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School Finance
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 362 (Torlakson-D) Physical education
Establishes new programs and revises monitoring procedures and instructional requirements for physical education in California schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 638* (Torlakson-D) Before and after school programs
Makes substantive policy and fiscal changes to the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, and the After School Education and Safety Program. Changes program funding from a reimbursement program to a direct grant program, increases grant levels, establishes new priorities associated with academic improvement, and makes numerous related changes for the purpose of implementing Proposition 49 from 2002.
Chapter 380, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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 (revenue limit funding) on a two- or three-year running average of average daily attendance in order to better mitigate declining enrollment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1011* (Florez-D) California State Lottery: multistate lottery
Authorizes the California State Lottery Commission to enter into a multistate lottery agreement. Requires that at least 50 percent of multistate lottery revenues be allocated to the public in the form of prizes, at least 42 percent must benefit public education and no more than eight percent is to be allocated for lottery expenses. Gives a player one year to claim jackpot money.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1131* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education funding
Corrects technical errors and makes clarifying changes to the education Budget trailer bill.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2006
SB 1133 (Torlakson-D) School and community college districts: minimum funding
Establishes the Quality Education Investment Act for the purposes of implementing the terms of the California Teachers Association, et.al. v. Schwarzenegger, et.al. settlement. Discharges the outstanding balance of the maintenance factor resulting from SB 1101 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 213, Statutes of 2004, which suspended the state's obligation to meet the constitutionally-required minimum funding level for schools, for fiscal years 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2006
SB 1302* (Ashburn-R) Before and after school programs: funding
Makes changes to the After School Education and Safety Program for the implementation of Proposition 49 (2002) which adds $426 million annually, changes the program funding from a reimbursement to a direct grant, increases grant levels, establishes new priorities associated with academic improvement, and makes numerous related changes.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1357 (Dutton-R) Equalization of school funding per pupil
Requires the per pupil expenditures for each school district be annually calculated and state funds allocated to districts to increase each district's funding up to average per pupil spending, drawing from the state General Fund by continuous appropriation.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1358* (Simitian-D) School finance: revenue limits
Establishes a statutory formula to make equalizing adjustments to school district revenue limits with a goal of raising per pupil revenue limits to a fixed point at which 90 percent of all pupils would be attending school districts with revenues that are equal to other districts of the same size and type.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1367 (Ducheny-D) Coachella Valley Unified School District: funding
Authorizes one elementary school and one high school in the Coachella Valley Unified School District to continue to receive necessary small school funding without regard to the overall size of the district, and provides that the average daily attendance of each school remains less than 287. Recasts and clarifies provisions of existing law governing eligibility for necessary small school funding.
Chapter 250, Statutes of 2006
SB 1415 (Scott-D) Surplus school property: use of proceeds
Prohibits the use of proceeds from the sale or lease with option to purchase of school district property for ongoing expenditures, including, but not limited to, salaries and other general operating expenses. Authorizes the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to further define the specified costs. Increases from five to ten years the time period for which the district must demonstrate that it has no anticipated need for additional sites on building construction.
Chapter 810, Statutes of 2006
SB 1488 (Hollingsworth-R) Surplus school property: use of proceeds
Extends, until January 1, 2010, the authority of the Santee Elementary School District, the Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District, and the Capistrano Unified School District to sell surplus real property and related personal property and deposit the net proceeds into the local general fund to use for any one-time general fund purpose.
Chapter 661, Statutes of 2006
SB 1514 (Maldonado-R) School finance: retirement benefit liabilities
Re-establishes, beginning January 1, 2007, a requirement that if a school district provides health benefits for employees upon their retirement, the superintendent of the district shall annually report to the governing board of the school district regarding the estimated accrued but unfunded costs. Applies to county offices of education as well.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1588 (Dutton-R) School finance: equalization adjustments
Requires that a revenue limit equalization adjustment calculated by county superintendents of schools for the 2006-07 fiscal year be equal to, or greater than, an adjustment that was calculated for 1996-97. Makes an unspecified appropriation from the General Fund for that adjustment.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1674* (Murray-D) Public schools: meal reimbursement
Increases the reimbursement rate for free and reduced-price school meals from 14 cents to 21 cents, subject to specified criteria.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1680 (Perata-D) School finance: attendance and enrollment
Replaces average daily attendance, as it is used to compute school district revenue limits with average monthly enrollment, beginning in 2007-08. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make specified conforming adjustments to the revenue limit of each school district.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1717 (Perata-D) School finance: revenue limits: unified districts
Authorizes the recalculation of a unified school district's revenue limit using the statewide average revenue limits per pupil for elementary school districts and high school districts, respectively, for the applicable grade spans.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1774* (Torlakson-D) Before and after school programs: appropriations
Makes changes to the manner in which appropriations are made for the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SCA 12 (Torlakson-D) Before and after school programs: funding
Delays funding for the After School Safety and Education Program that was added to the Constitution by Proposition 49, until specified fiscal conditions have been met.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SJR 34 (Ortiz-D) School Medicaid services
Expresses the opposition of the Legislature to proposed reductions of federal Medicaid reimbursements to states for school health-related services. Directs the Senate and Assembly to inform certain congressional committees of the importance of these federal Medicaid reimbursements. Requests the Governor and Legislature to encourage various organizations to advocate for the protection of these health program funds.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 307 (Chavez-D) Education technology: grants: requirements
Specifies that schools' required technology plans shall include a component to educate pupils and teachers on ethical behavior in the use of information technology, the concept, purpose and significance of a copyright, and the implications of illegal peer-to-peer network file sharing.
Chapter 313, Statutes of 2006
AB 622 (Negrete McLeod-D) School meals: reimbursement
Makes changes, beginning January 1, 2007, to school meal reimbursement rates, including increasing the reimbursement rate a school receives for free and reduced price lunches (currently $0.14) to $0.2061, and provides a $0.2061 reimbursement rate for full price meals (currently no reimbursement is provided).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 958 (De La Torre-D) School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling
Requires, commencing with the 2011-12 school year, that no more than 50 percent of the schools operated by a district on a multitrack year-round scheduling program may be schools eligible to receive federal Title 1 funding. Makes an exception to this requirement for a school district in which 85 percent or more of the schools are eligible to receive Title 1 funding. Authorizes various alternatives for complying with this requirement.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
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 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1177 (Chan-D) Personal income tax: rates: education finance
Raises the top personal income tax rates to 10 percent and 11 percent and the alternative minimum tax to 8.5 percent. Appropriates funds raised by the bill to the State School Fund and to the California Community Colleges to reimburse districts for specified state-mandated costs.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1482 (Canciamilla-D) School district bonds
Requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to approve by resolution, at a public meeting as an agenda item, the method of sale and other related information when a district intends to issue bonds. Requires the board, after the sale of the bonds, to disclose actual cost-of-sale information at a public meeting, and to submit other information and reports requires by the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission regarding the sale of planned sale of bonds.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Failed passage 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1758* (Umberg-D) High Priority Schools Grant Program
Establishes exit criteria for the High Priority School Grant Program and sets funding rates for school assistance and interventions teams.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2006
AB 1782 (Mullin-D) Multistate lottery: distribution of revenues
Amends an initiative on the November 7, 2006 ballot to revise the distribution of lottery revenues. Caps the lottery revenues distributed for instructional materials. Provides that current recipients continue to receive at least funding received in 2004-05. Distributes revenues allocated to K-12 education on a weighted per pupil formula.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1786 (Bermudez-D) Home-to-school transportation
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon identification of appropriate resources, to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas and determine how current formulas should be modified to allow school districts and county offices of education to initiate new transportation programs and receive funding on an equitable basis.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education: budget trailer bill
Makes changes to a variety of education-related statutes in order to effectuate the changes included as part of the proposed 2006-07 Budget Act. Contains statutory changes necessary to implement the K-12 portion of the 2006 Budget.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Education funding: budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006, which among other provisions, makes significant changes to the ongoing Proposition 98 spending plan by increasing funds for Economic Impact Aid, for Arts and Music block grants, for school counselors in grades 7-12, for physical education grants, and for a new preschool program. Eliminates $75 million for special education equalization and $133 million for ongoing K-12 mandate costs.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 1874 (Daucher-R) Categorical Education Block Grant Consolidation
Establishes the Categorical Education Block Grant Consolidation Program and requires participating schools to receive all state categorical education funding as one block grant, with no restrictions on the use of that funding.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1895 (Coto-D) Surplus school property: use of proceeds
Authorizes the Oak Grove Elementary School District, until January 1, 2010, and under specified conditions, to deposit proceeds from the sale of surplus real property into the general fund of the school district and to use the proceeds for any one-time general fund purpose.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2006
AB 1967 (Assembly Education Committee) Education
Corrects technical errors and oversight, and makes workable various provisions of the Education Code. Contains the annual education clean-up bill that makes various non-controversial revisions to statute.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2006
AB 2007* (Nava-D) Montecito Union Elementary School District
Declares that the average daily attendance of the Montecito Union Elementary School District for the 2003-04 school year is 95.51 percent of that district's October 2003 headcount enrollment.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2006
AB 2020 (Cogdill-R) Rural unified school districts: funding
Requires the county superintendent of schools to calculate an increase to the revenue limit funding for a unified school district with a comprehensive high school that meets specified criteria.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2070* (Daucher-R) School finance: revenue limits
Establishes, for 2006-07, an equalization adjustment for school district base revenue limits 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2150 (McCarthy-R) Preschool: California Ready to Start Program: funding
Deletes certain provisions established under Proposition 10 that allocate funds from the California Children and Families First Trust Fund to the California Children and Families Commission for specified mass media communications and the administrative functions of the commission and, instead, would require those funds to be deposited in the California Ready to Start Program Fund and be available, upon appropriation, for expenditure for the purposes of the California Ready to Start Program.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2153 (Liu-D) Adult education
Allows school districts to earn more than five percent of adult education funding through distance learning, as defined.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2222 (Nunez-D) Education finance: professional development block grant
Requires, for the professional development block grant, the current adjustment for inflation and growth to be made for each fiscal year thereafter.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2531 (Mullin-D) Education finance
Establishes a method to apportion general-purpose funding to each school district based on a revised base revenue per pupil and weighted average daily attendance within three grade-span ranges. Conforms charter school grade-span based funding to the provisions of the bill.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2532 (Karnette-D) Adult education: funding
Requires that, as of 2006-07, school districts with adult education must allow continuously enrolled high school students to participate in adult education in order to pass the High School Exit Exam and earn a high school diploma. Allows districts to claim adult education funding for these students without regard to the "cap" on adult average daily attendance that may be claimed for state funding.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2577 (Wolk-D) Property tax revenue allocations
Establishes an 11 percent floor for property tax allocations to county governments by transferring property tax revenues from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county that received less than this minimum in fiscal year 2001-02 and has at least 60 percent of its land in Williamson Act contracts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2797 (Strickland-R) School districts: fiscal penalties and fines
Authorizes a school district that has violated a statute or regulation, except one relating to the reporting of average daily attendance, to have the fine or penalty for that violation waived, with the understanding that upon a subsequent violation of the same statute or regulation the school district will forfeit, for two years, the adoption and management of its budget.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2846 (Daucher-R) Local educational agencies: mandated programs
Establishes new procedures for the reimbursement of state mandates to local educational agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2859 (Arambula-D) Local educational agencies: administration
Transfer authority for low-performing school districts form the state to the county offices of education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2881* (Mullin-D) State preschool programs
Consolidates and renames the current State Preschool Program as the Part-Day Preschool Program and statutorily establishes the Full-Day Preschool Program. Adds requirements to resource and referral agencies, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct a review of unearned child care and development funds.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3036 (Jones-D) Small schools: grant program
Establishes the Small Schools Planning and Implementation Grant program to provide school districts with one-year planning grants to research and develop implementation plans for the establishment of new small schools (schools with an enrollment of less than 500 pupils) and two-year implementation grants.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School Facilities
SB 69* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education facilities bond acts: 2006 and 2008
Authorizes the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Acts of 2006 and 2008. Specifies procedures for the expenditure of funds.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 86 (Romero-D) School facilities
Provides that each school on a multitrack year-round enrollment calendar that has a density of 200 of more pupils enrolled per acre that is located in a school district with 30 percent of its pupils attending multitrack year-round schools shall be exempted from the increase in school building capacity required by the Education Code (Section 17071.35)
(Died in Senate Rules 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 813 (Denham-R) School facilities
Modifies provisions of law pertaining to the multitrack year-round schools program in order to increase eligibility for school construction funds.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1203 (Morrow-R) School facilities: portable classrooms
Excludes from the calculation of existing school building capacity, for the purposes of determining new construction funding eligibility, portables acquired through the State Relocatable Classroom Program, and some portable owned by a district that are 30 years or older, if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1279 (Alquist-D) School facilities: seismic safety: survey
Requires the Department of General Services, in consultation with the California Seismic Safety Commission, to conduct an inventory of public school buildings that do not meet pupil safety performance standards, as specified. Requires the safety commission to provide the information to school districts and post the data on its web site.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1324 (Lowenthal-D) School buildings: relocatable buildings
Extends, from September 2007 to September 2015, the sunset on the use of Department of Housing and Community Development approved portable by K-12 school districts.
Chapter 308, Statutes of 2006
SB 1456 (Lowenthal-D) School facilities: best value contracting
Authorizes a school district to let a contract for a public school construction, rehabilitation, or modernization project pursuant to a "best value" bid valuation process established by the school district governing board, if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1585 (Margett-R) State Allocation Board: executive officer
Requires the Executive Officer of the State Allocation Board, rather that the Director of General Services, to administer the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998. Establishes the Office of School Construction under the direction and supervision of the Executive Officer of the State Allocation Board (it is now within the Department of General Services)
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1677 (Torlakson-D) School facilities: joint-use facilities
Expands the types of projects and local contributions that are allowed in order to be eligible for School Facility Joint-Use Program funding.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 127* (Nunez-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
Authorizes the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 for the November 7, 2006 election (in the amount of $10,416 billion) and specifies procedures for the expenditure of funds. This bill is part of the infrastructure bond package.
Chapter 35, Statutes of 2006
Similar legislation included: SB 69 (Perata-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee, SB 1164 (Runner-R) which died in Senate Education Committee, and AB 58 (Nunez-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 162 (Leslie-R) School facilities: Department of General Services
Establishes a voluntary alternative collaborative design plan review and approval process for the construction of community college and kindergarten and grades K-12 school facilities.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 416 (Plescia-R) School facilities: religious services
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.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 607 (Goldberg-D) School Facilities Emergency Repair Account
Makes a number of changes related to the implementation of the William v. State of California settlement agreement. Authorizes the State Allocation Board to approve a five-year repayment plan for any district that must refund the state for school facilities funds they had previously received.
Chapter 704, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1451 (Goldberg-D) School facilities: ongoing eligibility
Increases, until January 1, 2008, new construction eligibility for school districts that use Small High School modernization funding to reconfigure a high school. Revises the loading formula used to calculate new construction eligibility by subtracting the students equal to one classroom (27) for each small high school form the district's overall eligibility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the education portion of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, allows the State Allocation Board to transfer unused funds from the ianctive Migrant Housing Program to state school facility programs.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1846 (Berg-D) School construction: minimum essential facilities
Establishes the Minimum Essential School Facilities program, administered by the State Allocation Board, and requires the board to allocate no more than $100 million from the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1934 (Hancock-D) School facilities: seismic safety upgrades
Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations that establish a seismic safety upgrade program for school facilities, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2045 (Parra-D) School facilities: funding
Authorizes the State Allocation Board to approve a supplemental apportionment up to five percent of the cost of a school construction project in order to ensure all minimum essential facilities are included in the project.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2148 (McCarthy-R) School facilities: supplemental funding: project management
Authorizes a school district to request supplemental funding assistance, not to exceed five percent of the total state grant and required local contribution, from the State Allocation Board, to manage construction and modernization projects funded through the School Facilities Program and approved by the board after January 1, 2007.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2149 (McCarthy-R) School facilities: modernization: supplemental grant
Requires the State Allocation Board, in consultation with the Department of Education, to supplement the per-unhoused pupil state funding grant for modernization by calculating a separate grant amount for complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2221 (Vargas-D) Schoolsite acquisition: requirements
Adds the State Allocation Board to the list of entities that must receive written notice from a local school district governing board of the proposed acquisition or lease of a schoolsite, if it is located within two miles of an airport, or two miles of a facility conducting research or testing of any federal Department of Defense weapons.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2410* (Sharon Runner-R) Vasquez High School multipurpose structure
Requires the State Architect to conduct and complete a study by August 30, 2006, to determine whether a specified structure at Vasquez High School in the Acton-Agua Dulce School District meets Field Act requirements.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2419 (Wyland-R) Career technical education facilities
Requires, in conjunction with an application for school facilities funding and as a condition of a district receiving funds, the career technical education advisory committee for the district to provide written confirmation that the need for vocational and career technical facilities is being adequately met with the district.
Chapter 778, Statutes of 2006
AB 2740 (La Malfa-R) School facilities: usage on Veterans Day
Permits veterans' organizations to have preference over other groups to conduct assemblies for educational purposes on school facilities or grounds on Veterans Day.
Chapter 205, Statutes of 2006
AB 2783 (Umberg-D) School facilities: existing school building capacity
Allows a school district operating a multitrack year-round education double-session school, as of July 1, 2006, to subtract from its building capacity up to 30 percent of the existing building capacity of the school in order to calculate eligibility for new construction if the school district uses the new construction to eliminate the multitrack calendar at that school.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2826 (Ruskin-D) School facilities: site contamination
Revises the exemption to minor school facilities projects on the requirements to conduct environment assessments.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2834 (Sharon Runner-R) Facilities: Phase I environmental assessment
Authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt final regulations that establish guidelines for a Phase 1 environmental assessment in lieu of a Preliminary Endangerment Assessment and authorizes the use of these guidelines if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2947 (Goldberg-D) Transfer of special education programs
Requires the recalculation of school building capacity and enrollment projection, which determine eligibility for state school facilities funds, upon the transfer of a special education program between a school district, county office of education, or special education local plan area.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2006
AB 2999 (Leno-D) Public Works: labor compliance programs
Adds the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 as a source of funds for a public works project, as specified.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
Bilingual Education
SB 368 (Escutia-D) English language tutoring
Requires school districts, as a condition of receiving funding for the Community Based English Tutoring program, to develop a plan to be approved and revised by the governing board of a district certifying that specified objectives are met.
Chapter 632, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was SB 782 (Escutia-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 1292 (Scott-D) Teachers: limited-English-proficient pupils
Enables individuals holding a designated subject credentials or services credential with a special class authorization to obtain an authorization to teach English learners by completing professional development in methods of specifically designed content instruction to teach English to limited English-proficient students.
Chapter 752, Statutes of 2006
SB 1567 (Soto-D) English language education: teacher coaching program
Establishes the English Language Learner Teacher Coaching Program to provide English language learner coaches to assist groups of teachers, teaching paraprofessionals, and students.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1580 (Ducheny-D) Pupil assessment: English language learners
Amends, commencing in 2007-08, the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program provisions which apply to English language learners, by requiring that an English language learner who is either literate in his/her primary language or receive instruction in his/her primary language take standards-aligned test in the primary language, as soon as such tests are available.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 680 (Chan-D) English language learners
Requires the Department of Education to monitor adherence to requirements in current law regarding the provision of notices, reports, statements, or records in the primary language for public schools with 15 percent or more students who speak a single primary language other than English and requires the department to notify school districts, as specified.
Chapter 706, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Failed passage 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the education portion of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, provides for $30 million for supplemental instructional materials designed to assist K-12 students who are English learners, and $20 million for a multi-year research pilot program to identify best practices for improving the academic achievement and English language development of students who are English learners.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1988 (Coto-D) English language learners: program development
Implements various new programs and requirements regarding English language learners.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2117 (Coto-D) English language learners: pilot project
Establishes the English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program, a three-year competitive grant pilot program to identify existing best practices regarding curriculum, instruction, and staff development for English language learner instruction.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2006
Charter Schools
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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 604 (Aanestad-R) Charter schools: funding
Authorizes a charter school in its second or later year of operation to receive an advanced apportionment of revenue limit funding based on an estimate of the average daily attendance for the new grade level.
Chapter 139, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1131* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education budget trailer bill
A clean-up trailer bill to AB 1802 (Assembly Budget Committee) which implemented the education portions of the 2006 State Budget. Among other provisions, classifying that charter schools can get school site block grants even if they do not have a County-District-School code by July 1, 2006, and specifies a methodology for the Department of Education to estimate the number of low-income students in charter schools, in order to ensure that they receive their appropriate share of Economic Impact Aid funding.
Chapter 371, Statutes of 2006
SB 1170 (Alquist-D) Charter schools: funding
Provides that a charter school serving at-risk students and operating under a charter approved by the Santa Clara County Board of Education to serve at-risk youth shall receive revenue limit and supplemental funding as if it was a community day school operated by the county office of education or by a school district in the county.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1446 (Perata-D) Charter schools: funding
Authorizes school districts to adjust declining enrollment credit by subtracting the attendance of students returning from district sponsored charter schools.
Chapter 653, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the education part of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, provides $10 million for a new cohort of Healthy Start grants to school districts and charter schools for start-up comprehensive health programs on or near school sites, $9 million to continue funding the Charter School Facilities Grant Program, and $3 million in grants for school districts, county offices of education and charter schools for start-up of school breakfast programs.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 2009 (Wolk-D) Charter schools: high school graduation requirements
Requires a charter school that elects to provide a course of instruction to high school pupils that does not meet the minimum requirements for a diploma of graduation from high school to provide a specified written notice to parents.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2030 (Haynes-R) Charter schools: revocation
Requires that a school district, county office of education or the state Board of Education, provide advance notice, hold public hearings and document its reasons, as specified, prior to revoking the charter of a charter school that the agency has granted, and further provides for appeal of any revocation decision.
Chapter 757, Statutes of 2006
AB 2047 (Huff-R) Charter schools: facilities: grants
Deletes current law stating the Legislature's intent to appropriate $10 million annually for the Charter School Facility Grant Program for the 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2003-04 fiscal years and instead requires this program to be funded at the level appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2323 (Huff-R) Charter schools: facilities
Expands eligibility of the Charter School Facilities Grant Program by allowing a charter school to receive funding if 50 percent or more (but less than 70 percent) of its enrollment is eligible for free/reduced price meals if all charter schools that meet current eligibility criterion (related to location of the schoolsite and pupil enrollment) are funded first.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2717 (Walters-R) Charter school finance
Allows the California School Finance Authority to provide tax-exempt, low cost financing to charter schools for use in the construction, repair or lease of school facilities.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2006
AB 2954 (Liu-D) School districts: charter school petitions
Adds negative fiscal impact to the reasons that a school district may cite as the basis for refusing to initially approve a charter school, but prohibits this as a basis to deny renewal of a charter. Allows a school district to require that a charter school describe how it will provide free and reduced price meals to eligible pupils as a condition for initial charter approval.
Vetoed by the Governor
School Safety
SB 151 (Soto-D) Vehicles: school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program
Extends an existing school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program to January 1, 2008 and applies its provisions to San Bernardino County.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 949 (Machado-D) Education: school safety
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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 103 (Cohn-D) Pupil safety: disaster preparedness
Requires the Department of Education to electronically distribute disaster preparedness educational materials to school districts and county offices of education in at least the three most dominant primary languages spoken by English learners in California.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 606 (Levine-D) Safe schools: discrimination and harassment
Establishes the Safe Place to Learn Act to ensure that all school districts and schools work to reduce discrimination, harassment, and violence based on specified characteristics including, but not limited to, actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation. Requires the Department of Education to develop a model antidiscrimination and antiharassment policy and to post it on its web site.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2537 (Montanez-D) Weapons: school prohibition
Extends the current alternate felony-misdemeanor ("wobbler") against bringing onto school grounds and instrument that expels a metallic projectile to include any instrument that expels a nonmetallic BB or pellet.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2566 (Daucher-R) School safety: persistently dangerous schools
Requires schools to report information on the school accountability report card regarding the number of incidents of specified types of criminal violations that occurred at schools that have been identified as "persistently dangerous."
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2865 (Torrico-D) School safety
Requires that private day-care facilities comply with the current record-keeping and notification requirements applied to public day-care facilities with specified exceptions relative to the use of pesticides.
Chapter 865, Statutes of 2006
AB 2940 (Huff-R) School police officers: ongoing training costs
Requires a school district to bear the costs of the ongoing training of school security or police required by the school district.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
Child and Day Care
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.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 697 (Soto-D) Child care: provider organization: representation
Authorizes family child care providers to form, join, and participate in, provider organizations for purposes of negotiating with agencies on specified matters.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1195 (Alquist-D) Child care: regional market rates
Directs the Department of Education annually to adjust the income eligibility ceiling for families and to adjust the maximum payment for child care in order to reflect changes in the consumer price index.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1421 (Margett-R) Child care: CalWORKs recipients: fraud
Requires the Department of Education to establish a two year pilot project in Los Angeles County to investigate possible incidents of fraud in welfare-related child care.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1600 (Kuehl-D) Child care
Makes several significant changes to the child care system including new COLA adjustments, increased standard reimbursement rates. Authorizes family child care providers to elect organized reorientation. Establishes a program to link enhanced reimbursements to child care quality criteria. Changes to the base reimbursement rate starting in 2012, enhanced reimbursements for providers meeting quality indicators. Convenes a task force.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1750* (Vincent-D) Child development centers: funding and auditing
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt accounting rules, regulations, and guidelines for child care development centers and agencies that contract with the Department of Education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 122 (Spitzer-R) Family day care
Requires family day care providers to submit insurance-related affidavits to the Department of Social Services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 172 (Chan-D) Child care: state preschool programs
Appropriates $50 million identified in the current year Budget Act and $5 million of unexpended funds from the 2005-06 Budget Act to be appropriated for preschool programs. Implements the Governor's $50 million preschool program.
Chapter 211, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 633 (Benoit-R) Child day care facilities: licensing
Requires every child day care facility licensed by the Department of Social Services to post not only a public copy of any licensing report, but also any other public licensing documentation regarding investigations, conferences or intent to revoke the facility's license.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2006
AB 788 (Montanez-D) Family Child Career Ladder pilot project
Creates a pilot project administered by the Department of Education to provide continuing training and education for family day care providers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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 Department of Education to provide training for teachers and classroom aides.
(Died 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 Department of Education for the provision of center-based child care to schedule up to two days of staff training using state reimbursement funding.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1137 (Dymally-D) Child care centers: asthma and anaphylactic emergencies
Expands and modifies the authorization for a school nurse or trained school personnel, as specified, to administer prescription medication in an emergency situation to include albutrol (for asthma). Applies to K-12 public schools and licensed child care centers.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 1282* (Mullin-D) Income taxes: credits: child care
Extends the availability of the Employer Child Care Program Credit and the Employer Child Care Contribution Credit to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2012.
Chapter 712, Statutes of 2006
AB 1601 (Laird-D) Child care: provider registration: background checks
Eliminates the exemption from background check requirements for aunts and uncles providing license-exempt child care and establishes conditions relating to background check clearances which must be met for license-exempt providers to be paid through a public subsidy program.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the Education portion of the Budget Act of 2006, which among other provisions, provides $50 million to the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund for renovation of existing facilities or purchase of new relocatable child care facilities.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Child care: 2006 State Budget
Implements the 2006 Human Services Budget trailer bill, which among other provisions, creates a statutory process for setting and verifying subsidized child care provider rates, keeps the 2005 child care family fee, and requires the Department of Education to adjust the Child Care Regional Market Rate at the county level based upon the most recent regional market rate survey data.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 2196 (Spitzer-R) Child day care: information: registered sex offenders
Requires child care facilities to give parents information regarding Internet-based state web sites with information about registered sex offenders.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2006
AB 2403 (DeVore-R) Large family day care homes: permits
Requires a local government to provide an applicant for a conditional use permit for a large family day care home with a written fee verification, and also to provide a list of required permits and fees to applicants for specified permits for these homes.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2006
AB 2608 (Assembly Human Services Committee) Child care: eligibility: termination of services
Permits the transfer of child care benefits for children in foster care who are placed with a new foster parent.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Special Education
SB 517* (Romero-D) High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities
Exempts pupils with disabilities, until December 31, 2006, from the requirement of passing the California High School Exit Examination as a condition of receiving a high school diploma, if they meet certain criteria.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2006
SB 605 (Machado-D) Special education: alternative dispute resolution
Requires the Department of Education to administer a grant program for alternative dispute resolution to resolve special education disputes.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1275 (Scott-D) Special education local plan areas: placements
Deletes a provision of existing law that excludes from reimbursement to special education local plan areas, the cost of specified single placements of pupils in nonpublic, nonsectarian schools who reside in licensed children's institutions and certain other facilitates. Changes the date claims are to be submitted.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1327 (Soto-D) Compulsory education law: individuals with exceptional needs
Expands school and school district attendance reporting requirements to include all students with exceptional needs, as defined, who are required to, but no longer, attend school.
Chapter 59, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the education portion of the 2006 State Budget which among other provision, continues authorization of the special disabilities adjustment and makes statutory changes to allow school districts to access funds with the extraordinary cost pool for students with disabilities residing in foster care placements.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Education budget trailer bill
Among other provisions, eliminates $75 million for special education equalization.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 2513 (Pavley-D) Pupils: autism: training and information
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with input from a specified advisory committee to develop recommendations identifying the means by which public and nonpublic schools can better serve pupils with autism and their parents.
Chapter 783, Statutes of 2006
AB 2514 (Sharon Runner-R) Special education: procedural safeguards
Prohibits attorneys' fees from being awarded for any meeting of an individualized education program team, except as specified. Prohibits a party to a due process hearing from refusing to enter into a settlement agreement or conditioning a settlement offer on the receipt of reimbursement of attorneys' fees from another party to that hearing.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2565 (Evans-D) Special education: funding for mediation services
Appropriates $3.5 million from the General Fund to the Department of Education for the 2005-06 fiscal year to provide funding for an agreement to contract with another state agency (currently the Office of Administrative Hearings within the Department of General Services) to conduct special education mediation conferences and due process hearings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2871 (Huff-R) Pupil records: inspection and reproduction
Changes from five calendar days to five business days the timeframe provided for a parent to receive requested copies of the child's school records. Makes other minor changes to conform state law to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2006
AB 2966 (Sharon Runner-R) Individuals with exceptional needs: cameras
Allows school districts that have under their jurisdiction an individual with exceptional needs, who is not capable of reporting abusive behavior, to install in each classroom in which that pupil attends classes, a fully functional and operating video camera.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
School Accountability and Testing
SB 267* (Romero-D) California High School Exit Examination
Extends, until December 31, 2007, current provisions exempting pupils with disabilities from the requirement of passing the California High School Exit Examination as a condition of receiving a high school diploma, if specified criteria are met.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2006
SB 517* (Romero-D) High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities
Establishes a procedure for certain students with disabilities in the class of 2006 to be excused from the requirement of passing the California High School Exit Examination as a condition of receiving a high school diploma. Implements the settlement agreement in the case of Chapman v. California Department of Education, et al.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2006
SB 1221 (Alquist-D) California High School Exit Examination
Requires unified and high school district to annually report to the Department of Education, for grades 10-12, the percentage of students passing the California High School Exit Exam and the percentage failing, aggregated by grade level, high school, ethnicity, and English language learner status.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1284 (Scott-D) School performance
Updates and makes technical correcting amendments to statutes that establish the Academic Performance Index
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1302* (Ashburn-R) Before and after school programs: funding
Makes changes to the After School Education and Safety Program for the implementation of Proposition 49 (2002) which changes the program funding from a reimbursement to a direct grant, increases grant levels, establishes new priorities associated with academic improvement, and provides additional funding for the program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1306 (Poochigian-R) Standardized Testing and Reporting Program: reports
Requires that the report of a pupil's Standardized Testing and Reporting test scores to parents include the grade level of the pupil's performance.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1442 (Escutia-D) Schools: examination fees
Expands an existing program which awards grants to cover the costs of advance placement exam fees to include the costs of International Baccalaureate exam fees. Extends the sunset date of the program from January 1, 2008, to January 1, 2013.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2006
SB 1510 (Alquist-D) School accountability: report card
Repeals specified items from the list of information that schools are required to include on the School Accountability Report Card.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1580 (Ducheny-D) Pupil assessment: English language learners
Amends, commencing in 2007-08, the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program provisions which apply to English language learners, by requiring that an English language learner who is either literate in his/her primary language or receives instruction in his/her primary language take standards aligned tests in the primary language, as soon as such tests are available.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1592 (Romero-D) Pupils: high school exit examination
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to report by June 30, 2007 specified information on pupils who do not graduate due to a failure to pass the high school exit exam. Requires the information to be aggregated by ethnicity, English language learner status, and other information.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 2006
SB 1644 (Escutia-D) Pupils: school accountability
Adds the availability of the International Baccalaureate Program to the list of items that must be annually reported to the public on the School Accountability Report Card.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 756 (Goldberg-D) Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program
Establishes the Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program as a 10-year pilot program to provide additional flexibility and accountability for the uses of existing resources at the school site in participating elementary, junior high and high school students.
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1483 (Arambula-D) Pupil testing: English language learners
Deletes existing restrictions on the assessment of the English reading and writing skills of K-1 pupils whose primary language is other than English, and requires the development and implementation of English language development tests to assess pupils in Kindergarten and Grade 1 in early literacy skills until July 1, 2012. Requires the Department of Education to report to the Legislature, as specified, to determine whether reauthorization of the assessment is appropriate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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 identified for program improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and that maintains K-12 to provide an additional 20 days of instructional time for that school (over and above the required 180 days).
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the education portion of the 2006 Budget which, among other provisions, provides $11.5 million for local education agencies to prepare for transition to the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System in 2008.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1837* (Daucher-R) Accountability report card: template: review
Requires the Department of Education to recommend to the State Board of Education for adoption, additional this standardized template for revisions to the standardized template for the School Accountability Report Card.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2040* (Chu-D) Exit examination: summer and Saturday administration
Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing in the current school year, to include summer and Saturday administrations of the high school exit examination.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2117 (Coto-D) English language learners: pilot project
Establishes the English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program, a three-year competitive grant pilot project of identify existing best practice regarding curriculum, instruction, and staff development for English learner instruction.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2006
AB 2167 (Arambula-D) Pupil achievement
Requires the Department of Education to use graduation rate data in calculating the Academic Performance Index, changes funding requirements for the California longitudinal pupil achievement data system, and requires the department to allocate funding to local education agencies to carry out required activities related to the longitudinal data system and graduation rate reporting.
Chapter 743, Statutes of 2006
AB 2180 (Garcia-R) California High School Exit Examination
Authorizes a school district, beginning with the 2008-09 school year, to offer the California High School Exit Examination to a pupil in the ninth grade, if the pupil has completed the necessary curricular studies needed to pass the exam.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2255 (De La Torre-D) High school exit examination: administration
Requires the California High School Exit Examination to be offered to students enrolled in an adult education program who have not year passed the exam and have not receive a diploma of gradation from high school. Requires that at least one administration of the exam per school year occur on a Saturday, beginning with the 2007-08 school year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2417 (Wyland-R) High school exit examination: adult education programs
Authorizes adult education programs to assist high school pupils eligible for adult education services and those not currently enrolled in high school who have completed all the requirements for high school graduation (other than passing the California High School Exit Examination) in preparing for the exam.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2594 (Nunez-D) Public school accountability
Establishes a school accountability system that combines existing state programs to assist and sanction law performing schools and conforms the state effort to federal requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2656 (Arambula-D) Underperforming school districts: academic team
Establishes the Academic Crisis and Management Assistance Team to provide academic management assistance to any school district in need of improvement or subject to corrective action, as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2937 (Pavley-D) Pupils: high school exit examination
Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to conduct a study to determine which of the California Standard Tests (CSTs), or which combination of those tests, is equivalent to the English language arts and mathematics portion of the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE). Requires SDE to determine the performance level on the test or tests that is equivalent to a passing score on the pertinent portion of the CAHSEE, and to report its findings to the Legislature as to whether any of these tests is equivalent to the CAHSEE and whether a student who achieves an equivalent passing score on the identified CST should be deemed to have passed that portion of the CAHSEE.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2975 (Hancock-D) Public schools: state and federal accountability
Requires that the definition of proficient for the purposes of calculating Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Act be set at the level needed to pass the California High School Exit Examination.
Vetoed by the Governor
Higher Education
SB 30* (Speier-D) Tax deductions: 529 College Savings Plans
Allows qualified taxpayers deductions for contributions to eligible college savings plans.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 55 (Lowenthal-D) Community college district governing boards: meeting agendas
Clarifies existing legislative intent as it related to members of the public being able to place matters directly on local community college governing board agencies.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 69* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education facilities bond acts: 2006 and 2008
Authorizes the Kindergarten-University Public Education facilities Bond Acts of 2006 and 2008, and specifies procedures for the expenditure of funds.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 160 (Cedillo-D) Student financial aid: California Dream Act
Requests the University of California and requires the California State University and the California Community colleges to establish procedures and forms to enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition, based on their three-year attendance at, and graduation from, a California high school, to participated in all student aid programs administered by these segments. Provides that persons exempt from paying nonresident tuition, who otherwise are qualified, shall receive a Board of Governor's fee waiver.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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 new methodologies for allocating general apportionments and for determining Board of Governors budget requests. Establishes a new category of non-credit courses as eligible for enhanced funding. Implements 2006-07 Budget Act appropriations for equalization and non-credit instruction.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 652 (Scott-D) Public postsecondary education: transfers
Requests the University of California, and requires the California Community Colleges, to take specified actions to ensure a clear path for transfer to the University of California for California community college students.
Chapter 804, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 667 (Migden-D) University of California: competitive bidding
Authorizes the University of California to conduct a pilot program at their San Francisco campus that allows for construction contracts to be awarded on a "best value" basis, rather than just to the lowest bidder. Sunsets January 1, 2012.
Chapter 367, Statutes of 2006
SB 682 (Simitian-D) Postsecondary education facilities
Increases the appropriation of lease revenue bonds authorized by AB 16 (Hertzberg, Chapter 33, Statutes of 2002) for a joint use capital outlay project between the California State University and the California State Library by $21 million dollars.
Chapter 509, Statutes of 2006
SB 709 (Speier-D) Community colleges: board of governors
Adds the Lieutenant Governor to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges as an ex officio, voting member.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1040 (Dunn-D) Public postsecondary education: fees and tuition
Amends the definition of stepchildren for purposes of receiving fee waivers for students attending the University of California and the California State University, who are the surviving children of a police officer and firefighter killed during active duty.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2006
SB 1133 (Torlakson-D) School districts and community college districts
Establishes the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006 for the purposes of implementing the terms of the CTA, et.al. v. Schwarzenegger, et.al. settlement and discharges the outstanding balance of the maintenance factor resulting from SB 1101 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, Chapter 213, Statutes of 2004) which suspended the state's obligation to meet the constitutionally-required minimum funding level for schools, for fiscal years 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2006 -- Item Veto
SB 1181 (Maldonado-R) Public postsecondary education: administrative salaries
Requires the state's three public higher education segments to report the total compensation, as defined, of specified senior employee positions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1236 (Morrow-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification
Eliminates the one-year limitation on resident classification for active duty military personnel who are graduate students at state-supported universities and indefinitely entitles such service members to that benefit. Applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents adopt a resolution to do so.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1264 (Alquist-D) Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program
Increases, from 22,500 to 23,000, the number of Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards that the California Student Aid Commission is authorized to award annually.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1290 (Ducheny-D) Community colleges: facilities
Requires community college buildings constructed or modified after January 1, 2007 to be built in accordance with the Field Act or according to the California Building Standards Code.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1303 (Runner-R) Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Exempts from the specified five percent cap on community college summer session enrollment, a pupil recommended by his or her principal if the pupil meets one of the specified criteria and if the high school principal who recommends the pupil provides the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, upon request of that office, with the data it requires to report to the Department of Finance.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2006
SB 1304 (Runner-R) Community colleges: facilities
Authorizes a community college district to use state funds to acquire and convert an existing government-owned or privately owned building for community college use if specified criteria are met.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2006
SB 1309 (Scott-D) Nursing education
Enacts an array of initiatives to address the nursing shortage in California.
Chapter 837, Statutes of 2006
SB 1383* (Ortiz-D) Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program
Revises eligibility requirements relating to the Cal Grant awards and revises related reporting requirements. Provides that a Entitlement Cal Grant applicant who did not receive a high school diploma by June 30 of the academic year immediately preceding the award year may still be considered for a Entitlement Cal Grant, if the applicant meets the requirements for a high school diploma by December 31 of the award year, stipulates award eligibility will commence in the first term following the student's completion of the diploma. Requires the California Student Aid Commission to add information regarding students who qualify for the Entitlement Cal Grant Programs based the methods specified in this bill to its existing report obligations.
Chapter 652, Statutes of 2006
SB 1412 (Morrow-R) Public postsecondary education: Student Bill of Rights
Requests the Regents of the University of California and directs the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to develop guidelines and implement specified principles, relating to academic freedom, of a Student Bill of Rights.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1454 (Torlakson-D) Hazings
Enacts "Matt's Law" which removes hazing provisions from the Education Code and adds those provisions to the Penal Code making hazing punishable as a misdemeanor if no serious bodily injury results or an alternate felony-misdemeanor if great bodily injury or death result.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2006
SB 1460* (Cox-R) Community colleges: inmate education programs
Authorizes a California Community College that generates units of full time equivalent student (FTES) in classes for inmates to waive any open course provisions in statute or in regulation and to count credit attendance hours for state apportionment purposes. Reduces the credit rate by the allowance for maintenance and operations. Expands the existing authority of a community college to receive FTES for inmate education programs to include state correctional facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1473 (Figueroa-D) Private Postsecondary Education and Student Protection Act
Repeals the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 and recast its provisions as the Private Postsecondary Education and Student Protection Act. The act would continue to be administered by the renamed Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Establishes these provisions in the Business and Professions Code and sunsets the new chapter on an unspecified date. Contains unspecified fee provisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1497 (Dutton-R) Community colleges: waiver of enrollment fees
Waives the enrollment fee at the California Community Colleges for students who are the spouse or child of a United States Armed Forces member who is serving in a combat zone, as defined.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1520* (Ducheny-D) University of California: Health System
Amends the Medi-Cal Hospital and Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act, by requiring the Department of Health Services to adjust, at the request of the governmental entity, Medicaid payment distributions to designated public hospitals that are part of a hospital system licensed to the same governmental entity, prior to distributing those payments.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2006
SB 1546 (Alarcon-D) Community colleges: concurrent award of associate degree
Authorizes a community college district to offer to students a course of study leading to the concurrent award of an associate degree and a high school diploma.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1552 (Scott-D) California Community Colleges
Reauthorizes the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program and extends the program's sunset date from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2013.
Chapter 753, Statutes of 2006
SB 1563 (Escutia-D) Community colleges: Community College Early Assessment Pilot
Establishes the Community College Early Assessment Pilot Program to provide grade 11 pupils with information and guidance related to readiness for college-level coursework.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1568 (Dunn-D) Law schools and law degree programs
Revises state regulation of unaccredited law schools and correspondence schools and law study programs.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2006
SB 1571 (Maldonado-R) Public postsecondary education: employee compensation
Requires the Trustees of the California State University, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and requests the Regents of the University of California to report and post on their respective websites specified information related to compensation provided to executive and senior-level personnel, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1652 (Vincent-D) Community colleges: facilities: leases
Increases the number of days that a California Community College (CCC) may lease property not needed for classroom buildings, without being subject to general provisions regarding the lease and sale of CCC district property, from five days to 14 separate or consecutive calendar days each fiscal year.
Chapter 134, Statutes of 2006
SB 1704 (Kuehl-D) University of California: health care
Extends for four additional years the sunset date on the health insurance benefit mandate review program, which the University of California assesses, established by AB 1996 (Thomson), Chapter 795, Statutes of 2002, and expands the scope of the program to review legislation that repeals mandated insurance benefits, as specified.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2006
SB 1709 (Scott-D) Postsecondary education: College Opportunity Act of 2006
Enacts the College Opportunity Act of 2006 for the purpose of planning for and funding growth in postsecondary education between January 1, 2007 and January 1, 2015.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1724 (Runner-R) California State University
Exempts the California State University from statutory requirements to collect California retailers' seller's permits in order to contract for purchases in order to promote greater efficiency in operations.
Chapter 453, Statutes of 2006
SB 1751 (Speier-D) Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program
Increases from 22,500 to 34,000 the number of annual "competitive" Cal Grants that may be awarded to eligible students by the California Student Aid Commission.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1819 (Figueroa-D) Student financial aid: cost assistance for GED test takers
Establishes the Cost Assistance for General Education Development (GED) Test Takers program for grants to students enrolled in GED preparation coursework.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 162 (Leslie-R) School facilities: Department of General Services
Establishes a voluntary alternative collaborative design plan review and approval process for the construction of community college and kindergarten and grades 1-12 school facilities.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 318* (Dymally-D) Community colleges: funding
Provides for a bond-financed loan to restore fiscal solvency to the Compton Community College District and makes provisions for the continuation of service in the event the district loses accreditation.
Chapter 50, Statutes of 2006
AB 358 (Liu-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
Expresses the intent of the Legislature that the maximum Cal Grant for students attending independent and nonpublic colleges and universities shall be equal to 90 percent of the weighted public cost of educating a needy student at the University of California or the California State University, but no less than $9,708. Requires data submission for independent and nonpublic institutions regarding the academic outcomes of Cal Grant recipients. Requires a report related to equity issues in Cal Grant B.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 473 (Liu-D) Community colleges: student fees
Extends through fiscal year 2006-07 an exemption from the requirement to pay California community college nonresident tuition to certain students affected by Hurricane Katrina. Requires the Board of Governors to develop a student affordability policy. Makes other changes relating to community college fees.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 476 (Baca-D) Assumption Program of Loan for Education
Expands the eligibility criteria for teachers to participate in the Assumption Program of Loans for Education to include persons holding a teaching credential if they are pursuing a single subject credential in math or science.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 523 (Negrete McLeod-D) Community college districts: sale of property
Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to sell, for less than fair market value, a nonprofit educational television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission and located in Orange County and deemed to be surplus property, to a nonprofit organization for a specified purpose.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 751 (Chu-D) Regulation of purveyors of private college financial aid
Authorizes the Student Aid Commission to regulate the California operations of purveyors of private college financial aid services for the purposes of preventing financial aid and scholarship fraud.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 775 (Yee-D) Regents of the University of California: compensation
Provides that the definition of the Regents of the University of California, for the purposes of when specified actions must be taken in open session, would include advisory groups that include one or more regents, as members. Requires discussion of, and action on, an executive compensation proposal concerning the President of the UC, the chancellor of an individual campus, specified vice presidents, the treasurer, the assistant treasurer, the general counsel, or the secretary, to occur in open session of the appropriate committee. Requires any final discussion or action on the proposal to take place in open session of the board of regents.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 827 (Goldberg-D) Private postsecondary education: consumer credit regulations
Requires a private postsecondary institution to provide a notice in a consumer credit contract, as defined, pursuant to federal law. Specifies that failure to do so will subject the institution to criminal sanctions for a willful failure to conform to this requirement.
Chapter 815, Statutes of 2006
AB 840* (Arambula-D) California Community College Transfer Cal Grant
Protects eligibility for students who received Cal Grant awards in error and takes steps ensure such errors are not repeated.
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 918 (Wyland-R) California State University: career technical education
Requires the California State University, in partnership with the University of California, to work with secondary and postsecondary career technical education faculty so that more career technical courses may be approved for college preparatory certification. Requires an advisory group to be convened.
(Died in Senate Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1072 (Liu-D) Public postsecondary education: student fee policy
Provides that the Regents of the University of California and the Trustees of the California State University bear the primary responsibility for adjusting resident student fees at their respective systems. Requires these universities to develop methodologies for the adjustment of student fees in accordance with a prescribed procedure.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1286 (Evans-D) Community college districts: property: sale or lease
Prioritizes the repayment of obligations incurred by a community college district through the State Public Works Board's issuance of lease-revenue bonds over the repayment of debt service or short-term loans for financing the construction of energy efficient buildings.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2006
AB 1315 (Liu-D) Cal Grant B awards: access costs
Requires the maximum Cal Grant B award for access costs, for the 2006-07 award year, to be in an annual amount that equals at least $1,551. Requires commencing with the 2007-08 award year, the maximum award for access costs to be increase by not less than five percent and not more than 10 percent per year until that amount equals at least 20 percent of the access costs for the budget category of a student living off-campus, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1319 (Liu-D) Adult education: joint data systems
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a work group to report on the feasibility of a coordinated adult education data system.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2006
AB 1350 (Cogdill-R) Public postsecondary education: reimbursement of fees
Reimburses community college fees for students who transfer to and graduate from the University of California or the California State University, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1399 (Garcia-R) Student financial aid: California National Guard members
Increases, for the 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 award years, the number of Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards that the Student Aid Commission is authorized to award by 200 to 22,700. Requires the commission to award up to the 200 new awards to students who are members of the California National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia who have been called to active duty on or after September 11, 2001.
(Died in Senate 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1452 (Nunez-D) California Student Access Scholarship Endowment
Enacts the California Student Access Scholarship Endowment Act for the purpose of providing grant awards for students to attend participating campuses of the University of California and the California state University, based upon financial need. Provides graduates from a California high school that transfer from a community college to a University of California, or California State University campus with financial assistance through a matching grant program for institutions that raise private funds to support grant aid for low-income students.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
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.
(Failed passage 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, 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1532 (Bass-D) Cal Grants: foster youth
Exempts foster youth fro statutory Cal Grant financial aid application deadlines as soon as possible, but no later than the 2008-09 award year. Requires the Student Aid Commission to adopt rules and regulations for the identification of foster youth.
(Died in Senate Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1780* (Baca-D) Community colleges: enrollment fees
Reduces the amount the student fees at community colleges from $26 to $18.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Makes the statutory changes necessary to implement the higher education finance portions of the 2006 Budget Act. Reduces the fees for California community college students from $26 to $20 per unit.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Higher Education budget trailer bill
Amends and implements the Budget Act of 2006 which, among other provisions, appropriates $26 million for a per-pupil marginal cost increase at both the University of California (UC) ($9.3 million) and the California State University (CSU) ($16.8 million), consistent with a methodology that provides $9,901 for each additional student at UC and $7,225 for each additional student at CSU.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 1943 (Nava-D) Community colleges
Deletes, until January 1, 2013, the requirement that local community college credit courses of instruction that are not part of an educational program (also known as "stand-alone courses"), be approved by the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges (CCC), requires the BOG to adopt regulations defining the conditions for this authority and to ensure training and monitoring, and requires the chancellor of the CCC to report on monitoring and regulatory compliance by January 1, 2012.
Chapter 817, Statutes of 2006
AB 1968 (Leslie-R) Community colleges
Authorizes the Los Rios Community College District and Rio Hondo Community College District to require a transportation fee for students and employees using the service, if specific requirements are met.
Chapter 560, Statutes of 2006
AB 1972 (Daucher-R) Community colleges
Allows community colleges to establish full-time, non-tenure-track faculty positions in areas of study with shortages of instructors, as designed by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1986 (De La Torre-D) California State University: contracts
Requires that any construction project on property of the California State University (CSU) that is performed under a contract entered into by an auxiliary organization of CSU, and funded in whole or in part by public funds, is subject to CSU Contract Law within the Public Contract Code and is under the sole and direct control of the trustees of CSU.
Chapter 346, Statutes of 2006
AB 2036 (Nakanishi-R) Community colleges: Amador County facility
Requests representatives of Amador County, working with representatives of the Los Rios Community College District, to prepare an assessment of the educational needs of residents of Amador County, as well as a proposal for the development and operation of a California Community College facility in that county.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2053 (Strickland-R) Public postsecondary education: tuition
Deletes a person without lawful immigration status from eligibility for paying nonresident tuition at California Community Colleges and California State Universities.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2086 (Dymally-D) Community Colleges
Requires the chancellor, on or before September 1, 2007, to encourage community college districts in northern California to expand services through collaborative programs with private, open-access, nonprofit tribal colleges in the region and to encourage community college districts to negotiate and implement articulation agreements with tribal colleges to assist students to gain access to nursing and teacher preparation programs.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2165 (La Suer-R) Postsecondary education: athletes
Prohibits any student athlete enrolled at the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges from participating in any intercollegiate athletic event, except in a manner allowable for the general public, if he or she, at any time after his or her enrollment, is prosecuted as an adult and is convicted of any of several specified crimes.
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2006
AB 2168 (Liu-D) Postsecondary education
Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California to jointly develop, maintain, and disseminate a single set of area requirements for general education transfer curriculum.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2179 (Leslie-R) University of California
Indemnifies the University of California from liability that might result from divestment from the Sudan.
Chapter 441, Statutes of 2006
AB 2381 (Dymally-D) Private postsecondary education
Provides that a student may bring an action against a private postsecondary institution for violation of provisions of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Report Act of 1989 that enumerate general standards for all postsecondary institutions and student protections, and makes clarifying changes.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 2420 (Lieu-D) State government: collection of demographic data
Expands from 11 to 23 the ancestry or ethnic origin collection categories required to be collected by any state agency, board, commission, California Community Colleges, or the California State University.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2472 (Wyland-R) Public postsecondary education
Extends resident classification, for purposes of receiving in-state tuition benefits at California's public postsecondary institutions, to specified members of the armed forces, the national guard and their dependents.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2489 (Leno-D) Higher education: Foster Youth
Enacts the Foster Youth Higher Education Preparation and Support Act of 2006.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2551 (Blakeslee-R) Student loans: National Guard
Extends from July 1, 2007 to July 1, 2011, the inoperative date for the National Guard Assumption Program of Loans for Education.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2578 (Frommer-D) Higher Education: properties
Requires the Department of General Services to transfer specified state lands to the California Hope Public Trust. Creates, with specified appointees of the Governor, Treasurer, and Controller, for the purposes of managing state properties for the benefit of public colleges and universities.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2581 (Yee-D) Postsecondary education: student conduct
Prohibits public college administrators from taking disciplinary action against students solely on the basis of speech that off campus would be considered constitutionally protected speech. Current law already prohibits public college governing boards from so doing.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2006
AB 2653 (Dymally-D) California Commission on Accreditation
Establishes the California Commission on Accreditation to review and accredit, or review and decline to accredit, all elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools in that state that apply to the Commission for accreditation.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2666 (Goldberg-D) Public postsecondary education
Provides "resident" status to students who are members of a tribal entity recognized by and eligible to receive services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2748 (Jones-D) Higher education: student housing
Requests the Regents of the University of California and requires the Trustees of the California State University to each prepare a report containing specified data relating to various aspects of on-campus student housing, with the reports to be submitted to the Legislature on or before March 31, 2007.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2756 (Levine-D) Higher education facilities
Permits California's higher education facilities to request funding from awards derived from Williams Settlement Agreement to integrate energy efficiency technologies in the educational curriculum and perform energy-efficiency retrofits on the state's lowest performing schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2810 (Liu-D) Private postsecondary education
Extends the sunset date of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 for one year, to January 1, 2009, and establishes a Working Group to develop specific recommendations for changes in the Act.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2813 (De La Torre-D) Community College students
Raises the age of eligibility in the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Program to allow students under the age of 28 (instead of 24) to be considered for a Cal Grant.
Chapter 822, Statutes of 2006
AB 2951 (Goldberg-D) Capital facilities fees
Authorizes public agencies that provide public utility services to charge public agencies rates, charges, surcharges, or fees on the same basis as comparable nonpublic users, except for "capital facilities fees," which a public agency utility must negotiate with schools, public higher education, and state agencies.
Chapter 866, Statutes of 2006
AB 2992 (Evans-D) California State University
Requires the Trustees of the California State University to establish and maintain a registry of mechanical subcontractors deemed to be responsible on the basis of specified prequalification activity, and to notify prospective bidders on contracts that exceed $1 million that bids will not be deemed responsible unless all mechanical subcontractors listed on such a bid have been listed on the trustee's registry for at least 30 days prior to the bid opening.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3015* (Benoit-R) Community colleges
Provides a methodology for allocating to community college districts any funding to be provided in the 2006-07 Budget Act for equalizing per student funding among all districts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3062 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Higher education: election forms
Requires the Secretary of State to annually provide every high school, community college, and California State University and University of California campus with a number of forms that is consistent with the number of students enrolled at each school who are of voting age or who will be of voting age by the end of the year.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2006
ACR 34 (Liu-D) Public higher education: student compact
Declares that it is time for a compact with students enrolled in California's public colleges and universities and makes recommendations relating to affordability, access to courses, student loan debt, and student diversity.
Resolution Chapter 114, Statutes of 2006
ACR 118 (Canciamilla-D) Community college facilities
Declares that the current standards that govern the planning for and operation of academic spaces in the California Community Colleges are obsolete and should be replaced with contemporary policies that reflect use patterns and instructional practices.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
School Employees
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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 662 (Migden-D) Teachers: California Preliminary credential
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue a California Preliminary credential. Sets forth the requirements.
(Died in Senate Rules 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)
SB 842 (Machado-D) Teacher development
Authorizes an array of initiatives to improve the recruitment, training and retention of teachers in California schools.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 933 (Machado-D) Teacher credentialing: district interns
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue district intern credentials to participants of a specified teacher preparation pilot program to provide instruction to pupils with disabilities in special education classes (this reinstates a pilot program that was inadvertently chaptered out in 2004).
Chapter 304, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education 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.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)
SB 1124 (Torlakson-D) Teacher development
Authorizes several initiatives to improve the recruitment, training, and retention of teachers in California schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1142 (Alquist-D) Science Teacher Development Act
Establishes the Science Teacher Development Act to provide professional development training in science instruction.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1185 (Runner-R) School employees: compulsory leave of absence compensation
Authorizes a school district to prohibit a school employee who is place on a compulsory leave of absence for certain drug-related offenses and completes a drug diversion program from being compensated for that leave of absence.
(Failed passage on the Assembly Floor)
SB 1190 (Alquist-D) Instructional programs: Science Teacher Development Act
Renames the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development program the Science Teacher Development Act program (thereby expanding it to include training in science) and extends the sunset until January 1, 2012.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1209 (Scott-D) Teachers
Streamlines duplicate preliminary credential requirements for new teachers who have completed state-adopted credentialing requirements in another state, consolidates testing requirements for teacher credential candidates, provides incentives to strengthen the preparation of teacher interns and induce experienced teachers to teach and mentor new teachers in high priority schools, among other revisions of teacher credentialing law.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2006
SB 1292 (Scott-D) Teachers: limited-English-proficient pupils
Enables individuals holding a designated subject credential or services credential with a special class authorization to obtain an authorization to teach English learners by completing professional development in methods of specifically designed content instruction to teach English to limited-English proficient students.
Chapter 752, Statutes of 2006
SB 1385 (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 of the program, as specified, to include staff reductions initiated during the 2006-07 or 2007-08 school years.
Chapter 65, Statutes of 2006
SB 1433 (Torlakson-D) California Teacher Leadership Pilot Program
Establishes the California Teacher Leadership Pilot program, until January 1, 2009, to provide funding to local education agencies to train experienced teachers to become instructional coaches in an effort to support local schoolwide improvement programs by building capacity for professional development.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1457 (Simitian-D) School district retirement employee benefits
Requires the development of standards for actuarial studies of school district liabilities for retired employee health and welfare benefits. Requires school districts to determine the amount of funding that would be necessary to fully fund retiree benefits. Requires school districts to develop a plan to fund those benefits.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1465 (Soto-D) State teachers' retirement
Makes several minor policy changes to the Teachers Retirement Law. Appropriates $290,000 from the Teachers Retirement Fund for expenditures to implement those changes.
Chapter 654, Statutes of 2006
SB 1466 (Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee) State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits
Makes various technical and conforming changes to the STRS law to facilitate efficient administration of the State Teachers Retirement Plan, which includes the Defined Benefit Program, the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, and the Cash Balance Benefit Program.
Chapter 655, Statutes of 2006
SB 1533 (Scott-D) Paraprofessional teachers
Makes various administrative changes to the Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program. Authorizes exceptions to program repayment requirements. Makes an independent program evaluation contingent on funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2008.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1567 (Soto-D) English language education: teacher coaching program
Establishes the English Language Learner Teacher Coaching Program, until January 1, 2012, to provide English language learner coaches to assist groups of teachers, teaching paraprofessionals, and students.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1614 (Simitian-D) Teachers: information system: identification number
Requires the Department of Education to contract for the development of a teacher data system to be called the California Longitudinal Teacher Integrated Data Education System to serve as a central state repository of information to inform policy, identify trends, and identify future teacher workforce needs.
Chapter 840, Statutes of 2006
SB 1655 (Scott-D) Teachers: voluntary transfers
Prohibits the voluntary transfer of a teacher to a school ranked in deciles 1 through 3 on the Academic Performance Index, if the principal of the receiving school refuses to accept the transfer. Prohibits a school district from giving priority to a teacher who requests to be transferred over other qualified applicants, as specified.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2006
SB 1662 (Lowenthal-D) Teachers: limited-English-proficient certificate requirement
Authorizes a teacher holding a clear multiple or single subject teaching credential issued for the life of the holder to provide instruction to limited-English-proficient pupils without possessing the specified certificate or meeting the minimum requirements otherwise required to possess it.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1731 (Speier-D) Guidance counseling: funding
Appropriates $36.4 million from the General Fund (Proposition 98) to the Department of Education to provide one credentialed guidance counselor for each middle, junior high, and high school ranked in deciles 1 to 3 on the Academic Performance Index.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1824 (Migden-D) Teachers: California Preliminary credential
Reestablishes the California Preliminary credential program (AB 1242, Lempert, Chapter 737, Statutes of 1999), which sunset January 1, 2005, until January 1, 2011. This temporary credential provides an alternative route for teacher candidates, typically career changers, to qualify for a single subject teacher credential.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SCR 82 (Alquist-D) Day of the Teacher
Proclaims May 10, 2006 as the Day of the Teacher, and urges all Californians to observe that day.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SJR 15 (Dutton-R) Retirement benefits: teachers
Requests that the President and Congress remove two offset deductions that apply to teachers and other public employees in the state.
Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 49* (Benoit-R) Teacher credentialing: CBEST: exemption
Consolidates statutes governing the requirements for, and authorizations of, credentials issued to prelingually deaf educators, and continues for those individuals the exemption from the requirement to pass the California Basic Educational Skills Test.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2006
AB 123 (Dymally-D) Teacher credentialing
Eliminates the Commission on Teacher Credentialing as its own entity and, instead, establishes them as part of the Department of Education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 308 (Jerome Horton-D) Substitute teachers
Allows the governing board of a school district to dismiss a substitute employee who has been employed as a substitute employee in a public school or schools in the state for a total of less than 360 schooldays at any time at the pleasure of the board.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 937 (Wyland-R) Instruction: science
Allows the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed science teacher to act as a science resource teacher or to provide science staff development for each elementary school.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was AB 2423 (Wyland-R) which was vetoed (it was an earlier version of this bill).
AB 950 (Coto-D) Teacher credentialing: criminal record summaries
Requires county offices of education to send fingerprints to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, receive reports of convictions of serious and violent felonies, review criminal history records and reports of subsequent arrests from the department and the bureau, and maintain common lists of persons eligible for employment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1213 (Wyland-R) Teacher identifier
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt a unique teacher identifier for teachers in public schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1214 (Wyland-R) Instruction: science
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed science teacher as a science resource teacher for each elementary school, or provide staff development to teachers in order to coordinate and provide instruction in an experimental science curriculum, as specified, and mentor other teachers in the provision of that curriculum.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1691 (Lieber-D) Teacher credentialing: custodial setting: felons
Authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue a teaching credential to a person who has been convicted of a felony, or a controlled substance offense, or both a felony and controlled substance offense (excluding sex offenders), with the limitation that he or she is providing instruction only to adult inmates in a custodial setting, if specified conditions apply.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the 2006 Education portion of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, provides $50 million for teacher recruitment and retention grants to schools ranked in the lowest three deciles of the Academic Performance Index. Creates a new block grant for districts to support additional counseling services for students in grades 7-12, and restores two programs within the Commission on Teacher Credentialing that relate to the appeals process for allegations of misconduct.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Teacher retirement
General government trailer bill to the 2006 Budget which, among other provisions, allows for a one-time reduction in the State's contribution to the State Teachers' Retirement System of $119.5 million to correct for overpayments in 2004-05 and 2005-06, which were caused by a problem recently discovered in STRS accounting system.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1809* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Trailer bill: teachers
Enacts various revenue and taxation administration provisions for the 2006-07 including extending the suspension of the Teacher Retention Tax Credit for one additional year (tax year 2006), as proposed in the Governor's Budget, resulting in an estimated GF revenue gain of $165 million. The credit was suspended in 2002 and also in 2004 and 2005. This Personal Income Tax benefit provides for credits ranging up to $1,500 to teachers, depending on their years of service, with the highest benefit going to the most senior teachers.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2006
AB 1836 (Daucher-R) Teachers: math, science, and engineering professionals
Requires the Department of Education to approve up to 10 pilot programs to recruit professionals in any of the fields of math, science, and engineering to serve as professional industry teachers, as defined, in order to ease the shortfall of math, science, and career technical education teachers who have professional experience in the fields of math, science, and engineering in high schools and regional occupational centers and programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1857 (Garcia-R) Teacher credentialing: internship programs
Modifies the requirements for teaching foundation assessments for individuals choosing the early completion option of an intern program by deleting specified content areas for the single subject written pedagogy examination. Establishes training requirements for single subject credential interns in early completion intern programs relating to preservice and preparation to teach English learners.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1867 (Karnette-D) School employees: CPR training
Requires a school district to make basic first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training available to all employees of the district. Requires that not less than 80 percent of staff employed by the district during regular school hours must complete the training by July 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1917 (DeVore-R) Teacher and administrative personnel: pay and benefit
Requires the governing board of a school district to compile a yearly report and the include the information in the school Accountability Report Card about each school in the district and the district as a whole regarding the amount expended to pay the salaries and fund employee benefits for personnel.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1985 (Daucher-R) Instructional programs: the Online Classroom Program
Revises, renames and extends the Online Classroom Pilot Program as the Online Classroom Program which would remain in effect until January 1, 2011.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2024 (Benoit-R) Personal services contracting
Repeals provisions in current law permitting the use of personal services contracts in school districts and community colleges for all services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees only when certain conditions are met.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2054 (Shirley Horton-R) Subject matter knowledge: foreign languages
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), by June 30, 2007, to develop a language examination template for the purpose of determining the adequacy of subject matter knowledge of a language for which there is no subject matter examination adopted by the CTC. Gives priority to the Filipino language for specific examination developed, followed by Hmong, Cantonese, Armenian, Khmer, Arabic, and Farsi languages, in that order, although test development may occur simultaneously.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2109 (Goldberg-D) Teachers: staff development
Requires school districts to analyze disaggregated student testing data, as specified, and structure professional development programs to focus on improving the academic achievement of pupils in order to receive funding from the state's Professional development Block Grant.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2117 (Coto-D) English language learners: pilot project
Establishes the English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program over a period of three years to identify existing best practices regarding topics, including buy not limited to, curriculum, instruction, and staff development for teaching English language learners and promoting English language and academic English acquisition and development.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2006
AB 2204 (Nunez-D) California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers
Clarifies that the required evaluation of the California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers is to be contracted for by December 15 of the fiscal year in which funding is appropriated.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2293 (Nava-D) Unemployment compensation: school employment
Authorizes the Director of the Employment Development department to assess a specified penalty against an educational institution employer where the employer willfully submits false statements about the duration of the employee's employment.
Chapter 190, Statutes of 2006
AB 2421 (Wyland-R) Teacher credentials: technical education: emergency permits
Eliminates the requirement that a vocational education teacher possess a baccalaureate degree to receive an emergency teaching or specialist permit, as appropriate, for vocational education instruction.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2422 (Wyland-R) Teacher training: career technical education
Requires each postsecondary institution that offers a program of professional preparation to offer a course of study in career technical education.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2445 (Salinas-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 wiring skills in one or more languages, in addition to English.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2462 (Mullin-D) State teachers' retirement
Authorizes the Teachers' Retirement Board to supply, or contract to supply, fiduciary, recordkeeping, and administrative services for employer-sponsored deferred compensation plans to school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education that elect to contract with the California State Teachers' Retirement System to provide those services.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2006
AB 2633 (Negrete McLeod-D) Schools: district employees
Requires school districts or community college districts with merit system personnel commissions to assume supervision for the personnel director, as specified. Extends the current sunset date, from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2008, on provision authorizing specified school districts to make an appointment from other than the first three ranks of eligible applicants.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2793 (Arambula-D) School districts: budgets: retired employee benefits
Requires school districts to develop long-term plans that identify how they will fund post-employment health and welfare benefits for current and future retirees.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2802 (Pavley-D) Optional early childhood education credential
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish an optional early childhood education credential for grades K-12 (consisting of 24 units of early learning training, that is incorporated into the multiple subject teaching credential) to enable teachers to specialize in the needs of children in early grades.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2913 (Frommer-D) Credentials: subject matter examinations: Armenian
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to submit a development and expenditure plan for a subject matter examination in the Armenian language to the Department of Finance no later than January 1, 2007, and to use a template developed pursuant to the Budget Act of 2006 to develop the examination, to be administered no later than September 1, 2009.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2970 (Pavley-D) Teachers
Establishes the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Act of 2006, which implements various new programs to attract and retain teachers in low-performing schools. Adds new exemptions to the California State Teachers' Retirement System post-retirement earnings limit.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3044 (Mountjoy-R) Teacher credentialing: specialist instruction
Provides that, as it relates to the credential for specialist instruction, the specialty requiring advanced preparation or special competence is to be an academic specialty.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
HR 32 (Karnette-D) Substitute teachers
Recognizes the Friday of American Education Week be recognized as "California Substitute Educators Day."
Adopted by the Assembly
School Curriculum
SB 384 (Maldonado-R) Public schools: instruction: Declaration of Independence
Prohibits a school district from prohibiting instruction on the Declaration of Independence.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1437 (Kuehl-D) School instruction: prohibition of discriminatory content
Prohibits instruction, or the adoption of any instructional material, that reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1471 (Kuehl-D) Sex education programs: requirements
Enacts the California Community Sexual Health Education Act. Expands on state law and provides guidance to state agencies that fund or administer community-based programs or public education campaigns, in order to ensure that California has a consistent and effective approach for preventing unintended pregnancies and STDs.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1543 (Alarcon-D) High school curriculum: coursework requirements
Requests the University of California (UC) and directs the California State University (CSU) to either adopt model standards for high school career technical education courses or recognize course that meet standards approved by either the UC Board of Regents or the CSU Board of Trustees.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2006
SB 1575 (Dunn-D) Curriculum: human rights: unconstitutional deportation
Requires the social sciences course for study for grades 7-12 to include particular attention to the study of the unconstitutional deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1740 (Murray-D) Pupil's instruction: Internet safety curriculum
Requires the Department of Education to develop and maintain Internet safety curriculum guidelines for use by local education agencies.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 226* (Bermudez-D) Automotive technology education
Redirects 10 percent of the reserve in the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund to the Automotive Career and Technical Education Account, created in the bill, to provide reimbursements to high school, community college and regional occupational centers' automotive technology programs.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
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 and to incorporate teen dating violence education curriculum into the curriculum health curriculum framework, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1056 (Chu-D) Tolerance and intergroup relations
Establishes the Tolerance Education Pilot Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, to promote instruction in public schools on tolerance, as defined, and intergroup relations as part of the instruction in the history/social science content standards, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1076 (Jerome Horton-D) Curriculum: social science
Authorizes social science instruction in grades 7-12 to include a component on the role of Filipinos in World War II.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1214 (Wyland-R) Instruction: science
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to designate a credentialed science teacher as a science resource teacher for each elementary school, or provide staff development to teachers in order to coordinate and provide instruction in an experimental science curriculum, as specified, and mentor other teachers in the provision of that curriculum.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations 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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1246 (Wolk-D) Preschool learning standards
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to develop preschool instructional goals in the form of preschool learning standards. 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.
(Died 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).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1535 (Nunez-D) School instructional gardens: pupil nutrition
Makes changes to the Instructional School Gardens Program and revises the 2006 Budget Act to clarify expenditures for the program.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2006
AB 1896 (Coto-D) High schools: curriculum requirements
Sunsets the current high school graduation requirements on July 1, 2008 and instead, beginning with the 2008-09 school year, requires a pupil to be enrolled in either: (1) a college preparatory course of study that meets the requirements for admission to US or CSU (also known a the A-G requirements) or (2) a career technical course of study, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1950 (Lieu-D) Instruction: economics
Permits school districts to provide instruction in economics courses related to the understanding of personal finances, including budgeting, savings, credit and identity theft.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1985 (Daucher-R) Instructional programs: the Online Classroom Program
Revises, renames, and extends the Online Classroom Pilot Program as the Online Classroom Program which remain in effect until January 1, 2011.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2101 (Parra-D) Independent study: pupils in military families
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to offer independent study of one to four days to a pupil that has a parent or guardian serving in the military during the military deployment or homecoming of the parent or guardian.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2115 (Hancock-D) California Career Technical Education Coordinating Council
Establishes the California Career Technical Education Coordinating Council to identify state and federal career education programs in K-12 schools and to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature ways to coordinate programs and funding streams in order to enhance the effectiveness and economy of those programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2311 (Mountjoy-R) Instruction: prohibition: homosexuality
Prohibits the teaching of socialism, humanism or homosexuality with the intent to indoctrinate or transform in the mind of any pupil or teacher, a preference for socialism, humanism or homosexuality.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2787 (Niello-R) Content standards: economics
Require the history/social science content standards to include an economics component related to the understanding of personal finances.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 117 (Niello-R) Music education: national anthem
Recognizes the National Anthem Project and makes various findings and declarations regarding the history and significance of the Star Spangled Banner and the importance of music education.
Resolution Chapter 86, Statutes of 2006
Pupil Nutrition
SB 1674* (Murray-D) Public schools: meal reimbursement
Increases the reimbursement rate for free and reduced-price school meals from 14 cents to 21 cents, subject to specified criteria.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 469 (Yee-D) School food: nutrition guidelines
Requires the Department of Education to develop and maintain nutrition guidelines for all food and beverages served and sold on public school campuses. Adds sugar and sodium to the list of items required to be included in these guidelines.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 569* (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: school meals: school breakfast study
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study on or before March 31, 2007 regarding the feasibility of providing breakfasts at schools that meet the requirements for the federal severe need reimbursement and to report the results to the Legislature by April 30, 2007.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2006
AB 1112 (Cohn-D) Pupil nutrition: California Fresh Start Pilot Program
Replaces reference to "nutritious" fruits and vegetables with reference to "fresh" fruits and vegetables in the provisions of law related to the California Fresh Start Pilot Program.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1790 (Cohn-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1535 (Nunez-D) School instructional gardens: pupil nutrition
Makes changes to the Instructional Gardens Program and revises the 2006 Budget Act to clarify expenditures for the program.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was AB 334 (Chan-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1667 (Saldana-D) Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs
Permits specified individuals who require specialized physical health care services during the regular school day at the school site to be assisted by specified persons.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2006
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the education portion of the 2006 State Budget which, among other provisions, increases the state meal rate for free and reduced-price meals by seven cents in 2006-07, and provides $3 million for additional school breakfast start-up grants.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1916 (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: school meals
Requires each schoolsite that meets the qualifications of the federal severe need reimbursement to offer breakfast, beginning with the 2007-08 school year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2121 (Nava-D) Farm Fresh Schools Program
Establishes the Farm Fresh Schools program, administered jointly by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Health Services, in consultation with the Department of Education.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Vocational Education
SB 560 (Migden-D) Career technical education: school district reporting
Requires school districts offering grades 9-12 to file a report to the Legislature as to whether any career technical education courses were discontinued or any facilities closed during the 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, or 2005-06 school years.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1234 (Scott-D) Vocational education: career training
Appropriates $500,000 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the purpose of completing an annual descriptive and individual report, relating to career technical education courses.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1473 (Figueroa-D) Private Postsecondary Education and Student Protection Act
Repeals the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 and recast its provisions as the Private Postsecondary Education and Student Protection Act. Continues to be administered by the renamed Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Establishes these provisions in the Business and Professions Code.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 368 (Evans-D) Technical Education: equipment: sales
Requires the Department of Education to develop, maintain, and makes accessible to districts, via the Internet, a registry of career technical education equipment that is listed for sale.
Chapter 408, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1802* (Assembly Budget Committee) Education budget trailer bill
Implements the 2006-07 Education Budget Trailer bill which, among other provisions, appropriates $40 million for school districts to purchase equipment related to career technical education, with $2.5 million of this amount set aside for capacity-building incentive grants for schools serving grades 7-12 to create health related career pathway programs.
Chapter 79, Statutes of 2006
AB 1842 (Coto-D) Technical Education: equipment: sales
Authorizes the Department of Education to develop and maintain a registry of career technical education equipment that is listed for sale and make the information accessible to school districts, via the Internet.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2063 (Richman-R) Agricultural career technical education
Allows a school district to receive average daily attendance revenue limit funding for pupils participating in specified agricultural youth leadership programs, if the district requires the pupil to complete any missed classwork assignments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2107 (Karnette-D) Career technical education: regional occupational
Makes a number of funding and programmatic changes to the Regional Occupational Center/Program (ROC/Ps) in order to expand access and eligibility to the program, including specifying that ROC/Ps cannot receive less than 2.5 percent growth funding per year. Appropriates $24 million from the 2006 Budget Act to the Department of Education for specified uses by ROC/Ps.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2115 (Hancock-D) California Career Technical Education Coordinating Council
Establishes the California Career Technical Education Coordinating Council to identify state and federal career education programs in K-12 schools and to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature ways to coordinate programs and funding streams in order to enhance the effectiveness and economy of those programs.
Vetoed by the Governor
Miscellaneous
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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 472 (Alquist-D) Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program
Reauthorizes, until July 1, 2012, the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program which sunset on July 1, 2006.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2006
SB 486 (Migden-D) Local government finance
States that money from the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund for special education programs shall not be counted as an offset for the state aid for licensed care institutions. Prohibits a county superintendent of school from allocating excess ERAF moneys to a licensed children's institution. Declares that its provisions are clarifications of existing law.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 514 (Senate 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.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 562 (Torlakson-D) Physical education: California Interscholastic Federation
Extends the sunset provisions relating to the California Interscholastic Federation from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2012. Specifies certain reporting requirements. Extends, indefinitely, provisions granting authority to the Department of Education to supervise physical education courses, as specified.
Chapter 301, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 635 (Alarcon-D) Advancement Via Individual Determination program
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the Advancement Via Individual Determination program and the importance and need to restore and augment funds.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
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.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
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)
SB 696 (Escutia-D) Instructional materials
Authorizes school districts to expend, for K-8, not more than 30 percent of the districts' instructional material allowance to purchase materials selected by the school district, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 767 (Romero-D) School district governance: study and report
Requires the California Research Bureau to study and examine 13 school districts and/or consortium of districts/universities during a 10-year time frame (1995-2005) and submit a specified report by October 1, 2007.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 812 (Soto-D) Schools: education technology: access and integration
Requires the Department of Education to determine the extend of access to and integration of educational technology into public school instruction, and to annually post the data on the Internet.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 924 (Speier-D) Driving schools: Class A commercial driver's licenses
Establishes minimum training requirements and advertising standard for truck driver training schools that provide instruction intended to lead to the issuance of a Class A commercial drivers' license.
Vetoed by the Governor
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1073 (Simitian-D) Instructional strategies: subject matter projects
Extends the sunset from June 30, 2007 to June 30, 2014 for all California Subject Matter Projects (Camps). Establishes the following Camps: (1) the California Arts Project, (2) the California Foreign Language Project, and (3) the California Physical Education/Health Project.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1078 (Simitian-D) Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring
Prohibits the use of student-issued radio frequency identification devices to monitor students or record student attendance in public schools.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1186 (Morrow-R) School districts: transfer of territory
Expands, to school districts with 2,500 or fewer units of average daily attendance (ADA), existing authorization for a school district with 900 or fewer ADA to defeat a proposed transfer of territory if the majority of the votes cast by the voters within the school district fail to support the proposal, even though the transfer may be favored by a majority of the votes cast in the entire territory subject to reorganization.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
SB 1193 (Bowen-D) Pupil attendance: precinct board membership
Provides that the service of a pupil as a member of a precinct election board during an election is deemed to be participating in independent studies for the computation of state aid.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1217 (Runner-R) Class size reduction: Lancaster School District
Authorizes, on a pilot basis until 7/1/11, the Lancaster Elementary School District to implement an alternative class size reduction program to reduce class size in grades K-5 to 25 students, subject to certain conditions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1227 (Denham-R) Prima facie speed limits: schools: school zones
Lowers the prima facie speed limit in school zones in Merced and Monterey Counties from 25 miles per hour to 15 miles per hour until January 1, 2010.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1255 (Cox-R) Local agencies: contracts
Exempts from the requirement to let out for bid, a county school district with average daily attendance of 1,000 to 6,999, in a county with an estimated population density greater than 200 residents per square mile in 2005. Establishes a January 1, 2010, sunset date for these provisions.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1293 (Kuehl-D) State library: access to electronic and online materials
Establishes the Access to Science and Government Efficiency Act of 2006, which requires the State Librarian to purchase access to electronic journals and other online resources that will be available to the Resources Agency, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Health and Human Services Agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1303 (Runner-R) Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Exempts from the specified five percent cap on community college summer session enrollment, a pupil recommended by his or her principal if the pupil meets one of the specified criteria and if the high school principal who recommends the pupil provides the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, upon request of that office, with the data it requires to report to the Department of Finance. Provides that no apportionment of funds may be made to the Chancellor unless the pupil recommended for enrollment receives a passing grade in the course.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2006
SB 1326 (Runner-R) School districts: reorganization of large districts
Creates a commission with specified membership to reorganize a school district enrolling at least 500,000 pupils (Los Angeles) into several school districts enrolling no more than 50,000 pupils each, by July 1, 2010.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1411 (Ortiz-D) Interscholastic athletics: transfer eligibility
Allows students to transfer between high schools and retain varsity athletic eligibility in sports in which the student competed during the previous year.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1526 (Alarcon-D) Pupils: academic support program: dropouts
Removes the dropout prevention and recovery programs from the Pupil Retention Block Grant and establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Support program to provide funding to schools to provide pupil support services to prevent school dropouts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1549 (Alarcon-D) Minimum school day: high school
Increases, from 240 to 300, the minimum number of minutes that constitute a minimum school day for high schools.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1577 (Romero-D) Schools: accreditation
Requires a school district that contains a school that has lost its accreditation to post notice of the loss and its potential consequences for students attending the school on the school district's Internet Web site, and to publish by web site or by parent notification the results of any accreditation findings within 60 days after the results have been provided to the school.
Chapter 402, Statutes of 2006
SB 1646 (Ducheny-D) Pupils: California Indian education centers
Extends, from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2014, the repeal date for the California Indian education centers and substantially revises the program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1653* (Alarcon-D) K-12 Pupil Support Instructional Materials
Establishes the K-12 Pupil Support Instructional Materials Program to annually allocate specified amounts per pupil to school districts for the purchase of supplemental instructional materials. Provides for the annual transfer of specified amounts from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account in support of the program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1684 (Romero-D) High school: diploma of graduation
Permits, among other things, a pupil in any of grades 11 or 12 or a student in an adult education program who has taken, but not passed, both parts of the high school exit examination and who has completed all other requirements for graduation from high school, or is in the process of completing, through courses in which the pupil is currently enrolled, all other requirements for graduation from high school other than passing the high school exit examination, to take the general educational development test instead of the high school exit examination.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1710 (Ackerman-R) California American Indian Education Center Program
Makes several changes to the California American Indian Education Center Program implementing recommendations from a recent audit of this program. Extends the sunset on the program by five years to January 1, 2012.
Chapter 880, Statutes of 2006
SB 1736 (Ackerman-R) One-to-One Laptop Computer Pilot Program
Establishes the One-to-One Laptop Computer Pilot Program which permits a school district to receive a grant for the establishment of, or to support the continuation of, an existing one-to-one laptop computer program, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1764 (Runner-R) Kindergarten: age of admission
Establishes the School Readiness Act of 2007 which incrementally changes the age at which a child is admitted to kindergarten. After three years (beginning in 2011-12), a child that has his or her fifth birthday on or before September 1 will be able to enroll in kindergarten.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1768* (Hollingsworth-R) Income and corporation taxes: school contributions
Provides an income tax credit for contributions made to a school tuition organization or a public school.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1769 (Escutia-D) Instructional materials
Requires the inclusion of an additional program option, the accelerated English program, in the 2008 Reading/Language Arts/ English Language Development Curriculum Frameworks and Criteria, and allows publishers to submit instructional materials that conform to the specified criteria for the accelerated English program.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1777 (Alarcon-D) Juvenile court schools: foster children
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a process to accept and review applications from county offices of education and school districts requesting funding for foster children attending juvenile court schools. Sunsets these provisions on January 1, 2012.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1814 (Torlakson-D) CEQA: schools
Authorizes, under the California Environmental Quality Act , a master environmental impact report to be prepared for a plan for school projects undertaken by a school district that complies with certain school facilities requirements.
Chapter 882, Statutes of 2006
SB 1853* (Cox-R) Education: funding: audit
Requires that the annual audit of each school district include the examination of "days of exceptional voluntary pupil absence" as part of the auditor's review of pupil attendance procedures. Requires that the annual audit of the fiscal year following the bill's enactment include an examination of pupil attendance on May 1, 2006.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
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.
(Died at the 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.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 64 (Scott-D) Arts Education Month
Proclaims March 2006 as Arts Education Month.
Resolution Chapter 3, Statutes of 2006
A similar resolution was ACR 26 (Liu) which dies in Assembly Rules Committee.
SR 30 (Figueroa-D) Educational Options Month
Proclaims May 2006 as Educational Options Month and encourages Californians to work together to ensure the future success of pupils participating in educational options in out state.
Adopted by the Senate
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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation 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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 232 (Arambula-D) Local educational agencies: administration
Clarifies the authority to approve sanctions for local educational agencies identified for corrective action, and the authority and conditions of apportionment for trustees and administrators. Establishes guidelines for those school districts in Fresno County that are identified for corrective action, requires school district intervention, as specified, and requires the Fresno County Superintendent to undertake new actions related to assessing, monitoring, and improving the academic achievement of certain districts and school.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 263 (Chan-D) College preparatory boarding school program
Establishes the Public College Preparatory Boarding School Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, to provide an alternative learning environment in a boarding school setting for disadvantaged pupils.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2909 (Chan-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 385 (Lieber-D) School districts: parcel taxes: exemptions
Allows local agencies to exempt persons receiving supplemental security income, regardless of age, from paying qualified special taxes.
Chapter 41, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 864 (Levine-D) Type 2 diabetes mellitus: pupil screening
Extends the sunset of a Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DMZ) pilot program from January 1, 2008 until 2010. This program screen pupils for the risk of developing DMZ.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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.
(Died 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 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 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.
(Died 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.
(Failed passage 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.
(Died 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 the public school system, to be overseen by the Superintendent of Public Instruction through a head Education Agency which is to be selected via a competitive grant process.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2006
AB 1246 (Wolk-D) Preschool learning standards
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, by January 1, 2008, to develop preschool instructional goals in the form of preschool learning standards. Requires the standards to be adopted and reviewed every seven years.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1319 (Liu-D) Adult education: joint data systems
Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a work group to report on the feasibility of a coordinated adult education data system.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2006
AB 1320 (Canciamilla-D) Schools: community college districts
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. Adds legislative intent language that calls on credit and noncredit resources of the community college districts to provide critical support for continuous workforce improvement and economic development.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1381 (Nunez-D) School district governance: LA Unified School District
Enacts the Gloria Romero Educational Reform Act of 2006. Revises the governance and operation of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in three major areas: broadens the LAUSD Superintendent's Authority, limits the authority and responsibilities of the LAUSD governing board, and establishes a council of mayors with specified roles and responsibilities. Establishes the Los Angeles Mayor's Community Partnership for School Excellence to administer, under the direction of the Mayor, a demonstration project to improve pupil performance among the lowest performing schools.
Chapter 299, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1433 (Emmerson-R) Pupil health: oral health assessment
Requires a pupil attending a public school while in kindergarten for first grade to present proof, by May 31 of each year, of having received and oral health assessment, as specified. Requires public schools to send a notification of the requirement to parents and to send a specified report to the public health department of the county.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2006
AB 1440 (Baca-D) School communications networks
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a review and evaluation of programs that enable schools and parents to form a communications network.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1535 (Nunez-D) School instructional gardens
Makes changes to the Instructional School Gardens Program and revises the 2006 Budget Act to clarify expenditures for the program.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2006
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 purchase and use electronic format instructional materials with state funding allocated for instructional materials.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2006
AB 1570 (Salinas-D) Instructional programs: partnership academies
Increases the number of California Partnership Academies and revises funding formulas, program requirements, and eligibility criteria.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
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 has been identified for program improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and that maintains grades K-12 to provide an additional 20 days of instructional time for that school (over and above the required 180 days).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
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.
(Died 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 1778 (Lieber-D) Pupil records: release of information: military recruiters
Specifies that schools that require parents or guardians to provide current emergency information shall include a specific notice in the emergency request from that (1) informs parents of their right not to have their student's personal contact information provided to military recruiters and/or intuitions of higher education without prior written consent, and (2) offers parents the ability to indicated their desire to withhold such information, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1779 (Karnette-D) Elementary schools: physical education
Establishes minimum requirements for physical education in grades 1-8.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1845 (Chavez-D) Physical education
Deletes the authority of a school district and office of county superintendent of schools to grant specified pupil exemptions from physical education courses that are currently allowed.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1918 (Wolk-D) Instructional programs
Includes students in kindergarten and grade 1 in supplemental instruction programs. Requires school districts and authorizes charter schools to provide supplemental instruction to students in kindergarten and first grade who have been retained or recommended for retention.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1944 (Berg-D) Small school district transportation
Adds replacement and reconditioning of school buses that were manufactured prior to January,1 1987 to the current priorities which may be used by small school districts and county offices of education (under 2,501 average daily attendance) to apply for funding for transportation equipment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1976 (Nava-D) Vehicles: school zone fines
Extends the repeal date of the school pedestrian-safety program from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2008.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2003 (Yee-D) Pupils
Establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Learning Support System pilot program in five unspecified school districts, with the goal of providing pupils with a support system so as to ensure that they will be productive and responsible learners and citizens.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2023 (Leslie-R) Schools: truancy: appointments
Allows students to be excused from school when they attend and participate in an educational conference activity on the subjects of legislative or judicial process conducted by a private nonprofit charitable organization. Allows pupils who are absent to complete all assignments and tests missed during the absence and be given full credit for those assignments or tests.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2037* (Plescia-R) Tax credits: school contributions
Provides a credit against net tax for contributions made in support of extracurricular public school activities.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2046 (Coto-D) Kindergarten: school day
Requires, beginning with the 2008-09 school year, school districts that currently offer instruction in kindergarten to implement a full-day kindergarten program, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2050 (Canciamilla-D) Concurrent enrollment in high school and community college
Requires the attendance of a student enrolled in a California Community College for vocational courses that satisfy high school graduation requirements (180 minute minimum school day), be computed and reported as attendance for the full 240 minute minimum schoolday. Makes numerous other reporting requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2065 (Liu-D) School libraries: standards
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, by December 31, 2007, school library content standards.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2071 (Richman-R) School districts: reorganization of large districts
Requires, no later than July 1, 2010, the reorganization of the Los Angeles Unified School District into several school districts with enrollments of no more than 50,000 pupils.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2094 (Goldberg-D) School districts: reorganization
Extends the repeal date, from January 1, 2009 to January 1, 2010, for provisions that establish a program that applies to unification petitions for school districts in Fresno County, Humboldt County and Ventura County, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2102 (Saldana-D) Military dependents: records
Requires the Department of Education to establish a formal liaison with the United States Department of Defense and school districts that enroll military dependents to address issues relative to the transfer between schools of students who are dependents of military personnel.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2006
AB 2163 (Nava-D) Pupils: supplemental instruction
Requires a school district or county office of education to allow a student to enroll in a fifth year of high school if the student enrolls before attaining 19 years of age. Proposes other requirements and exceptions for students who have not passed the high school exit exam. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt regulations governing apportionments for independent study.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2181* (Salinas-D) Truants: parents: court authority
Deletes the sunset date of January 1, 2006, from provisions related to mandatory education thereby extending indefinitely the authority of the court to order or punish a person for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2006
AB 2215 (Goldberg-D) School districts: governing board: compensation
Requires each member of the city board of education or the governing board of a school district, in a district with an average daily attendance of greater than 500,000 in the prior school year [the L.A. Unified School District], to receive a salary commensurate with the amount of time he or she spends on board duties. Requires each member to receive employment benefits on the same terms as certificated teachers of the school district.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2226 (Garcia-R) Diabetes screening: education: pupils
Requires, on or after July 1, 2010, each school district or the authority of each public institution to provide an information sheet regarding type 2 diabetes, as specified, to the parent or guardian of incoming 7th grade pupils, and requires the Department of Education to develop that information sheet.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2006
AB 2248 (Coto-D) Reading First Plan
Authorizes eligibility of schools to receive further Reading First funding, and provides a process to improve the accountability, monitoring, and inclusion components in the California Reading First Plan in order to improve the effectiveness of reading instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1-3.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2254 (Goldberg-D) Low performing schools: grant programs
Consolidates language and clarifies program requirements for schools in both the state High Priority Schools Grant Program and the federal Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program.
Chapter 766, Statutes of 2006
AB 2312 (Strickland-R) Pupil transfer policy
Prohibits school districts, associations or consortia of school districts, the California Interscholastic Federation, voluntary associations, or any other entity that governs interscholastic athletics or activities from prohibiting a pupil who transfers to a school from participating in interscholastic athletics or activities at that school, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2362 (Jerome Horton-D) Public contracts: job order contracting: school districts
Extends the sunset date on the Los Angeles Unified School District's job order contracting pilot project from December 1, 2007, to December 1, 2012.
Chapter 570, Statutes of 2006
AB 2431 (Goldberg-D) Class size reduction: alternative program
Expands the K-3 Class Size Reduction program to allow school districts with schools ranked in deciles one to three of the Academic Performance Index (API) to implement the program in grades four and five (in addition to grades one through three) and allows districts, beginning with the 2007-08 school year, with schools ranked in deciles four to 10 of the API to maintain a schoolsite average of 22 pupils to one teacher with no class exceeding 24 per pupils per class in grades K-3 (as an alternative to the existing 20 to 1 ratio).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2434 (Coto-D) Pupils: concurrent enrollment
Deletes provisions related to concurrent enrollment in K-12 and community college and establishes a pilot program that would provide high school pupils with assistance in passing the California High School Exit Exam.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 2448 (Hancock-D) Regional occupational centers and programs: administration
Phases out the number of adults that can be served through Regional Occupational Centers or Programs (ROCP's), implements several recommendations by the Legislative Analyst's Office to refocus ROCP services to high school students and ensure the courses are part of occupational course sequences, and makes various revisions to the operation and administration of ROCP's.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2006
AB 2510 (Lieu-D) Pupils: survey: harassment
Adds the requirement to an existing survey of drug and alcohol use to include an assessment of pupils' experiences with harassment and bullying and requires the Attorney General (AG) to release the findings of the survey by September of each even-numbered year. Requires the AG to prepare and distribute, on or before December 31 of each even-numbered year, a supplemental report focused on bias-related discrimination and harassment incidents.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2529 (Salinas-D) Public schools: partnership academies
Expands the California Partnership Academy (CPA) program by allowing 9th graders to participate and increasing grant amounts for each fiscal year (FY) of operation. Authorizes an increase in the number of CPA programs to 500 per year by the 2012-13 FY.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2540 (Hancock-D) School libraries: online databases: subscriptions
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon an appropriation in the annual budget act for this purpose, to convene an Online Database Advisory Committee to assist in developing an online database selection process for school districts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2560 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Public School Health Center Support Program
Requires the Department of Health Services, in cooperation with the Department of Education to establish a Public School Health Center Support Program located in the School Health Connections Office.
Chapter 334, Statutes of 2006
AB 2575 (Oropeza-D) Elementary and Secondary Education: textbooks
Emphasizes the importance of parental contributions and involvement in the selection of textbooks.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2596 (Sharon Runner-R) Pupils: age of admission: kindergarten
Changes, incrementally, the age at which a child is admitted to kindergarten. After three years (beginning in 2009-10), a child that has his or her fifth birthday on or before September 1 will be able to enroll in kindergarten.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2606 (Goldberg-D) School districts: reorganization
Establishes the School District Consolidation and Unification Incentive program to provide per pupil incentive funding over a three-year period for eligible small school districts that consolidate or unify between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2012. Specifies that the incentive payments are in effect only during fiscal years in which funding is specifically appropriated by the state for this purpose and that districts approved for incentive payments receive an eligibility extension for each year in which funding is not provided for the purposes of this program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2645 (Parra-D) Pupils: sun protection
Authorizes pupils to wear hats and sunscreen for sun protection without a note from a parent or a physician and authorizes each schoolsite to also set a policy related to what is considered outdoors for purposes of this bill.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2653 (Dymally-D) Accreditation: California Commission on Accreditation
Establishes the California Commission on Accreditation (CCA). Charges the CCA with the responsibility of reviewing and accrediting, or reviewing and declining to accredit, all elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools in that state that apply to the CCA for accreditation.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2654 (Coto-D) Instructional materials: surplus or obsolete
Permits the sale of usable surplus or undistributed obsolete instructional materials by school districts to organizations that would be permitted, with an assurance the materials will be used for educational purposes, to sell the materials for a profit.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2665 (Goldberg-D) California American Indian Education Commission
Establishes the California American Indian Education Commission in order to consider all phases of American Indian education, as specified. Requires the commission to be comprised of 13 members meeting various requirements. Authorizes the commission to (1) establish procedures that provide for culturally relevant educational materials to be recognized by the state and included in the classroom curricula, (2) submit an annual American Indian education status report to all California tribes, state funded American Indian Education Centers, and the Legislature. Authorizes the commission to appoint an executive director to be classified as a career executive assignment and would specify terms of employment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2671 (Salinas-D) Pupil attendance: precinct board membership
Deletes the requirement that a student must, in addition to meeting other criteria, be a senior to be eligible to serve as a member of a precinct board.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2006
AB 2684 (Montanez-D) Pupils: insurance for athletic teams
Requires a school district that operates an interscholastic athletic team to include a specific statement, as specified, in offers of insurance coverage that are sent to members of the school athletic team.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2006
AB 2722 (Canciamilla-D) Instructional materials: adoption
Prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting basic instructional materials in language arts and mathematics for the same grade level in consecutive years.
Chapter 887, Statutes of 2006
AB 2768 (Strickland-R) School districts: prohibited hiring
Prohibits a school district from hiring or engaging in business with persons convicted of certain crimes.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 2780 (Chavez-D) Adult education
Authorizes school districts that offer adult education programs to claim hours spent providing counseling, guidance, testing, and assessment services to students enrolled in adult education for the purposes of determining average daily attendance apportionments, and limits the hours claimed under these provisions to a maximum of five percent of the school district's total adult education entitlement. Requires school districts that submit applications for state construction or modernization funding to certify that facility needs for adult school facilities have been considered.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2785 (Hancock-D) Pupils: eighth grade counseling
Establishes the Eighth Grade Counseling Program, which assists eighth grade students in developing a curriculum plan for grades 9-12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2809 (Houston-R) Pupils: discipline
Provides that a school district is not required to expend district funds for suggested services provided to a pupil as an alternative to suspension or expulsion and makes changes to the existing process of determining suspension or expulsion of a pupil.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2812 (Umberg-D) Physical education: monetary awards
Establishes the Excellence in Physical Education Act of 2006 and requires the State Board of Education to provide monetary and non-monetary awards to schools that conduct their PE courses according to the PE model content standards and demonstrate that increasing number of pupils enrolled in that school meet minimum standards on the FITNESSGRAM* (state's physical fitness test).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2820 (Leslie-R) Automobile driver training: Teenage Driver Safety Program
Requires the Commissioner of the Highway Patrol to, in consultation with each school district that maintains one or more high schools with pupils who receive instruction in automobile driver training, develop a three-dimensional film on the subject of the dangers of teenage driving, and procure, whether by purchase, lease or other agreement, at least eight mobile three-dimensional theaters available to tour the state and show the three-dimensional film.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2825 (Ruskin-D) Schoolsites: hazardous emissions and substances
Requires a school district, in preparing the environmental impact report on a proposed schoolsite, to identify any proposed facilities that emit hazardous air emissions or handle specified hazardous substances within a one-fourth mile of the proposed site.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2832 (Sharon Runner-R) School districts: public project contracts
Allows school districts to forgo competitive bidding of changes to existing contracts if the amount is less than 10 percent of all contracts the school district has entered into, rather than the current requirement that competitive bidding is required for changes to each contract that will cost more than 10 percent the original contract price.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2833 (Sharon Runner-R) School districts: public project contracts
Allows school districts to forgo competitive bidding of construction contracts of less than $50,000, rather than the current threshold of $15,000, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adjust that amount annually to reflect inflation Requires bidders on school contracts for goods, services, and construction to submit a pre-qualification form 15 days prior to the public bid opening, rather than the current five day requirement.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2872 (Huff-R) School districts: organization: governing board trustees
Increases, for most school and community college districts, the number of qualified registered voters whose signatures are required in order to submit a petition to a county committee on school district organization.
Chapter 126, Statutes of 2006
AB 2891 (La Malfa-R) Prohibited instruction: pupil surveys
Adds "gender" and "sexual orientation" to the current list of personal beliefs or practices of a pupil as they relate to the requirement that no test, questionnaire, survey, or examination containing questions about personal beliefs or practices of the pupils, as specified, can be administered to any pupil in grades kindergarten through 12, unless the parent or legal guardian of the pupil is notified in writing that the test, questionnaire, survey or examination is to be administered and the parent or guardian gives written permission for the pupil to take the test, questionnaire, survey or examination.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2898 (Daucher-R) Pupils: algebra readiness for English language learners
Establishes the Algebra Readiness English language learner (ELL) pilot program (until December 31, 2008) to be administered by the State Department of Education to award one competitive grant of up to $750,000 in federal Title III: English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement Act per local education agency to improve the mathematics proficiency of ELL students.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2921 (Montanez-D) Los Angeles Unified School District
Requires the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), in collaboration with the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and upon the release of the Bureau of State Audits' (BSA) report examining the organizational structure of LAUSD, to develop a plan of implementation for the recommendations of the BSA.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2989 (Karnette-D) Pupils: mandatory supplemental instruction
Authorizes the Long Beach Unified School District to require pupils identified pursuant to a policy adopted by the governing board of the school district at a regularly scheduled meeting to participate in a supplemental instruction program authorized by the state.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2006
AB 3062 (Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee) Education: election forms
Requires the Secretary of State to annually provide every high school with a number of forms that is consistent with the number of students enrolled at each school who is of voting age or who will be of voting age by the end of the year. Requires the Secretary of State to provide additional forms to any school, free of charge, is so requested by the school.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2006
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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
ACR 45 (Assembly Education Committee) School Library Media Month
Proclaims April 2005 as State Library Media Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
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.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)
ACR 98 (Shirley Horton-R) Language and cultural education
Proclaims May 2006 as World Languages and Cultures Month.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2006
ACR 120 (Niello-R) Financial Literacy Month
Declares the month of April 2996 as Financial Literacy Month in order to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2006
ACR 164 (Goldberg-D) School mascots: Native American mascots
Request the California Interscholastic Federation to adopt policies, as specified, relative to the use of hostile or abusive Native American mascots and any other hostile or abusive, racial, ethnic, or national origin mascot.
(Passed the Assembly; not taken up in the Senate due to legislative deadlines)
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.
(Died in Assembly Education Finance and the Teaching Profession Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 30* | Speier-D Tax deductions: 529 College Savings Plans | Higher Education |
| SB 55 | Lowenthal-D Community college district governing boards: meeting agendas | Higher Education |
| SB 69* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education facilities bond acts: 2006 and 2008 | School Facilities Higher Education |
| SB 86 | Romero-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| SB 136 | Denham-R School attendance requirements | Miscellaneous |
| SB 142 | Florez-D Local government employment contracts | School Employees |
| SB 151 | Soto-D Vehicles: school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program | School Safety |
| SB 160 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid: California Dream Act | Higher Education |
| SB 191 | Cedillo-D Voter registration: public institutions of higher education | Higher Education |
| SB 219 | Alquist-D School finance | School Finance |
| SB 260 | Denham-R Education finance: average daily attendance: apportionments | School Finance |
| SB 267* | Romero-D California High School Exit Examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 337 | Maldonado-R Postsecondary education: public postsecondary institutions | Higher Education |
| SB 361* | Scott-D Community colleges: funding | Higher Education |
| SB 362 | Torlakson-D Physical education | School Finance |
| SB 368 | Escutia-D English language tutoring | Bilingual Education |
| SB 384 | Maldonado-R Public schools: instruction: Declaration of Independence | School Curriculum |
| SB 407 | Margett-R Corporate taxes: Postsecondary Education Trust Fund | Higher Education |
| SB 428 | Scott-D Teachers | School Employees |
| SB 445 | Ducheny-D Commission on Statewide Postsecondary Education Policy | Higher Education |
| SB 462 | Morrow-R Facilities in adjacent counties: waiver | Charter Schools |
| SB 472 | Alquist-D Mathematics and Reading Professional Development Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 486 | Migden-D Local government finance | Miscellaneous |
| SB 514 | Senate Education Committee Education technology | Miscellaneous |
| SB 517* | Romero-D High school exit examination: pupils with disabilities | Special Education School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 531 | Ortiz-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| SB 539 | Ashburn-R Child day care: CalWORKs child care program | Child and Day Care |
| SB 560 | Migden-D Career technical education: school district reporting | Vocational Education |
| SB 562 | Torlakson-D Physical education: California Interscholastic Federation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 604 | Aanestad-R Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 605 | Machado-D Special education: alternative dispute resolution | Special Education |
| SB 622 | Speier-D Correctional facilities: educational programs | Miscellaneous |
| SB 635 | Alarcon-D Advancement Via Individual Determination program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 638* | Torlakson-D Before and after school programs | School Finance |
| SB 652 | Scott-D Public postsecondary education: transfers | Higher Education |
| SB 659 | Scott-D Student financial aid: state-funded: Scholarshare account | Higher Education |
| SB 660 | Kuehl-D Public school pupils: interrogation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 662 | Migden-D Teachers: California Preliminary credential | School Employees |
| SB 667 | Migden-D University of California: competitive bidding | Higher Education |
| SB 682 | Simitian-D Postsecondary education facilities | Higher Education |
| SB 694 | Morrow-R School districts: report on undocumented alien pupils | Miscellaneous |
| SB 696 | Escutia-D Instructional materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 697 | Soto-D Child care: provider organization: representation | Child and Day Care |
| SB 698 | Poochigian-R Schoolbus replacement | Miscellaneous |
| SB 709 | Speier-D Community colleges: board of governors | Higher Education |
| SB 711 | Dutton-R School facilities: civic centers | School Facilities |
| SB 741 | Ducheny-D Charter schools: average daily attendance | Charter Schools |
| SB 758* | Maldonado-R State Teachers' Retirement System: postretirement earnings | School Employees |
| SB 767 | Romero-D School district governance: study and report | Miscellaneous |
| SB 794 | Scott-D Vocational education: requirements | Vocational Education |
| SB 812 | Soto-D Schools: education technology: access and integration | Miscellaneous |
| SB 813 | Denham-R School facilities | School Facilities |
| SB 821 | Perata-D School districts: state-appointed administrators | School Finance |
| SB 825 | Maldonado-R Career Technical Education Accountability Act of 2005 | Vocational Education |
| SB 842 | Machado-D Teacher development | School Employees |
| SB 846 | Aanestad-R Charter school funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 860 | Bowen-D Credit card processing fees: state agents | Higher Education |
| SB 867 | Alarcon-D Education finance | School Finance |
| SB 871 | Scott-D Postsecondary education accountability | Higher Education |
| SB 918 | Speier-D Public postsecondary education: academic standards | Higher Education |
| SB 924 | Speier-D Driving schools: Class A commercial driver's licenses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 925 | Alarcon-D High schools: college preparatory courses | Miscellaneous |
| SB 933 | Machado-D Teacher credentialing: district interns | School Employees |
| SB 949 | Machado-D Education: school safety | School Safety |
| SB 958 | Simitian-D School districts: declining enrollment | School Finance |
| SB 971 | Poochigian-R Assault: school employees | School Employees |
| SB 1011* | Florez-D California State Lottery: multistate lottery | School Finance |
| SB 1040 | Dunn-D Public postsecondary education: fees and tuition | Higher Education |
| SB 1055 | Bowen-D State Teachers' Retirement Board | School Employees |
| SB 1072 | Simitian-D Professional development block grant consolidation | School Employees |
| SB 1073 | Simitian-D Instructional strategies: subject matter projects | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1077 | Simitian-D Education finance: revenue limit equalization | School Finance |
| SB 1078 | Simitian-D Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1080 | Campbell-R Adult education | School Finance |
| SB 1094 | Soto-D State Teachers' Retirement Plan: creditable compensation | School Employees |
| SB 1124 | Torlakson-D Teacher development | School Employees |
| SB 1131* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education funding | School Finance Charter Schools |
| SB 1133 | Torlakson-D School and community college districts: minimum funding | School Finance Higher Education |
| SB 1142 | Alquist-D Science Teacher Development Act | School Employees |
| SB 1170 | Alquist-D Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 1181 | Maldonado-R Public postsecondary education: administrative salaries | Higher Education |
| SB 1185 | Runner-R School employees: compulsory leave of absence compensation | School Employees |
| SB 1186 | Morrow-R School districts: transfer of territory | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1190 | Alquist-D Instructional programs: Science Teacher Development Act | School Employees |
| SB 1193 | Bowen-D Pupil attendance: precinct board membership | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1195 | Alquist-D Child care: regional market rates | Child and Day Care |
| SB 1203 | Morrow-R School facilities: portable classrooms | School Facilities |
| SB 1209 | Scott-D Teachers | School Employees |
| SB 1217 | Runner-R Class size reduction: Lancaster School District | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1221 | Alquist-D California High School Exit Examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1227 | Denham-R Prima facie speed limits: schools: school zones | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1234 | Scott-D Vocational education: career training | Vocational Education |
| SB 1236 | Morrow-R Public postsecondary education: resident classification | Higher Education |
| SB 1255 | Cox-R Local agencies: contracts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1264 | Alquist-D Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| SB 1275 | Scott-D Special education local plan areas: placements | Special Education |
| SB 1279 | Alquist-D School facilities: seismic safety: survey | School Facilities |
| SB 1284 | Scott-D School performance | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1290 | Ducheny-D Community colleges: facilities | Higher Education |
| SB 1292 | Scott-D Teachers: limited-English-proficient pupils | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| SB 1293 | Kuehl-D State library: access to electronic and online materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1302* | Ashburn-R Before and after school programs: funding | School Finance School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1303 | Runner-R Pupils: concurrent enrollment | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| SB 1304 | Runner-R Community colleges: facilities | Higher Education |
| SB 1306 | Poochigian-R Standardized Testing and Reporting Program: reports | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1309 | Scott-D Nursing education | Higher Education |
| SB 1324 | Lowenthal-D School buildings: relocatable buildings | School Facilities |
| SB 1326 | Runner-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1327 | Soto-D Compulsory education law: individuals with exceptional needs | Special Education |
| SB 1357 | Dutton-R Equalization of school funding per pupil | School Finance |
| SB 1358* | Simitian-D School finance: revenue limits | School Finance |
| SB 1367 | Ducheny-D Coachella Valley Unified School District: funding | School Finance |
| SB 1383* | Ortiz-D Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| SB 1385 | Vincent-D School employees: termination | School Employees |
| SB 1411 | Ortiz-D Interscholastic athletics: transfer eligibility | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1412 | Morrow-R Public postsecondary education: Student Bill of Rights | Higher Education |
| SB 1415 | Scott-D Surplus school property: use of proceeds | School Finance |
| SB 1421 | Margett-R Child care: CalWORKs recipients: fraud | Child and Day Care |
| SB 1433 | Torlakson-D California Teacher Leadership Pilot Program | School Employees |
| SB 1437 | Kuehl-D School instruction: prohibition of discriminatory content | School Curriculum |
| SB 1442 | Escutia-D Schools: examination fees | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1446 | Perata-D Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 1454 | Torlakson-D Hazings | Higher Education |
| SB 1456 | Lowenthal-D School facilities: best value contracting | School Facilities |
| SB 1457 | Simitian-D School district retirement employee benefits | School Employees |
| SB 1460* | Cox-R Community colleges: inmate education programs | Higher Education |
| SB 1465 | Soto-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| SB 1466 | Senate Public Employment And Retirement Committee State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits | School Employees |
| SB 1471 | Kuehl-D Sex education programs: requirements | School Curriculum |
| SB 1473 | Figueroa-D Private Postsecondary Education and Student Protection Act | Higher Education Vocational Education |
| SB 1488 | Hollingsworth-R Surplus school property: use of proceeds | School Finance |
| SB 1497 | Dutton-R Community colleges: waiver of enrollment fees | Higher Education |
| SB 1510 | Alquist-D School accountability: report card | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1514 | Maldonado-R School finance: retirement benefit liabilities | School Finance |
| SB 1520* | Ducheny-D University of California: Health System | Higher Education |
| SB 1526 | Alarcon-D Pupils: academic support program: dropouts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1533 | Scott-D Paraprofessional teachers | School Employees |
| SB 1543 | Alarcon-D High school curriculum: coursework requirements | School Curriculum |
| SB 1546 | Alarcon-D Community colleges: concurrent award of associate degree | Higher Education |
| SB 1549 | Alarcon-D Minimum school day: high school | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1552 | Scott-D California Community Colleges | Higher Education |
| SB 1563 | Escutia-D Community colleges: Community College Early Assessment Pilot | Higher Education |
| SB 1567 | Soto-D English language education: teacher coaching program | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| SB 1568 | Dunn-D Law schools and law degree programs | Higher Education |
| SB 1571 | Maldonado-R Public postsecondary education: employee compensation | Higher Education |
| SB 1575 | Dunn-D Curriculum: human rights: unconstitutional deportation | School Curriculum |
| SB 1577 | Romero-D Schools: accreditation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1580 | Ducheny-D Pupil assessment: English language learners | Bilingual Education School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1585 | Margett-R State Allocation Board: executive officer | School Facilities |
| SB 1588 | Dutton-R School finance: equalization adjustments | School Finance |
| SB 1592 | Romero-D Pupils: high school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1600 | Kuehl-D Child care | Child and Day Care |
| SB 1614 | Simitian-D Teachers: information system: identification number | School Employees |
| SB 1644 | Escutia-D Pupils: school accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 1646 | Ducheny-D Pupils: California Indian education centers | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1652 | Vincent-D Community colleges: facilities: leases | Higher Education |
| SB 1653* | Alarcon-D K-12 Pupil Support Instructional Materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1655 | Scott-D Teachers: voluntary transfers | School Employees |
| SB 1662 | Lowenthal-D Teachers: limited-English-proficient certificate requirement | School Employees |
| SB 1674* | Murray-D Public schools: meal reimbursement | School Finance Pupil Nutrition |
| SB 1677 | Torlakson-D School facilities: joint-use facilities | School Facilities |
| SB 1680 | Perata-D School finance: attendance and enrollment | School Finance |
| SB 1684 | Romero-D High school: diploma of graduation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1704 | Kuehl-D University of California: health care | Higher Education |
| SB 1709 | Scott-D Postsecondary education: College Opportunity Act of 2006 | Higher Education |
| SB 1710 | Ackerman-R California American Indian Education Center Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1717 | Perata-D School finance: revenue limits: unified districts | School Finance |
| SB 1724 | Runner-R California State University | Higher Education |
| SB 1731 | Speier-D Guidance counseling: funding | School Employees |
| SB 1736 | Ackerman-R One-to-One Laptop Computer Pilot Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1740 | Murray-D Pupil's instruction: Internet safety curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 1750* | Vincent-D Child development centers: funding and auditing | Child and Day Care |
| SB 1751 | Speier-D Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| SB 1764 | Runner-R Kindergarten: age of admission | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1768* | Hollingsworth-R Income and corporation taxes: school contributions | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1769 | Escutia-D Instructional materials | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1774* | Torlakson-D Before and after school programs: appropriations | School Finance |
| SB 1777 | Alarcon-D Juvenile court schools: foster children | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1814 | Torlakson-D CEQA: schools | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1819 | Figueroa-D Student financial aid: cost assistance for GED test takers | Higher Education |
| SB 1824 | Migden-D Teachers: California Preliminary credential | School Employees |
| SB 1853* | Cox-R Education: funding: audit | Miscellaneous |
| SCA 12 | Torlakson-D Before and after school programs: funding | School Finance |
| SCR 31 | Simitian-D Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Education | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 63 | Florez-D California school bus emissions reduction | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 64 | Scott-D Arts Education Month | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 82 | Alquist-D Day of the Teacher | School Employees |
| SJR 15 | Dutton-R Retirement benefits: teachers | School Employees |
| SJR 34 | Ortiz-D School Medicaid services | School Finance |
| SR 30 | Figueroa-D Educational Options Month | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1X | Perata-D School finance: local control | School Finance |
| AB 1 | Baca-D Instruction: labor history | School Curriculum |
| AB 3* | Blakeslee-R Income tax: deduction: education savings | Miscellaneous |
| AB 9 | Coto-D Education finance: sales and use taxes: services | School Finance |
| AB 29* | Nava-D Income taxation: credentialed teachers' credit | School Employees |
| AB 39 | Walters-R Charter schools: alternative authority | Charter Schools |
| AB 49* | Benoit-R Teacher credentialing: CBEST: exemption | School Employees |
| AB 60 | Nunez-D School finance: revenue limit equalization | School Finance |
| AB 66 | Pavley-D Kindergarten | Miscellaneous |
| AB 93 | Jerome Horton-D Instructional materials: donation or sale | Miscellaneous |
| AB 103 | Cohn-D Pupil safety: disaster preparedness | School Safety |
| AB 122 | Spitzer-R Family day care | Child and Day Care |
| AB 123 | Dymally-D Teacher credentialing | School Employees |
| AB 127* | Nunez-D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act | School Facilities |
| AB 162 | Leslie-R School facilities: Department of General Services | School Facilities Higher Education |
| AB 171 | Yee-D Pupils | Miscellaneous |
| AB 172 | Chan-D Child care: state preschool programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 196 | Liu-D Postsecondary education: accountability | Higher Education |
| AB 226* | Bermudez-D Automotive technology education | School Curriculum |
| AB 232 | Arambula-D Local educational agencies: administration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 263 | Chan-D College preparatory boarding school program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 266 | DeVore-R Large family day care homes: permits | Child and Day Care |
| AB 307 | Chavez-D Education technology: grants: requirements | School Finance |
| AB 308 | Jerome Horton-D Substitute teachers | School Employees |
| AB 309 | Walters-R Teacher credentialing: pupil achievement | School Employees |
| AB 315 | Hancock-D School facilities: energy efficiency: design standards | School Facilities |
| AB 317 | Dymally-D Community college finance | Higher Education |
| AB 318* | Dymally-D Community colleges: funding | Higher Education |
| AB 349 | Mountjoy-R Prohibited instruction: sexual instruction or counseling | School Curriculum |
| AB 358 | Liu-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| AB 368 | Evans-D Technical Education: equipment: sales | Vocational Education |
| AB 385 | Lieber-D School districts: parcel taxes: exemptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 387 | Arambula-D School districts: post-retirement employee benefits | School Employees |
| AB 390 | Canciamilla-D Pupil instruction: social sciences | School Curriculum |
| AB 412 | Dymally-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 416 | Plescia-R School facilities: religious services | School Facilities |
| AB 468 | Yee-D Interagency responsibilities over handicapped children | Special Education |
| AB 469 | Yee-D School food: nutrition guidelines | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 473 | Liu-D Community colleges: student fees | Higher Education |
| AB 476 | Baca-D Assumption Program of Loan for Education | Higher Education |
| AB 494 | Montanez-D School facilities: replacement buildings | School Facilities |
| AB 506 | Montanez-D Teen dating violence: prevention and education | School Safety School Curriculum |
| AB 523 | Negrete McLeod-D Community college districts: sale of property | Higher Education |
| AB 539 | Daucher-R School facilities: new construction: modernization | School Facilities |
| AB 548* | Garcia-R Sales and use tax: exemptions: back-to-school products | Miscellaneous |
| AB 569* | Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: school meals: school breakfast study | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 572 | Wolk-D Supplemental instruction: pupils recommended for retention | Miscellaneous |
| AB 606 | Levine-D Safe schools: discrimination and harassment | School Safety |
| AB 607 | Goldberg-D School Facilities Emergency Repair Account | School Facilities |
| AB 617 | Benoit-R Child day care facilities: rating system | Child and Day Care |
| AB 622 | Negrete McLeod-D School meals: reimbursement | School Finance |
| AB 633 | Benoit-R Child day care facilities: licensing | Child and Day Care |
| AB 659* | Chan-D School districts: reserve for economic uncertainties | School Finance |
| AB 670 | Goldberg-D School facilities: new construction: modernization | School Facilities |
| AB 680 | Chan-D English language learners | Bilingual Education |
| AB 692 | Chan-D School facilities: charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 700 | Jerome Horton-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| AB 705 | Nakanishi-R Public employees' retirement: school members | School Employees |
| AB 741 | Goldberg-D Courses of study: curriculum recommendations | School Curriculum |
| AB 751 | Chu-D Regulation of purveyors of private college financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 756 | Goldberg-D Flexible Funding for Pupil Achievement Program | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 775 | Yee-D Regents of the University of California: compensation | Higher Education |
| AB 786 | Ruskin-D Identity theft: California State University employees | Higher Education |
| AB 788 | Montanez-D Family Child Career Ladder pilot project | Child and Day Care |
| AB 827 | Goldberg-D Private postsecondary education: consumer credit regulations | Higher Education |
| AB 829 | Daucher-R Alternative dispute resolution: pilot program | Special Education |
| AB 840* | Arambula-D California Community College Transfer Cal Grant | Higher Education |
| AB 864 | Levine-D Type 2 diabetes mellitus: pupil screening | Miscellaneous |
| AB 870* | Bermudez-D Public postsecondary education: limitations on tuition | Higher Education |
| AB 872 | Bogh-R School buses: school districts: reporting of driver incident | Miscellaneous |
| AB 883 | Plescia-R Funding: pupils over the age of 19 | Charter Schools |
| AB 918 | Wyland-R California State University: career technical education | Higher Education |
| AB 933 | Emmerson-R Public postsecondary education: statewide student fee policy | Higher Education |
| AB 937 | Wyland-R Instruction: science | School Employees |
| AB 949 | Coto-D Instructional time: alternative schools | Miscellaneous |
| AB 950 | Coto-D Teacher credentialing: criminal record summaries | School Employees |
| AB 951 | Coto-D Bonds: interest accrued: deposit in general fund | School Finance |
| AB 958 | De La Torre-D School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling | School Finance |
| AB 973 | Jerome Horton-D Los Angeles Unified School District | School Finance |
| AB 1032 | Jones-D Preschool teachers: professional learning | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1056 | Chu-D Tolerance and intergroup relations | School Curriculum |
| AB 1072 | Liu-D Public postsecondary education: student fee policy | Higher Education |
| AB 1073 | Liu-D Average daily attendance: growth formula | School Finance |
| AB 1076 | Jerome Horton-D Curriculum: social science | School Curriculum |
| AB 1077 | Chan-D Pupil health | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1089 | Umberg-D Career technical programs | Vocational Education |
| AB 1092* | Daucher-R Special education: conformity with law | Special Education |
| AB 1095* | Mullin-D Child care: center-based programs: schedule: staff training | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1100 | Mullin-D Content standards: review panels | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1112 | Cohn-D Pupil nutrition: California Fresh Start Pilot Program | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 1137 | Dymally-D Child care centers: asthma and anaphylactic emergencies | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1154 | La Suer-R School districts: excused absences: parental consent | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1171 | Haynes-R Revocation of charter: notice and appeal procedures | Charter Schools |
| AB 1177 | Chan-D Personal income tax: rates: education finance | School Finance |
| AB 1181 | Matthews-D Concept 6 program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1191 | Benoit-R Transportation: equalization adjustment | School Finance |
| AB 1212 | Wyland-R California Local Education Accountability Reform Act | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1213 | Wyland-R Teacher identifier | School Employees |
| AB 1214 | Wyland-R Instruction: science | School Employees School Curriculum |
| AB 1215 | Wyland-R English language instruction | Bilingual Education |
| AB 1216 | Leslie-R Local agency investments: school districts | School Finance |
| AB 1217 | Wyland-R Sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention education | School Curriculum |
| AB 1218 | Wyland-R The William J. "Pete" Knight Memorial Act | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1219 | De La Torre-D Public education: school operations: school transportation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1228 | Daucher-R Internet connectivity | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1246 | Wolk-D Preschool learning standards | School Curriculum Miscellaneous |
| AB 1253 | Coto-D Pupils: graduation requirements | School Curriculum |
| AB 1254 | Coto-D Preschool teachers: limited English proficiency | Bilingual Education School Employees |
| AB 1260 | Hancock-D Pupils in out-of-home placement | Special Education |
| AB 1262* | Haynes-R Tax credit: Educational Assistance Organizations | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1282* | Mullin-D Income taxes: credits: child care | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1286 | Evans-D Community college districts: property: sale or lease | Higher Education |
| AB 1292 | Evans-D School facilities: air quality | School Facilities |
| AB 1300 | Arambula-D School facilities: modernization apportionments | School Facilities |
| AB 1306 | Liu-D School personnel | School Employees |
| AB 1315 | Liu-D Cal Grant B awards: access costs | Higher Education |
| AB 1319 | Liu-D Adult education: joint data systems | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| AB 1320 | Canciamilla-D Schools: community college districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1350 | Cogdill-R Public postsecondary education: reimbursement of fees | Higher Education |
| AB 1377 | Dymally-D School attendance | School Finance |
| AB 1381 | Nunez-D School district governance: LA Unified School District | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1394 | Sharon Runner-R Kindergarten entrance date | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1399 | Garcia-R Student financial aid: California National Guard members | Higher Education |
| AB 1404 | Coto-D Teacher credentialing | School Employees |
| AB 1409 | Baca-D Academic assessment | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1410 | Baca-D Regional Career Technical High School Pilot Program | Vocational Education |
| AB 1416 | Goldberg-D Critically overcrowded schools: Concept 6 Program | School Facilities |
| AB 1417 | Daucher-R Special education: due process hearing | Special Education |
| AB 1420 | Niello-R School districts: unification and funding | School Finance |
| AB 1425 | Daucher-R Community colleges economic and workforce development | Higher Education |
| AB 1433 | Emmerson-R Pupil health: oral health assessment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1436* | Baca-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: military veterans | Higher Education |
| AB 1440 | Baca-D School communications networks | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1451 | Goldberg-D School facilities: ongoing eligibility | School Facilities |
| AB 1452 | Nunez-D California Student Access Scholarship Endowment | Higher Education |
| AB 1468 | McCarthy-R School and community college districts: classified employees | Higher Education School Employees |
| AB 1482 | Canciamilla-D School district bonds | School Finance |
| AB 1483 | Arambula-D Pupil testing: English language learners | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1490 | Canciamilla-D Teacher credentialing: waiver | Higher Education School Employees |
| AB 1503 | Mullin-D Declining enrollment: average daily attendance: adjustment | School Finance |
| AB 1532 | Bass-D Cal Grants: foster youth | Higher Education |
| AB 1535 | Nunez-D School instructional gardens: pupil nutrition | School Curriculum Pupil Nutrition Miscellaneous |
| AB 1548 | Pavley-D Instructional materials: electronic format | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1569 | Cogdill-R Rural county unified school districts: funding | School Finance |
| AB 1570 | Salinas-D Instructional programs: partnership academies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1578 | Bermudez-D Transportation: East Whittier City School District | School Finance |
| AB 1592 | Goldberg-D Increased Instructional Time for Improving Schools Program | School Accountability and Testing Miscellaneous |
| AB 1601 | Laird-D Child care: provider registration: background checks | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1604 | Saldana-D Community colleges: annual Budget Act | Higher Education |
| AB 1608 | Liu-D Vocational education: requirements | Vocational Education |
| AB 1667 | Saldana-D Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 1680 | Daucher-R Kindergarten | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1685 | Klehs-D Education: animal slaughter | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1691 | Lieber-D Teacher credentialing: custodial setting: felons | School Employees |
| AB 1695 | Goldberg-D Diagnostic reading test | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1697 | Pavley-D Day care centers licensure: location | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1758* | Umberg-D High Priority Schools Grant Program | School Finance |
| AB 1770* | Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee State Teachers' Retirement System: military service | School Employees |
| AB 1778 | Lieber-D Pupil records: release of information: military recruiters | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1779 | Karnette-D Elementary schools: physical education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1780* | Baca-D Community colleges: enrollment fees | Higher Education |
| AB 1782 | Mullin-D Multistate lottery: distribution of revenues | School Finance |
| AB 1786 | Bermudez-D Home-to-school transportation | School Finance |
| AB 1802* | Assembly Budget Committee Education: budget trailer bill | School Finance School Facilities Bilingual Education Charter Schools Child and Day Care Special Education School Accountability and Testing Higher Education School Employees Pupil Nutrition Vocational Education |
| AB 1806* | Assembly Budget Committee Teacher retirement | School Employees |
| AB 1808* | Assembly Budget Committee Child care: 2006 State Budget | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1809* | Assembly Budget Committee Budget Trailer bill: teachers | School Employees |
| AB 1811* | Laird-D Education funding: budget trailer bill | School Finance Special Education Higher Education |
| AB 1836 | Daucher-R Teachers: math, science, and engineering professionals | School Employees |
| AB 1837* | Daucher-R Accountability report card: template: review | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1842 | Coto-D Technical Education: equipment: sales | Vocational Education |
| AB 1845 | Chavez-D Physical education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1846 | Berg-D School construction: minimum essential facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 1857 | Garcia-R Teacher credentialing: internship programs | School Employees |
| AB 1867 | Karnette-D School employees: CPR training | School Employees |
| AB 1874 | Daucher-R Categorical Education Block Grant Consolidation | School Finance |
| AB 1895 | Coto-D Surplus school property: use of proceeds | School Finance |
| AB 1896 | Coto-D High schools: curriculum requirements | School Curriculum |
| AB 1916 | Garcia-R Pupil nutrition: school meals | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 1917 | DeVore-R Teacher and administrative personnel: pay and benefit | School Employees |
| AB 1918 | Wolk-D Instructional programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1934 | Hancock-D School facilities: seismic safety upgrades | School Facilities |
| AB 1943 | Nava-D Community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 1944 | Berg-D Small school district transportation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1950 | Lieu-D Instruction: economics | School Curriculum |
| AB 1967 | Assembly Education Committee Education | School Finance |
| AB 1968 | Leslie-R Community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 1972 | Daucher-R Community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 1976 | Nava-D Vehicles: school zone fines | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1985 | Daucher-R Instructional programs: the Online Classroom Program | School Employees School Curriculum |
| AB 1986 | De La Torre-D California State University: contracts | Higher Education |
| AB 1988 | Coto-D English language learners: program development | Bilingual Education |
| AB 2003 | Yee-D Pupils | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2007* | Nava-D Montecito Union Elementary School District | School Finance |
| AB 2009 | Wolk-D Charter schools: high school graduation requirements | Charter Schools |
| AB 2020 | Cogdill-R Rural unified school districts: funding | School Finance |
| AB 2023 | Leslie-R Schools: truancy: appointments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2024 | Benoit-R Personal services contracting | School Employees |
| AB 2030 | Haynes-R Charter schools: revocation | Charter Schools |
| AB 2036 | Nakanishi-R Community colleges: Amador County facility | Higher Education |
| AB 2037* | Plescia-R Tax credits: school contributions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2040* | Chu-D Exit examination: summer and Saturday administration | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2045 | Parra-D School facilities: funding | School Facilities |
| AB 2046 | Coto-D Kindergarten: school day | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2047 | Huff-R Charter schools: facilities: grants | Charter Schools |
| AB 2050 | Canciamilla-D Concurrent enrollment in high school and community college | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2053 | Strickland-R Public postsecondary education: tuition | Higher Education |
| AB 2054 | Shirley Horton-R Subject matter knowledge: foreign languages | School Employees |
| AB 2063 | Richman-R Agricultural career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 2065 | Liu-D School libraries: standards | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2070* | Daucher-R School finance: revenue limits | School Finance |
| AB 2071 | Richman-R School districts: reorganization of large districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2086 | Dymally-D Community Colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 2094 | Goldberg-D School districts: reorganization | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2101 | Parra-D Independent study: pupils in military families | School Curriculum |
| AB 2102 | Saldana-D Military dependents: records | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2107 | Karnette-D Career technical education: regional occupational | Vocational Education |
| AB 2109 | Goldberg-D Teachers: staff development | School Employees |
| AB 2115 | Hancock-D California Career Technical Education Coordinating Council | School Curriculum Vocational Education |
| AB 2117 | Coto-D English language learners: pilot project | Bilingual Education School Accountability and Testing School Employees |
| AB 2121 | Nava-D Farm Fresh Schools Program | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 2148 | McCarthy-R School facilities: supplemental funding: project management | School Facilities |
| AB 2149 | McCarthy-R School facilities: modernization: supplemental grant | School Facilities |
| AB 2150 | McCarthy-R Preschool: California Ready to Start Program: funding | School Finance |
| AB 2153 | Liu-D Adult education | School Finance |
| AB 2163 | Nava-D Pupils: supplemental instruction | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2165 | La Suer-R Postsecondary education: athletes | Higher Education |
| AB 2167 | Arambula-D Pupil achievement | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2168 | Liu-D Postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2179 | Leslie-R University of California | Higher Education |
| AB 2180 | Garcia-R California High School Exit Examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2181* | Salinas-D Truants: parents: court authority | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2196 | Spitzer-R Child day care: information: registered sex offenders | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2204 | Nunez-D California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers | School Employees |
| AB 2215 | Goldberg-D School districts: governing board: compensation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2221 | Vargas-D Schoolsite acquisition: requirements | School Facilities |
| AB 2222 | Nunez-D Education finance: professional development block grant | School Finance |
| AB 2226 | Garcia-R Diabetes screening: education: pupils | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2248 | Coto-D Reading First Plan | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2254 | Goldberg-D Low performing schools: grant programs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2255 | De La Torre-D High school exit examination: administration | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2293 | Nava-D Unemployment compensation: school employment | School Employees |
| AB 2311 | Mountjoy-R Instruction: prohibition: homosexuality | School Curriculum |
| AB 2312 | Strickland-R Pupil transfer policy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2323 | Huff-R Charter schools: facilities | Charter Schools |
| AB 2362 | Jerome Horton-D Public contracts: job order contracting: school districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2381 | Dymally-D Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2403 | DeVore-R Large family day care homes: permits | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2410* | Sharon Runner-R Vasquez High School multipurpose structure | School Facilities |
| AB 2417 | Wyland-R High school exit examination: adult education programs | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2419 | Wyland-R Career technical education facilities | School Facilities |
| AB 2420 | Lieu-D State government: collection of demographic data | Higher Education |
| AB 2421 | Wyland-R Teacher credentials: technical education: emergency permits | School Employees |
| AB 2422 | Wyland-R Teacher training: career technical education | School Employees |
| AB 2431 | Goldberg-D Class size reduction: alternative program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2434 | Coto-D Pupils: concurrent enrollment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2445 | Salinas-D Instructional programs: State Seal of Biliteracy | School Employees |
| AB 2448 | Hancock-D Regional occupational centers and programs: administration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2462 | Mullin-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| AB 2472 | Wyland-R Public postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2489 | Leno-D Higher education: Foster Youth | Higher Education |
| AB 2510 | Lieu-D Pupils: survey: harassment | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2513 | Pavley-D Pupils: autism: training and information | Special Education |
| AB 2514 | Sharon Runner-R Special education: procedural safeguards | Special Education |
| AB 2529 | Salinas-D Public schools: partnership academies | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2531 | Mullin-D Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 2532 | Karnette-D Adult education: funding | School Finance |
| AB 2537 | Montanez-D Weapons: school prohibition | School Safety |
| AB 2540 | Hancock-D School libraries: online databases: subscriptions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2551 | Blakeslee-R Student loans: National Guard | Higher Education |
| AB 2560 | Ridley-Thomas-D Public School Health Center Support Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2565 | Evans-D Special education: funding for mediation services | Special Education |
| AB 2566 | Daucher-R School safety: persistently dangerous schools | School Safety |
| AB 2575 | Oropeza-D Elementary and Secondary Education: textbooks | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2577 | Wolk-D Property tax revenue allocations | School Finance |
| AB 2578 | Frommer-D Higher Education: properties | Higher Education |
| AB 2581 | Yee-D Postsecondary education: student conduct | Higher Education |
| AB 2594 | Nunez-D Public school accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2596 | Sharon Runner-R Pupils: age of admission: kindergarten | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2606 | Goldberg-D School districts: reorganization | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2608 | Assembly Human Services Committee Child care: eligibility: termination of services | Child and Day Care |
| AB 2633 | Negrete McLeod-D Schools: district employees | School Employees |
| AB 2645 | Parra-D Pupils: sun protection | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2653 | Dymally-D California Commission on Accreditation | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| AB 2654 | Coto-D Instructional materials: surplus or obsolete | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2656 | Arambula-D Underperforming school districts: academic team | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2665 | Goldberg-D California American Indian Education Commission | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2666 | Goldberg-D Public postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2671 | Salinas-D Pupil attendance: precinct board membership | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2684 | Montanez-D Pupils: insurance for athletic teams | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2717 | Walters-R Charter school finance | Charter Schools |
| AB 2722 | Canciamilla-D Instructional materials: adoption | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2740 | La Malfa-R School facilities: usage on Veterans Day | School Facilities |
| AB 2748 | Jones-D Higher education: student housing | Higher Education |
| AB 2756 | Levine-D Higher education facilities | Higher Education |
| AB 2768 | Strickland-R School districts: prohibited hiring | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2780 | Chavez-D Adult education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2783 | Umberg-D School facilities: existing school building capacity | School Facilities |
| AB 2785 | Hancock-D Pupils: eighth grade counseling | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2787 | Niello-R Content standards: economics | School Curriculum |
| AB 2793 | Arambula-D School districts: budgets: retired employee benefits | School Employees |
| AB 2797 | Strickland-R School districts: fiscal penalties and fines | School Finance |
| AB 2802 | Pavley-D Optional early childhood education credential | School Employees |
| AB 2809 | Houston-R Pupils: discipline | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2810 | Liu-D Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 2812 | Umberg-D Physical education: monetary awards | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2813 | De La Torre-D Community College students | Higher Education |
| AB 2820 | Leslie-R Automobile driver training: Teenage Driver Safety Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2825 | Ruskin-D Schoolsites: hazardous emissions and substances | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2826 | Ruskin-D School facilities: site contamination | School Facilities |
| AB 2832 | Sharon Runner-R School districts: public project contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2833 | Sharon Runner-R School districts: public project contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2834 | Sharon Runner-R Facilities: Phase I environmental assessment | School Facilities |
| AB 2846 | Daucher-R Local educational agencies: mandated programs | School Finance |
| AB 2859 | Arambula-D Local educational agencies: administration | School Finance |
| AB 2865 | Torrico-D School safety | School Safety |
| AB 2871 | Huff-R Pupil records: inspection and reproduction | Special Education |
| AB 2872 | Huff-R School districts: organization: governing board trustees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2881* | Mullin-D State preschool programs | School Finance |
| AB 2891 | La Malfa-R Prohibited instruction: pupil surveys | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2898 | Daucher-R Pupils: algebra readiness for English language learners | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2913 | Frommer-D Credentials: subject matter examinations: Armenian | School Employees |
| AB 2921 | Montanez-D Los Angeles Unified School District | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2937 | Pavley-D Pupils: high school exit examination | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2940 | Huff-R School police officers: ongoing training costs | School Safety |
| AB 2947 | Goldberg-D Transfer of special education programs | School Facilities |
| AB 2951 | Goldberg-D Capital facilities fees | Higher Education |
| AB 2954 | Liu-D School districts: charter school petitions | Charter Schools |
| AB 2966 | Sharon Runner-R Individuals with exceptional needs: cameras | Special Education |
| AB 2970 | Pavley-D Teachers | School Employees |
| AB 2975 | Hancock-D Public schools: state and federal accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 2989 | Karnette-D Pupils: mandatory supplemental instruction | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2992 | Evans-D California State University | Higher Education |
| AB 2999 | Leno-D Public Works: labor compliance programs | School Facilities |
| AB 3015* | Benoit-R Community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 3036 | Jones-D Small schools: grant program | School Finance |
| AB 3044 | Mountjoy-R Teacher credentialing: specialist instruction | School Employees |
| AB 3062 | Assembly Elections And Redistricting Committee Higher education: election forms | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| ACA 21 | Daucher-R School districts: home rule compacts | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 34 | Liu-D Public higher education: student compact | Higher Education |
| ACR 45 | Assembly Education Committee School Library Media Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 78 | Nava-D Digital arts: training and promotion | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 98 | Shirley Horton-R Language and cultural education | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 117 | Niello-R Music education: national anthem | School Curriculum |
| ACR 118 | Canciamilla-D Community college facilities | Higher Education |
| ACR 120 | Niello-R Financial Literacy Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 164 | Goldberg-D School mascots: Native American mascots | Miscellaneous |
| HR 32 | Karnette-D Substitute teachers | School Employees |
| ACA 2X | Daucher-R School districts: annual financial reports | Miscellaneous |