D School facilities | |
AB 1452 | Nunez-D Public postsecondary education: admissions policies | |
AB 1468 | McCarthy-R School and community college districts: classified employees | |
AB 1480 | Maze-R Agricultural education: California Community Colleges | |
AB 1482 | Canciamilla-D School district bonds | |
AB 1483 | Arambula-D Pupil testing: English language learners | |
AB 1490 | Canciamilla-D Teacher credentialing: waiver | |
AB 1492 | Evans-D Community college districts: property: sale or lease | |
AB 1496 | Goldberg-D High school attrition rates | |
AB 1503 | Mullin-D Declining enrollment: average daily attendance: adjustment | |
AB 1531 | Bass-D High school exit examination | |
AB 1532 | Bass-D Private postsecondary institution: complaints for damages | |
AB 1548 | Pavley-D Instructional materials: electronic format | |
AB 1565 | Pavley-D Child day care facilities: star quality rating system: study | |
AB 1569 | Cogdill-R Rural county unified school districts: funding | |
AB 1570 | Salinas-D Teacher credentialing: certificates | |
AB 1578 | Bermudez-D Transportation: East Whittier City School District | |
AB 1592 | Goldberg-D Increased Instructional Time for Improving Schools Program | |
AB 1601 | Laird-D Child care: provider registration: background checks | |
AB 1604 | Saldana-D Community colleges: annual Budget Act | |
AB 1608 | Liu-D Vocational education: requirements | |
AB 1609 | Liu-D Vocational education: requirements | |
AB 1610 | Wolk-D Charter schools | |
AB 1642 | Salinas-D School districts: reorganization | |
AB 1646* | Assembly Higher Education Committee Public postsecondary education: community colleges | |
AB 1655* | Jerome Horton-D Public postsecondary education: fees and tuition: waiver | |
AB 1662* | Lieber-D Special education: conformance to federal law | |
AB 1667 | Saldana-D Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs | |
AB 1680 | Daucher-R Kindergarten | |
AB 1685 | Klehs-D Education: animal slaughter | |
AB 1690 | Laird-D Municipal services: University of California | |
AB 1691 | Lieber-D Teachers: criminal records checks | |
AB 1695 | Goldberg-D Diagnostic reading test | |
AB 1697 | Pavley-D Day care centers licensure: location | |
AB 1721 | Pavley-D Environmental education | |
AB 1758* | Umberg-D High Priority Schools Grant Program | |
AB 1770* | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State Teachers' Retirement System: military service | |
AB 1772 | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee Classified school employees | |
ACA 21 | Daucher-R School districts: home rule compacts | |
ACR 6 | Koretz-D Financial literacy education | |
ACR 17 | Karnette-D Language education | |
ACR 22 | Dymally-D Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science | |
ACR 26 | Liu-D Arts Education Month | |
ACR 30 | McCarthy-R Civic mission of schools | |
ACR 34 | Liu-D Public higher education facilities: space planning | |
ACR 45 | Assembly Education Committee School Library Media Month | |
ACR 55 | Jerome Horton-D Day of the Teacher | |
ACR 56 | Chu-D California State University: campus budget accountability | |
ACR 57 | Salinas-D Automated external defibrillator programs | |
ACR 74 | Saldana-D Title IX: 33rd anniversary of its enactment | |
ACR 78 | Nava-D Digital arts: training and promotion | |
AJR 22 | Bass-D School records | |
AJR 26 | Chu-D Federal TRIO programs: Upward Bound and Talent Search | |
ACA 2X | Daucher-R School districts: annual financial reports |