Education

• Charter Schools
• Child and Day Care
• Higher Education
• School Accountability
• School Curriculum
• School Facilities
• School Finance
• School Safety/Pupil Safety
• Teachers and School Employees
• Miscellaneous

Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.

Charter Schools

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AB 377 (Grove-R) Online charter schools

Authorizes a virtual or online charter school, as defined, to claim independent study average daily attendance for pupils who are residents of the county in which the apportionment is reported, or who are residents of any other county in the state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 445 (Chávez-R) Charter schools: oversight

Authorizes the State Board of Education, by mutual consent, to designate its supervisorial and oversight responsibilities for a charter school it has approved to any local educational agency.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 622 (Campos-D) Charter school petitions

Requires a proposed or existing charter school and its authorizer to post on their Internet Web sites, a copy of the summary of the petition, the initial petition, renewal petition, and any substantive revisions to the petition submitted to the charter school authorizer, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 656 (Chávez-R) Charter schools: establishment

Specifies that a petition for the establishment of a countywide charter school or a statewide benefit charter school may seek to establish multiple charter schools, which would be considered individual schools for purposes that include, but are not limited to, compliance, monitoring, data reporting and collection, pupil performance data, oversight, and apportionment.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 913 (Chau-D) Charter schools

Subjects charter schools to the state's existing open meetings, conflict-of-interest, and disclosure laws; and makes a number of other changes to the permissible activities of charter school governing boards, councils, and advisory committees.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 917 (Bradford-D) Charter schools: petitions

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 that 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; and, 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 948 (Olsen-R) Charter School Grant Facility Program

Expands eligibility for the Charter School Facility Grant Program in any year in which additional funds remain after state and federal funds have been allocated, by reducing the free and reduced-price meals threshold one percentage point at a time, from 70% to 60%.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1032 (Gordon-D) Charter school facilities

Establishes guidelines for a school district to follow when determining available school facilities for charter schools as required under Proposition 39 (2000).
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1086 (Morrell-R) Charter schools: financial reports

Changes financial reporting requirements for charter schools whose chartering authority is a school district.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

Child and Day Care

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SB 192 (Liu-D) Early learning and educational support services

Reorganizes and recasts provisions of the Child Care and Development Services Act as the Early Learning and Educational Support Act, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the implementation of high-quality early learning and educational support programs based on certain indicia of quality, including, but not limited to, program activities and services that meet the needs of children with exceptional needs and diverse abilities. Requires certain information to be given to parents who receive services from resource and referral programs and alternative payment programs. Redefines "alternative payments" to include payments that are made by one child care agency to another agency or child care provider for the provision of early learning and educational support services, and payments that are made by an agency to a parent for the parent's purchase of early learning and educational support services.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 464 (Jackson-D) Child care: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Act

Enacts the Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Act, and adds it to the Child Care and Development Services Act. Establishes standards with respect to nutrition and physical activity for early childhood education programs, infant care programs, and afterschool programs conducted under the Child Care and Development Services Act.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 260 (Gordon-D) Individualized county child care subsidy plans

Allows, until 7/1/18, the San Mateo County individualized child care subsidy plan to continue, as specified, and extends until 7/1/16, the City and County of San Francisco's individualized child care subsidy plan.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2013

AB 273 (Rendon-D) California Partnership for Infants and Toddlers Act

Enacts the California Partnership for Infants and Toddlers Act of 2013, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), by 3/1/14, to apply to the California Children and Families Commission for funding from the monies received by the Commission pursuant to the California Children and Families Program. Continuously appropriates these monies to the SPI, who will be required to expend those monies by making supplemental grants available to qualifying general child care and development infant and toddler contracting agencies that serve infants and toddlers from birth to three years of age for purposes of offering to enrolled children and families support services, as specified. Requires the SPI, in consultation with the Commission, to determine the agencies and support services that qualify for funding and establish standards to ensure quality child care. Requires the SPI, by 3/1/17, to submit a report to the Legislature evaluating the Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 274 (Bonilla-D) Child care and development services

Authorizes, effective 7/1/14, child care and development providers that contract with alternative payment programs to submit attendance records on a monthly basis. Also, authorizes contractors to be reimbursed by direct deposit, and authorizes providers to maintain records in electronic format, as specified.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2013

AB 641 (Rendon-D) Child care: family child care providers

Authorizes family child care providers to form, join, participate in, and to seek the certification of, a provider organization to act as their exclusive representative on matters related to child care subsidy programs. Establishes a Family Child Care Parent Advisory Committee, as specified. Requires the Department of Social Services and the California Department of Education, with the assistance of specified state departments and agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors, to make specified information regarding family child care providers available to provider organizations, as specified. Requires all resource and referral agencies to provide, without charge, specified workshops to family child care providers. Further establishes a stakeholder work group, and requires the Department of Social Services to consult with the group, as specified.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 812 (Mitchell-D) Child care: contracts: termination and suspension

Eliminates the required 90-day notice prior to the immediate termination of a child care contract, prohibits a contractor from continuing to provide care to children while appealing an immediate termination, expands the reasons for which a contract may be immediately terminated, and makes other changes relative to contracts with the California Department of Education for child care and development services.
Chapter 249, Statutes of 2013

ACR 45 (Weber-D) Early care and education

Urges the Legislature and the Governor to restore budget funding to early care and education programs and to support efforts to fund and implement the Quality Rating and Improvement System and other programs that support early care and education. Also urges the Legislature to commit to improving the public's understanding of the role that early care and education plays in securing an educated, nimble, and stable workforce to help keep California's economy vibrant and strong for years to come.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2013

AJR 16 (Bonilla-D) State preschool programs: early learning

Urges the Congress of the United States to enact President Barack Obama's budget proposal to increase funding for preschool and early learning. Also, urges the Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare a plan for making California competitive for future increases in federal funding to preschool and early learning programs.
Resolution Chapter 153, Statutes of 2013

Higher Education

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SB 8 (Yee-D) Public postsecondary education: executive compensation

Establishes conditions on the granting of executive compensation increases by the California State University for any employment contract entered into or renewed beginning 1/1/14. Requests the Regents of the University of California to comply with these same conditions on executive officer compensation increases and sunsets these provisions on 1/1/24.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 21 (Roth-D) University of California: UC Riverside Medical School

Requests the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, to develop a program consistent with its mission, in conjunction with the health facilities of its medical residency programs, to identify eligible medical residents and to assist those medical residents to apply for physician retention programs, including, but not limited to, the Steven M. Thompson Physician Corps Loan Repayment Program.
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2013

SB 35 (Pavley-D) Higher education: energy conservation

Requires the California State University Board of Trustees and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California Regents, to each establish a special subcommittee to develop and administer a Systemwide Energy Solutions Action Plan to provide near- and long-term strategy concerning energy savings projects, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 58* (Cannella-R) Public postsecondary education: funding

Requires that mandatory systemwide fees or tuition at the California State University, California Community Colleges, and the University of California for the period of 2013-14 through 2018-19, not exceed the level of fees or tuition charged for the 2011-12 fiscal year.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 141 (Correa-D) Postsecondary education benefits: nonresident

Requires the California State University and California Community College districts, and requests the University of California, to exempt from nonresident tuition charges, under specified circumstances, a U.S. citizen who moved abroad as a result of his/her parent's deportation or voluntary departure.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2013

SB 150 (Lara-D) Community college: nonresident tuition exemption

Authorizes a California Community College (CCC) district to exempt pupils attending a CCC as a special part-time student from paying nonresident tuition at the CCC.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2013

SB 195 (Liu-D) Postsecondary education: state goals

Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the state's goals for California's postsecondary education system.
Chapter 367, Statutes of 2013

SB 212* (Pavley-D) Student financial aid: school loans assumption

Requires the California Student Aid Commission to issue 7,200 new warrants for the assumption of school loans for teachers in identified areas of a shortage of teachers.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 240 (Yee-D) Higher education campuses: polling places

Requires county elections officials to establish at least one polling place on every campus of the California State University and the University of California, and consider establishing at least one polling place on each community college campus.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 267 (Pavley-D) Postsecondary education: clean energy projects

Requires the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop and administer a financial assistance program to assist the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California with energy efficiency and clean energy onsite generation projects. Requires the Commission to develop and adopt specific guidelines for the program. Appropriates for the 2013-14 fiscal year an unspecified sum from the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund to the Commission for the above purpose.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 285 (De León-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Provides for the use of funds from the College Access Tax Credit Fund to increase the amount of the Cal Grant B Access Award up to a maximum of $5,000 per award per academic year. Authorizes the Student Aid Commission to be reimbursed from the Fund for all administrative costs incurred in connection with its duties.
Vetoed

SB 290 (Knight-R) Postsecondary education: tuition exemption: veterans

Exempts a California Community Colleges student, or a California State University undergraduate student, from paying nonresident tuition if that student was a member of the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in this state on active duty for more than one year immediately prior to being discharged if he/she files an affidavit with the institution at which he/she is enrolled or intends to enroll, stating that he/she intends to establish residency in California as soon as possible, and uses this exemption within two years of being discharged. Requests the University of California to also adopt the same policy as the California Community Colleges and the California State University.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2013

SB 325 (Block-D) California State University: trustees: student members

Changes the requirements for services as a student trustee on the California State University Board of Trustees, as specified.
Chapter 175, Statutes of 2013

SB 329 (Gaines-R) Lake Tahoe Community College: nonresident tuition

Exempts persons residing in specified communities in the State of Nevada from paying nonresident tuition fees if they attend the Lake Tahoe Community College. In addition, permits the College to count these persons as resident full-time equivalent students for purposes of determining California apportionment funding.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 420 (Walters-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Expands the provisions entitling students to resident classification for the purpose of determining tuition and fees to include every student who is a member of the armed forces reserve and every student who is a dependent child or dependent spouse of a member of the armed forces reserve. Deletes the existing provisions providing for resident classification for students who were members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were discharged within the immediately prior year, and instead entitles every student who is a veteran and every student who is a dependent child or dependent spouse of a veteran to resident classification for the purpose of determining tuition and fees. Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish the same residency requirements as those established by this bill for students enrolled at the University of California.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 440 (Padilla-D) Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act

Expands the provisions of the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act to require that the California Community Colleges create associate transfer degrees in every major, and in areas of emphasis, and require that the California State University (CSU) accept these degrees, and develop an admissions redirection process for students who complete these degrees but are denied admission to the CSU campus to which they have applied. Requires the California Community Colleges and the CSU to establish a student-centered communication and marketing strategy to increase the visibility of the associate degree for transfer pathway, as specified.
Chapter 720, Statutes of 2013

SB 490 (Jackson-D) Academic content standards: Early Assessment Program

Encourages California Community College districts that participate in the Early Assessment Program to consult with the Academic Senate of the districts to work toward sequencing their pre-collegiate and transfer level English and math courses to the common core academic content standards.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2013

SB 495 (Yee-D) Postsecondary education employees: physicians

Makes legislative findings and declarations that the University of California and the California State University should make the funding of student health center clinics a priority when allocating funds for student and campus services and should give consideration for additional compensation of physicians who address student health care challenges at their student health center clinics.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

SB 502 (Block-D) University of California: bidding requirements

Requires the Regents of the University of California, with respect to projects that do not require the application of all competitive bidding provisions, to establish a procedure to qualify and rate a bidder for work to be awarded when the cost of the project exceeds $400,000 but does not exceed $1,000,000, as specified.
(In Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee)

SB 517 (Wyland-R) Teacher Preparation Grant Program

Establishes the Invigorating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Teacher Preparation Grant Program, to be administered by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC), to award grants to eligible applicants for tuition and student fees for programs of professional preparation to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose in the annual Budget Act. Requires an applicant to meet eligibility requirements, including, among others, obtaining a baccalaureate degree in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics field, as defined by CSAC and agreeing to teach in a high-priority school, as defined, for two years after the person obtains a teaching credential. Requires a recipient who fails to meet the requirements for receiving the grant to repay CSAC the amount of the grant, and authorizes CSAC to initiate a civil action against the recipient for repayment of the grant plus interest and costs incurred in recovering the funds.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 520 (Steinberg-D) California Online Student Incentive Grant programs

Creates the California Online Student Incentive Grant programs to assist faculty and individual campuses of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges to provide increased opportunities for students to take online courses, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 547 (Block-D) Public postsecondary education: online courses

Requires the academic senates of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges to jointly develop and identify online courses available for enrollment by matriculated students at each of the three segments by fall of 2014, as specified, and requires them to submit a progress report to the Legislature by 1/31/14. Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to create a portal for enrolling in these courses through the California Virtual Campus, expands the Virtual Campus purposes, extends the Virtual Campus provisions establishing the Campus until 1/1/17, and requires that funding for implementation of these provisions be provided in the annual Budget Act.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 595 (Calderon-D) Student financial aid: contracts: disbursements

Prohibits any campus of the California Community Colleges or the California State University from entering into a contract with any entity on or after 1/1/14, that requires students to open an account with the entity as a condition of the student receiving a financial aid disbursement, and requires that they offer a student the option of receiving his/her financial aid disbursement via direct deposit within one day of the disbursement of monies, as specified. Requests the University of California to comply with these provisions.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2013

SB 681 (Hernandez-D) Community college districts: personal property

Expands the authority of a California Community College district to "piggyback" on an existing contract between a public corporation or agency (including any county, city, town, or district) and a vendor for the lease or purchase of personal property by authorizing the district to directly purchase from, and make payments to, the vendor.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2013

SB 705 (Block-D) Community colleges: appropriation

Appropriates $50 million from an unspecified source, to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, to be allocated equally to Disabled Students Programs and Services and Extended Opportunity Programs and Services.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 730 (Hancock-D) School districts: pupil attendance at community college

Authorizes the governing board of a California Community College (CCC) district to enter into a partnership agreement with a school district(s) within the service area of the community college district in order to provide high school pupils with broad course offerings, as specified. Exempts these students from paying required the CCC fees irrespective of the number of units taken. Authorizes a CCC to assign these students enrollment priority.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 807 (Price-D) African American Political and Economic Institute

Requires the California State University, Dominguez Hills campus to rename its African American Political and Economic Institute as the Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2013

SCA 15 (Yee-D) University of California: retirement benefits

Provides for an officer or employee of the University of California first hired on or after the effective date of this measure, make any retirement plan of the University of California subject to the provisions of the California Public Employees' Pension Reform Act of 2013 and any subsequent statutory enactment amending that Act or enacting or amending a successor act.
(In Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SCR 70 (Galgiani-D) University of California, Davis

Honors the University of California, Davis' great achievement in earning the number one ranking in the world for teaching and research in the areas of agriculture and forestry.
Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2013

AB 13 (Chávez-R) Higher education: nonresident tuition exemption: veterans

Authorizes the California Community Colleges, California State University, and the University of California to exempt from paying nonresident tuition a student or prospective student of their respective segments who is a former member of the U.S. Armed Forces, who has been discharged from active duty, and who is using, or is intending to use, "GI Bill" education benefits, as specified.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 46 (Pan-D) California State University: trustees

Authorizes ex officio members of the California State University Board of Trustees to designate a representative to attend, speak, and vote at Board meetings in the ex officio member's absence and authorizes the non-voting student trustee to vote at a Board meeting if the voting student member is absent from the meeting.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 51 (Logue-R) Postsecondary education: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Establishes a Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program that would include campuses of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and county offices of education in up to seven areas of the state, but will only include institutions that explicitly request inclusion in the program. Requires the public postsecondary educational institutions and local educational agencies participating in the pilot program to coordinate their efforts to expedite the progress of participating students from high school to California Community Colleges to California State University, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 67* (Olsen-R) Public postsecondary education: funding

Requires the California State University, and requests the University of California, to freeze undergraduate tuition and fees through 2016-17.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 138 (Olsen-R) Public postsecondary education: undergraduate tuition

Adds to the Donahoe Higher Education Act a provision requiring the California State University Trustees, and the University of California Regents if they act by appropriate resolution as specified, to determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for California residents in each incoming first-year class in their respective segments. Requires that the tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set for California residents in each incoming first-year class under the bill will not be increased until that class has completed at least four academic years.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 159 (Chávez-R) Postsecondary education: tuition and mandatory fees

Requires the California State Trustees, and requests the University of California Regents, to determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for each incoming first-year class. Requires that the tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set for an incoming first-year class under the bill not be increased for that class for at least six academic years, except as adjusted for inflation, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 173 (Weber-D) Higher education: small business procurement

Authorizes the California Community Colleges and the California State University to award a contract with a value greater than $5,000 but less than $250,000 for the acquisition of goods, services or information technology without competitive bidding, to a certified small business or a disabled veteran business enterprise (DVBE), if the institution receives a price quote from two or more of these entities, as specified. Allows the University of California (UC) to award contracts for the acquisition of goods, services, or information technology that have an estimated value of between $100,000 and less than $250,000 to a certified small business or a DVBE if UC obtains price quotations from two or more certified small businesses or two or more DVBEs and if the UC Regents by an authorizing resolution.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2013

AB 181 (Logue-R) Postsecondary education: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Authorizes the University of California to establish a Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program that includes any campus of the University of California, any campus of the California Community Colleges that volunteers to participate, and any secondary educational institution that volunteers to participate. Places specified conditions on the operation of the pilot program.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 255 (Waldron-R) Public postsecondary education: digital arts pilot program

Establishes a Digital Arts Degree Pilot Program at the California Community Colleges and up to eight campuses of the California State University, and requests the University of California to establish at up to two campuses a digital arts degree.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 283 (Bloom-D) Community colleges: property tax revenues

Requires the annual Budget Act to specify the total local property tax revenue, as defined, for community college districts upon which the General Fund appropriation for California Community College (CCC) districts is based. Requires the Chancellor of the CCC to certify to the State Controller the actual property tax revenue for the prior year. Requires the Controller to transfer funds between the General Fund and Section B of the State School Fund, which is administered by the CCC for apportionments to CCC, as applicable, based on whether the amount of property tax revenue received plus any previous amount transferred to Section B of the State School Fund is greater than or less than the amount specified in the annual Budget Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 303 (Ian Calderon-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: U.S. Armed Forces

Entitles, commencing with the 2014-15 academic year, an otherwise eligible student who is a member or former member of the U.S. Armed Forces, as defined, who meets prescribed requirements, including, but not limited to, enrollment in a qualifying undergraduate certificate or degree program, to a Cal Grant A Entitlement Award or a Cal Grant B Entitlement Award. Requires the Student Aid Commission to make preliminary awards to all applicants currently eligible for an award under the program, and requires each person who receives a preliminary award to affirm, in writing, that he/she meets specified requirements for eligibility in the program, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 314 (Pan-D) Colleges/universities: health care coverage: student plans

Prohibits a health care service plan directly operated by a public or private college or university that directly provides health care services only to its students, faculty, staff, administration and their dependents, from establishing an annual or a lifetime limit on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 330 (Chau-D) Student financial aid: disclosures

Requires postsecondary educational institutions to provide their net price calculators and average student debt per graduate to the Student Aid Commission as a condition of eligibility for the Cal Grant Program, requires the Commission to provide this information on its Internet Web site in a searchable database, and requires a for-profit institution to include this information in its School Performance Fact Sheet.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 368 (Morrell-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Expands those residency classification provisions by deleting the provisions requiring the member of the Armed Forces to be stationed in the state, and by defining "Armed Forces of the United States" to include the National Guard and the reserve components of the Armed Forces, including the California National Guard. Requests the Regents of the University of California to establish the same residency requirements as those established by this bill for students enrolled at the University of California.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 386 (Levine-D) California State University online education

Requires the California State University (CSU) Trustees, on or before 1/1/15, to establish an easily accessible online database of online courses available at the CSU; states that the CSU Trustees, on or before 1/1/17, report to the Legislature on performance data on online courses as specified; and, states that on or before 10/1/17, the Legislative Analyst submit a status update to the Legislature regarding CSU's implementation of this bill, as specified.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2013

AB 387 (Levine-D) Public postsecondary education: online education

Requires the California State University to report performance data for students taking online courses.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 388 (Chesbro-D) Community colleges: Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act

Specifies that nothing in the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012 is intended to preclude a California Community College from providing courses and programs, as specified, to the extent resources are available for those purposes.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 428 (Eggman-D) Coursework: healing arts: remediation

Permits licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical social worker applicants to remediate specified coursework by taking courses at an educational institution or with a continuing education provider approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Chapter 376, Statutes of 2013

AB 447 (Williams-D) California State University: student trustees

Authorizes the non-voting student trustee during the first year of his/her term, except as specified, to vote at the California State University Board of Trustees meeting if the voting student member is absent from the meeting due to illness, a family emergency, or a medical emergency.
Chapter 327, Statutes of 2013

AB 450 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Postsecondary education: community college trustee areas

Requires the Los Angeles Community College District, beginning in 2015, to have district governing board members elected by trustee area instead of at-large. The District board is to provide for the establishment of seven trustee areas by 7/1/14, and hold a public hearing prior to adopting the boundaries of each trustee area. Stipulates the four odd-numbered trustee district representatives shall be elected in June 2015 and the three even-numbered trustee district representatives shall be elected in June 2017. Requires the governing board of any California Community College district to make any proposal for adjusting trustee district boundaries following the decennial census available to the public prior to adopting the boundaries, and to elicit public comment and consider those comments.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 479* (Donnelly-R) Textbooks: sales and use taxes: exemptions

Exempts from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, a textbook purchased by a student from an institution of higher education or sold by an entity whose primary purpose is to provide textbooks to students attending institutions of higher education, for use as a learning resource in any course of study at that institution. Defines certain terms for those purposes.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 534 (Wieckowski-D) Postsecondary education: student loan counseling

Requires the state's postsecondary education institutions to provide counseling to all students with loans from the institution or a private lender or recommended to a student by the institution.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 595 (Gomez-D) Community colleges: priority enrollment

Requires a California Community College district that administers a priority enrollment system to grant priority registration for enrollment to students in the Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services program and to disabled students, as defined.
Chapter 704, Statutes of 2013

AB 634 (Gomez-D) Private postsecondary education: avocational education

Requires the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to promulgate regulations to clarify the definition of avocational education for the purpose of the statute that establishes the Bureau and its authority.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)

AB 675 (Fong-D) Community colleges: employment of faculty

States that a faculty member shall be deemed to have completed the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th contract year, as appropriate, if the faculty member provides service for a percentage of the academic year as is required in an agreement between the governing board of the California Community College district and the exclusive representative of the faculty member, as provided.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 733 (Mansoor-R) Community colleges: academic credit for military training

Authorizes California Community College district governing boards to grant academic credit to students who are honorably discharged from the U.S. Armed Forces, as defined, or who are current members of a reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces, for their military training and experience that is determined by the district to meet prescribed guidelines, as specified.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 734 (Mansoor-R) University of California: regent meetings

Encourages the University of California Regents to allow a student, selected by the University of California Student Association, to attend the closed session meetings. Requires the student to be a nonvoting, noncontributing participant at the meetings.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 736 (Fox-D) California State University: Antelope Valley campus

Requires the Chancellor of the California State University (CSU) to conduct a study regarding the feasibility of establishing a CSU satellite program and independent campus in the Antelope Valley and requires the CSU Chancellor to complete and submit the study to the CSU Trustees within 18 months after the date that the Trustees have certified that sufficient non-state funds are available to conduct the study.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 806 (Wilk-R) Community colleges: salaries of classroom instructors

Includes, for purposes of determining a California Community College district's compliance with the 50% law, the salaries and benefits of academic counselors and librarians, and faculty salaries associated with instructional support and professional development activities, as counting toward compliance, commencing with the 2014-15 academic year. Authorizes the California Community Colleges Board of Governors to establish a compliance committee, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 834 (Williams-D) School Performance Fact Sheets

Provides that a law school that meets specified criteria shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 regarding a School Performance Fact Sheet by complying with a specified standard of the American Bar Association relating to the disclosure of consumer information and by providing completion, placement, bar passage, and salary and wage information of graduates to prospective students prior to enrollment through the law school application process administered by the Law School Admission Council.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 895 (Rendon-D) Postsecondary education: online education task force

Establishes a task force to examine online education in California's public higher education systems.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 950 (Chau-D) Community colleges: full-time instructors

Prohibits a full-time faculty member of a California Community College district from being assigned a workload with an overload or extra assignments exceeding 50% of the full-time semester or quarter workload, with specified exceptions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 955 (Williams-D) Community colleges: intersession extension programs

Requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to establish a voluntary pilot program that authorizes a California Community College district to establish and maintain an extension program meeting specified characteristics during summer and winter intersessions. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office, by 1/1/17, to submit a report on the pilot program to the Legislature, as specified.
Chapter 710, Statutes of 2013

AB 1025 (Garcia-D) Public postsecondary education: credit by examination

Requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University to provide information about credit by examination opportunities wherever course and class information is available and requests the University of California to comply with these same requirements.
Chapter 712, Statutes of 2013

AB 1030 (Cooley-D) Community colleges: nonvoting student members

Authorizes, if the seat of a student trustee becomes vacant during his/her term, the governing board of a California Community College district to allow the officers of the college's student body association, as specified, to appoint an interim nonvoting student trustee to serve the remainder of the term in accordance with the district's policies.
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2013

AB 1085* (Beth Gaines-R) Cal Grant Program: private institutions

Increases the maximum annual tuition for Cal Grant A and B awards, for new recipients attending private postsecondary educational institutions, from $4,000 to $9,708. Increases the maximum annual tuition for Cal Grant A and B awards, for new recipients attending independent non-profit institutions and private for-profit, Western Association of Schools and Colleges-accredited institutions, from $9,084 to $9,708.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1093 (Grove-R) Student financial aid: veterans

Reinstates provisions, as specified, and requests that the Adjutant General also make available additional information, as specified, regarding federal Montgomery GI Bill benefits and contact information for veterans' educational assistance.
(In Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

AB 1146 (Morrell-R) Community colleges: concurrent enrollment

Extends, from 1/1/14 to 1/1/19, the exemption from the 5% cap on concurrent enrollment for pupils who enroll in California Community College summer session courses that meet specified criteria.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1162 (Frazier-D) Student financial aid: debit cards

Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the Trustees of the California State University, and requests the Regents of the University of California and the governing bodies of accredited private postsecondary educational institutions, to adopt policies to be used to negotiate contracts with banks and other financial institutions for the disbursement of students' financial aid awards and other refunds onto debit cards, prepaid cards, or preloaded cards, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1199* (Fong-D) Community colleges: funding

Establishes a loan program for California Community Colleges under specified accreditation sanctions. Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to adopt a revenue funding formula that provides districts under specified accreditation status (probation or "show cause") a second year of declining enrollment revenue relief, provided certain conditions are met, and the district must pay back the second year of declining enrollment revenue in equal installments over the following two years.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 1209 (Bonilla-D) Teacher credentialing: visiting faculty permits

Makes certain provisions relating to issuing or renewing a visiting faculty permit inoperative on 7/1/18, and repeals them as of 1/1/19.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1241 (Weber-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Expands the timeframe after high school graduation during which students are eligible for the Cal Grant Entitlement Program by one additional academic year, beginning in the 2015-16 award year.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1285 (Fong-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Phases in elimination of the restriction in the Cal Grant B program that, in the first year of enrollment, denies tuition benefits to 98% of Cal Grant B recipients.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 1287 (Quirk-Silva-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program eligibility

Establishes eligibility criteria for Cal Grant award recipients to receive renewal awards who were once determined to be ineligible for a renewal award, as specified, but who subsequently meet the eligibility requirements for a Cal Grant award.
Vetoed

AB 1306 (Wilk-R) Public postsecondary education: New University of California

Establishes the New University of California as a fourth segment of public postsecondary education in this state. Establishes an 11-member Board of Trustees of The New University of California as the governing body of the University, and specifies the membership and appointing authority for the board of trustees. Specifies the mission and goal of the University. Provides for the appointment of a Chancellor of The New University of California as the chief executive officer of the University.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1318 (Bonilla-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Establishes a statutory formula which increases the amount of the current Cal Grant award for students attending private colleges accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and establishes an institutional aid threshold which must be met for institutional eligibility for the Cal Grant program.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 1348 (John A. Pérez-D) California Higher Education Authority

Establishes the California Higher Education Authority, its governing board, and its responsibilities, effective 7/1/14.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 1358 (Fong-D) Student body association: student representation fee

Increases the current California Community College (CCC) student representation fee from $1 to $2 per semester, subject to an affirmative majority vote (rather than 2/3) of a CCC's students and directs the additional $1 fee increase to be expended to establish and support the operations of a statewide CCC student organization, as specified.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2013

AB 1364 (Ting-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Increases the maximum amount of the Cal Grant B access award to $1,710, beginning in the 2014-15 academic year, and provides for its annual increase based upon the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

ACR 1 (Medina-D) University of California: UC Riverside School of Medicine

Declares that the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine serves an important role in training a diverse workforce of physicians and providing healthcare to the underserved communities of the Inland Empire region of California.
Resolution Chapter 54, Statutes of 2013

ACR 20 (Logue-R) Postsecondary education: Sikhism: instruction

Recognizes the need for the inclusion of Sikhism in world religions, Eastern religions, Asian, and South Asian courses at all postsecondary educational institutions.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2013

ACR 71 (Weber-D) Higher education: Africana studies programs

Makes findings and declarations regarding the origins, history, and impact, and expresses the support of the Legislature for the continuation of, Africana studies departments, programs, and related projects in California's institutions of higher education.
Resolution Chapter 145, Statutes of 2013

ACR 76 (Lowenthal-D) Public postsecondary institutions: freedom of speech

Recognizes the supreme importance of the right to freedom of speech on college campuses as a mechanism for sharing and discussion of diverse ideas and opinions; condemns biased, hurtful, and dangerous speech intended to stoke fear and intimidation in its listeners; and encourages public postsecondary institutions to ensure that they provide a safe, encouraging environment for exercising the right to freedom of speech and for the vibrant discussion of ideas and opinions from people of all walks of life.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AJR 20 (John A. Pérez-D) Student financial aid: Federal Direct Stafford Loans

Requests that the Congress and the President of the U.S. enact legislation that prevents the doubling of interest rates for Federal Direct Stafford Loans and creates a long-term legislative solution to maintain affordable and reliable federal student loan rates while preserving funding for other federal education programs and benefits.
Resolution Chapter 66, Statutes of 2013

HR 12 (Bigelow-R) University of California 4-H Youth Development Program

Commends the University of California 4-H Youth Development Program, on the occasion of its centennial, for the outstanding contributions it has made to young people throughout the state.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 26 (Williams-D) Student loan forgiveness

Encourages public employers to take full advantage of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and other available programs that are intended to help college graduates that have incurred student loan debt in their pursuit of a degree.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

School Accountability

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SB 201 (Liu-D) Instructional materials: academic content standards: English

Permits the adoption of instructional materials in language arts and English language development and makes changes to the assessment of English language development for pupils who are English learners.
Chapter 478, Statutes of 2013

SB 223 (Liu-D) School districts: categorical funding flexibility

Creates a fiscal flexibility option for school districts over their categorical program funding, linked to a new accountability system. Allows school districts, beginning in 2015-16, to apply for the Maximum Categorical Funding Flexibility and Accountability Program, as specified. Provides that the Superintendent of Public Instruction will be responsible for ensuring that the required local plans meet specified pre-conditions in order for the district to participate in obtaining maximum flexibility, and that a school district that obtains this "flexibility" agrees to demonstrate various goals, including, but not limited to, significant progress toward pupil proficiency in the state standards, narrowing of achievement gaps, fiscal solvency, and improvement in career technical preparedness. Sunsets this program on 7/1/20.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 247 (Liu-D) Pupil assessment: grade 2 diagnostic assessments

Addresses the use of grade 2 diagnostic assessments for use by classroom teachers in the absence of state-required testing of grade 2 pupils.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2013

SB 432 (Price-D) School accountability: advisory committee: creativity index

Requires the Academic Performance Index advisory committee to develop a public measurement, or index, of activities in public school classrooms that foster creativity, innovation, and problem solving, as specified. Requires the committee to make recommendations to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the development of the index by 1/1/15.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 512 (Wyland-R) Pupil assessment: high school exit examination

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), with the approval of the State Board of Education (SBE), to develop an additional section to be included in the high school exit examination that tests U.S. history and government in accordance with the statewide academically rigorous content standards for history-social science adopted by SBE, as specified. Requires the SPI to subject the U.S. history and government section to specified field testing and review requirements before adoption by SBE. Requires SBE, by 1/1/16, to adopt a U.S. history and government section developed by the SPI for inclusion in the high school exit examination. Requires, commencing with the 2019-20 school year and each school year thereafter, each pupil completing grade 12, in addition to successfully passing the English language arts and mathematics sections of the high school exit examination, to successfully pass the U.S. history and government section adopted by SBE. Requires, commencing with the 2017-18 school year, each pupil to take the high school exit examination, including the U.S. history and government section, in grade 10 and allows each pupil to take the examination during each subsequent administration, until each section of the examination has been passed.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 542 (Wyland-R) Pupils: English learners: reclassification

Requires that a pupil in any of grades 3 to 11, inclusive, be eligible to be reclassified as fluent English proficient if the pupil attains the proficient level of performance on the English language arts Standardized Testing and Reporting test, a score of intermediate or above on all portions of the California English Language Development Test, and a 3.0 grade point average at the end of the school year, and, upon attainment of these requirements, requires the pupil to be reclassified as fluent English proficient upon verified approval submitted by the pupil's parent or legal guardian. Authorizes a school district to continue to receive state funding designated for its English learners for up to two years after the pupil has been reclassified as fluent English proficient.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 696 (Block-D) School accountability: Academic Performance Index: civics

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before 7/1/15, to report to the Legislature and recommend to the State Board of Education for adoption a project-based assessment, as specified, through the system of public school accountability, or by other means, to measure the civics learning objectives contained in the history-social science framework for grades 1-12, inclusive.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 484 (Bonilla-D) Pupil assessments

For the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years, upon approval of the State Board of Education, (1) authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to not assign an Academic Performance Index score to a school or school district due to a determination by the Superintendent that a transition to new standards-based assessments would compromise comparability of results across schools or school districts; (2) extends the duration of the provisions of the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act by six years so that they become inoperative on 7/1/20, and be repealed on 1/1/21; (3) deletes the provisions establishing the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, and instead establishes the Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress, commencing with the 2013-14 school year, as specified; and (4) authorizes, commencing with the 2014-15 school year and for the Early Assessment Program, the replacement of the California Standards Test and the augmented California Standards Tests in English language arts and mathematics with the grade 11 consortium computer-adaptive assessments in English language arts and mathematics, as provided.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2013

AB 928 (Olsen-R) Standardized assessments: sale to private schools

Allows standardized assessments created for use in California public schools in kindergarten and grades 1-12, inclusive, to be available for purchase by a private school or a private school organization that has a certain affidavit or statement on file with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to the extent that the purchase would not violate the terms of any contract entered into between the publisher or vendor of the assessment and the State of California. Requires a private school or private school organization that chooses to purchase a standardized assessment to be responsible for the costs associated with the assessment, including administration costs, and to obtain a surety bond, as provided; and requires the Superintendent to determine the principal sum of the bond, as provided. Requires the private school or private school organization that chooses to purchase and administer a standardized assessment to make the results of the assessment available to the public on its Internet Web site and to the California Department of Education for posting on its Internet Web site.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 959 (Bonilla-D) Pupil assessment

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and other specified groups, to recommend specific use of the summative results of middle and high school common core assessments by the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges for entry into college, course placement, career opportunities, and assessment programs at the college level.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

School Curriculum

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SB 185 (Walters-R) Instructional materials: digital format

Authorizes school districts, county offices of education or charter schools to negotiate the price of instructional materials, requires publishers to offer instructional materials as unbundled elements, and authorizes school districts to create a district-wide online digital database of instructional materials, as specified.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2013

SB 201 (Liu-D) Instructional materials: academic content standards: English

Permits the adoption of instructional materials in the English language art and English language development and makes changes to the assessment of English language development for pupils who are English learners.
Chapter 478, Statutes of 2013

SB 300 (Hancock-D) Revised curriculum frameworks: science and English language

Requires the State Board of Education to consider the adoption of a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials based on the Next Generation of Science Standards.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2013

SB 330 (Padilla-D) Health framework: mental health instruction

Requires, when the Health Framework for Public Schools is next revised, the Instructional Quality Commission to consider developing and recommending to the State Board of Education a distinct category on mental health instruction to educate pupils about all aspects of mental health.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2013

SB 518 (Wyland-R) Pupil instruction: science and mathematics

Requires the Instruction Quality Commission and the State Board of Education to ensure that the science and mathematics curriculum frameworks adopted in the course of the next submission cycle include the subjects of engineering and robotics, and upon the adoption of those curriculum frameworks, requires instruction in the areas of science and mathematics to include instruction in engineering and robotics.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 521 (Wyland-R) Civics and American government education

Requires that minimum standards for courses in American government and civics to include the teaching of the comparative differences between the rights of citizens in America and those in other countries, and the connection of civics and American government to western civilizations.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 524 (Lara-D) Pupil instruction: Pathways Curriculum Task Force

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to appoint and staff a 12-member Pathways Curriculum Task Force to develop a voluntary curriculum for grades K-12 that will provide pupils and their families with a basic understanding of postsecondary educational institutions, options, programs, and opportunities.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 552 (Calderon-D) Pupil instruction: violence awareness

Permits local school district governing boards to provide instruction in grades 1 through 12 on violence awareness, as specified.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2013

AB 123 (Bonta-D) Curriculum: farm labor movement: role of Filipinos

Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the existing state curriculum, framework and textbook evaluation criteria on Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm labor movement in the U.S. include information on the role of immigrants, including Filipino Americans, in that movement.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2013

AB 133 (Hagman-R) Instructional materials: digital format

Requires a publisher or manufacturer that submits a printed instructional material for adoption by the State Board of Education or the governing board of a school district, on or after 1/1/14, to ensure that the printed instructional material is also available in an equivalent digital format, during the entire term of the adoption. Also, requires the equivalent digital format of a printed instructional material to conform to certain standards and guidelines, as specified.
Chapter 157, Statutes of 2013

AB 137 (Buchanan-D) History-social science framework: civics

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission, when revising the history-social science framework, to receive input from civics learning experts and consider how civics and history instruction includes the application of that content, as specified.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2013

AB 166 (Roger Hernández-D) Pupil instruction: financial literacy: curriculum framework

Requires the next revision of the curriculum frameworks for history-social science, mathematics, and health to include financial literacy.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2013

AB 342 (Blumenfield-D) Online instruction and independent study

Makes changes to provisions governing independent study programs and legislation enacted last year (AB 644, Blumenfield-D, Chapter 579, Statutes of 2012) regarding online synchronous pupil instruction, as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 391 (Wieckowski-D) Pupil instruction: personal finances

Establishes the "Common Cents Curriculum Act of 2013," requires the history social science framework, when updated, to include financial literacy, and requires the one-semester instructional program entitled consumer economics already developed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and adopted by the State Board of Education to be updated to include instruction in specified areas of financial literacy.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 424 (Donnelly-R) Pupil instruction: State and Federal Constitutions

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission, when revising the history-social science framework, to consider incorporating specified historical documents, including, but not limited to, the California Constitution, in the updated framework.
Chapter 484, Statutes of 2013

AB 700 (Gomez-D) Pupil instruction: voter education

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission, when revising the history-social science framework, to ensure that voter education information is included in the American government and civics curriculum at the high school level, as specified.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2013

AB 899 (Weber-D) English language development standards

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recommend modifications to the English language development standards to link those standards with the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and science.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2013

AB 1178 (Bocanegra-D) Pupil instruction: CA Promise Neighborhood Initiative

Establishes the California Promise Neighborhood Initiative to develop a system of 40 "promise neighborhoods," as defined, throughout California to support children's development from cradle to career.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

School Facilities

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SB 584 (Wyland-R) School facilities: financial and performance audits

Requires the State Controller, on or before 1/1/15, and in consultation with the State Allocation Board, the Department of Finance, and the Department of Education, to submit content to the Education Audits Appeal Panel to be included in the audit guide, Standards and Procedures for Audits of California K-12 Local Educational Agencies 2015-16, beginning in the 2015-16 fiscal year, that is related to specified financial and performance audits required for specified school facility projects.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2013

AB 41 (Buchanan-D) School facilities: school building capacity

Repeals the provisions requiring an increase in the calculation of school building capacity as a result of participation in the Year-Round School Grant Program and exempting specified schools from this increase in the calculation of school building capacity.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 56 (Weber-D) School facilities: carbon monoxide devices

Requires, by 7/1/15, the State Fire Marshal to propose for adoption by the California Building Standards Commission, for the Commission's next triennial code adoption cycle, appropriate standards for the installation of carbon monoxide devices in school buildings.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2013

AB 136 (Buchanan-D) School facilities: sale or lease of real property

Requires a school district governing board to appoint at least two members to the school district advisory committee with expertise in environmental impact, legal contracts, building codes, and land use planning, including, but not limited to, knowledge of the zoning and other land use restrictions of the cities or cities and counties in which surplus space and real property is located. Requires the advisory committee to consist of between eight and 12 members.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 308 (Hagman-R) School facilities: sale of surplus real property

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to establish a program which requires the return of funding received for the purchase, construction, or modernization of real property, under the School Facilities Program, unless the property is sold for specified purposes, or the proceeds are used for capital outlay purposes.
Chapter 496, Statutes of 2013

AB 1015 (Hagman-R) School facilities: high-performance grants and tax credits

Authorizes high-performance incentive grants for school districts and tax credits for developers, contractors, investors, or combination of private sector partners that enter into joint-occupancy agreements.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1032 (Gordon-D) Charter schools: facilities

Establishes guidelines for a school district to follow when determining available school facilities for charter schools as required under Proposition 39 (Smaller Classes, Safer Schools, and Financial Accountability Act, 2000).
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1261 (Gorell-R) Public school facilities: expelled pupils program

Authorizes a school district governing board to request, and the State Allocation Board to grant, an exemption from the requirement that a building or portion of a building owned by the district and used to operate a program for expelled students meet the requirements of the Field Act, if the school district governing board can demonstrate specified conditions.
(In Senate Education Committee)

School Finance

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SB 41* (Wright-D) School finance: Wiseburn Unified School District

Strikes the provision of law that allows for the creation of a blended revenue limit arising from the creation of the Wiseburn Unified School District by unifying (reorganizing) the Wiseburn School District (grades K-8) and the Centinela Valley Union High School District, as specified.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2013

SB 63 (Wolk-D) School attendance: high schools

Provides funding to a basic aid school district that enrolls students who do not reside in an area that includes either a unified or high school district. Specifically provides 70% of the statewide revenue limit for high schools for each unit of average daily attendance generated.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 143* (Fuller-R) Education finance: necessary small high schools

Authorizes three school districts to continue to count pupils in grades 7 and 8 when calculating their necessary small school high school funding for the current (2012-13) school year.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 174 (Liu-D) Adult education: apportionments

Recasts and revises the list of classes and courses that qualify for specified funding, and specifies that this funding could be claimed by high school districts, unified school districts, and county offices of education. Includes courses of preparation for the California High School Exit Examination and the General Education Development test among the courses qualifying for the apportionment of state funds. Authorizes the charging of a fee for adult educations courses when apportionment of state funds does not cover the cost of providing the course. Prohibits the apportionment of state funds for adult education courses unless they are approved by the governing board of the local educational agency and receive annual approval from the Department of Education.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 223 (Liu-D) Education finance: categorical funding

Creates a fiscal flexibility option for school districts over their categorical program funding, linked to a new accountability system. Allows school districts, beginning in 2015-16, to apply for the Maximum Categorical Funding Flexibility and Accountability Program, as specified. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is responsible for ensuring that the required local plans meet specified pre-conditions in order for the district to participate in obtaining maximum flexibility, and that a school district that obtains this "flexibility" agrees to demonstrate various goals, including, but not limited to, significant progress toward pupil proficiency in the state standards, narrowing of achievement gaps, fiscal solvency, and improvement in career technical preparedness. Sunsets this flexibility program on 7/1/20.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 587 (Emmerson-R) School finance: categorical programs

Repeals many provisions requiring, authorizing, or prescribing the funding elements of certain categorical education programs, and makes conforming changes, correct cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 660 (Hancock-D) School finance: career technical education

Requires county superintendents of schools and school districts, subject to existing expenditure requirements for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 fiscal years for the purpose of regional occupational centers or programs, to comply with specified requirements, including, among others, certifying to the Department of Education that each course within a sequence is aligned with the California Career Technical Education Standards and, where appropriate, the Common Core State Standards. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to incorporate various factors and quality indicators into the accountability measures for regional occupational centers and programs, and requires the Superintendent to develop an evaluation instrument to evaluate the programs within each county office of education and school district commencing with the 2014-15 school year.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 714 (Block-D) School finance: average daily attendance: online instruction

Beginning with the 2015-16 fiscal year, permits a school district, county of office of education , or charter school providing classroom-based instruction to claim funding up to 10% of the total average daily attendance in grades 9-12, for three consecutive years for asynchronous (defined as "where the teacher and the pupil are online at different times and do not interact simultaneously") attendance of pupils in "online educational learning programs," as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 59 (Bonta-D) School districts: parcel taxes

Specifies that the provisions requiring uniform application of taxes shall not be construed as limiting a school district from assessing taxes in accordance with rational classifications among taxpayers or types of property within the school district. Specifies that the provision is declaratory of existing law.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 88* (Buchanan-D) School finance: new pupil funding formula

Replaces the current system of K-12 finance with a local control funding formula for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, and makes numerous conforming changes.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 200 (Hagman-R) Education finance: categorical programs

Changes the method of allocating funds for specified categorical programs and requires local education agencies to provide reports on the expenditure of those funds at each schoolsite, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 348 (Conway-R) School finance: necessary small schools

Until 7/1/18, deems Hot Springs Elementary School and Johnsondale Elementary School, which are within the Hot Springs Elementary School District, necessary small schools. Apportions, instead of the necessary small schools apportionment, $150,000 each fiscal year to the Hot Springs Elementary School District for those two schools in addition to the amount per unit of average daily attendance received by the school district and calculated, as specified, if either school does not exceed 28 units of average daily attendance in any fiscal year.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 377 (Grove-R) School finance: online charter schools

Authorizes a virtual or online charter school, as defined, to claim independent study average daily attendance for pupils who are residents of the county in which the apportionment is reported, or who are residents of any other county in the state.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1066 (Holden-D) School finance: average daily enrollment

Changes from an attendance-based to an enrollment-based system of funding schools.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1152 (Ammiano-D) School finance: categorical programs

Removes the California School Age Families Education Program from categorical flexibility, which has the effect of reestablishing the requirements of the Program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1214 (Muratsuchi-D) Regional centers and programs: funding

Requires regional occupational center programs established by a joint powers authority to receive an annual appropriation from the General Fund for purposes of providing career technical education services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACA 2 (Nestande-R) Education finance: payment of state apportionments

Amends the California Constitution to establish new requirements regarding the K-14 minimum funding guarantee and the timing of apportionments of state aid to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and California Community College districts.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AJR 9 (Dahle-R) Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act

Urges the 113th Congress to reauthorize and fully fund the federal Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to provide a long-term, stable source of funding for schools and counties to maintain vital programs, prior to 9/30/13, to avoid any interruption in county services and school operations.
Resolution Chapter 48, Statutes of 2013

AJR 16 (Bonilla-D) School finance: state preschool programs: early learning

Urges the U.S. Congress to enact President Barack Obama's budget proposal to increase funding for preschool and early learning. Urges the Superintendent of Public Instruction to prepare a plan for making California competitive for future increases in federal funding to preschool and early learning programs.
Resolution Chapter 153, Statutes of 2013

School Safety/Pupil Safety

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SB 49 (Lieu-D) School safety plans

Requires school safety plans to include procedures related to response to a person with a gun on campus. Extends, from annually to every third year, the frequency of review of safety plans.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 231 (Correa-D) Bullying: California Bullying Prevention Clearinghouse

Establishes the Michael Joseph Berry Peer Abuse Prevention and Awareness Act of 2013, which establishes the California Bullying Prevention Clearinghouse to address issues relating to bullying and peer abuse, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 316 (Block-D) School safety: door locks

Requires, on or after 1/1/16, all modernization projects submitted to the Division of State Architects to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and any room with an occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from the inside.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 428* (Anderson-R) School safety: The Safe Classrooms Act

Appropriates $850 million from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to school districts and charter schools for the purpose of funding projects that address classroom and school facility safety improvements. Specifies that eligible projects include, among other things, security threat assessment surveys and school facility safety improvements. Requires the Superintendent to establish an application process for school districts and charter schools to apply for funding of these projects, and requires the Superintendent, in approving the applications, to consider equitable distribution between school districts and charter schools in urban and rural areas and pupil enrollment.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 552 (Calderon-D) Pupil instruction: violence awareness

Permits local school district governing boards to provide instruction in grades 1 through 12, inclusive, on violence awareness, as specified.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2013

SB 561 (Fuller-R) Pupil discipline: expulsions: mental health evaluation

Requires that a pupil expelled from school for specified offenses undergo a mental health evaluation conducted by a licensed clinical psychologist in order to enroll schools, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 634 (Price-D) School safety plans: safety drills

Requires comprehensive school safety plans to include procedures for conducting school safety drills. Requires each school during each school year to conduct a minimum number of school evacuation drills relating to fire incidents, as provided, and authorizes schools to conduct other specified school evacuations. Further requires schools to conduct at least one law enforcement school lockdown drill.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 202 (Donnelly-R) School security: School Marshal Plan

Establishes the School Marshal Plan and authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to use general purpose funds to provide training for school marshals. Defines "school marshal" as a school employee who, in accordance with the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995, and pursuant to locally adopted policies, is authorized to possess a firearm at a schoolsite or designated school activities. Exempts from disclosure the personally identifiable information of a school marshal in an application for a license to carry a firearm, or in a license to carry a firearm, issued by the sheriff of a county or the chief or other head of a municipal police department.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 256 (Garcia-D) Bullying: grounds for suspension and expulsion

Authorizes schools to suspend, or recommend for expulsion, a pupil for bullying by electronic means that originated on or off of school grounds, as specified.
Chapter 700, Statutes of 2013

AB 349 (Gatto-D) Classified school employees: allegations of misconduct

Requires school districts and charter schools to notify the Department of Education, within 30 days, when a classified employee is dismissed, terminated, or suspended from employment as a result of misconduct, as specified. Establishes a new process for tracking classified school employees who have a change in employment status as a result of misconduct or while an allegation of misconduct is pending, and for sharing that information with specified entities.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 389 (Williams-D) Private schools: employees: criminal background checks

Requires private, nonpublic schools, to fingerprint all employees who will have contact with pupils and submit two sets of the fingerprints to Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining criminal record summary information from the Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Also provides authority for the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as part of the certification process of a nonpublic school to verify that it has received a successful criminal background check clearance and has enrolled in subsequent arrest notice service, as specified.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2013

AB 420 (Dickinson-D) Pupil discipline: suspensions: willful defiance

Eliminates the option to suspend or recommend for expulsion a pupil who disrupted school activities or otherwise willfully defied the authority of school officials and instead authorizes schools to suspend a pupil in grades 6-12 who has substantially disrupted school activities or substantially prevented instruction from occurring, as specified.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 470 (Mullin-D) School safety and teacher training

Removes $321,000 apportioned under categorical flexibility to support the School Safety Consolidated Grant program for the purpose of requiring the Department of Justice and the Department of Education to continue contracting with one or more professional trainers to coordinate statewide workshops for school districts, county offices of education, and schoolsite personnel in implementing school safety requirements, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 514 (Bonta-D) The Safe Schools for Safe Learning Act of 2013

Expands the existing list of resources the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to post on the Department of Education Web site to include resources for youth who have been affected by gangs, gun violence, and psychological trauma caused by violence at home and at school.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2013

AB 547 (Salas-D) High school after school safety

Expands the academic assistance component of the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens program to include career exploration.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 2013

AB 549 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Comprehensive school safety plans

Encourages schools to include in school safety plans, when plans are reviewed and updated, guidelines for the roles and responsibilities of mental health professionals, community intervention professionals, school counselors, school resource officers, and police officers on school campus, if the school district uses these people.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2013

AB 699 (Donnelly-R) School safety: Safe School Guarantee

Authorizes a parent or guardian of a public elementary or secondary school pupil to remove his/her child from an unsafe school and enroll his/her child in another school or school district.
(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1076 (Olsen-R) School safety: panic buttons

Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to equip the interior of each classroom, cafeteria, theater, gym, and any other regularly used space in a K-12 public school, except a parking lot, with a panic button used to alert law enforcement in the event of a violent incident, if federal funding becomes available for this purpose.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1216 (Campos-D) Pupil discipline: bullying

Provides that a pupil who engages in one or more acts of bullying is, at the option of his/her parent or legal guardian, subject either to suspension or expulsion or the alternatives specified in existing law or to attendance at a class designed to prevent and eradicate bullying, conducted by the school district in which the pupil is enrolled.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1264 (Conway-R) Comprehensive school safety plans: tactical response plans

Makes various changes to comprehensive school safety plans, including that the plans include a tactical response plan, a specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1338 (Buchanan-D) School employees: child abuse: reporting

Requires the governing board of a school district and county office of education and the governing body of a charter school, to adopt a policy on the reporting of child abuse and the responsibilities of mandated reporters in accordance with the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 80 (Dickinson-D) Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court Day

Designates 12/4/13, as Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court Day.
Resolution Chapter 151, Statutes of 2013

Teachers and School Employees

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SB 5 (Padilla-D) Teacher credentialing

Allows teacher preparation programs to include up to two years of professional preparation which is double the current cap of one year of professional preparation. Updates cross-references and makes other technical changes.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2013

SB 10 (Padilla-D) School employees: dismissal, suspension and leave of absence

Includes serious or egregious unprofessional conduct, as specified, as a ground for dismissal of a permanent school employee, and excepts from the prohibition of giving notice to the employee between May 15 and September 15 proceedings where the charges involve specified offenses. Removes marijuana, mescaline, peyote, and tetrahydrocannabinols as exceptions to the controlled substance offenses for which a certificated employee may be charged with a mandatory leave of absence offense or an optional leave of absence offense. For hearings on the dismissal or suspension of a permanent employee that involve certain sex offenses, controlled substance offenses, or child abuse offenses, as specified, requires these hearings to be conducted solely by an administrative law judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings and provides that the decision of the administrative law judge related to these specified offenses is advisory, as defined.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 160 (Lara-D) Classified school employees: misconduct against a child

Requires school districts and charter schools, within 30 days, to notify the Department of Education when a classified employee is dismissed, suspended, or is terminated from employment as a result of the misconduct against a child, as specified, and to notify in writing classified employee that is the subject of the notification, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 368 (Pavley-D) Teachers: added authorization in special education

Allows special education credentialing programs to offer comparability and equivalency for coursework taken across multiple Commission on Teacher Credentialing approved institutions, as defined, and only applies to special education credential holders seeking added authorizations.
Chapter 717, Statutes of 2013

SB 441 (Calderon-D) Education employment: certificated employees

Amends various provisions of existing law governing the evaluation of certificated employees by requiring the evaluations to use multiple measures, including a minimum of four rating levels, increasing the frequency of evaluations for teachers with 10 or more years of experience in a school district from every five years to every three years, and requiring school districts to consider the findings of sessions, surveys, and specific focus groups by subject matter and grade level from parents of pupils.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 453 (Huff-R) School employees: teachers: evaluation: termination

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, and 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 531 (Knight-R) School employees: discipline: suspension and dismissal

Modifies suspension and dismissal procedures for certificated employees who have attained permanent status.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 559 (Huff-R) Certificated employees: layoff notices

Revises the deadline for the notice of termination of services to the employee to before August 1, and revises the deadline for the notice the superintendent of a school district is required to provide to no later than June 1. Makes various findings and declarations relating to the issuance of the notices, as specified.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 576 (Block-D) Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to appoint an alternate representative to serve as an ex officio member to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in the absence of the California Postsecondary Education Commission's representative.
Chapter 185, Statutes of 2013

SB 590 (De León-D) Professional development for classified school employees

Requires a local education agency, if it expends funds for professional development for any schoolsite staff, to consider the needs of classified school employees.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2013

SB 657 (Block-D) Teachers: evaluations

Revises and recasts the requirements for teacher evaluations. Specifies requirements for the evaluation and assessment of teachers by local educational agencies. Specifies that unweighted multiple measures, including pupil assessment data, may be used in teacher evaluations. Requires that evaluations be used for, among other purposes, the identification of a teacher's need for professional learning and improved instructional practices. Requires that evaluators be knowledgeable and trained to give productive feedback, and that experts in the specific teaching field of the teacher being evaluated be included in the evaluation process.
(In Senate Education Committee)

AB 135 (Buchanan-D) Certificated employees: evaluation

Requires every three years, instead of five years, the evaluation and assessment of the performance of personnel with permanent status who have been employed at least 10 years with the school district, are highly qualified, as specified, and whose previous evaluation rated the employee as meeting or exceeding standards.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 375 (Buchanan-D) School employees: dismissal or suspension

Modifies the suspension and dismissal procedures for certificated employees who have attained permanent status.
Vetoed

AB 389 (Williams-D) Private schools: employees: criminal background checks

Requires private, nonpublic schools, to fingerprint all employees who will have contact with pupils and submit two sets of the fingerprints to Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining criminal record summary information from the Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Provides authority for the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as part of the certification process of a nonpublic school, to verify that it has received a successful criminal background check clearance and has enrolled in subsequent arrest notice service, as specified.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2013

AB 430 (Olsen-R) Teacher Professional Growth Plan

Establishes the Teacher Professional Growth Plan, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 449 (Muratsuchi-D) Elementary and secondary education: allegation of misconduct

Requires a superintendent of a school district or county office of education or the administrator of a charter school to report changes in the employment status of certificated employees that result from allegations of misconduct to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Constitutes failure to report as a misdemeanor that is punishable by a fine of between $500 and $1000.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2013

AB 470 (Mullin-D) Teacher training: school safety

Removes $321,000 apportioned under categorical flexibility to support the School Safety Consolidated Grant program for the purpose of requiring the Department of Justice and the Department of Education to continue contracting with one or more professional trainers to coordinate statewide workshops for school districts, county offices of education, and schoolsite personnel in implementing school safety requirements, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 947 (Beth Gaines-R) School employees: terminations

Provides specified reasons for which a school district may deviate from terminating employees in order of seniority, including authorizing school districts to terminate an employee on the basis of performance evaluations and on the basis that the employee is assigned to a schoolsite that has implemented specific models of intervention and has been selected by the governing board of the school district for exemption from certificated reductions in workforce, based upon the needs of pupils in the educational program. Provides an exception to this authorization for an employee who has 18 months or less from his/her date of retirement, or is on medical leave, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1221 (Wilk-R) School employees: discipline: suspension and dismissal

Requires significant modifications to the current protocols used for the discipline of a certificated employee in California; shortens the process for the dismissal or suspension of a certificated employee for unprofessional conduct or unsatisfactory performance; and, shifts the decision making authority in disciplinary cases from the Commission on Professional Competence to the governing board of a school district.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1338 (Buchanan-D) School employees: child abuse: reporting

Requires the governing board of a school district and county office of education and the governing body of a charter school, to adopt a policy on the reporting of child abuse and the responsibilities of mandated reporters in accordance with the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Miscellaneous

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SB 128* (Emmerson-R) Hemet Unified School District: governance authority

Authorizes the jurisdiction of the Hemet Unified School District Community Facilities District No. 2005-1 to be transferred from the Hemet Unified School District to the Temecula Valley Unified School District upon written agreement entered into between the governing boards of the two school districts.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2013

SB 173 (Liu-D) Adult health and safety education: funding

Establishes guidelines and recommendations for adult education programs in the areas of assessment, performance accountability, and teacher requirements; and eliminates specified classes and courses authorized to be funded from the adult education fund and California Community Colleges adult education noncredit apportionments.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 177 (Liu-D) Homeless Youth Education Success Act

Requires a homeless child or youth, as defined, to be immediately deemed to meet residency requirements for participation in interscholastic sports or other extracurricular activities; requires public schools and county offices of education to immediately enroll a homeless child or youth seeking enrollment, except as provided; requires the Department of Education and the Department of Social Services to identify representatives from their respective agencies and from other state agencies that have experience in homeless youth issues to develop policies and practices relating to homeless children and youths, as defined; requires the selected representatives to present the policies and practices to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Department of Social Services to be considered for implementation or dissemination, as appropriate; and requires a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths designated pursuant to federal law to ensure that public notice of the educational rights of homeless children and youths, as defined, is disseminated in schools within the liaison's local educational agency that provide services pursuant to specified federal law.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2013

SB 192 (Liu-D) Early learning and educational support services

Reorganizes and recasts provisions of the Early Learning and Educational Support Act; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the implementation of high-quality early learning and educational support programs based on certain indicia of quality, including, but not limited to, program activities and services that meet the needs of children with exceptional needs and diverse abilities; and requires certain information to be given to parents who receive services from resource and referral programs and alternative payment programs.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 236* (Pavley-D) Moorpark Unified School District: four-day school week

Authorizes, beginning in the 2013-14 fiscal year, the Moorpark Unified School District to operate one or more high schools offering a middle college program on a four-day school week if it complies with the specified instructional time requirements and other requirements related to the four-day school week; requires the authority of a school in the District to operate on a four-day school week to be permanently revoked if the school fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target; and, authorizes the District operating a school on a four-day school week, to claim a day of attendance pursuant to a provision related to attendance in early college high schools and middle college high schools, and specified provisions related to the operation of middle college high schools.
Chapter 716, Statutes of 2013

SB 237 (Calderon-D) High school diplomas: retroactive: veterans

Expands the pool of veterans who may receive a retroactive high school diploma to include people who served in the military after the Vietnam War; and requires a school district or county office of education, before granting a retroactive high school diploma to a veteran that began his/her service after 5/1/73, to require the otherwise eligible veteran to pass the high school exit exam or have satisfactorily completed half of the work required for grade 12.
(In Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)

SB 302 (Cannella-R) School cafeterias: cafeteria fund

Makes changes to a school district's use of cafeteria funds by (1) requiring cafeteria fund expenditures to be a part of annual school district financial and compliance audits; (2) requiring the Department of Education (CDE) to assess its food services workload and staffing needs for purposes of carrying out the state's oversight responsibilities in accordance with federal law and regulations adopted by the United States Department of Agriculture, and requiring CDE to request sufficient federal funding to hire the appropriate number of staff based on that assessment; (3) requiring CDE to prepare simplified guidelines addressing most of the common acceptable and unacceptable charges to cafeteria funds, and requiring CDE to post all enforcement actions for the misappropriation of cafeteria funds on its Internet Web site; (4) requiring a school district to maintain all financial records related to cafeteria funds for five years and prohibiting a school district from charging a food service program any charge prohibited by state or federal law or regulation/guidance; (5) prohibiting a school district from withholding any financial records involving school nutrition programs from its food service director; (6) repealing statute allowing a school district with an average daily attendance of over 100,000 to expend money from its cafeteria fund generated from the joint sale of items between the cafeteria and an associated student body store, as specified; and, (7) repealing statute allowing a school district to establish and maintain a cafeteria fund reserve for the purchase, lease, maintenance, or replacement of cafeteria equipment, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 312 (Knight-R) Absences: confidential medical services: consent

Limits the age at which a student may be excused from school without the consent of a parent to seek confidential medical services.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 331 (Liu-D) Libraries: collaborative network

Expands the statewide delivery network and resource sharing under the California Library Services Act by allowing funding requests from libraries to include high-speed broadband capacity upgrades, and authorizes the California State Librarian to enter into a cooperative agreement with a high-capacity Internet service provider to provide network services to all public libraries throughout the state.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 344 (Padilla-D) Local education agencies: control and accountability

Establishes, among other things, new requirements related to the local control and accountability plans that local education agencies are required to adopt beginning 7/1/14.
Vetoed

SB 384* (Gaines-R) Scholarships: California Memorial Scholarship Program

Extends the deadlines by which eligible victims of 9/11 must be notified of their eligibility for, and must inform and execute agreements to participate in, the California Memorial Scholarship Program administered by the Scholarshare Investment Board.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

SB 421 (Hernandez-D) Grants: economically disadvantaged high school pupils

Establishes a grant program, to the extent federal funding is available, to cover the costs of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate examination fees, or both, for eligible economically disadvantaged high school pupils.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 430 (Wright-D) Pupil health: vision examination: binocular function

Deletes an existing requirement that, upon first enrollment in a California school district of a child at an elementary school, and at least every third year thereafter until the child has completed the eighth grade, the child's vision is to be appraised by the school nurse or other authorized person, and replaces it with a requirement that, upon first enrollment in a private or public elementary school, a pupil receive a vision examination from a physician, optometrist, or ophthalmologist and requires that screening to include a test for binocular function, refraction, and eye health.
(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 451 (Huff-R) Open Enrollment Act

Expands the Open Enrollment Act to authorize the parent of a pupil, regardless of whether the pupil attends a "low-achieving school," to submit an application for the pupil to attend another school within the same district or to a school outside their district of residence.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 452 (Huff-R) School intervention: parent empowerment

Expands the scope of parent empowerment to include schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving and all schools ranking in deciles 1-3 on the Academic Performance Index.
(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 505 (Jackson-D) Education technology: programs

Extends the sunset, until 1/1/19, on the State Education Technology Services programs that support the use of technology in California schools; extends the sunset date, until 1/1/19, on the California Technology Assistance Project administered by the Department of Education which provides a regionalized network of technical assistance to schools and school districts on the implementation of education technology.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 528 (Yee-D) Minor parents and nonminor dependent parents: school

Requires nonminor dependent parents to be given the ability to attend school, complete homework, and participate in age and developmentally appropriate activities separate from parenting; and authorizes child welfare agencies, local educational agencies, and child care resource and referral agencies to make reasonable and coordinated efforts to ensure that minor parents and nonminor dependent parents who have not completed high school have access to school programs that provide onsite or coordinated child care.
Chapter 338, Statutes of 2013

SB 540 (Wyland-R) Diplomas: career technical education certificates

Allows school districts and county offices of education to award pupils a career technical education certificate if specified requirements are met; and, provides that the award of a career technical education certificate shall in no way be construed as equivalent to the award of a high school diploma or as a change to the requirements in existing law regarding compulsory education and high school graduation, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 546 (Wright-D) Education employment: reduction in force

Renames, for purposes of the school district reduction in force process, the "accusation" document a "District Statement of Reduction in Force" and renames the "notice of defense" document the "Notice of Participation," as specified.
Chapter 90, Statutes of 2013

SB 565* (Knight-R) Public school volunteers

Narrows the list of persons eligible to serve as nonteaching volunteer aides in schools by prohibiting individuals who have been convicted of certain serious felonies or that are on post release community supervision or parole, unless a waiver is granted by the school district's governing board, as specified; and, authorizes a school district or county office of education to request a local law enforcement agency to conduct an automated criminal records check of a prospective nonteaching volunteer to determine whether he/she has been convicted of certain serious felonies or on post release community supervision or parole.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 571 (Liu-D) Keep Arts in Schools Fund: income tax check-off

Creates the Keep Arts in Schools Fund tax check-off on the personal income tax form.
Chapter 430, Statutes of 2013

SB 581 (Wyland-R) Audits: school bonds: accountability

Requires annual, independent financial and performance audits to be submitted to the citizens' oversight committee at the same time they are submitted to the school district or community college district; and, requires the governing board of the district to provide the citizens' oversight committee with responses to any and all findings, recommendations, and concerns addressed in the annual, independent financial and performance audits within three months of receiving the audits.
Chapter 91, Statutes of 2013

SB 596 (Yee-D) School-based mental health services

Requires, to the extent that nonstate funds are received, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a pilot program pursuant to which the Department of Education and relevant state and local partners would assist school districts in their efforts to establish or enhance mental health services and support for pupils at public elementary and secondary schoolsites; specifies that these services may include, but are not necessarily limited to, screenings, assessments, evaluations, interventions, and treatment; and, specifies that the primary goals of the pilot program include the facilitation of the coordination of school staff, as defined, school districts, county mental health departments, and community-based organizations in establishing or enhancing school-based mental health services.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 616 (Wright-D) Los Angeles Unified School District: public works contract

Exempts, until 1/1/17, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) from bonding requirements when the LAUSD enters into a public works contract in an amount less than $1 million with a contractor that is a small business or microbusiness, as defined, that participates in LAUSD's self-insurance program; requires, in order for this exemption to apply, the LAUSD to state in its call for bids that the self-insurance program is available to these small business and microbusiness contractors; requires the LAUSD to establish guidelines and requirements for the small business or microbusiness to participate in the program, as specified; and, requires the LAUSD to establish separate accounts for each project that participates in the program to cover the cost of the default or failure of a small business or microbusiness to make payments to subcontractors or material vendors.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 619 (Yee-D) Civics orientation: state employees: training

Requires the Department of Education, if private funds are secured for this purpose, to develop and make available online a state employee civics orientation on federal and state government by 1/1/15; and, requires employees hired or promoted after 7/1/15, to complete the orientation, and for an appointing power or supervising official to certify completion at least once every two years.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 687 (Anderson-R) School volunteers: school facility maintenance

Authorizes the governing board of a school district to utilize volunteers to perform the maintenance or improvement of school facilities under the supervision of a district employee.
(In Senate Education Committee)

SB 744 (Lara-D) Community schools and community day schools

Amends the process for referral to, and programs offered within, county community schools and community day schools.
Vetoed

SCA 5 (Hernandez-D) Public education: student recruitment and selection

Proposes a constitutional amendment be placed before the voters that deletes provisions implemented through the enactment of Proposition 209 that prohibit the State from granting preferential treatment to individuals or groups on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, in the operation of public education.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 3 (Huff-R) School Choice Week

Proclaims the week of 1/27/13 through 2/2/13, as School Choice Week; and, states that parents, students, and teachers in every state across the nation come together each year to recognize school choice and the need for effective education options for all children.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 14 (Wolk-D) California Library Week

Declares 4/14/13 to 4/20/13, inclusive, as California Library Week; and commends California's public libraries, librarians, and all library workers for enriching the lives of California residents and helping to make our state an exceptional place to live, learn, and work.
Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2013

SCR 15 (Lieu-D) Financial Aid and Literacy Month

Declares April 2013 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2013

SCR 50 (Hueso-D) Dropout Recovery Week

Declares the week of 8/4/13 to 8/10/13, to be Dropout Recovery Week; and, encourages the support of dropout recovery high schools with creative teaching strategies, alternative assessments, and adequate resources.
Resolution Chapter 82, Statutes of 2013

SCR 67 (Liu-D) School Attendance Awareness Month

Designates September 2013 as School Attendance Awareness Month; and encourages public officials, educators, and communities in California to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2013

SR 9 (Huff-R) School Choice Week

Proclaims the week of 1/27/13 through 2/2/13, as "School Choice Week;" and, states that parents, students, and teachers in states across the nation come together each year to recognize school choice and the need for effective educational options for all children.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 182 (Buchanan-D) Capital Appreciation Bonds

Establishes restrictions on the use of capital appreciation bonds, requires local governing boards of school districts to be provided specified information regarding the issuance of capital appreciation bonds.
Chapter 477, Statutes of 2013

AB 216* (Stone-D) High school graduation requirements: pupils in foster care

Provides that a foster youth who transfers to a new school after completing his/her second year of high school shall be exempt from the graduation requirements of the new school that exceed state requirements unless the school district makes a finding that the pupil is reasonably able to complete the school's graduation requirements in time to graduate from high school by the end of his/her fourth year of high school, and provides that the pupil is not required to accept the exemption. Requires school districts to modify procedures for determining which pupils are exempt, notify appropriate parties, and provide information regarding how the exemption will affect the pupil's ability to gain admission to a postsecondary education institution and about transfer opportunities available through the California Community Colleges, and to give foster pupils the option of attending high school for a fifth year in order to complete the district's graduation requirements.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2013

AB 275 (Alejo-D) Migrant education

Requires the Migrant Education Program plan to be revised as necessary by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the State Parent Advisory Council. Adds new requirements to the Program plan, including involving parents in the review of data; an analysis of data on migratory children collected through the state's data system; and an evaluation and monitoring component, as specified.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 320 (Nazarian-D) Tobacco use programs

Prohibits the use of tobacco and nicotine products at any time in a county office of education, charter school, or school district-owned or leased buildings, on school or district property, and in school or district vehicles. Clarifies that charter schools are eligible participants in the Tobacco Use Prevention and Education program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 422 (Nazarian-D) School lunch program applications: health care notice

Adds information regarding health care coverage available through the California Health Benefit Exchange, known as Covered California, to notifications that may be included at the option of the school district or county superintendent on applications for the School Lunch Program, effective 1/1/14.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2013

AB 475 (Brown-D) Student athletes: scholarships

Defines the term "licensing fees" for purposes of the Student Athlete Bill of Rights, and makes those provisions applicable to intercollegiate athletic programs at 4-year institutions of higher education in the state that receive, as an average, $20 million or more in annual revenue derived from media rights and licensing fees for intercollegiate athletics, as specified. Requires that, commencing with the 2015-16 academic year, an athletic scholarship given out by a public institution of higher education in the state be guaranteed for five academic years or for the completion of a student athlete's eligibility if the student athlete maintains good standing with the institution he/she attends and continues his/her participation in the sport. Requires that, commencing with the 2015-16 academic year, a full athletic scholarship given out by a public institution cover the full cost of attendance for the institution the student athlete attends, and include an additional $3,600 student athlete participation stipend.
(In Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 558 (Cooley-D) Class size reduction

Extends the practice of reducing penalty assessments from fiscal year 2014-15 to fiscal year 2017-18 for a school district that does not meet a student/teacher ratio of 20:1 under the K-3 Class Size Reduction program.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 570 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Continuation schools: policies and procedures

Requires the governing board of a school district that chooses to voluntarily enroll high school pupils in a continuation school, to establish and adopt policies and procedures governing the identification, placement, and intake procedures of pupils who voluntarily enroll in continuation schools, as specified. Requires a copy of the policies and procedures to be provided to a pupil whose voluntary transfer is under consideration, and to the parent or guardian, as specified.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2013

AB 588 (Fox-D) School athletics: concussions

Applies existing law relating to students who sustain, or are suspecting of sustaining, a concussion during a school-sponsored athletic activity to charter schools and private schools.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2013

AB 626 (Skinner-D) School nutrition

Makes numerous changes to school nutrition standards to conform with the federal Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act, implements recommendations of a Senate report relative to use of cafeteria funds, and deletes obsolete provisions.
Chapter 706, Statutes of 2013

AB 631 (Fox-D) Pupils: juvenile court schools

Authorizes a county board of education to adopt and enforce a course of study that enhances instruction in mathematics and English language arts for pupils attending a juvenile court school.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2013

AB 643 (Stone-D) Public schools: pupil records: confidentiality

Amends California law to align the exceptions created to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act by the federal Uninterrupted Scholars Act of 2013.
Chapter 80, Statutes of 2013

AB 646 (Cooley-D) Public education governance

Requires the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, on or before 7/1/15, to establish an advisory committee on P-20 councils, with designated membership, to serve as a clearinghouse for ideas of how these councils are working and to identify key statewide education policies and goals that P-20 councils may seek to further. Authorizes a school district, California Community College district, or campus of the California State University or University of California to establish or participate in a regional P-20 council, and authorize a regional P-20 council to include representatives of private sector employers. Requires a regional P-20 council established under the bill to identify educational objectives that are consistent with the objectives of council members and with statewide education policies and goals.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 659 (Nazarian-D) County educational agencies: budgets: posting online

Authorizes the county board of education to post the proposed budget on its Internet Web site for public inspection.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 682 (Ian Calderon-D) State procurement: food: plumped poultry

Prevents the purchase of chicken or turkey sold or served in public school facilities or state-owned or leased buildings for food concessions, cafeterias, or vending operations from being "plumped" in any way.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 684 (Medina-D) Workforce training

Adds an uncodified section of law to authorize the California Workforce Investment Board to provide grants, from state and federal funds available for this purpose, to accredited institutions that provide instruction to persons who are preparing for the general educational development test.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 728 (Muratsuchi-D) Land use: school advertising displays

Authorizes the governing board of a school district to render inapplicable a city or county zoning ordinance governing specified advertising displays.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 815 (Conway-R) School intervention: parent empowerment

Makes changes to the eligibility criteria for the Parent Empowerment Program.
(Failed Passage in Assembly Education Committee, reconsideration granted)

AB 939 (Melendez-R) Pupil and school personnel health

Encourages schools to acquire and maintain at least one automatic external defibrillator, and encourages schools to follow specified procedures for placement and use of that automatic external defibrillator.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 940 (Morrell-R) Schools: volunteers: school facility maintenance

Authorizes the governing board of a school district, as defined, to permit a person, except a person required to register as a sex offender, as specified, to volunteer time or resources under the supervision of a district employee for the maintenance or improvement of a school facility, as provided. Prohibits a collective bargaining agreement entered into after 1/1/14, from prohibiting a school district from using volunteers.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 944 (Nestande-R) Distance learning

Establishes a common definition of distance learning course and requires data gathering and reporting on such courses offered by the state public postsecondary institutions.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 951 (Medina-D) Educational rights of homeless children

Requires a local education agency, if it designates a liaison for homeless children and youths as required under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, to ensure the liaison is properly trained regarding the rights of these children to receive educational services.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 970 (Alejo-D) Pupils: limited English proficiency

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to perform certain tasks relating to pupils of limited English proficiency, including ensuring that all schools and school districts provide each pupil of limited English proficiency with an educational opportunity that is equal to the opportunities available to English-speaking pupils.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1016 (Quirk-Silva-D) Foreign language instruction: teaching credential

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue a foreign language teaching credential for the sole purpose of providing foreign language instruction as part of an after school program voluntarily maintained by a school district to a person who has a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of postsecondary education and passes the single subject California Subject Examinations for Teachers in the foreign language in which he/she will be providing instruction. Allows a high school pupil to demonstrate that he/she has proficiency in one or more languages other than English, for the purpose of being awarded the State Seal of Biliteracy, by successfully completing four years of foreign language instruction from a person issued that credential as part of an after school program voluntarily maintained by a school district.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1179 (Bocanegra-D) Regional transportation plan: schoolsites

Requires metropolitan planning organizations to identify, in consultation with local educational agencies, how the sustainable communities strategy may impact school enrollments and school capacities in the areas targeted for infill.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1266 (Ammiano-D) Pupil rights: sex-segregated school programs and activities

Requires a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs, activities, and facilities including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with his/her gender identity, regardless of the gender listed on the pupil's records.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2013

AB 1279 (Conway-R) Open Enrollment Act

Expands the Open Enrollment Act, as specified.
(Failed Passage in Assembly Education Committee, reconsideration granted)

AB 1362 (Ting-D) Education technology

Defines "digital divide project" to include the teaching of computer programming and digital literacy skills to youth from underprivileged communities and underrepresented populations in technology careers.
(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

ACR 10 (Buchanan-D) Read Across America Day

Recognizes 3/1/13 as "Read Across America Day."
Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2013

ACR 12 (Ian Calderon-D) Arts Education Month: March 2013

Proclaims the month of March 2013 as Arts Education Month and encourages all elected officials to participate with their educational communities in celebrating the arts with meaningful activities and programs for pupils, teachers, and the public that demonstrate learning and understanding in the visual and performing arts, and urges all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality school arts programs for children and youth.
Resolution Chapter 15, Statutes of 2013

ACR 30 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Pupil rights: Student and Youth Bill of Rights

Recognizes the importance of engaging with young people to influence decisions that affect their quality of life and well-being and identifies the Student and Youth Bill of Rights as a framework to guide and inform the youth of the state in organizing and advocating policy issues on their own behalf.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2013

ACR 45 (Weber-D) Early care and education

Urges the Legislature and the Governor to restore budget funding to early care and education programs and to support efforts to fund and implement the Quality Rating and Improvement System and other programs that support early care and education.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2013

ACR 80 (Dickinson-D) Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court Day

Designates 12/4/13 as Keeping Kids in School and Out of Court Day.
Resolution Chapter 151, Statutes of 2013

AJR 31 (Skinner-D) Child nutrition programs: school meals

Declares that the Legislature supports federal standards for healthy meals, including those standards recently adopted pursuant to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to ensure that reimbursement rates for school meals are adequate to fully fund the cost of producing a nutritious school meal relative to the cost of living in a region, and states that the eligibility scale used to qualify families for free and reduced-priced meals be adjusted, as specified.
(In Assembly Education Committee)

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Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.