School Finance
School Facilities
English Learners
Charter Schools
School Safety
Child and Day Care
Special Education
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Higher Education
School Employees
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School Finance
SB 12 (Corbett-D) Education finance: CalWORKs stage 3 child care
Appropriates $250 million from the General Fund, for transfer to the State Controller to Section A of the State School Fund, for restoration of funding for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) stage 3 child care.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 70 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance: Budget Act of 2011
Makes education-related statutory revisions consistent with the 2011-12 budget package. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
Chapter 7, Statutes of 2011
SB 85 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance
Contains the necessary statutory and technical changes in the area of education in order to implement changes to the Budget Act of 2011. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
(Held at Senate Desk)
SB 361 (Berryhill-R) School funding
Extends, for five years, the sunset on provisions that prohibit the Center for Advanced Research and Technology from receiving funding as a charter school, and that establish the formula for calculating the authorized apportionment of revenue limit funding for pupils concurrently enrolled in regular secondary school classes and classes operating pursuant to a joint powers agreement put in place prior to 1/1/08.
Chapter 625, Statutes of 2011
SB 429 (DeSaulnier-D) Before/After School Education and Safety Program
Allows after school programs to offer a six-hour program using existing supplemental grant funds.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2011
SB 476 (Lowenthal-D) Education finance: categorical programs
Extends, for two additional years, through the 2014-15 fiscal year, provisions of law (1) requiring the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2008-09 to 2012-13 fiscal years, inclusive, to apportion from the amount provided in the annual Budget Act for specified categorical education programs an amount based on the same relative proportion that the local educational agency received in the 2008-09 fiscal year for those programs, with certain specified exceptions, and (2) authorizing school districts, for the 2008-09 to 2012-13 fiscal years, inclusive, to use the categorical education program funds, with specified exceptions, for any educational purpose.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 477* (Wright-D) Inglewood Unified School District: emergency loan
Appropriates $12,900,000 in General Fund as an emergency apportionment for the Inglewood Unified School District. Requires the District to enter into a lease financing agreement for the purpose of financing the emergency apportionment in an unspecified amount.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 479 (Huff-R) School districts: reporting of expenditures
Requires the governing board of a school district to prepare and maintain a monthly record of all expenditures of the district and specify information to be included about each item of expenditure. Requires the governing board to make this public record available for public viewing by posting it on the Internet Web site of the district, and updated at least once every 30 calendar days. Requires the public record to include an explanation of any codes, acronyms, or abbreviations used to identify a payee or expenditure. Requires that the public record not include any information that could be used to identify an individual employee.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 500 (Hancock-D) Partnership academies
Makes various changes to the California Partnership Academy program. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 887* (Emmerson-R) Streamlined Temporary Mandate Process Act of 2011
Enacts the Streamlined Temporary Mandate Process Act of 2011 to be a voluntary, temporary, streamlined alternative mandate reimbursement process for local educational agencies, as defined, to be in operation from the 2011-12 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year, inclusive. Requires, if a governing board of a local educational agency chooses not to participate in this process, the governing board to explain the reasons for its decision at a duly noticed public meeting. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and convene a task force, including specified membership, charged with developing a permanent state process for mandate reimbursement that is cost effective for local educational agencies and responsive to state policy goals.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 6X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education: expenditure reductions
Makes necessary changes to implement expenditure reductions in 2011-12 if revenues fall below forecast levels, as specified in Section 3.94 of the 2011 Budget Bill. (Refer to the California Legislature's Internet Web site for detailed information.)
Vetoed
SB 18X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance
Makes statutory changes necessary to enact the 2011-12 Budget Bill. (Refer to the California Legislature's Internet Web site for detailed information.)
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 23X1 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Schools: local taxation
Authorizes any school district or county offices of education and community college districts to impose a local personal income tax, vehicle license fee, transactions and use tax, extractive business activities tax, oil severance tax, and excise tax, with voter approval.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SCA 1X1 (Steinberg-D) Education finance
Enacts the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011 which dedicates extension of the 2010-11 tax rates for five years to support public education.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill is ACA 2X1 (Blumenfield-D) which died in Assembly Budget Committee.
AB 1 (John A. Pérez-D) Education finance: CalWORKs stage 3
Restores $60 million in funding for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) stage 3 child care development services for fiscal year 2010-11, retroactive to 11/1/10. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 18 (Brownley-D) Education finance: school-based financial reporting system
Restructures, commencing in fiscal year 2015-16, California's system for allocating state funding for public schools. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 108 (Assembly Budget Committee) School finance
Makes changes to the state special education budget item to reflect additional one-time Proposition 98 funds and property taxes in 2011-12. These funds were assumed as a part of the 2011-12 Budget package, but not fully scored in the Budget Act. Makes changes to provisions of the education budget trailer bill that clarify that the community college fee increase "trigger" is operative pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3.94 of the 2011-12 Budget Act, and, if triggered, will commence in the "winter" term of the 2011-12 academic year.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2011
AB 114 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance
Makes education-related statutory revisions consistent with the 2011-12 Budget package. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2011
AB 169 (Torres-D) Education finance
Defines school districts to include county offices of education and "other agencies or entities" so that the county offices and other agencies or entities will be eligible for federal funding distributed by the State Board of Education.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2011
AB 189 (Eng-D) Education funding
Modifies requirements local education agencies (LEAs) must adhere to in order to participate in categorical flexibility. Requires LEAs to hold the regularly scheduled public hearing prior to and independent of a meeting where the school district or the governing board of the county office of education adopts a budget, as specified. Authorizes the governing board of a school district to charge for a class in English and citizenship until 7/1/15.
Chapter 606, Statutes of 2011
AB 202 (Brownley-D) Local educational agencies: reimbursable state mandates
Makes various changes to the state's process for the determination and reimbursement of educational mandates that streamline the reimbursement process, and augments the reporting requirements placed on the Legislative Analyst's Office with respect to mandates filed by a local education agency. (Refer to the California Legislature's bill information Internet Web site for detailed information.)
Vetoed
AB 609 (Swanson-D) Oakland Unified School District: audit fines and penalties
Releases Oakland Unified School District from paying any fines or penalties imposed as a result of audits performed by the State Controller (part of the emergency loan requirements) in any fiscal year between 6/16/03 and 6/28/09.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 677 (Skinner-D) Oakland Unified School District: sale of surplus property
Reestablishes the authority of the Oakland Unified School District to sell district-owned property, for the period of 1/1/12 through 6/30/16, and use the proceeds to reduce or retire its emergency loan from the state.
Chapter 164, Statutes of 2011
AB 794 (Wieckowski-D) Local education facility bonds: anticipation notes
Allows the interest on the notes to be paid from a property tax levied for the purpose of raising money for various facilities purposes, for refunding bonds if authorized by a resolution of the governing board and provides that this tax is authorized by law, instead of allowing the interest on the notes to be paid from the tax levied to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds. Allows the premium received on the sale of the bonds to be used to pay the interest on the notes.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 802 (Blumenfield-D) Online education: school attendance
Authorizes, commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, a school district, county office of education, or charter school to claim attendance toward average daily attendance for the purposes of calculating revenue limit funding for an online class, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 848 (Campos-D) Vocational education: apprenticeship programs
Requires programs receiving state apprenticeship funding through the California Department of Education or the California Community Colleges for building and trade programs to report specified outcome data annually.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1075 (Fuentes-D) Education finance: revenue limits
Reverses in the current fiscal year, and delays until the 2013-14 fiscal year, the implementation of a school district revenue limit adjustment related to the Meals for Needy Pupils (MNP) program. Re-establishes funding calculations for the MNP program to be consistent with the funding model before it was changed for the 2010-11 fiscal year, and extends this authorization until 7/1/13. Makes a technical correction in the calculation that applies a cost-of-living adjustment to the revenue limit add-on adjustments for beginning teacher's salaries and the MNP program to be implemented in the 2011-12 and the 2013-14 fiscal years, respectively.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1085 (Davis-D) School attendance: interdistrict attendance
States the intent of the Legislature that school districts and county boards of education use their best efforts to expeditiously process interdistrict attendance appeals. Extends the period of time a county office of education, in a Class 1 or Class 2 county, has for determining whether a pupil, who has filed an interdistrict attendance appeal, can attend the school district the pupil desires. Adds a sunset date.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2011
AB 1362 (Nestande-R) Pupil attendance: electronic attendance accounting systems
Authorizes local education agencies to use electronic attendance accounting systems approved by the California Department of Education for the purpose of satisfying minimum instructional requirements and calculating average daily attendance.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 32X1 (Blumenfield-D) School finance budget trailer bill
Amends Item 6110-488 of the Budget Act of 2011 to add $23.8 million in one-time Proposition 98 savings to replace $23.8 million in other one-time savings that are not available for reappropriation in 2011-12. (This budget item reappropriates one-time Proposition 98 funds for several education programs in order to achieve budget savings reflected in the 2011-12 budget.) Adds Education Code provisions to clarify that school districts can continue to receive Necessary Small Schools funding grants for middle and junior high schools, as well as elementary schools and high schools in 2011-12.
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session
ACA 2X1 (Blumenfield-D) Education finance
Enacts the Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2011 which dedicates extension of the 2010-11 tax rates for five years to support public education.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)
A similar bill is SCA 1X1 (Steinberg-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
School Facilities
SB 128 (Lowenthal-D) School facilities funding: high-performance schools
Expands the authorized uses of state education bond funds for modernization projects to include the costs associated with high-performance schools. Authorizes a career technical education project to be eligible for a High Performance Incentive grant.
Chapter 622, Statutes of 2011
SB 132 (Lowenthal-D) School facilities: state planning priorities
Requires the State Allocation Board, on or before 7/1/12, to review guidelines, rules, regulations, procedures, and policies for the modernization of school facilities to ensure they reflect state planning priorities, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 423 (Wyland-R) School facilities: local bond measures
Requires that the constitutionally required annual independent financial and performance audits of the use of school facility construction bonds for each preceding fiscal year, as required by initiative measure (Proposition 39, November 2000), be submitted to the citizens' oversight committee, also established by Proposition 39, by March 31 of each year.
Chapter 237, Statutes of 2011
SB 788 (Lowenthal-D) School facilities
Requires the State Allocation Board, in consultation with the California Department of Education and the Department of Finance, to report, on or before 3/1/12, to the Legislature and the Governor regarding the status of the school facility program, including funds remaining, future eligibility for programs, and when funds are estimated to be depleted.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
SB 891 (Lowenthal-D) School facilities: construction: ombudsman
Allows the State Allocation Board to do one or more of the following: (1) appoint an employee to report directly to the Board as ombudsman, (2) fix the salary and other compensation of the ombudsman, (3) employ additional staff members, and (4) secure office space and furnishings, as necessary to support the ombudsman in the performance of his/her duties.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 85 (Mendoza-D) School facilities: security locks
Requires K-12 and California Community Colleges (CCC) modernization projects, on or after 1/1/12, to include locks that allow doors to classrooms or any room with the occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from the inside. Requires new CCC construction projects to comply with these requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 319 (Norby-R) Public schoolhouses: alcoholic beverage control
Permits the sale and consumption of alcohol on all community college campuses statewide, during special events, when the proper license or permit has been issued by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and authority has been granted by the community college district.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2011
AB 331 (Brownley-D) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998
Places a bond before voters on the November 2012 statewide general election, which, if approved, will provide for the issuance of general obligation bonds to provide aid to construct and modernize education facilities in school districts, county boards of education, California Community Colleges, the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and the California State University.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
A similar bill is AB 822 (Block-D) which is in Assembly Education Committee.
AB 405 (Solorio-D) Schools: joint-use facilities
Requires the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges to establish a joint-use facilities program, aligned with existing BOG facilities regulations, upon the availability of funding for this purpose.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 822 (Block-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2012 to authorize an unspecified sum of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
A similar bill is AB 331 (Brownley-D) which is in Assembly Education Committee.
AB 1094 (Swanson-D) Public school campuses: recycling and composting bins
Authorizes a school district to provide recycling and composting bins on the campus of each elementary and secondary school.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1163 (Brownley-D) Education: California Educational Facilities Authority
Changes the definition of a "participating private college" or "participating college" to allow the California Educational Facilities Authority to act as a conduit issuer of tax exempt bonds for private religious colleges, as specified.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2011
AB 1342 (Dickinson-D) School facilities: roof projects
Requires an architect, engineer, or roofing consultant to develop bid specifications for state and school roof projects that use proprietary materials or warranties.
(In Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
English Learners
SB 753 (Padilla-D) Pupils: English learners: assessments
Makes changes related to the timing and administration of the required English language development assessments.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2011
SB 754 (Padilla-D) California English Language Development Test
Prohibits a pupil in any of grades 3 to 12, inclusive, to the extent permitted by federal law, from being required to retake portions of the English language development test for which he/she has previously achieved the early advanced or advanced proficiency level within each appropriate grade span determined by the California Department of Education in accordance with current law requirements that the test be age and developmentally appropriate for pupils.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 124 (Fuentes-D) English language development standards
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), in consultation with the State Board of Education (SBE), to update, revise, and align the English development standards to the SBE-approved academic content standards. Requires the SPI to convene a group of experts to assist in the updating, revising and aligning.
Chapter 605, Statutes of 2011
AB 409 (Alejo-D) Pupil assessment: dual language immersion programs
Authorizes the administration of a primary language assessment to pupils enrolled in dual immersion programs who are not limited English proficient or who have been redesignated as fluent English-proficient. Authorizes the California Department of Education (CDE) to make a primary language assessment available to school districts and charter schools, as specified. Requires a school district or charter school that chooses to administer a primary language assessment to do so at its own expense and to enter into an agreement with the state testing contractor subject to the approval of the CDE.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 532 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) English learners: pupil assessments
Modifies, commencing 7/1/12, California's public school assessment and accountability system with respect to English Learner pupils.
Vetoed
AB 815 (Brownley-D) State Seal of Biliteracy
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to be voluntarily affixed to the diploma or transcript of a high school graduate who has attained functional proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing skills in one or more languages, in addition to English.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2011
AB 1249 (Davis-D) English learners: pupils
Defines a standard English learner as a pupil whose primary language is English, but who is performing behind the average California pupil due to his/her lack of proficiency in speaking or writing English. Encourages each school district maintaining a school that has been ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the prior year's base Academic Performance Index, to develop a comprehensive plan with identifiable goals for the purpose of increasing the academic performance of standard English learners. Requires any plan developed pursuant to these provisions to contain specified components and submitted to the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the district superintendent, members of the governing board of the school district, the Senate Education Committee, and the Assembly Education Committee, and to be posted on the school district's Internet Web site.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
Charter Schools
SB 298 (De León-D) Charter schools: Los Angeles County Board of Education
Extends, until 6/30/18, the authorization for the Los Angeles County Board of Education to charter the Soledad Enrichment Action Charter School.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 433 (Liu-D) Charter schools: suspension and expulsion of pupils
Requires charter schools to comply with state statutes governing the suspension and expulsion of pupils.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 452 (Berryhill-R) Charter schools: funding
Makes a basic aid school district that is the district of residence of pupils who attend either a charter school whose petition is granted by a school district or a charter school whose petition is initially denied by a school district and later approved by a county board of education, a "sponsoring local educational agency" for those pupils.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 645 (Simitian-D) Charter schools: charter renewal
Authorizes the Charter School Financing Authority to refinance working capital for charter schools and establishes new accountability measures for charter school renewal. Expands eligibility of the Charter School Facility Grant Program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 86 (Mendoza-D) Charter schools: authorization: petition
Requires a charter school petition to include signatures from at least 50% of the total number of nonsupervisorial certificated and classified employees the petitioner estimates will be employed by the charter school in the first year of operation. Requires a conversion charter school petition to include at least 50% of the total number of nonsupervisorial certificated and classified employees currently employed at the school that is to be converted to a charter school. Requires the signature petition to prominently display a statement that the classified employee has a meaningful interest in working at the charter school.
Vetoed
AB 269 (Ma-D) Charter schools: pupil health and safety
Requires charter schools to comply with specified existing law related to the health and safety of pupils.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 360 (Brownley-D) Charter schools
Requires, commencing 7/1/12, charter schools to comply with the same conflict of interest requirements as school districts.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 401 (Ammiano-D) Charter schools
Limits, until 1/1/17, the maximum number of charter schools authorized to operate in the state to 1,450. Prohibits charter schools operated by a private entity from employing relatives of charter school personnel, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 440 (Brownley-D) Charter schools
Establishes various academic and fiscal accountability standards related to charter schools.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 925 (Lara-D) Charter schools
Requires charter schools to comply with specified statutes governing school employees.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 1034 (Gatto-D) Charter schools
Makes changes to the requirements for charter schools regarding student admissions requirements, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 1172 (Mendoza-D) Charter Schools: petition for establishment
Makes changes to the charter school approval, renewal and appeal process.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1262 (Dickinson-D) Charter schools
Extends the date, from 7/1/03 to 7/1/16, in which a neutral evaluator is to report to the Legislature and the Governor on the effectiveness of the charter school approach.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
School Safety
SB 13 (Correa-D) Pupils: teen dating violence prevention
Requires schools that elect to provide teen dating violence prevention education to ensure that the instruction meets certain criteria. Requires the State Board of Education to incorporate teen dating violence and sexual violence curriculum into the health curriculum framework.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 63 (Price-D) Pupil health: automatic external defibrillators
States the intent of the Legislature, codified in statute, that all public high schools acquire and maintain at least one automatic external defibrillator (AED). Authorizes high schools to seek non-state funds to purchase defibrillators, but does not require that only non-state funds be used. Specifies that if a public high school acquires an AED, or continues to use and maintain an existing AED, the school will be required to comply with specified requirements regarding maintenance of the device, and employee training. Places new requirements, and potentially new costs, on schools that already have AEDs.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 453 (Correa-D) Bullying: school safety plans: suspension and expulsion
Expands the definition of bullying to include acts motivated by specified actual or perceived characteristics of the victim. Adds bullying to the list of acts for which expulsion may be recommended. Adds "persistent bullying," as defined, to the list of acts for which expulsion shall be recommended by a principal. Requires school safety plans to include policies and procedures relating to bullying.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 614* (Kehoe-D) Schools: childhood immunization
Allows a pupil, in grades 7 through 12, to conditionally attend school for up to 30 calendar days beyond the pupil's first day of attendance for the 2011-12 school year, if that pupil has not been fully immunized with all pertussis boosters appropriate for the pupil's age, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2011
SB 661 (Lieu-D) Firearms: gun-free school zones
Revises existing law by increasing the size of a "school zone" from 1,000 feet to 1,500 feet from the grounds of a public or private school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 through 12, inclusive, for any person to possess a firearm, unless he/she has the written permission of the school district superintendent, his/her designee, or equivalent school authority. Allows a handgun that is lawfully possessed, either unloaded and in a locked container inside a motor vehicle or unloaded and inside a locked trunk of a motor vehicle, to be within the "school zone."
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 755 (Lieu-D) School safety plans
Makes numerous changes to the requirement that each school have a school safety plan, and how those plans should be updated. Imposes new penalties for schools and districts that fail to meet these requirements, as determined by an audit. Requires a petition for the establishment of, or application for the renewal of, a charter school to include a school safety plan, as specified. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to publish, on the California Department of Education's Internet Web site, the name of each school reported as not complying with the requirements to adopt, and periodically review and update, a comprehensive school safety plan.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 919 (Lieu-D) School safety: sexting
Defines sexting as the dissemination of, or the solicitation or incitement to disseminate, a photograph or other visual recording by a pupil to another pupil or to school personnel by means of an electronic act with the intent to humiliate or harass. Requires a photograph or other visual recording, specified above, to include a sexually explicit photograph or other visual recording of a minor where the minor is identifiable from the photo or recording. Amends an existing training requirement that assists local education agencies and schoolsite personnel in developing their school safety plans to include training in the prevention of sexting, as specified. Encourages school districts to provide grade-level appropriate instruction, counseling, and other conflict resolution practices for pupils on the potential risks of creating and disseminating sexually suggestive or explicit materials. Encourages school districts to provide professional development training to school personnel and to adopt district policies to prevent and discourage sexting that can be shared with parents and children advocacy organizations or posted on the district's Internet Web site.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 9 (Ammiano-D) Pupil rights: bullying
Amends the existing Safe Place to Learn Act to add anti-intimidation and anti-bullying provisions.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2011
AB 85 (Mendoza-D) School safety: security locks
Requires K-12 and California Community Colleges (CCC) modernization projects, on or after 1/1/12, to include locks that allow doors to classrooms or any room with the occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from the inside. Requires new CCC construction projects to comply with these requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 123 (Mendoza-D) School safety: pupil's physical safety
Defines a new misdemeanor that will be committed where a person creates a disruption at a school or a site adjacent to a school and the person intends to threaten the immediate physical safety of a student arriving at, attending or leaving the school. Applies to any pupil at a school that has a preschool, kindergarten or grades 1 through 8.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2011
AB 227 (Hall-D) Education technology planning: cyberbullying
Adds the prevention of cyberbullying, content control software, and the responsible use of mobile communication technology to the components that are required to be included in existing guidelines and criteria for school district educational technology plans.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 269 (Ma-D) Charter schools: pupil health and safety
Requires charter schools to comply with the specified existing law related to the health and safety of pupils.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 496 (Alejo-D) School safety: comprehensive school safety plans
Requires a school's comprehensive school safety plan to include a protocol for ensuring that all school personnel have access to classrooms and other school facilities during a disaster or other emergency if a school restricts that access during the regular hours of operation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 516 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Safe routes to school
Modifies the state "Safe Routes to School" program to help ensure increased participation from low-income communities.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2011
AB 519 (Roger Hernández-D) Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion
Allows a school safety plan to include rules and procedures regarding the use of restraint and seclusion. Defines several terms, including "chemical restraint," "physical restraint," "mechanical restraint," "seclusion," "educational provider" and "department." Prohibits an educational provider from using seclusion, chemical restraint, mechanical restraint, or physical restraint for the purpose of coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff. Prohibits the use of specified techniques on pupils with disabilities. Requires an educational provider to avoid the use of prone restraint techniques on pupils with disabilities whenever possible. Authorizes an educational provider to use physical restraint on a pupil with disabilities in an emergency situation if specified conditions are met, unless otherwise stated in a pupil's individualized education program and approved behavioral intervention plan (BIP). Authorizes an educational provider to use physical restraint on a pupil with disabilities as a component of a pupil's BIP, if all of the specified conditions are met. Prohibits the use of mechanical restraint and chemical restraint. Prohibits the use of seclusion beginning 1/1/14, and, until then, allows an educational provider to use seclusion if all of the specified conditions are met. Authorizes the California Department of Education to use funds received for training pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide professional and education support staff who work with pupils with disabilities and pupils receiving special education services professionally recognized or accepted training in evidence-based emergency interventions.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 539 (Williams-D) School zones: speeding penalties
Authorizes a local authority to adopt, by ordinance or resolution, double fines for persons convicted of speeding in a school zone, as defined, as long as certain conditions are met. Specifies that doubling of the base fine shall not result in the increase of any associated and additional penalties, fines, fees, or assessments. Specifies that a court shall not reduce the penalties, as provided. Requires that the enhanced portion of the fine, as specified, be deposited in a special account in the county treasury to be used exclusively to pay for educational programs to increase driver awareness of enhanced fines and dangers of speeding in school zones, enforcement of the speed limits in a school zone, and engineering programs that enhance safety of students traveling to and from school on foot or bicycle.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 630 (Hueso-D) Pupil safety: bullying
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to encourage school districts, at their discretion, to establish programs, to be integrated into the regular curriculum during National Bullying Prevention Month and throughout the year, to reduce bullying through training with appropriate activities and best practice methodologies involving collaboration among pupils and school staff.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 680 (Block-D) Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans
Authorizes a school district or county office of education (COE), in consultation with law enforcement officials, to choose not to have its schoolsite council develop and write those portions of its comprehensive school safety plan that include tactical responses to criminal incidents that may result in death or serious bodily injury at the schoolsite and authorizes school districts and COE administrators to write those portions of the school safety plan.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2011
AB 746 (Campos-D) Pupils: cyber bullying
Specifies that bullying by means of an electronic act includes a post on a social network Internet Web site.
Chapter 72, Statutes of 2011
AB 1156 (Eng-D) Pupils: bullying
Revises the existing definition of bullying, requires training in the prevention of bullying, and authorizes a pupil who has been a victim of bullying to transfer to another school district.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2011
AB 1174 (Furutani-D) School safety: willful disturbance of public schools
Makes it a misdemeanor, with a maximum fine of $500 and no jail time, to create a disruption that threatens the physical safety of school children while they are coming to, leaving or attending school.
(In Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1311 (Miller-R) School zones: vehicles: speed enforcement
Authorizes a local authority to participate in a local traffic safety program that studies the feasibility of using an automated speed enforcement system for speed enforcement only in areas designated as school zones.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1373 (Fong-D) Pupils: healthy relationships and teen dating
Authorizes a school district or county office of education to provide education programs to promote healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence to pupils in grades 7 through 12, through curricular, extracurricular, and school climate-improvement activities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
ACR 22 (Hueso-D) California School Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
Declares March 2011 to be California School Bullying Prevention Awareness Month, and urges that the issue of bullying and methods of preventing it be discussed with appropriate activities in California schools during this time.
Resolution Chapter 17, Statutes of 2011
ACR 29 (Bonilla-D) School safety: Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention
Designates the month of February 2011 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, and encourages all Californians to observe Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month with appropriate programs and activities that prevent teen dating violence and promote healthy teen relationships in their communities.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2011
Child and Day Care
SB 12 (Corbett-D) Education finance: CalWORKs stage 3 child care
Appropriates $250 million from the General Fund, for transfer to the State Controller to Section A of the State School Fund, for restoration of funding for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) stage 3 child care.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 309 (Liu-D) Schoolage child care centers: nonminor students
Allows schoolage child care centers to serve persons with developmental disabilities who are age 18 to 22 and are enrolled in a special education program under specified conditions.
Chapter 470, Statutes of 2011
SB 737 (Walters-R) Organized camps
Clarifies statutes related to the licensing and regulation of license-exempt "organized camps" and expands the operating hours of the Afterschool Education and Safety Program.
Vetoed
AB 1 (John A. Pérez-D) Child Day Care: CalWORKs stage 3
Restores $60 million in funding for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) stage 3 child care development services for fiscal year 2010-11, retroactive to 11/1/10.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 101 (John A. Pérez-D) Family child care providers: bargaining representative
Authorizes family child care providers, as defined, to choose whether to be represented by a single provider organization, as defined, that is designated pursuant to a specified petition and election process overseen by the Public Employment Relations Board or a neutral third party designated by the Board. Requires the Department of Social Services and the California Department of Education, with assistance of specified state departments and agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors, to make specified information regarding individual family child care providers available to provider organizations and requires the provider organization requesting the information to bear the costs of collecting the information. Authorizes a certified provider organization to perform various functions, including meeting with state regulatory agencies and engaging in various types of negotiation on matters within a specified scope of representation with the Department of Personnel Administration, in consultation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and other state agencies that administer programs for publicly funded child care. Prohibits provider organizations from calling strikes and from interfering with, intimidating, restraining, coercing, or discriminating against a family child care provider because the family child care provider joins or refuses to join a provider organization.
Vetoed
AB 245 (Portantino-D) Child care: contractors: electronic payment
Requires the State Controller's Office (SCO) to make direct deposit payments, on behalf of the California Department of Education (CDE), to child care contractors requesting that form of payment. Requires the CDE to establish a process for notifying child care contractors of this option, receiving requests, and coordinating with the SCO to process electronic payments.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 596 (Carter-D) Child care: CalWORKs recipients: rights
Requires the California Department of Education to collaborate with welfare rights and legal services advocates to develop and adopt regulations and other policy statements to provide California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program recipients of child care the same level of due process protections and procedural protections that are afforded to public assistance recipients pursuant to specified sections in the Welfare and Institutions Code and their corresponding regulations.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1199 (Brownley-D) Child care: centralized eligibility lists
Requires the California Department of Education, to the extent that funding is made available, to, by 1/1/13, conduct an evaluation for submission to the Legislature of the centralized eligibility lists maintained and administered by the alternative payment agency in each county to determine their success in enabling families with child care needs to obtain information on available child care programs and to obtain care, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1312 (Smyth-R) Exemption from licensure: public recreation programs
Expands the number of authorized hours that unlicensed public recreation programs can operate their programs for children ages zero to 18 years.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
Special Education
SB 121 (Liu-D) Pupils: foster children: special education
Specifies the process that must be followed before a foster youth may be placed in a nonpublic school, and places new requirements on those institutions, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and education rights holders.
(In Assembly Human Services Committee)
SB 462 (Blakeslee-R) Special education advocates: certification
Requires special education local plan areas, in collaboration with the California Department of Education and in consultation with the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH), to develop a voluntary special education advocate certification program and charge fees, as specified. Requires OAH to administer a certification test and charge fees, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 39* (Beall-D) Special education: funding
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and county mental health directors to jointly convene a technical working group to develop a transitional program to transfer the responsibilities associated with providing special education services from county mental health departments to the California Department of Education.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 108 (Assembly Budget Committee) Special education funding
Makes changes to the state special education budget item to reflect additional one-time Proposition 98 funds and property taxes in 2011-12. These funds were assumed as a part of the 2011-12 Budget package, but not fully scored in the Budget Act.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2011
AB 443 (Bonilla-D) Children with disabilities: insurance coverage
Requires the county, upon referral and during the individualized education planning process, to ask the parent or legal guardian of the child or youth whether the child or youth is covered by a private health insurance provider and, if the child or youth has private health insurance, authorizes the county or other provider to seek reimbursement from that insurance company for medically necessary services provided to the child or youth.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 719 (Block-D) Special education: funding
Repeals the sunset for the distribution of special education funding under the Special Disability Adjustment (SDA) and establishes a new SDA formula that gradually phases out the existing distribution formula for each year beginning with the 2011-12 fiscal year, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
School Accountability and Testing
SB 64 (Liu-D) School district test claims: state mandates
Revises the mandate test claim process for school districts, as specified, and establishes a seven-member school district test claim advisory committee to provide the Commission on State Mandates with recommendations on school district test claims and incorrect reduction claims. Shifts numerous duties of school district test claimants to the advisory committee. Requires the advisory committee to prepare proposed parameters and guidelines on behalf of school district claimants. Requires the advisory committee to review and propose revisions to existing parameters and guidelines every three years, and to act on behalf of school district claimants in the alternative process of establishing reasonable reimbursement methodologies.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 280 (Wyland-R) Pupil assessments: public hearings
Requires the governing board of a school district to conduct a public hearing to discuss, analyze, and compare the results of the Academic Performance Index, the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program test scores, and school rankings. Requires the public hearing to include a discussion that examines STAR test results by school, grade, and subgroup, as specified. Requires the governing board of a school district to conduct an assessment of the reasons for a school's performance results, by grade, and adopt an improved performance plan, as specified, for specified low performing schools.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 511 (Price-D) Educational Innovation Pilot Program
Establishes the Educational Innovation Pilot Program for the purposes of promoting and implementing innovative research-based practices within selected schools in the state. School districts with specified low-performing schools will be eligible to apply for grants to establish an innovation program, commencing with the 2013-14 school year, within the school. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to administer the pilot program, and to award grants to applicants based on certain criteria relating to the proposed innovation program. Funds the program by existing state and federal resources. Authorizes the SPI to accept financial assistance from public and private sources for purposes of administering the program. Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to maintain, on its Internet Web site, a database consisting of descriptions of effective innovation programs developed pursuant to these provisions. Requires the CDE to submit to the Legislature an interim report, and a final report, based on the evaluations of the innovation program, by 3/1/15, and 3/1/17, respectively.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 512 (Price-D) Academic Performance Index: pupil subgroups
Requires that current reporting practices, relative to the Academic Performance Index, include performance data for pupil subgroups consisting of 10 or more pupils with valid test score. Requires that reporting be conducted in accordance with specified federal privacy laws. States the Legislature's intent that this data not be used for federal or state accountability purposes.
Vetoed
SB 547 (Steinberg-D) Public school performance accountability
Sunsets the Academic Performance Index, the state's accountability system for schools and districts, on 7/1/14, and replaces it with the Education Quality Index (EQI), which is comprised of multiple newly established indices to reflect the overall performance of the state's public schools, districts, and pupils. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt the EQI not later than 8/1/14.
Vetoed
SB 740 (Hancock-D) Pupil assessment
Repeals, effective 7/1/12, the requirement for the state to assess second graders in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics as part of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program. Requires the California Department of Education (CDE), by 11/1/12, to identify and make available to school districts information regarding existing assessments in ELA and mathematics that are appropriate for pupils in second grade for diagnostic use by classroom teachers. Requires the CDE to utilize the savings from repealing second grade testing to conduct this work.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 753 (Padilla-D) Pupils: English learners: assessment
Makes changes related to the timing and administration of the required English language development assessments.
Chapter 634, Statutes of 2011
SB 754 (Padilla-D) California English Language Development Test
Prohibits a pupil in any of grades 3 to 12, inclusive, to the extent permitted by federal law, from being required to retake portions of the English language development test for which he/she has previously achieved the early advanced or advanced proficiency level within each appropriate grade span determined by the California Department of Education in accordance with current law requirements that the test be age and developmentally appropriate for pupils.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 789 (Price-D) Creative and Innovative Education Index
Requires the Academic Performance Index (API) advisory committee to consult with experts in specified fields to develop a voluntary "Creative and Innovative Education Index", as specified. Requires the committee to make recommendations to the Superintendent of Public Instruction concerning the API by 6/1/13.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 885 (Simitian-D) Longitudinal education data system
Authorizes the California Department of Education, California's three public higher education systems, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the Employment Development Department, the State Board of Education, and California School Information Services to enter into a joint powers agreement for the purpose of implementing the preschool through higher education statewide educational data system.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)
AB 47 (Huffman-D) Schools: open enrollment
Modifies open enrollment provisions to exempt schools with Academic Performance Index scores of at least 700, schools with at least 50 points growth, certain special education schools, and makes charter schools subject to being on the list of low-achieving schools.
Vetoed
AB 180 (Carter-D) Education: academic performance
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and State Board of Education to allow no more than 10 dropout recovery high schools to use an individual pupil growth model that is proposed by the school and certified by the SPI. Sunsets on 1/1/17.
Chapter 669, Statutes of 2011
AB 203 (Brownley-D) Public schools: parent empowerment: school intervention
Specifies and expands requirements in several areas of the Parent Empowerment Act, including the contents of petitions, the signatures for petitions, petition review procedures, and meeting requirements.
Vetoed
AB 224 (Bonilla-D) School accountability: Academic Performance Index
Modifies the indicators that contribute to the Academic Performance Index (API). Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the State Board of Education, to create a new API for grades 8 through 12, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 532 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Pupil assessments
Modifies, commencing 7/1/12, California's public school assessment and accountability system with respect to English Learner pupils.
Vetoed
AB 1049 (Brownley-D) Schools: low-achieving schools
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) to convene a work group to identify a single formula that defines, to the greatest extent possible, persistently lowest achieving schools that can be used in both state and federal accountability programs. Requires the work group to include representatives from the LAO, the Department of Finance, the California Department of Education, the Public School Accountability Act Advisory Committee, the State Board of Education (SBE), legislative staff, and education stakeholder groups (i.e., teachers, administrators, etc.). Requires the work group to report its recommendations to the SBE and education policy committees of the Legislature by 7/1/12.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1368 (Pan-D) Pupils: California Healthy Kids Survey
Codifies the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), which is intended to collect data on pupil perceptions of school climate, school safety, and pupil health. Requires a school district, to the extent funding is available, to administer the CHKS on a biennial basis to pupils in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11. Requires a school district, prior to administering the CHKS, to comply with existing statute related to parent/guardian notification and consent. Requires information collected through the CHKS to be confidential and anonymous.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1372 (Norby-R) Pupil assessment: records: disclosure
Authorizes the State Board of Education (SBE), California Department of Education (CDE), or a local educational agency (LEA) to disclose classroom-level assessment results, pursuant to the California Public Records Act (CPRA). Authorizes the SBE, CDE, or LEA to disclose, pursuant to the CPRA, classroom-level assessment results showing the percentage of pupils at the proficient and advanced performance levels. States that individual pupil test scores, pupil identities, and personal directory information of teachers shall not be disclosed.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
Higher Education
SB 8 (Yee-D) Auxiliary organizations and UC campus foundations
Updates the California Public Records Act to include auxiliary organizations at the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges statewide foundation.
Chapter 247, Statutes of 2011
SB 114 (Yee-D) Community colleges: academic salary schedules
Authorizes community college districts to present the compensation of part-time community college faculty using a salary schedule that compares part-time faculty salaries to salaries of full-time faculty with similar academic preparation and years of experience. Authorizes part-time faculty to be placed on a salary schedule that mirrors the same relationship to the placement of full-time faculty on the schedule. Authorizes a community college district to calculate the salary of a part-time faculty member and report the salary on payroll notices and to the California State Teachers' Retirement System as a percentage of full-time salary.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 181 (Liu-D) Public postsecondary education: student fee policy
Prohibits an increase in the mandatory systemwide fees charged to a resident undergraduate student enrolled in the University of California (UC) or the California State University (CSU) adopted on or after 7/1/12, from being effective before three months have elapsed after the date on which the fee increase is adopted. Requires the Regents of the UC and the Trustees of the CSU to develop methodologies for the adjustment of fees in accordance with a prescribed procedure. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office, commencing with the 2012-13 academic year, to annually review and report to the Legislature, its findings, conclusions, or recommendations regarding the implementation of policies implemented pursuant to this bill. Provides that the provisions of this bill do not apply to the UC, except to the extent that the Regents adopt a resolution making them applicable.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 185 (Hernandez-D) Public postsecondary education
States legislative intent to authorize the California State University (CSU) and the University of California (UC) to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin, geographic origin, and household income, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions, as specified. Requires the CSU, and requests the UC, to report on the implementation of these provisions to the Legislature and Governor by 11/1/13, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 189 (Anderson-R) Community colleges: faculty
Provides that dual enrollment shall not be used for purposes of calculating eligibility for contract or regular status, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 259 (Hancock-D) Higher education: employees
Expands the definition of employees under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to include student employees whose employment is contingent upon their status as students.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 295 (Price-D) Community colleges: site acquisition
Repeals provisions relating to the location of a community college site within two miles of an airport runway.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 347 (Rubio-D) Graduate medical education payments: Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), to the extent permitted by federal law, to include in its capitation rates paid to managed health care plans, as defined, an amount sufficient for the plans to make defined graduate medical education payments to providers contracting with the managed health care plans. Requires DHCS to seek all necessary federal approvals to implement these provisions.
(In Senate Health Committee)
SB 416 (Kehoe-D) University of California health survey
Requires, not later than 1/1/15, the Department of Public Health and the Department of Health Care Services to collaborate with the University of California, to include specified information related to gender into the California Health Interview Survey. Requires, no later than 1/1/15, the above departments to collaborate with the California state coordinator for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to include specified information related to gender into the system.
Vetoed
SB 451 (Price-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant C awards
Requires the California Student Aid Commission to prioritize Cal Grant C awards to students pursuing study in areas of high employment need, high salary or wage protection, or high growth. Establishes related authority and requirements.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2011
SB 483 (Calderon-D) Summer session fees
Prohibits summer session fees at all campuses of the University of California and the California State University from exceeding the fees charged per credit unit for any other academic term except for courses that are offered solely for the purpose of career enhancement or job training and are not offered for credit towards a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 498 (Liu-D) Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: successorship
Abolishes the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education and transfers the Bureau's powers and duties to the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Requires the Commission to adopt the regulations of the Bureau and, by 1/1/13, to revise the regulations in accordance with specified procedures. Makes various conforming changes to existing law.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 611 (Steinberg-D) Public postsecondary education: University of California
Requests the Regents of the University of California, subject to the availability of funds in the annual Budget Act, to establish and maintain the University of California Curriculum Integration Institute to be administered by the President of the University of California.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2011
SB 612 (Steinberg-D) Postsecondary education: instructional strategies
Authorizes the establishment of three additional California Subject Matter Projects. Extends the sunset date on existing projects. Adds new areas of emphasis for subject matter projects. Makes various changes to the concurrence committee and project advisory boards.
Chapter 632, Statutes of 2011
SB 619* (Fuller-R) California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009
Exempts flight instruction providers or programs that do not require the upfront payment of tuition or fees, and do not require students to enter into a contract of indebtedness in order to receive training, from regulation by the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2011
SB 629 (Lowenthal-D) California Community Colleges
Expands the authority of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to appoint persons without permanent civil service status to vice chancellor and assistant vice chancellor positions through the career executive assignment process, if the individual has a minimum of five years of specified work experience, previously held permanent status in civil service, was employed by the Legislature for two or more consecutive years, or held for two or more consecutive years one or more nonelected exempt positions in the executive branch.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
SB 650 (Lowenthal-D) Postsecondary education: College Promise Partnership Act
Permits the Long Beach Community College District to admit students who are participants in the College Promise Partnership, to any community college under its jurisdiction as a special part-time or full-time student and to permit assigned priority for enrollment and course registration for these pupils.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2011
SB 675 (Wright-D) Higher Education: non-English speaking students
Requires that private postsecondary education institutions subject to the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 administer a test of English language proficiency to a nonnative speaker of English, as defined, prior to enrolling the student.
(Failed passage in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 721 (Lowenthal-D) California higher education: educational and economic goals
Requires an undesignated state entity to establish an additional accountability framework for achieving prescribed educational and economic goals. Requires that the framework follow stated principles. Requires the framework to measure the collective performance of the state's system of higher education in successfully serving students by answering specified statewide policy questions.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 736 (Cannella-R) California State University: trustees
Deletes provisions requiring biennial campus audits of California State University (CSU) revolving fund expenditures and instead requires CSU to contract with a public accounting firm to provide an annual system-wide financial statement audit that includes each campus' statement of net assets, statement of revenues, expenses, and changes in net assets, and statement of cash flows. Requires the inclusion of an addendum summarizing information on transactions with auxiliary organizations for each campus. Provides that additional information shall be publicly provided upon request.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
SB 760 (Alquist-D) Postsecondary education: the Cal Grant Program
Requires the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) to report to the legislative budget and policy committees annually, by 1/1/16, and consistent with statutory reporting requirements, specified information on student performance that postsecondary education institutions participating in the Cal Grant program must annually report to CSAC and the names of the postsecondary educational institutions that failed to report the required data.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 774 (Hancock-D) Public postsecondary education: parking fees
Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to increase parking fee limits charged to students and employees to a maximum of $50 per semester and provides for annual increases to the fee limit, as specified.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2011
SB 793 (Pavley-D) Design-assist contract pilot program
Establishes a design-assist contract pilot program that authorizes the Los Angeles Community College District governing board to enter into a design-assist contract for a project with an estimate cost exceeding $2.5 million. Prohibits expenditure of state funds appropriated for a design-assist capital outlay project until the Department of Finance and the State Public Works Board have approved performance criteria and concept drawings. Imposes various requirements on the governing board related to the design-assist construction process and prohibits the governing board from entering into more than eight design-assist contracts under these provisions before 1/1/17. Specifies that the provisions of the bill do not apply to contracts in effect before the operative date of the bill and will be repealed on 1/1/18.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 813 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Public postsecondary education: veterans' enrollment
Extends priority registration enrollment for veterans at the California State University and the California Community Colleges, from two to five years.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2011
SB 835 (Wolk-D) UC Pilot Program: best value procedures
Expands the Best Value Construction Contract Pilot Program to all University of California campus construction projects statewide valued over $1 million, and extends the sunset date of the Program to 1/1/17.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2011
SB 874 (Hancock-D) Community colleges: parcel taxes: exemptions
Allows both school districts and community college districts to exempt persons receiving Social Security Disability Insurance from qualified special taxes. Conforms the community college district section of law to the school district part by allowing community college districts to likewise exempt from the qualified special tax persons 65 years or older or receiving Supplemental Security Income.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 940 (Senate Education Committee) Education
Corrects technical errors and oversights and makes non-controversial and conforming changes to statutes related to education.
Chapter 349, Statutes of 2011
SB 25X1 (Alquist-D) California State University: compensation
Prohibits, on or after 1/1/12, the Trustees of the California State University from entering into, or renewing, a contract that provides for a compensation increase for any administrator of more than 10% using General Fund monies in the fiscal year during which the contract is executed, relative to the immediately past contract for that same position, if in the same fiscal year there has been a tuition or fee increase.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 26X1 (Lieu-D) California State University: compensation
Prohibits the Trustees of the University of California from awarding a president of a campus compensation, as defined, that exceeds 150% of the compensation of the Chief Justice of California, except if the Governor, by executive order, approves the individual president's compensation. Prohibits the Trustees from approving any increase in compensation for a president of a campus if an increase in tuition is scheduled to take effect in that fiscal year or has taken effect in either of the two prior fiscal years. Requires the Trustees, when hiring a president of a campus, to give primary consideration to applicants currently employed by the California State University system and to secondarily give consideration to residents of California who are not employees of the system. Prohibits the Trustees from giving consideration to applicants who are neither residents of California nor employees of the system before applicants who are employees of the system or who are residents of California and are not employees of the system.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 27X1 (Yee-D) Higher education: executive officer compensation
Prohibits the Trustees of the California State University (CSU) from increasing the monetary compensation, as defined, of, or approving a monetary bonus for, any executive officer, as defined, of the CSU in any fiscal year in which the General Fund appropriation to the CSU in the annual Budget Act is less than, or equal to, the General Fund appropriation to the CSU in the annual Budget Act for the immediately preceding fiscal year. Requests the Regents of the University of California (UC) to not increase the monetary compensation of, or approve a monetary bonus for, any executive officer, as defined of the UC, in any fiscal year in which the General Fund appropriation to the UC in the annual Budget Act is less than, or equal to, the General Fund appropriation to the UC in the annual Budget Act for the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SJR 1 (Liu-D) Postsecondary education: Morrill Act
Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to renew the commitment to accessible higher education and the support of research in the interest of the nation.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2011
SR 15 (Lowenthal-D) California Community Colleges Financial Aid Awareness Month
Reminds Californians of the important designation of April as California Community Colleges Financial Aid Awareness Month and the high-quality affordable education available at California's community colleges and encourages community college students from everywhere in our state to apply now and year-round for financial aid.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 2 (Portantino-D) Higher education: educational and economic
Requires the state to establish an accountability framework for achieving prescribed educational and economic goals. Requires the Governor to convene a task force by 7/1/12, to review the framework and recommend a set of overarching goals for the state's higher education institutions, as specified. Urges the task force to consider issues that include six statewide policy questions, and requires the task force to report to the Legislature and Governor on the recommended goals and progress indicators for higher education, as specified. Codifies legislative findings and declarations regarding higher education.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 24 (Block-D) Higher education: feasibility study: Chula Vista
Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to complete a study and make recommendations concerning the feasibility of establishing and expanding postsecondary education opportunities in Chula Vista, California.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 63 (Donnelly-R) Public postsecondary education: veterans: tuition and fees
Prohibits a person without lawful immigration status from qualifying for resident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges (CCC), under the provisions of AB 540 (Firebaugh-D), Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001. Conforms to federal law nonresident tuition exemptions for members of the United States Armed Forces or their dependents who are enrolled at a California public postsecondary education institution.
(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 79 (Beall-D) University of California: technology commercialization
Authorizes the University of California (UC) to create a University of California Technology Commercialization Acceleration Fund for each campus of the university and the university system for the deposit of contributions made for specified purposes. Requires the funds in each University Venture Development fund to be used only for qualified research expenses, as defined. Authorizes a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/11, in an amount equal to 50% of the amount contributed during the taxable year to the UC for deposit into a University of California Technology Commercialization Acceleration Fund, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 85 (Mendoza-D) Community colleges: school facilities: security locks
Require California Community Colleges (CCC) modernization projects, on or after 1/1/12, to include locks that allow doors to classrooms or any room with the occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from the inside. Requires new CCC construction projects to comply with these requirements.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 91 (Portantino-D) Community colleges: student financial aid: pilot program
Requires the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges to establish a voluntary pilot program to increase student participation in state and federal financial aid programs, outlines the parameters of the pilot program, and requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to report to the Legislature on the results of the pilot program and to make recommendations for its statewide expansion.
Vetoed
AB 108 (Assembly Budget Committee) Community colleges: fees
Makes changes to clarify that the community college fee increase "trigger" is operative pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 3.94 of the 2011-12 Budget Act, and, if triggered, will commence in the "winter" term of the 2011-12 academic year.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2011
AB 130 (Cedillo-D) California Dream Act of 2011
Requires, beginning 1/1/12, that AB 540 (Firebaugh-D), Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001, students attending the California State University, the California Community Colleges, or the University of California be eligible to receive a scholarship derived from non-state funds (received for the purpose of scholarships) at the segment where the student is enrolled.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2011
AB 131 (Cedillo-D) Student financial aid
Requests the University of California (UC) and requires that the California State University (CSU) and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC), and the California Student Aid Commission, establish procedures and forms to enable AB 540 (Firebaugh-D), Chapter 814, Statutes of 2011, students to be eligible to apply for and participate in all student financial aid administered by these segments. Expands eligibility for state-administered student financial aid programs to include AB 540 students. Requires the CCC to waive the student fees of any AB 540 students who would otherwise qualify for such a waiver, as specified.
Chapter 604, Statutes of 2011
AB 160 (Portantino-D) Public schools: concurrent enrollment
Authorizes the governing board of a California community college (CCC) district to enter into a concurrent enrollment partnership with one or more school districts within its immediate service area to allow secondary school pupils to attend a CCC if they have exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of attendance, adult education program, continuation school, regional occupational center or program, or school district programs. Permits a school district to authorize a pupil, upon the recommendation from a CCC administrator, as specified, to take career technical education courses at a CCC.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 176 (Lara-D) Standardized testing: valid identification
Requires a test sponsor to provide alternative methods for verifying the identity of test subjects who are unable to provide other required forms of identification for purposes of admission to a standardized test administered by the test sponsor.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2011
AB 194 (Beall-D) Higher education: priority enrollment: foster youth
Requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, to grant priority enrollment for registration to a foster youth or former foster youth. Sunsets on 1/1/17.
Chapter 458, Statutes of 2011
AB 216 (Swanson-D) Community colleges: inmate education programs
Waives the open course requirement for California community college courses offered in state correctional facilities and allows attendance hours generated by credit courses to be funded at the credit rate, instead of the noncredit funding rate.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 285 (Furutani-D) Community colleges: property tax revenues
Requires, as is currently provided for K-12 schools, automatic adjustments in General Fund apportionments for the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the extent actual property tax revenues to the CCC differ from the amount of such revenues estimated in the annual Budget Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 288 (Fong-D) Community colleges: expulsion hearing
Requires a student enrolling in a community college to disclose his/her prior expulsion from another community college district. Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to deny enrollment, permit enrollment, or permit conditional enrollment to a student who has been expelled, or is being considered for expulsion, from another district for specified offenses within the preceding five years.
Vetoed
AB 334 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Community college board members: absence from the state
Provides that existing provisions of law regarding absences from the state for members of a school district governing board are also applicable to members of community college governing boards. Permits school district and community college governing boards to authorize an extended absence for a board member in the case of illness or urgent necessity.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2011
AB 346 (Atkins-D) Higher education campuses: polling places
Requires county elections officials to establish at least one polling place for each state election on a campus of a community college, the California State University (CSU), or the University of California (UC) within their respective counties. Exempts from these requirements counties with a population under 150,000 and counties that do not have a CSU, UC, or community college campus within its jurisdiction.
(Failed passage in Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 372 (Roger Hernández-D) California community colleges: matriculation services
Requires the California Community Colleges, as part of the matriculation process, to assess prior college-level learning gained by veterans and military service personnel through non-college credit means, as specified. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding veterans.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 383 (Portantino-D) Public postsecondary education: community colleges
Provides a one-time stipend, amount as yet undetermined, to a California community college district that enters into a collective bargaining agreement that prohibits a full-time instructor from teaching overload or extra assignments in excess of 50% of a full-time workload in any semester that commences on or after 1/1/12.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 404 (Gatto-D) Higher education: Native American language preservation
Requires the Trustees of the California State University (CSU) to establish, at the Humboldt State University campus, a Native American Linguistic Institute, with specified duties, to preserve Native American tribal languages. Establishes the California Native American Language Preservation Fund in the State Treasury for the acceptance of private donations, to be administered by the CSU and made available upon appropriation by the Legislature, to facilitate statewide efforts to preserve Native American languages. Makes various findings and declarations regarding Native American language preservation.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 405 (Solorio-D) Public postsecondary education: joint-use facilities
Requires the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges to establish a joint-use facilities program, aligned with existing BOG facilities regulations, upon the availability of funding for this purpose.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 450 (Wieckowski-D) California State University: food service contracts
Requires that the policies and procedures of the Trustees of the California State University (CSU), for the acquisition of specified services, ensure that the service contractor fully discloses to the CSU campus, auxiliary organization, or other unit of the CSU all discounts, rebates, allowances and incentives received from suppliers, and that the contractor pay the full amount of these to the CSU campus. Requires that these requirements be placed in agreements upon their renewal, extension, or amendment, or be part of any new service agreement.
Vetoed
AB 478 (Roger Hernández-D) Community colleges: funding
Eliminates the 2% cap on the amount of unemployment in excess of 5% that the California Community Colleges must use for purposes of calculating the annual request for enrollment growth funding.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 515 (Brownley-D) Community colleges: extension program
Establishes the California Community Colleges Extension Pilot Program which, until 7/1/16, authorizes community colleges that meet specified requirements to establish and maintain an extension program offering credit coursework to students at fee levels that cover the actual cost of maintaining these courses.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 611 (Gordon-D) Higher education: unaccredited doctoral degree program
Sets forth certain disclosure requirements pertaining to accreditation status, licensure, and related limitations for unaccredited doctoral programs.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2011
AB 620 (Block-D) Higher education: sexual orientation and gender identity
Establishes the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equity in Higher Education Act which (1) adds the attributes of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression to existing nondiscrimination laws affecting postsecondary educational institutions, programs, and requirements, (2) requires the Trustees of the California State University and requests the Regents of the University of California and local community college governing boards to take specified actions related to data collection, campus services and policies, and (3) encourages the Legislative Analyst's Office to undertake specified related activities.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2011
AB 626 (Blumenfield-D) Higher education: distance learning: definition
Establishes a definition for "distance learning" to mean a course conducted with over one-half of the instructional content delivered when faculty and students are in different physical places.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 633 (Olsen-R) California State University: motor vehicles: fleet
Authorizes the California State University (CSU) to acquire motor vehicles and surplus mobile equipment without first having the Department of General Services investigate and establish the necessity for the acquisition. Requires, commencing 7/1/12, the Trustees of CSU to report to the Legislature on their motor vehicle procurement, to include specified information, including some information required under existing law, on or before June 30 of each year, up to and including 6/30/17. Requires the Trustees, to the greatest extent feasible, to purchase vehicles using statewide commodity contracts.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 635 (Knight-R) Higher education: veterans' benefits: educational fees
Specifies that, for purposes of veterans' benefits, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested to, designate mandatory education fees as tuition.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 636 (Knight-R) Higher education: military service: benefits
Revises the conditions of tuition and fee refund for a student who withdraws from an academic institution due to active military service.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2011
AB 649 (Harkey-R) Public postsecondary education: veteran's enrollment
Extends the period of time for priority class registration enrollment, from two years to five years, to members or former members of the Armed Forces and requires that any member or former member of the Armed Forces be a California resident.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 661 (Block-D) Baccalaureate degree pilot program
Authorizes the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District and the San Mateo Community College District to offer baccalaureate degrees, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 668 (Block-D) California State University: examinations: undue hardship
Defines what constitutes an "undue hardship" on the California State University for the purpose of denying a request to reschedule a test or examination by a student for whom the test time violates the student's religious creed.
Chapter 613, Statutes of 2011
AB 670 (Block-D) California State University: admissions
Requires the California State University to ensure appeal procedures for applicants who are denied admission are clearly set forth, as specified, by each of its campuses.
Chapter 163, Statutes of 2011
AB 684* (Block-D) Community college districts: trustee elections
Authorizes the local governing board of a community college district to change election systems in accordance with this bill's provisions and the California Voting Rights Act of 2001. Specifically provides for the number of members, the election of members, and the reapportionment of trustee areas for the governing board of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2011
AB 743 (Block-D) California Community Colleges: common assessment system
Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to establish a common student assessment system for purposes of community college placement and advisement, specifies its objectives, and requires a report on the progress of its implementation by 12/31/12.
Chapter 615, Statutes of 2011
AB 773 (Block-D) Postsecondary education: Student Tuition Recovery Fund
Requires the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to adopt, by regulation, requirements relating to assessments on students that are paid by an institution on behalf of the student. Specifies that regulations authorized by this bill will allow institutions to pay the assessments, as specified. Requires the paying institution to adequately inform students of their rights and responsibilities under the Student Tuition Recovery Fund. Requires institutions to not engage in inappropriate marketing or advertising with regard to their payment of the assessment to the Fund on behalf of their students.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 795 (Block-D) Public postsecondary education: smoke-free campuses
Grants authority to the governing bodies of the California State University, the University of California, and each community college district to set smoking and tobacco enforcement standards, impose fines, and post signs stating the tobacco use policy on campus.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2011
AB 797 (Conway-R) Private postsecondary education: schools of cosmetology
Exempts schools of cosmetology from the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 822 (Block-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2012 to authorize an unspecified sum of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
A similar bill is AB 331 (Brownley-D) which is in Assembly Education Committee.
AB 835 (Mitchell-D) Community colleges
Authorizes a California community college district to enroll a high school pupil who is not a resident of that district in a program that is developed and implemented by the district and provides that the district shall not be subject to any other geographic limitations, as specified.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2011
AB 844 (Lara-D) Students qualifying for exemption from nonresident tuition
Authorizes any student, including a person without lawful immigration status or AB 540 (Firebaugh-D), Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001, students, to serve in any capacity in student government and to receive any grant, scholarship, fee waiver, or reimbursement for expenses at the California State University and the California Community Colleges, consistent with federal law, and requests the University of California to comply with these same provisions.
Chapter 619, Statutes of 2011
AB 848 (Campos-D) Community colleges: apprenticeship programs
Requires programs receiving state apprenticeship funding through the California Department of Education or the California Community Colleges for building and trade programs to report specified outcome data annually.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 851 (Nestande-R) Higher education: distance learning
Defines distance learning for purposes of data collection and reporting. Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California, by 1/1/14, and every two years thereafter, to report on distance learning course workload and key performance data, as specified. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to convene a work group by 2/1/12, as specified, to evaluate whether it is necessary or advisable to establish the Western Governor's University, California. Requires the work group to report its findings to the Legislature by 2/1/13.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 852 (Fong-D) Community colleges: temporary faculty
Provides, commencing on 7/1/12, temporary community college faculty who meet specified requirements the right of first refusal for teaching assignments.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 882 (Cook-R) Veterans education: veterans benefits
States that if a member of the Armed Forces or his/her dependent is a student in California at an institution of higher education when the military member is transferred out of state, allows the student (the member or dependent) to maintain residency status for tuition and fees purposes so long as the student remains continuously enrolled in the institution.
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2011
AB 948 (Furutani-D) Public contracts: competitive bidding
Allows the University of California and the California Community Colleges to include "best value" as a criteria for bid evaluation and selection for contracts for goods and materials or services.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 965 (Dickinson-D) Community colleges: full-time faculty hiring
Requires community college districts that have less than 75% of their hours of credit instruction taught by full-time instructors to apply a portion of their funds allocated to apportionment growth according to specified formulas, only if prescribed conditions are met.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 970 (Fong-D) Systemwide student fees: student financial aid report
Establishes requirements and timeframes for the University of California and the California State University regarding the approval and implementation of student fee increases, and requires the segments to report annually on their use of student fee revenues.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1013 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Private postsecondary education
Clarifies provisions of the California Private Postsecondary Education Act and the related oversight provided by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2011
AB 1029 (Lara-D) Community colleges: course approval
Extends, by one year, the authority (and related reporting requirements) of local community college governing boards to approve stand-alone credit courses that are not part of an educational program, without the prior approval of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
Chapter 112, Statutes of 2011
AB 1056 (Fong-D) Public postsecondary education: community colleges
Requires the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges to implement a process to facilitate the electronic receipt and transmission of student transcripts.
Chapter 620, Statutes of 2011
AB 1079* (Beall-D) Higher education: personal income taxes: credit
Allows, for each taxable year beginning on or after 1/1/11, a credit of up to $500 per eligible student for qualified costs, paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer at a qualified educational institution, on behalf of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, or any dependent of the taxpayer. Limits the credit for all taxable years to a total of $2,000 per eligible student.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1093 (Davis-D) Higher education: military and Veterans Benefits Offices
Requires the California Community Colleges (CCC) and the California State University (CSU), and encourages the University of California, to establish, on each of its respective campuses, a Military and Veterans Benefits Office and appoint a full-time Military and Veterans Benefits Advisor for each office to assist a qualified student in determining that student's eligibility for state or federal educational benefits or grants. Requires the CCC and the CSU to report specified information to the Department of Veterans Affairs on an annual basis.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1237 (Nestande-R) Postsecondary education: finance: remedial instruction
Finds and declares that state General Funds that do not count toward the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee shall not be appropriated for remedial instruction at the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU). Authorizes the appropriation of Proposition 98 funds from K-12 instruction to the California Community Colleges for the purposes of remedial instruction for UC and CSU students.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1252 (Davis-D) Los Angeles Community College District: elections
Establishes a separate procedure for the election of the trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). Specifies that a candidate for election must reside in, and be registered to vote in, the trustee area he/she seeks to represent. Specifies that the size of the governing board, nomination of candidates, and term length are to be determined, as specified. Requires the governing board of each trustee area to set the boundaries of each trustee area before 3/1/12, to reflect the population enumerated in the federal 2010 decennial census. Specifies that if the governing board fails to set the boundaries in a timely manner, the county committee on school district organization shall do so before 4/30/12. Makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the LACCD.
(In Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 1326* (Furutani-D) California Higher Education Endowment Corporation
Enacts the Fair Share for Fair Tuition Act to fund direct classroom instruction and student support services at the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1366 (Jeffries-R) Student financial aid: notice
Requires the Director of the Student Aid Commission, within eight days of the commencement of any cause of action, including an emergency action, against a private postsecondary educational institution in connection with the Federal Family Education Loan Program, to give notice, in writing, of the commencement of the action to the Council for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 32X1 (Blumenfield-D) Community colleges: budget trailer bill
Makes technical changes in the community college fee increase trigger.
Chapter 43, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session
AB 39X1 (Roger Hernández-D) Higher Education: compensation
Prohibits the Trustees of the California State University (CSU) from entering into or renewing, and requests the Regents of the University of California (UC) not to enter into or renew, a contract that provides for a compensation increase, as defined, for any administrator, using state monies or monies in the fiscal year from tuition or fees if the amount of General Fund monies appropriated to the respective segment in the annual Budget Act is less than the amount of monies appropriated to that segment in the annual Budget for the immediately preceding fiscal year, or if tuition fees have been increased in the same fiscal year. Prohibits the Trustees of the CSU from entering into, or renewing, a contract the provides for the compensation of a president of a campus of the CSU to exceed $300,000, as adjusted annually by the percentage of inflation. Requests the Regents of the UC not to enter into, or renew, a contract that provides for the compensation of a chancellor of a campus of the UC to exceed $326,000, as adjusted annually by the percentage of inflation.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
ACR 17 (Fong-D) Campus Safety Month
Declares March as Campus Safety Month, and encourages citizens to visit the Internet Web site of the California Postsecondary Education Commission to view public safety information about public and private colleges and universities.
Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2011
ACR 34 (Lara-D) Higher education: ethnic studies programs
Formally endorses the invaluable work of California's ethnic studies programs, their faculty, staff, and students, recognizes the leadership provided by the beneficiaries of those programs, and supports the continuation of ethnic studies programs in California's institutions of higher education.
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2011
ACR 52 (Block-D) California State University: 50th anniversary
Congratulates the California State University system on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, commends the invaluable contributions it has made to the intellectual and social growth of its students, and extends best wishes for its continued success in the future.
Resolution Chapter 105, Statutes of 2011
ACR 73 (Alejo-D) University of California: graduate admissions
Requests the Regents of the University of California (UC) to implement a comprehensive approach, by the end of the 2012-13 academic year, in the respective admissions processes of UC's various graduate programs and professional schools by including a broad variety of academic and personal qualifications. Requests review and revision of the admissions policies of graduate programs and professional schools to include a broader variety of important qualifications, with evaluation of the weight and value given to these qualifications, so that standardized test scores are not the overriding criterion used to determine admissions. Requests the Regents to describe the factors considered for admissions decisions by each graduate program or professional school. Requests the Regents to make these descriptions reasonably available to any interested person by publishing the description of the factors in each graduate program's and professional school's catalogue and by making the information available on their respective Internet Web sites.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)
School Employees
SB 27 (Simitian-D) Public employees' retirement
Provides that any salary enhancement for the principal purpose of increasing a member's retirement benefit will not be included in the calculation of a member's final compensation for determining that benefit. Requires the boards of each state public retirement system to establish regulations that include an ongoing audit process. Prohibits a retiree from returning to work as a retired annuitant or contract employee for a period of 180 days after retirement.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 257 (Liu-D) Certificated school employees: evaluation and assessment
Encourages a school district to include, in its evaluation and assessment guidelines, specific information relating to the current best teaching practices in all subject areas. Authorizes a school district to include additional criteria into the evaluation and assessment of certificated employees.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 266 (Dutton-R) Education employment
Temporarily suspends, from 1/1/12 to 6/30/15, the requirement that laid-off teachers who substitute for at least 21 days be compensated at their old rate of pay. Prohibits local educational agencies from creating vacancies and filling them with a substitute employee, as defined.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 349 (Negrete McLeod-D) State Teachers' Retirement Plan
Makes technical, clarifying and non-controversial changes to various sections of the Education Code administered by the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) to improve and continue effective administration of CalSTRS.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 2011
SB 355 (Huff-R) Education employment: certificated employees
Authorizes the governing board of a school district to evaluate and assess the performance of certificated employees using a multiple-measures evaluation system. Authorizes school districts to make specified employment decisions based on teacher performance. Expands the reasons districts may deviate from the order of seniority in terminating and reappointing teachers, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 439 (Negrete McLeod-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: PERS: STRS: gift limits
Prohibits board members and high-ranking employees of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System from accepting gifts totaling more than $50 in a calendar year from a person who has secured a contract with or submitted a contract proposal to the applicable retirement system within the previous five years. Prohibits contractors that make gifts in violation of this limit on two separate occasions in a five-year period from bidding on contracts with the retirement system for two years.
Vetoed
SB 772 (Alquist-D) Education personnel: compensation
Prohibits a school district or charter school, on and after 1/1/12, from entering into, or renewing, a contract that provides a pay increase within the contract for any employee who is not eligible to be represented by an exclusive representative, in any fiscal year in which classified or certificated employees of that school district or that charter school have been terminated, provided notice of possible termination, or not provided with a cost-of-living adjustment, or that provides a pay increase in the fiscal year during which the contract is executed, relative to the immediately past contract for that same position, for any employee who is not eligible to be represented by an exclusive representative, in any fiscal year when, in that same fiscal year, or the immediately past fiscal year, classified or certificated employees of that school district or that charter school have been terminated, provided notice of possible termination, or not provided with a cost-of-living adjustment. Specifies that the above provision does not apply to an employee who is terminated for cause, or provided with notice of possible termination for cause, due to a disciplinary action. Prohibits a community college district, on and after 1/1/12, from entering into, or renewing, a contract that provides a pay increase within the contract for any employee who is not eligible to be represented by an exclusive representative, in any fiscal year in which classified or certificated employees of that district have experienced termination or reduction of salary due to state budget cutbacks, or that provides a pay increase in the fiscal year during which the contract is executed, relative to the immediately past contract for that same position, for any employee who is not eligible to be represented by an exclusive representative, in any fiscal year when, in that same fiscal year, or the immediately past fiscal year, classified or certificated employees of that district have experienced termination or reduction of salary due to state budget cutbacks. Specifies that the above provision does not apply to an employee who is terminated for cause due to a disciplinary action.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 871 (Runner-R) School district employees: compensation
Prohibits a school district from entering into any contract or agreement that provides a compensation increase for any employee if the district has reduced instructional minutes or days, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 903 (Anderson-R) Teachers Retirement System: investments: Iran
Amends the California Public Divest from Iran Act to clarify that the criteria and process that the boards of the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System must use to invest in Iran.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 941 (Senate Education Committee) Teachers: credentialing
Corrects technical errors and oversights and makes numerous non-controversial and conforming changes to various provisions of the Education Code relating to teacher credentialing.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2011
SCR 13 (Harman-R) Schoolbus Drivers Day
Declares 4/26/11 to be Schoolbus Drivers Day in California.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2011
SR 16 (Lowenthal-D) California Day of the Teacher
Proclaims 5/11/11 as California Day of the Teacher.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 5 (Fuentes-D) Teachers: best practices teacher evaluation
Requires school districts to implement a best practices teacher evaluation system, as specified, by July 1 of the first fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the deficit factor is reduced to zero. Requires the governing board of each school district to adopt and implement a best practices teacher evaluation by July 1 of the first fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the deficit factor is reduced to zero. Specifies that the teacher evaluation system to be locally negotiated. Specifies that if the certificated employees of the school district do not have an exclusive bargaining representative, the governing board of the school district shall adopt objective evaluation and support components, as applicable. Provides that these provisions do not apply to certificated personnel who are employed on an hourly basis in adult education classes.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 13 (Knight-R) Public school volunteers
Authorizes a school district, county office of education, or charter school to request a local law enforcement agency to conduct a criminal records check of a prospective nonteaching volunteer. Prohibits persons who have been convicted of certain violent or serious felonies, specified sex offenses, or felony controlled substances offenses from serving as a nonteaching volunteer, as specified. Requires charter schools to comply with existing fingerprint laws.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 17 (Davis-D) STRS/PERS: pension fund management
Requires the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System to report annually to the Legislature on both the ethnicity and gender of investment managers, as specified, who are employed by entities that participate in managing the system's investment portfolios and the ownership breakdown of investment and brokerage firms with which the system's contract. Requires the report to include a detailed and verifiable plan and strategy to increase participation of emerging investment managers and emerging brokerage firms in each asset class. Defines "emerging investment manager" and "emerging brokerage firm" as firms which are majority-owned by women or minority ethnic groups managing portfolios below a specified size, depending on asset class.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 48 (John A. Pérez-D) Teachers: best practices teacher evaluation
Authorizes school districts to implement a best practices teacher evaluation system, as specified. Specifies the best practices teacher evaluation system has specified attributes. Requires multiple observations of instructional and other professional practices conducted by evaluators who have received appropriate training. Requires a uniform tool to be used and requires the observer to meet with the teacher before and after the observation. Requires the teacher evaluation to be locally negotiated under collective bargaining statute and requires teachers to be evaluated with the frequency of current statute. Requires the teacher to receive evaluation results in writing, with the right to initiate a written response to the evaluation, as specified. Authorizes a school district that implements a best practice teacher evaluation system to continue implementing the current categorical flexibility in perpetuity (regardless of the 2015 sunset date). Specifies a school district that implements a best practice teacher evaluation system is not subject to the Stull Act (existing teacher evaluation requirements). Prohibits a school district that implements a best practice teacher evaluation system from initiating dismissal unless the teacher is given the opportunity to participate in a program similar to the California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 229* (Lara-D) Commission on Teacher Credentialing monitor and evaluating
Requires the State Auditor to appoint an enforcement program monitor to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), for the purpose of monitoring and evaluating the Division of Professional Practices within the CTC. The purpose of the monitoring would be to improve the quality and consistency of reviewing reported misconduct by holders of, or applicants for, teaching credentials, reducing timeframes and backlogs related to reviewing cases of misconduct, ensuring the establishment and usage of comprehensive written procedures for reviewing reported misconduct, effectively tracking cases, and fostering an overall professional workplace environment at the Division and the CTC. Requires the enforcement program monitor to submit an initial written report of his/her findings and conclusions to the State Auditor, the Legislature, and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee by 7/1/12, and every six months thereafter, and to submit a final report by 1/1/14. Repeals these provisions on 1/1/14.
(In Senate Education Committee)
AB 451 (Hall-D) School district employees
Requires the personnel commission of merit system school districts and community college districts to determine the personnel director's compensation and evaluate and supervise the personnel director. Requires the district administration and the exclusive representatives of classified employees of the district to participate in the annual performance evaluation of the personnel director by completing an evaluation or comment form. Authorizes the personnel commission to impose discipline, including dismissal, but prohibits disciplinary action inconsistent with any bargaining agreement in effect as of 1/1/11, and under which the personnel director works. Establishes various rights for the personnel director, including the right to an impartial hearing in response to any disciplinary action imposed. Requires integration of these procedures into the regular personnel commission activity and within the amount otherwise budgeted for the personnel commission of the district.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 501 (Campos-D) Public school employment
Clarifies that all public school employees have the right to union representation by amending the definition of "exclusive representative" to mean the employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive negotiating representative for all public school employees rather than certificated or classified employees, and the definition of "public school employer" or "employer" to include specified auxiliary organizations established by the California Community Colleges, and joint powers agencies that are comprised solely of school agencies, as specified.
Chapter 674, Statutes of 2011
AB 758 (Wieckowski-D) State teachers' retirement
Extends, until 6/30/14, the amount of postretirement compensation that may be earned in specified types of employment by a retired member of the Defined Benefit Program without a reduction in the retirement benefits of the member. Provides, until 6/30/14, that the compensation received by a retired member for providing specified types of services is exempt from the earnings limitation if the member retired from service with an effective date on or before 6/1/11.
(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 769 (Hueso-D) STRS & PERS: public employment benefit
Prohibits a person who is appointed to any state board or commission, on and after 1/1/12, from becoming a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System or the California State Teachers' Retirement System and caps the salary for anyone appointed to a state board or commission at the amount received by a member of the Legislature who is not in a leadership position.
(In Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 873 (Furutani-D) STRS postgovernment employment restrictions
Strengthens revolving door and lobbying restrictions for board members and high level staff at the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2011
AB 961 (Mansoor-R) Negotiations: pension benefits
Excludes matters relating to pension benefits from the scope of representation of public employees by recognized public employee organizations under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Educational Employment Relations Act, the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA), including HEERA supervisory employees, the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 1101 (Eng-D) Teachers' Retirement Board: members
Replaces the retiree representative on the Teachers' Retirement Board appointed by the Governor with a representative elected by the retirees of the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1151 (Feuer-D) STRS and PERS: investments: Iran
Amends the California Public Divest from Iran Act to clarify that pension boards must divest pension funds, as specified, unless to do so would fail to satisfy a fiduciary responsibility. Modifies the types of companies that fall within the scope of the bill. Requires that certain findings and determinations must be made in noticed public hearings.
Chapter 441, Statutes of 2011
AB 1166 (Solorio-D) Teacher salaries: additional credit: years of training
Provides that it is not a violation of specified provisions of law for a school district, with the agreement of the exclusive bargaining representative of the certificated employees of the district, to grant to any certificated employee uniform additional credit for years of training if the training meets specified requirements. States that these provisions are declaratory of existing law.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1269 (Portantino-D) Classified school employees: layoff: reemployment
Specifies that for merit system school districts, reemployment of classified employees after a layoff will be in order of seniority instead of the reverse order of layoff.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2011
HR 14 (John A. Pérez-D) Day of the Teacher
Proclaims 5/11/11 as Day of the Teacher.
Adopted by the Assembly
School Curriculum
SB 48 (Leno-D) Pupil instruction: prohibition of discriminatory content
Adds persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans to the list of groups of people whose role and contributions must be accurately portrayed in social science instruction and instructional materials. Prohibits the State Board of Education and the governing board of any school district from adopting textbooks or other instructional materials that reflect adversely upon a person's religion or sexual orientation.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2011
SB 140 (Lowenthal-D) Instructional materials
Requires the California Department of Education, on a one-time basis, to develop a list, on or before 7/1/12, of supplemental instruction materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, that are aligned with California's common core academic content standards in language arts for kindergarten and grades 1 to 7, inclusive, that are aligned with California's common core standards in mathematics.
Chapter 623, Statutes of 2011
SB 282 (Wyland-R) Science education: science curriculum
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and the State Board of Education (SBE) to consider ways to increase the number of pupils who go to college and graduate with degrees in the various scientific and engineering fields. Requires the SPI and SBE to direct the appropriate entity to revise the science teaching frameworks and standards, as specified, and to incorporate in the science curriculum applied mathematics, reading comprehension, expository writing, analytical, intellectual, creative skills, and engineering elements.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 283 (Wyland-R) Education: curriculum
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and the State Board of Education (SBE) to consider methods for enhancing pupil knowledge of, and pride in, our history and form of government and for increasing civic participation. Sets forth methods that the SPI and the SBE should consider to accomplish these goals, which include, among other things, developing new curriculum frameworks and, if necessary, standards, expanding the time, and grades in which American history and government are studied, and requiring a basic understanding of United States history in order to graduate from high school.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 300 (Hancock-D) Instructional materials: content standards
Allows for the revision of academic content standards in science by authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a group of science experts and make recommendations to the State Board of Education on a set of revised science content standards.
Chapter 624, Statutes of 2011
SB 302 (Yee-D) Instructional materials: social content reviews
Reestablishes provisions of the Education Code that recently sunsetted relating to the social content review of instructional materials conducted at the request of publishers. Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to notify the Legislature, as specified, if it determines any instructional materials submitted for consideration for adoption contain content that meets the revised standards for social studies curriculum in Texas. Requires the SBE to ensure that the next revision of the History-Social Science framework is consistent with existing requirements to ensure instructional materials include, portray accurately, encourage and impress certain content upon pupils.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 461 (Blakeslee-R) High school equivalency certificates
Expands the criteria for the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to issue a California high school equivalency certificate to include any person who has taken and passed the general educational development test, is at least 17 years of age, has accumulated fewer than 100 units of high school credit, and has successfully completed the instructional program offered by a dropout recovery high school, where the program is aligned to state standards, offers the opportunity for a high school diploma and provides services for at least one year.
Chapter 628, Statutes of 2011
SB 509 (Price-D) Instructional materials
Authorizes a school district to purchase the newest adopted instructional materials for pupils in all of the neediest schools in the school district, as defined, without incurring a duty to purchase these materials for pupils in the schools ranked in deciles 4-10, inclusive.
Chapter 629, Statutes of 2011
SB 532 (Hernandez-D) International Baccalaureate Diploma Program
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually update the information on advanced placement and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program available on the California Department of Education's Internet Web site, inform specified high schools of the various options for making advanced placement courses and other rigorous courses available to pupils who may benefit from them, provide support to high schools that offer International Baccalaureate courses, and encourages the Academic Senates for the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to continue their efforts to adopt consistent systemwide guidelines for the acceptance and granting of credit for International Baccalaureate Diploma Program courses taken by students while they are in high school.
Chapter 238, Statutes of 2011
SB 578 (Negrete McLeod-D) Foster care school pupils: course credit
Requires a school district or county office of education to accept coursework satisfactorily completed by a pupil in foster care while attending another school and to award full or partial credit for such coursework, as specified.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2011
SB 613 (Alquist-D) Instructional materials: open-source
Requires at least one-half of the basic instructional materials adopted by the State Board of Education for use in grades K-8, and by high school governing boards for use in grades 9-12, to be open-source instructional materials, except in specified instances. Defines open-source instructional materials as available in a digital format, free to view online, meeting the same requirements imposed on other printed instructional materials, and developed in a specified manner.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 699 (Runner-R) Graduation requirements: pupil in foster care
Makes the exemption, in existing law, from local graduation requirements applicable only to a pupil who transfers between schools during or after the pupil's third year of high school and who is currently in foster care or, at the time of transfer, as specified. Requires the school district to notify a pupil who may qualify for the exemption and the person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil and inform them of whether or not the pupil qualifies for the exemption, within 30 days of the pupil's transfer. Prohibits the school district from exempting the pupil from local graduation requirements if the pupil or the adult holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil decide it is not in the best interest of the pupil to be exempted.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 779 (Lieu-D) Pupil instruction: economics: personal finances
Authorizes a school district, in providing instruction in economics, to include instruction related to personal finance. Requires the California Department of Education to consider developing a personal finances curriculum in the next adoption cycle of the history and social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 199 (Ma-D) Social sciences curriculum: Filipinos in World War II
Expresses the encouragement of the Legislature that instruction in social science includes the role of Filipinos in World War II.
Chapter 607, Statutes of 2011
AB 200 (Hayashi-D) Physical education: Health and Fitness Award Program
Establishes the Health and Fitness Award Program for the purpose of recognizing schools that have standards-aligned physical education courses and increases the number of pupils that meet the minimum standards on the physical performance test.
Vetoed
AB 250 (Brownley-D) Instructional materials: pupil assessment
Establishes a structure for the implementation of the common core state standards by developing and adopting curriculum frameworks and professional development opportunities that are aligned to the common core state standards.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2011
AB 580 (Davis-D) Pupil instruction: content
Requires instruction in social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of people of all races, colors, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, religions, and marital statuses, including, but not limited to, those specified categories of persons, but with updated references, and additionally including European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups, to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 739 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Pupil instruction: suicide prevention
Requires the State Board of Education and the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to include suicide prevention and mental illness awareness instruction in the health education curriculum framework for grades 7 and 8.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 747 (Huber-D) Pupil instruction: online programs
Defines an online offsite classroom instructional program to mean an instructional program in which a pupil receives online instruction from a teacher who may be onsite or offsite, subject to certain requirements if the teacher is offsite.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 815 (Brownley-D) Instructional programs: State Seal of Biliteracy
Establishes the State Seal of Biliteracy to recognize high school graduates who have attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more languages in addition to English.
Chapter 618, Statutes of 2011
AB 1033 (Feuer-D) Academic content standards: standards review commission
Establishes a content standards review commission, if the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education jointly finds a need to revise or modify the state's content standards.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1118 (John A. Pérez-D) Health education: organ and tissue donation
Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission and the State Board of Education to ensure the health framework, adopted in the course of the next submission cycle, includes the subject of organ procurement and tissue donation with the instruction provided to pupils in grades 9-10. Requires a school district, commencing with the 2012-13 school year, to provide pupils who are enrolled in health classes in grades 9 and 10 at least 15 minutes of instruction in organ procurement and tissue donation, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1246 (Brownley-D) Curriculum: instructional materials
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), and authorizes school districts, to submit instructional materials for review to the State Board of Education (SBE), which will be required to adopt procedures for the review of those submitted instructional materials. Adds additional requirements for the review and adoption of instructional materials, including, but not limited to, changing the submission cycles to eight years for all subject areas and requiring the California Department of Education to assess a reasonable fee on a publisher or manufacturer if it submits instructional materials for review after the applicable timeframe. Authorizes the SPI and school districts to recommend to the SBE instructional materials for its adoption, as specified. Deletes the requirement that the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission study and evaluate instructional materials, recommend instructional materials, and review specified educational films or video recordings. Requires the SBE to hold a public hearing before adopting instructional materials for use in elementary schools.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1304 (Block-D) Education: linked learning
Defines linked learning programs and authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup to develop standards for the issuance of a recognition of study in linked learning for single subject credential holders.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2011
AB 1330 (Furutani-D) Career technical education: graduation requirements
Adds, commencing with the 2012-13 school year, career technical education (CTE), as defined, as an option for pupils to fulfill the existing high school graduation requirement to complete a course in visual or performing arts or foreign language, and repeals the provisions of this bill on 7/1/17, or on July 1 of the year in which the number of CTE courses that satisfy the foreign language requirement for admission to the University of California or the California State University doubles, whichever is earlier. Requires districts that elect this option to notify parents, teachers, pupils and the public, as specified.
Chapter 621, Statutes of 2011
AB 1348 (Mansoor-R) Pupils: parental consent
Prohibits pupils from receiving sex education or taking any surveys about gender or sexual orientation without parental consent. Prohibits districts from excusing students from school without parental consent. Prohibits any mental or psychological screening of a pupil without parental consent.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
ACR 25 (Campos-D) Arts Education Month
Declares March 2011 to be Arts Education Month, encourages all elected officials to participate with their educational communities in celebrating the arts, and urges all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality school arts programs for children and youth.
Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2011
ACR 49 (Jeffries-R) Connect a Million Minds Week
Proclaims the week of 4/4/11 to 4/8/11, inclusive, as Connect a Million Minds Week, and urges all citizens to log on to the Connect a Million Minds Internet Web site and to pledge to connect youth with local opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
Pupil Nutrition
AB 402 (Skinner-D) School Lunch Program: CalFresh program information
Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to share information provided on the School Lunch Program application with the local agency that determines CalFresh program eligibility, or to an agency that determines eligibility for nutrition assistance programs. Requires each county to determine eligibility for CalFresh based on the information shared by a school district or county office of education and to enroll determined eligible pupils.
Chapter 504, Statutes of 2011
AB 839 (Brownley-D) Federal School Breakfast Program participation
Requires school districts that elect to apply for funding through the existing consolidated application process to, while in the process of approving the consolidated application, assess and discuss and consider specified issues concerning School Breakfast Program participation. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the importance of breakfast to the achievement of pupils.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
Vocational Education
SB 148 (Steinberg-D) Partnership academies
Requires the State Controller to annually allocate $8 million from the Energy Resources Program Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) for expenditure in the form of grants to school districts to be allocated pursuant to existing provisions for creating and maintaining partnership academies. Requires a grantee to implement or maintain a partnership academy that focuses on employment in clean technology businesses and renewable energy businesses and provides skilled workforces for the products and services for energy or water conservation, or both, renewable energy, pollution reduction, or other technologies. Requires the California Energy Commission, in consultation with the California Department of Education, to develop guidelines to ensure that programs receiving grants reflect current state energy policies and priorities as well as provide skills and education linked to the needs of relevant industries. Authorizes a school district to apply for planning grants for implementing a partnership academy. Allows the SPI to expend up to 5% of the funds transferred to the SPI to pay the costs incurred in the administration of this program.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 275 (Hancock-D) Career technical education: funding
Creates a career technical education block grant program, beginning in the 2015-16 fiscal year, that contains funding dedicated for Regional Occupational Centers and Programs, partnership academies, specialized secondary programs, and agricultural career technical education incentive programs. Allows for limited flexibility for 10% between programs. Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allow up to a 25% flexibility under specified conditions. Provides for a regional process for administrative collaboration, and requires the California Department of Education to develop program quality accountability measures, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 281 (Wyland-R) Career technical education: expansion
States findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the need for career technical education programs. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider ways to expand career technical education programs in middle and high schools in the state. Requires the career technical education advisory committee of each school district participating in a career technical education program to include members of labor and trade organizations and additional representatives, from various career technical education industry sectors, recommended by local industry organizations, except as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 1X1 (Steinberg-D) Partnership academies
Establishes a dedicated funding stream to invest in career technical education that delivers skills and knowledge needed for successful employment in clean technology, renewable energy or energy efficiency.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session
AB 251 (Fuentes-D) High schools: career technical education
Makes a school district with an integrated academic and workforce approach to high school reform or work-based learning initiative, commencing with the 2012-13 school year and until 7/1/18, eligible to apply to receive state funding based on minimum weekly attendance instead of average daily attendance for pupils enrolled in its work-based learning or multiple pathway programs, or both. Prohibits a school district and a high school from using minimum weekly attendance to reduce the number of days instruction is offered or that a pupil is required to be in attendance at school or a work-based learning opportunity. Requires the school district to report annually to the California Department of Education on the academic and workforce preparation progress of pupils enrolled in its work-based learning or multiple pathway programs, or both. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to determine the minimum number of instructional hours per week that constitute weekly attendance in a specified manner and to calculate a revenue limit for each school district using that minimum weekly attendance. Authorizes the SPI, upon application of a school district and for the operation of a multiple pathway program, to waive any provisions of the Education Code, other than those relating to earthquake safety. Places specified reporting requirements on a school district as a condition of receiving that waiver and authorizes the SPI to repeal a waiver if the school district is not achieving specified progress.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 790 (Furutani-D) Career technical education: Linked Learning Pilot Program
Establishes the Linked Learning Pilot Program to be administered by the California Department of Education, according to specified requirements, for the purpose of implementing district-wide linked learning programs, as specified, in all participating school districts.
Chapter 616, Statutes of 2011
AB 1310 (Furutani-D) Career technical education and workforce development
Requires specified state agencies to develop a strategic plan for connecting education and workforce development.
Vetoed
AB 1330 (Furutani-D) Graduation requirements: career technical education
Adds, commencing with the 2012-13 school year, career technical education, as defined, as an option for pupils to fulfill the existing high school graduation requirement to complete a course in visual or performing arts or foreign language. Requires school districts that elect this option to notify parents, teachers, pupils and the public, as specified.
Chapter 621, Statutes of 2011
Miscellaneous
SB 30 (Simitian-D) Kindergarten: age of admission and readiness
Extends, by one year, the date by which the final report to the Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program is to be submitted.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 65 (Strickland-R) Pupil health: prescription pancreatic enzymes
Provides that any pupil who has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and is required to take, during the regular school day, medication prescribed for him/her by a physician or surgeon, may be assisted by the school nurse or other designated school personnel or may carry and self-administer prescription pancreatic enzymes if the school district receives the appropriate written statements, as prescribed, from the physician or surgeon and the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 101 (Corbett-D) Athlete agents: conflicts of interest
Updates provisions in the Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act to address potential conflicts of interest related to agencies servicing professional athletic teams and leagues in situations where they are not related to the employment of athletes an agency may also represent.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2011
SB 107 (Price-D) Physical education: California Interscholastic Federation
Extends the sunset on statutes relative to the California Interscholastic Federation to 1/1/17. Requires the California Interscholastic Federation to report to the Legislature on or before 1/1/16.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2011
SB 161 (Huff-R) Schools: administration of epilepsy medication
Allows school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools to participate in a program to train nonmedical school employees who volunteer to administer emergency anti-seizure medication to students with epilepsy.
Chapter 560, Statutes of 2011
SB 172 (Huff-R) School districts: Open Enrollment Act
Redefines a "low-achieving school" as an "open enrollment school." Changes the application deadline from January 1 to January 5 of the school year preceding the school year for which the pupil is requesting a transfer.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 204 (Liu-D) Education governance
Changes the state-level governance structure for K-12 education by reducing the responsibilities and powers of the State Board of Education to an advisory role to the Governor, Legislature, and Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), and expands the role of the SPI in administering the California Department of Education and setting education policy.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
SB 238 (De León-D) Athlete agents
Increases penalties for a violation of the Miller-Ayala Athlete Agents Act, which regulates interactions between athlete agents and college and professional athletes. Requires an agent to relinquish all consideration received in the violation, and specifies the distribution of relinquished monies.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2011
SB 240 (Rubio-D) Truancy: collective action
Provides that a pupil's absence due to a collective action, as defined and specified, is an excused absence. Prohibits any absence due to a collective action from being counted in determining whether a pupil is truant.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 268 (Wright-D) School attendance: interdistrict attendance
Specifies the scope of review by a county board of education when an appeal of interdistrict pupil attendance occurs. Requires that a hearing be held within 30 calendar days after the appeal is filed, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 381 (Pavley-D) School attendance: residency requirements
Extends authorization for a pupil to enroll in school where the parent or guardian of that pupil is employed within the boundaries of that school district for a minimum of 10 hours during the school week, rather than where the pupil resides. Extends the inoperative date from 7/1/12 to 7/1/17.
Chapter 447, Statutes of 2011
SB 394 (DeSaulnier-D) Healthy Schools Act of 2011
Mandates that schools send at least one person, at least once every three years, to integrated pest management conducted by the Department of Pesticide Regulation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 473 (Price-D) Pupils: dropouts: recovery programs
Requires the Annual Report on Dropouts in California to include information on the number of schools in the state that offer dropout prevention or dropout recovery programs, as specified. Requires the California Department of Education to post a list of schools that offer dropout recovery prevention or dropout recovery programs on its Internet Web site, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 500 (Hancock-D) Partnership academies
Makes various changes to the California Partnership Academy program, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 504 (Hernandez-D) Bonds
Extends the period during which a note is payable from five to 10 years and deletes the prohibition against the maturity date of a renewed note being later than five years from the date of the original issuance of the note. Authorizes the payment of interest and principal on the bond anticipation notes from property taxes levied for that purpose if provided for in the resolution adopted by the governing board of a school or community college district in connection with issuance of bond anticipation notes. Requires the notes to be issued without reference to the limitation on indebtedness for bonds if the resolution adopted by the governing board in connection with the bond anticipation notes does not authorize the levy of a tax for payment of the principal of and interest on the notes. Requires the governing board of a school district or community college district that issued bond anticipation notes payable from ad valorem taxes to transmit the authorizing resolution and debt service schedule to the county auditor and county treasurer. Authorizes a city, county, city and county, and a special district to sell their bonds at a private sale. Authorizes a school district and a community college district to sell bonds at a negotiated sale for price at, above, or below par value, if the school district or community college district adopts a resolution before the negotiated sale that includes specified information.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 600 (Rubio-D) School districts: public contracts: bidding requirements
Requires all school districts with average daily attendance of 2,500 or more, for contracts awarded on or after 1/1/13, to prequalify prospective bidders, including subcontractors that would perform work equivalent to more than 3% of the project cost, on all state-funded construction projects. Requires a school district, when requiring contractors to prequalify for any public works project, to either use the standardized forms and procedures developed by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) pursuant to current law, or develop a prequalification questionnaire and a contractor rating system that, at a minimum, covers the issues addressed in the DIR forms. Makes all of the above inoperative on 1/1/18. Requires the Director of DIR, by 1/1/17, to report to the Legislature whether there was a decrease in Labor Code violations on school contracts during the time the bill's provisions were in effect and to recommend improvements to the prequalification process.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 614* (Kehoe-D) Childhood immunization
Allows a pupil in grades 7 through 12, to conditionally attend school for up to 30 calendar days beyond the pupil's first day of attendance for the 2011-12 school year, if that pupil has not been fully immunized with all pertussis boosters appropriate for the pupil's age, if specified conditions are met.
Chapter 123, Statutes of 2011
SB 634 (Runner-R) Kindergarten: transitional kindergarten
Prohibits a school district from initiating a transitional kindergarten program unless the Department of Finance has certified that sufficient funds exist to initiate transitional kindergarten programs in all school districts that can enroll eligible children. Requires a district to have a positive financial certification prior to initiating a transitional kindergarten program.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 709 (De León-D) Pupil health: comprehensive eye examinations
Creates the Voluntary Children's Vision Education Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding projects that help educate parents and guardians about the need for children to receive comprehensive eye examinations prior to entering school. Requires the Fund to consist of specified money received by the state on a voluntary basis and provides that all money in the Fund is continuously appropriated for the California Department of Education without regard to fiscal years for expenditure by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for carrying out the purpose of this bill.
(In Senate Education Committee)
SB 745 (Hernandez-D) Pupils: school attendance: school districts of choice
Establishes second tier priorities for attendance in a district of choice to include English learners, pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, as specified, and pupils who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals.
Vetoed
SB 803 (DeSaulnier-D) California Youth Leadership Project
Establishes the California Youth Leadership Project under the California Department of Education and creates a new scholarship program to support youth who participate in civic engagement programs that meet specified criteria. Establishes the California Youth Leadership Project Fund tax check-off program for up to five years to allow taxpayers to designate contributions to the fund on their income tax returns to support the scholarship program.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 821 (Fuller-R) Fiscal actions affecting new or reorganized school districts
Provides that a county superintendent of schools, during the transition period of a school district unification, merger, or formation may stop an action of an outgoing governing board, if that action will have a material fiscal impact on the newly formed school district.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2011
SB 874 (Hancock-D) School districts: districts: parcel taxes
Allows both school districts and community college districts to exempt persons receiving Social Security Disability Insurance from qualified special taxes. Conforms the community college district section of law to the school district part by allowing community college districts to likewise exempt from the qualified special tax persons 65 years or older or receiving Supplemental Security Income.
(In Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
SB 919 (Lieu-D) School safety: sexting
Adds sexting, as defined, as an offense for which a pupil can be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 942 (Senate Education Committee) Education
Is the annual K-12 omnibus bill. Strikes reference to the Secretary for Education in numerous sections of law, repeals obsolete sections that reference the Secretary for Education, and makes other technical changes.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2011
SCR 18 (Liu-D) Public schools: pupil, teacher, and parent surveys
States the intent of the Legislature to pursue every means necessary to ensure that the California School Climate, Health and Learning (CAL-SCHLS) survey remains viable and urges the state to pursue federal funding, grants, or other sources to ensure that school districts receive the necessary funding to support the CAL-SCHLS.
Resolution Chapter 77, Statutes of 2011
SCR 19 (Price-D) Early childhood education
Proclaims the importance of early childhood education programs each year, and proclaims that each house of the Legislature promote early childhood education programs with appropriate and meaningful activities that will educate the people of California about the value of preschool and other early childhood education programs.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 25 (Hayashi-D) School districts: athletics: concussions and head injuries
Requires a school district that elects to offer athletics to require that an athlete suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury to be removed from the activity and be evaluated and cleared by a health care provider before returning to the activity.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2011
AB 143 (Fuentes-D) Pupil records: privacy rights
Adds to the list of people who may obtain a pupil's school records, for specified purposes, a minor's counsel of record. Requires those in receipt of such records to certify that the information shall not be disclosed to another person.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2011
AB 160 (Portantino-D) Higher education: concurrent enrollment
Authorizes the governing board of a California community college district to enter into a concurrent enrollment partnership with one or more school districts within its immediate service area to allow secondary school pupils to attend a California community college if they have exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of attendance, adult education program, continuation school, regional occupational center or program, or school district programs. Permits a school district to authorize a pupil, upon the recommendation from a California community college administrator, as specified, to take career technical education courses at the California community college district.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 165 (Lara-D) Pupil fees
Codifies, in statute, the constitutional prohibition on the imposition of pupil fees. Defines pupil fees and related terms, expressly prohibits pupil fees declarative of existing law, and establishes new notice requirements, as well as complaint and enforcement procedures related to pupil fees.
Vetoed
AB 207 (Ammiano-D) School attendance: residency requirements
Requires school districts to accept reasonable evidence that a pupil meets the residency requirements for school attendance in that district. Specifies which documentation schools must accept as proof of residency.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2011
AB 227 (Hall-D) Education technology planning
Adds the prevention of cyber bullying, content control software, and the responsible use of mobile communication technology to the components that are required to be included in existing guidelines and criteria for school district educational technology plans.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 230 (Carter-D) Middle college high school students: enrollment priority
Exempts a student attending a middle college high school from the requirement that the California community college governing boards assign a low enrollment priority to concurrent enrollment students, if that student is seeking to enroll in a community college course that is required for the student's middle college high school program.
Chapter 50, Statutes of 2011
AB 233 (Hall-D) Youth and Government Program
Creates the California YMCA Youth and Government Fund. The Fund will be added to the personal income tax form when another voluntary contribution fund is removed and remain on the form until January 1st of the 5th taxable year following its first appearance or on January 1st of an earlier year if the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) estimates the Fund will not meet the annually required minimum contribution amount. All monies transferred to the Fund are allocated to the FTB and State Controller for reimbursement of their costs and the balance goes to the California Department of Education for distribution to the California YMCA Youth and Government Program for its ongoing activities on behalf of youth.
AB 339 (Bonilla-D) Instructional materials: social content reviews: fees
Reestablishes provisions of the Education Code that recently sunset relating to the social content review of instructional materials conducted at the request of publishers. Sunsets on 1/1/17.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2011
AB 374 (Hayashi-D) Athletic trainers
Prohibits an individual from holding himself/herself out as an athletic trainer unless he/she meets specified requirements.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 387 (Bonilla-D) Pupils: excused absences: military deployment activities
Adds spending time with an active duty family member who is on military deployment, as specified, to the list of reasons that justify a pupil's excused absence from school.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2011
AB 414 (Carter-D) Pupils: homework assignments for suspended students
Requires a teacher, upon the request of a parent/guardian or other person able to make educational decisions for the pupil, to provide appropriate homework and missed assignments to a pupil in grades 4 through 8 who has been suspended from school for three schooldays or less.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 438 (Williams-D) County free libraries: withdrawal
Imposes requirements, until 1/1/19, on a city or library district that intends to withdraw from a county free library system and operate libraries with a private contractor that will employ library staff to achieve cost savings.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2011
AB 504 (Williams-D) School districts: County of Santa Barbara: special taxes
Authorizes any newly unified school district in the County of Santa Barbara to continue the collection of the parcel taxes originally imposed and collected in former school districts.
Chapter 276, Statutes of 2011
AB 614 (Bonilla-D) School attendance review boards: member composition
Requires county school attendance review boards, and authorizes local school attendance review boards, to include, as a member, a representative of school, county or community mental health.
Chapter 71, Statutes of 2011
AB 637 (Knight-R) School choice: G.I. Jr. Grant Program
Establishes the G.I. Jr. Grant Program, under which, beginning with the 2012-13 school year, a parent or legal guardian of a qualifying pupil, who completes an application for a grant, will receive a grant that is redeemable to pay tuition and fees at a qualifying grant school. Defines a qualifying pupil as a California resident who is under 22 years of age and has not graduated from high school or obtained a general equivalency diploma, has enrolled as a full-time pupil at a grant school, and is the natural or adopted child of a person who is or was a member of the United States Armed Forces, including a member of the California National Guard or a member of the reserves of any branch of the United States Armed Forces, and who is currently on active duty, or who was on federal active duty, at any time after 1/1/95. Defines a "grant school." Establishes the G.I. Jr. Grant Fund, to be administered by the California Department of Education.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 709 (Brownley-D) School placement: foster children
Clarifies that foster youth must be immediately enrolled in a school even if the pupil is unable to produce his/her immunization records prior to enrollment.
Chapter 463, Statutes of 2011
AB 733 (Ma-D) Pupil records: privacy rights
Makes numerous technical changes to conform state law with the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act regarding access to pupil records without parental consent or judicial order, as well as makes more substantive changes that are permitted by federal law.
(Held at Senate Desk)
AB 760 (Gordon-D) Healthy Start Community Schools Act
Renames the Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act the Healthy Start Community Schools Act. Makes a number of changes to the Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 839 (Brownley-D) Pupil nutrition: federal School Breakfast Program
Requires school districts that elect to apply for funding through the consolidated application process to, while in the process of approving the consolidated application, assess and discuss and consider specified issues concerning School Breakfast Program participation. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the importance of breakfast to the achievement of pupils.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 888 (Pan-D) Pupil health: School Medication Authorization Task Force
Establishes the School Medication Authorization Task Force. Requires the Task Force to provide specified advice regarding the administration of emergency medication to a pupil on a school campus and establish training and supervision standards regarding the administration of medical care in a school setting. Requires the Task Force to follow prescribed procedures relating to its operation.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 951* (Perea-D) Back-to-school products
Provides an exemption from the sales tax for the gross receipts from the sale of a qualified back-to-school product to a qualified purchaser, as specified.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 980 (Bonilla-D) School attendance review boards: communications
Specifies, for the purpose of making a proper disposition of a referral, that a member of a county or local school attendance review board, notwithstanding any other confidentiality requirement, may disclose and exchange confidential information or writing to other members of the board, consistent with the adopted rules and regulations of the board, if that member reasonably believes it is relevant to the prevention, identification, or treatment of truancy. Provides that any discussion relative to the disclosure or exchange of that information or writing during a meeting is confidential.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1007* (Cook-R) Back-to-school products: sales and use taxes: exemption
Provides an annual four-day sales tax holiday for qualified back-to-school products sold to a qualified purchaser.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1065 (Bradford-D) Pupil transfers: records
Requires a school district or a private school to transfer a pupil's permanent record to his/her new school district or private school of enrollment no later than five business days following the date of the request, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1315 (Furutani-D) Education: Gateway Centers
Establishes Gateway Centers to be operated by local adult schools and community colleges to leverage multiple education and workforce investment funding and improve the transition of adult learners into entry-level degree or certificate training programs that are linked to employment.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1341 (Furutani-D) Director of Education: experimental work in education
Authorizes the Director of the California Department of Education to conduct experimental work in education through the Internet.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
AB 1348 (Mansoor-R) Pupils excuses: parental consent
Prohibits pupils from receiving sex education or taking any surveys about gender or sexual orientation without parental consent. Prohibits districts from excusing students from school without parental consent. Prohibits any mental or psychological screening of a pupil without parental consent.
(In Assembly Education Committee)
ACR 30 (Mendoza-D) Read Across America Day
Recognizes 3/2/11 as "Read Across America Day."
(On Assembly Inactive File)
ACR 57 (Carter-D) Dropout Recovery Week
Declares the week of 6/6/11 through 6/12/11 to be "Dropout Recovery Week" and states the Legislature's intent to encourage the support of dropout recovery high schools with creative teaching strategies, alternative assessments, and adequate resources.
Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2011
ACR 62 (Brownley-D) Read Across California Month
Proclaims the month of March, every year, as "Read Across California Month." Requests public and private stakeholders to work together to raise awareness of the importance of reading to young children, pupils and California citizens by encouraging everyone to read for 30 minutes for 30 days during the month of March, every year, in conjunction with the "Read Across America" campaign held annually on March 2.
Resolution Chapter 81, Statutes of 2011
AJR 10 (Brownley-D) School-based health centers
Memorializes the Legislature's support of the school-based health center program authorized by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Supports an appropriation by the United States Congress to fund the school-based health center program. Supports the inclusion of school-based health centers in the reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act as an important strategy for ensuring that pupils are physically and mentally healthy.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2011
Index (in Bill Order)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 8 | Yee-D Auxiliary organizations and UC campus foundations | Higher Education |
| SB 12 | Corbett-D Education finance: CalWORKs stage 3 child care | School Finance Child and Day Care |
| SB 13 | Correa-D Pupils: teen dating violence prevention | School Safety |
| SB 27 | Simitian-D Public employees' retirement | School Employees |
| SB 30 | Simitian-D Kindergarten: age of admission and readiness | Miscellaneous |
| SB 48 | Leno-D Pupil instruction: prohibition of discriminatory content | School Curriculum |
| SB 63 | Price-D Pupil health: automatic external defibrillators | School Safety |
| SB 64 | Liu-D School district test claims: state mandates | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 65 | Strickland-R Pupil health: prescription pancreatic enzymes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 70 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance: Budget Act of 2011 | School Finance |
| SB 85 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance | School Finance |
| SB 101 | Corbett-D Athlete agents: conflicts of interest | Miscellaneous |
| SB 107 | Price-D Physical education: California Interscholastic Federation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 114 | Yee-D Community colleges: academic salary schedules | Higher Education |
| SB 121 | Liu-D Pupils: foster children: special education | Special Education |
| SB 128 | Lowenthal-D School facilities funding: high-performance schools | School Facilities |
| SB 132 | Lowenthal-D School facilities: state planning priorities | School Facilities |
| SB 140 | Lowenthal-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| SB 148 | Steinberg-D Partnership academies | Vocational Education |
| SB 161 | Huff-R Schools: administration of epilepsy medication | Miscellaneous |
| SB 172 | Huff-R School districts: Open Enrollment Act | Miscellaneous |
| SB 181 | Liu-D Public postsecondary education: student fee policy | Higher Education |
| SB 185 | Hernandez-D Public postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| SB 189 | Anderson-R Community colleges: faculty | Higher Education |
| SB 204 | Liu-D Education governance | Miscellaneous |
| SB 238 | De León-D Athlete agents | Miscellaneous |
| SB 240 | Rubio-D Truancy: collective action | Miscellaneous |
| SB 257 | Liu-D Certificated school employees: evaluation and assessment | School Employees |
| SB 259 | Hancock-D Higher education: employees | Higher Education |
| SB 266 | Dutton-R Education employment | School Employees |
| SB 268 | Wright-D School attendance: interdistrict attendance | Miscellaneous |
| SB 275 | Hancock-D Career technical education: funding | Vocational Education |
| SB 280 | Wyland-R Pupil assessments: public hearings | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 281 | Wyland-R Career technical education: expansion | Vocational Education |
| SB 282 | Wyland-R Science education: science curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 283 | Wyland-R Education: curriculum | School Curriculum |
| SB 295 | Price-D Community colleges: site acquisition | Higher Education |
| SB 298 | De León-D Charter schools: Los Angeles County Board of Education | Charter Schools |
| SB 300 | Hancock-D Instructional materials: content standards | School Curriculum |
| SB 302 | Yee-D Instructional materials: social content reviews | School Curriculum |
| SB 309 | Liu-D Schoolage child care centers: nonminor students | Child and Day Care |
| SB 347 | Rubio-D Graduate medical education payments: Medi-Cal | Higher Education |
| SB 349 | Negrete McLeod-D State Teachers' Retirement Plan | School Employees |
| SB 355 | Huff-R Education employment: certificated employees | School Employees |
| SB 361 | Berryhill-R School funding | School Finance |
| SB 381 | Pavley-D School attendance: residency requirements | Miscellaneous |
| SB 394 | DeSaulnier-D Healthy Schools Act of 2011 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 416 | Kehoe-D University of California health survey | Higher Education |
| SB 423 | Wyland-R School facilities: local bond measures | School Facilities |
| SB 429 | DeSaulnier-D Before/After School Education and Safety Program | School Finance |
| SB 433 | Liu-D Charter schools: suspension and expulsion of pupils | Charter Schools |
| SB 439 | Negrete McLeod-D Political Reform Act of 1974: PERS: STRS: gift limits | School Employees |
| SB 451 | Price-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant C awards | Higher Education |
| SB 452 | Berryhill-R Charter schools: funding | Charter Schools |
| SB 453 | Correa-D Bullying: school safety plans: suspension and expulsion | School Safety |
| SB 461 | Blakeslee-R High school equivalency certificates | School Curriculum |
| SB 462 | Blakeslee-R Special education advocates: certification | Special Education |
| SB 473 | Price-D Pupils: dropouts: recovery programs | Miscellaneous |
| SB 476 | Lowenthal-D Education finance: categorical programs | School Finance |
| SB 477* | Wright-D Inglewood Unified School District: emergency loan | School Finance |
| SB 479 | Huff-R School districts: reporting of expenditures | School Finance |
| SB 483 | Calderon-D Summer session fees | Higher Education |
| SB 498 | Liu-D Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education: successorship | Higher Education |
| SB 500 | Hancock-D Partnership academies | School Finance Miscellaneous |
| SB 504 | Hernandez-D Bonds | Miscellaneous |
| SB 509 | Price-D Instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| SB 511 | Price-D Educational Innovation Pilot Program | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 512 | Price-D Academic Performance Index: pupil subgroups | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 532 | Hernandez-D International Baccalaureate Diploma Program | School Curriculum |
| SB 547 | Steinberg-D Public school performance accountability | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 578 | Negrete McLeod-D Foster care school pupils: course credit | School Curriculum |
| SB 600 | Rubio-D School districts: public contracts: bidding requirements | Miscellaneous |
| SB 611 | Steinberg-D Public postsecondary education: University of California | Higher Education |
| SB 612 | Steinberg-D Postsecondary education: instructional strategies | Higher Education |
| SB 613 | Alquist-D Instructional materials: open-source | School Curriculum |
| SB 614* | Kehoe-D Schools: childhood immunization | School Safety Miscellaneous |
| SB 619* | Fuller-R California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 | Higher Education |
| SB 629 | Lowenthal-D California Community Colleges | Higher Education |
| SB 634 | Runner-R Kindergarten: transitional kindergarten | Miscellaneous |
| SB 645 | Simitian-D Charter schools: charter renewal | Charter Schools |
| SB 650 | Lowenthal-D Postsecondary education: College Promise Partnership Act | Higher Education |
| SB 661 | Lieu-D Firearms: gun-free school zones | School Safety |
| SB 675 | Wright-D Higher Education: non-English speaking students | Higher Education |
| SB 699 | Runner-R Graduation requirements: pupil in foster care | School Curriculum |
| SB 709 | De León-D Pupil health: comprehensive eye examinations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 721 | Lowenthal-D California higher education: educational and economic goals | Higher Education |
| SB 736 | Cannella-R California State University: trustees | Higher Education |
| SB 737 | Walters-R Organized camps | Child and Day Care |
| SB 740 | Hancock-D Pupil assessment | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 745 | Hernandez-D Pupils: school attendance: school districts of choice | Miscellaneous |
| SB 753 | Padilla-D Pupils: English learners: assessments | English Learners School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 754 | Padilla-D California English Language Development Test | English Learners School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 755 | Lieu-D School safety plans | School Safety |
| SB 760 | Alquist-D Postsecondary education: the Cal Grant Program | Higher Education |
| SB 772 | Alquist-D Education personnel: compensation | School Employees |
| SB 774 | Hancock-D Public postsecondary education: parking fees | Higher Education |
| SB 779 | Lieu-D Pupil instruction: economics: personal finances | School Curriculum |
| SB 788 | Lowenthal-D School facilities | School Facilities |
| SB 789 | Price-D Creative and Innovative Education Index | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 793 | Pavley-D Design-assist contract pilot program | Higher Education |
| SB 803 | DeSaulnier-D California Youth Leadership Project | Miscellaneous |
| SB 813 | Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Public postsecondary education: veterans' enrollment | Higher Education |
| SB 821 | Fuller-R Fiscal actions affecting new or reorganized school districts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 835 | Wolk-D UC Pilot Program: best value procedures | Higher Education |
| SB 871 | Runner-R School district employees: compensation | School Employees |
| SB 874 | Hancock-D Community colleges: parcel taxes: exemptions | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| SB 885 | Simitian-D Longitudinal education data system | School Accountability and Testing |
| SB 887* | Emmerson-R Streamlined Temporary Mandate Process Act of 2011 | School Finance |
| SB 891 | Lowenthal-D School facilities: construction: ombudsman | School Facilities |
| SB 903 | Anderson-R Teachers Retirement System: investments: Iran | School Employees |
| SB 919 | Lieu-D School safety: sexting | School Safety Miscellaneous |
| SB 940 | Senate Education Committee Education | Higher Education |
| SB 941 | Senate Education Committee Teachers: credentialing | School Employees |
| SB 942 | Senate Education Committee Education | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 13 | Harman-R Schoolbus Drivers Day | School Employees |
| SCR 18 | Liu-D Public schools: pupil, teacher, and parent surveys | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 19 | Price-D Early childhood education | Miscellaneous |
| SJR 1 | Liu-D Postsecondary education: Morrill Act | Higher Education |
| SR 15 | Lowenthal-D California Community Colleges Financial Aid Awareness Month | Higher Education |
| SR 16 | Lowenthal-D California Day of the Teacher | School Employees |
| SB 1X1 | Steinberg-D Partnership academies | Vocational Education |
| SB 6X1 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education: expenditure reductions | School Finance |
| SB 18X1 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance | School Finance |
| SB 23X1 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Schools: local taxation | School Finance |
| SB 25X1 | Alquist-D California State University: compensation | Higher Education |
| SB 26X1 | Lieu-D California State University: compensation | Higher Education |
| SB 27X1 | Yee-D Higher education: executive officer compensation | Higher Education |
| SCA 1X1 | Steinberg-D Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 1 | John A. Pérez-D Education finance: CalWORKs stage 3 | School Finance Child and Day Care |
| AB 2 | Portantino-D Higher education: educational and economic | Higher Education |
| AB 5 | Fuentes-D Teachers: best practices teacher evaluation | School Employees |
| AB 9 | Ammiano-D Pupil rights: bullying | School Safety |
| AB 13 | Knight-R Public school volunteers | School Employees |
| AB 17 | Davis-D STRS/PERS: pension fund management | School Employees |
| AB 18 | Brownley-D Education finance: school-based financial reporting system | School Finance |
| AB 24 | Block-D Higher education: feasibility study: Chula Vista | Higher Education |
| AB 25 | Hayashi-D School districts: athletics: concussions and head injuries | Miscellaneous |
| AB 39* | Beall-D Special education: funding | Special Education |
| AB 47 | Huffman-D Schools: open enrollment | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 48 | John A. Pérez-D Teachers: best practices teacher evaluation | School Employees |
| AB 63 | Donnelly-R Public postsecondary education: veterans: tuition and fees | Higher Education |
| AB 79 | Beall-D University of California: technology commercialization | Higher Education |
| AB 85 | Mendoza-D School facilities: security locks | School Facilities School Safety Higher Education |
| AB 86 | Mendoza-D Charter schools: authorization: petition | Charter Schools |
| AB 91 | Portantino-D Community colleges: student financial aid: pilot program | Higher Education |
| AB 101 | John A. Pérez-D Family child care providers: bargaining representative | Child and Day Care |
| AB 108 | Assembly Budget Committee School finance | School Finance Special Education Higher Education |
| AB 114 | Assembly Budget Committee Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 123 | Mendoza-D School safety: pupil's physical safety | School Safety |
| AB 124 | Fuentes-D English language development standards | English Learners |
| AB 130 | Cedillo-D California Dream Act of 2011 | Higher Education |
| AB 131 | Cedillo-D Student financial aid | Higher Education |
| AB 143 | Fuentes-D Pupil records: privacy rights | Miscellaneous |
| AB 160 | Portantino-D Public schools: concurrent enrollment | Higher Education Miscellaneous |
| AB 165 | Lara-D Pupil fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 169 | Torres-D Education finance | School Finance |
| AB 176 | Lara-D Standardized testing: valid identification | Higher Education |
| AB 180 | Carter-D Education: academic performance | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 189 | Eng-D Education funding | School Finance |
| AB 194 | Beall-D Higher education: priority enrollment: foster youth | Higher Education |
| AB 199 | Ma-D Social sciences curriculum: Filipinos in World War II | School Curriculum |
| AB 200 | Hayashi-D Physical education: Health and Fitness Award Program | School Curriculum |
| AB 202 | Brownley-D Local educational agencies: reimbursable state mandates | School Finance |
| AB 203 | Brownley-D Public schools: parent empowerment: school intervention | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 207 | Ammiano-D School attendance: residency requirements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 216 | Swanson-D Community colleges: inmate education programs | Higher Education |
| AB 224 | Bonilla-D School accountability: Academic Performance Index | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 227 | Hall-D Education technology planning: cyberbullying | School Safety Miscellaneous |
| AB 229* | Lara-D Commission on Teacher Credentialing monitor and evaluating | School Employees |
| AB 230 | Carter-D Middle college high school students: enrollment priority | Miscellaneous |
| AB 233 | Hall-D Youth and Government Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 245 | Portantino-D Child care: contractors: electronic payment | Child and Day Care |
| AB 250 | Brownley-D Instructional materials: pupil assessment | School Curriculum |
| AB 251 | Fuentes-D High schools: career technical education | Vocational Education |
| AB 269 | Ma-D Charter schools: pupil health and safety | Charter Schools School Safety |
| AB 285 | Furutani-D Community colleges: property tax revenues | Higher Education |
| AB 288 | Fong-D Community colleges: expulsion hearing | Higher Education |
| AB 319 | Norby-R Public schoolhouses: alcoholic beverage control | School Facilities |
| AB 331 | Brownley-D The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 | School Facilities |
| AB 334 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Community college board members: absence from the state | Higher Education |
| AB 339 | Bonilla-D Instructional materials: social content reviews: fees | Miscellaneous |
| AB 346 | Atkins-D Higher education campuses: polling places | Higher Education |
| AB 360 | Brownley-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 372 | Roger Hernández-D California community colleges: matriculation services | Higher Education |
| AB 374 | Hayashi-D Athletic trainers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 383 | Portantino-D Public postsecondary education: community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 387 | Bonilla-D Pupils: excused absences: military deployment activities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 401 | Ammiano-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 402 | Skinner-D School Lunch Program: CalFresh program information | Pupil Nutrition |
| AB 404 | Gatto-D Higher education: Native American language preservation | Higher Education |
| AB 405 | Solorio-D Schools: joint-use facilities | School Facilities Higher Education |
| AB 409 | Alejo-D Pupil assessment: dual language immersion programs | English Learners |
| AB 414 | Carter-D Pupils: homework assignments for suspended students | Miscellaneous |
| AB 438 | Williams-D County free libraries: withdrawal | Miscellaneous |
| AB 440 | Brownley-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 443 | Bonilla-D Children with disabilities: insurance coverage | Special Education |
| AB 450 | Wieckowski-D California State University: food service contracts | Higher Education |
| AB 451 | Hall-D School district employees | School Employees |
| AB 478 | Roger Hernández-D Community colleges: funding | Higher Education |
| AB 496 | Alejo-D School safety: comprehensive school safety plans | School Safety |
| AB 501 | Campos-D Public school employment | School Employees |
| AB 504 | Williams-D School districts: County of Santa Barbara: special taxes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 515 | Brownley-D Community colleges: extension program | Higher Education |
| AB 516 | V. Manuel Pérez-D Safe routes to school | School Safety |
| AB 519 | Roger Hernández-D Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion | School Safety |
| AB 532 | V. Manuel Pérez-D English learners: pupil assessments | English Learners School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 539 | Williams-D School zones: speeding penalties | School Safety |
| AB 580 | Davis-D Pupil instruction: content | School Curriculum |
| AB 596 | Carter-D Child care: CalWORKs recipients: rights | Child and Day Care |
| AB 609 | Swanson-D Oakland Unified School District: audit fines and penalties | School Finance |
| AB 611 | Gordon-D Higher education: unaccredited doctoral degree program | Higher Education |
| AB 614 | Bonilla-D School attendance review boards: member composition | Miscellaneous |
| AB 620 | Block-D Higher education: sexual orientation and gender identity | Higher Education |
| AB 626 | Blumenfield-D Higher education: distance learning: definition | Higher Education |
| AB 630 | Hueso-D Pupil safety: bullying | School Safety |
| AB 633 | Olsen-R California State University: motor vehicles: fleet | Higher Education |
| AB 635 | Knight-R Higher education: veterans' benefits: educational fees | Higher Education |
| AB 636 | Knight-R Higher education: military service: benefits | Higher Education |
| AB 637 | Knight-R School choice: G.I. Jr. Grant Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 649 | Harkey-R Public postsecondary education: veteran's enrollment | Higher Education |
| AB 661 | Block-D Baccalaureate degree pilot program | Higher Education |
| AB 668 | Block-D California State University: examinations: undue hardship | Higher Education |
| AB 670 | Block-D California State University: admissions | Higher Education |
| AB 677 | Skinner-D Oakland Unified School District: sale of surplus property | School Finance |
| AB 680 | Block-D Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans | School Safety |
| AB 684* | Block-D Community college districts: trustee elections | Higher Education |
| AB 709 | Brownley-D School placement: foster children | Miscellaneous |
| AB 719 | Block-D Special education: funding | Special Education |
| AB 733 | Ma-D Pupil records: privacy rights | Miscellaneous |
| AB 739 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Pupil instruction: suicide prevention | School Curriculum |
| AB 743 | Block-D California Community Colleges: common assessment system | Higher Education |
| AB 746 | Campos-D Pupils: cyber bullying | School Safety |
| AB 747 | Huber-D Pupil instruction: online programs | School Curriculum |
| AB 758 | Wieckowski-D State teachers' retirement | School Employees |
| AB 760 | Gordon-D Healthy Start Community Schools Act | Miscellaneous |
| AB 769 | Hueso-D STRS & PERS: public employment benefit | School Employees |
| AB 773 | Block-D Postsecondary education: Student Tuition Recovery Fund | Higher Education |
| AB 790 | Furutani-D Career technical education: Linked Learning Pilot Program | Vocational Education |
| AB 794 | Wieckowski-D Local education facility bonds: anticipation notes | School Finance |
| AB 795 | Block-D Public postsecondary education: smoke-free campuses | Higher Education |
| AB 797 | Conway-R Private postsecondary education: schools of cosmetology | Higher Education |
| AB 802 | Blumenfield-D Online education: school attendance | School Finance |
| AB 815 | Brownley-D State Seal of Biliteracy | English Learners School Curriculum |
| AB 822 | Block-D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act | School Facilities Higher Education |
| AB 835 | Mitchell-D Community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 839 | Brownley-D Federal School Breakfast Program participation | Pupil Nutrition Miscellaneous |
| AB 844 | Lara-D Students qualifying for exemption from nonresident tuition | Higher Education |
| AB 848 | Campos-D Vocational education: apprenticeship programs | School Finance Higher Education |
| AB 851 | Nestande-R Higher education: distance learning | Higher Education |
| AB 852 | Fong-D Community colleges: temporary faculty | Higher Education |
| AB 873 | Furutani-D STRS postgovernment employment restrictions | School Employees |
| AB 882 | Cook-R Veterans education: veterans benefits | Higher Education |
| AB 888 | Pan-D Pupil health: School Medication Authorization Task Force | Miscellaneous |
| AB 925 | Lara-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 948 | Furutani-D Public contracts: competitive bidding | Higher Education |
| AB 951* | Perea-D Back-to-school products | Miscellaneous |
| AB 961 | Mansoor-R Negotiations: pension benefits | School Employees |
| AB 965 | Dickinson-D Community colleges: full-time faculty hiring | Higher Education |
| AB 970 | Fong-D Systemwide student fees: student financial aid report | Higher Education |
| AB 980 | Bonilla-D School attendance review boards: communications | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1007* | Cook-R Back-to-school products: sales and use taxes: exemption | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1013 | Assembly Higher Education Committee Private postsecondary education | Higher Education |
| AB 1029 | Lara-D Community colleges: course approval | Higher Education |
| AB 1033 | Feuer-D Academic content standards: standards review commission | School Curriculum |
| AB 1034 | Gatto-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 1049 | Brownley-D Schools: low-achieving schools | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1056 | Fong-D Public postsecondary education: community colleges | Higher Education |
| AB 1065 | Bradford-D Pupil transfers: records | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1075 | Fuentes-D Education finance: revenue limits | School Finance |
| AB 1079* | Beall-D Higher education: personal income taxes: credit | Higher Education |
| AB 1085 | Davis-D School attendance: interdistrict attendance | School Finance |
| AB 1093 | Davis-D Higher education: military and Veterans Benefits Offices | Higher Education |
| AB 1094 | Swanson-D Public school campuses: recycling and composting bins | School Facilities |
| AB 1101 | Eng-D Teachers' Retirement Board: members | School Employees |
| AB 1118 | John A. Pérez-D Health education: organ and tissue donation | School Curriculum |
| AB 1151 | Feuer-D STRS and PERS: investments: Iran | School Employees |
| AB 1156 | Eng-D Pupils: bullying | School Safety |
| AB 1163 | Brownley-D Education: California Educational Facilities Authority | School Facilities |
| AB 1166 | Solorio-D Teacher salaries: additional credit: years of training | School Employees |
| AB 1172 | Mendoza-D Charter Schools: petition for establishment | Charter Schools |
| AB 1174 | Furutani-D School safety: willful disturbance of public schools | School Safety |
| AB 1199 | Brownley-D Child care: centralized eligibility lists | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1237 | Nestande-R Postsecondary education: finance: remedial instruction | Higher Education |
| AB 1246 | Brownley-D Curriculum: instructional materials | School Curriculum |
| AB 1249 | Davis-D English learners: pupils | English Learners |
| AB 1252 | Davis-D Los Angeles Community College District: elections | Higher Education |
| AB 1262 | Dickinson-D Charter schools | Charter Schools |
| AB 1269 | Portantino-D Classified school employees: layoff: reemployment | School Employees |
| AB 1304 | Block-D Education: linked learning | School Curriculum |
| AB 1310 | Furutani-D Career technical education and workforce development | Vocational Education |
| AB 1311 | Miller-R School zones: vehicles: speed enforcement | School Safety |
| AB 1312 | Smyth-R Exemption from licensure: public recreation programs | Child and Day Care |
| AB 1315 | Furutani-D Education: Gateway Centers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1326* | Furutani-D California Higher Education Endowment Corporation | Higher Education |
| AB 1330 | Furutani-D Career technical education: graduation requirements | School Curriculum Vocational Education |
| AB 1341 | Furutani-D Director of Education: experimental work in education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1342 | Dickinson-D School facilities: roof projects | School Facilities |
| AB 1348 | Mansoor-R Pupils: parental consent | School Curriculum Miscellaneous |
| AB 1362 | Nestande-R Pupil attendance: electronic attendance accounting systems | School Finance |
| AB 1366 | Jeffries-R Student financial aid: notice | Higher Education |
| AB 1368 | Pan-D Pupils: California Healthy Kids Survey | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1372 | Norby-R Pupil assessment: records: disclosure | School Accountability and Testing |
| AB 1373 | Fong-D Pupils: healthy relationships and teen dating | School Safety |
| ACR 17 | Fong-D Campus Safety Month | Higher Education |
| ACR 22 | Hueso-D California School Bullying Prevention Awareness Month | School Safety |
| ACR 25 | Campos-D Arts Education Month | School Curriculum |
| ACR 29 | Bonilla-D School safety: Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention | School Safety |
| ACR 30 | Mendoza-D Read Across America Day | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 34 | Lara-D Higher education: ethnic studies programs | Higher Education |
| ACR 49 | Jeffries-R Connect a Million Minds Week | School Curriculum |
| ACR 52 | Block-D California State University: 50th anniversary | Higher Education |
| ACR 57 | Carter-D Dropout Recovery Week | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 62 | Brownley-D Read Across California Month | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 73 | Alejo-D University of California: graduate admissions | Higher Education |
| AJR 10 | Brownley-D School-based health centers | Miscellaneous |
| HR 14 | John A. Pérez-D Day of the Teacher | School Employees |
| AB 32X1 | Blumenfield-D School finance budget trailer bill | School Finance Higher Education |
| AB 39X1 | Roger Hernández-D Higher Education: compensation | Higher Education |
| ACA 2X1 | Blumenfield-D Education finance | School Finance |