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School Finance

SB 20 (Figueroa-D) Education technology grant program

Revises the Digital High Schools Act of 1997 to make high schools established after October 6, 2000, eligible for technology support and staff training.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 51 (Alpert-D) Teachers: additional compensation

Authorizes a school district to apply to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for a grant to provide additional compensation to credentialed teachers. Provides $1,000 to a qualifying teacher for one week of additional schoolwork outside the regular school year. For each additional week, up to a maximum of three weeks, a teacher could receive $500.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 83* (Rainey-R) Home-to-school transportation

Allows two school districts to receive funding for home-to-school transportation (Orinda and Lafayette Elementary).

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 197 (Kelley-R) Education technology

Appropriates $3.5 million to the Imperial County Office of Education to wire its schools to the Internet.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 344 (Schiff-D) School finance: staff development

Increases from three to five for teachers, and from one to five for classroom aides, the number of staff development days that may be funded each year under the Instructional Time and Staff Development Reform Program. Provides for an annual inflation adjustment for the program.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 347 (Alpert-D) Out-of-school programs

Appropriates $6.7 million for allocation to (1) the Solano Beach Elementary School District for operation of the California Reads program, and (2) the nine existing school-to-career partnerships that no longer receive federal funds or will lose federal funding.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 426 (Lewis-R) State Department of Education: federal moneys

Prohibits, to the extent consistent with federal law, the State Department of Education from expending for administrative purposes an amount in excess of five percent from the amount that the department receives from federal education grant moneys. Provides that the limitation applies to each specific federal education grant.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 440* (Chesbro-D) Laytonville Unified School District

Allows the Laytonville Unified School District to continue the use of its temporary non-Field Act compliant high school gymnasium until December 31, 2002.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 589 (Morrow-R) Regional occupational centers and programs

Authorizes regional occupational centers and programs to claim average daily attendance for vocational instruction to a student who is in a juvenile court school or a county community school.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 660 (Alarcon-D) Educational technology infrastructure: bonds

Enacts the Educational Technology Infrastructure Bond Act of 2000, which authorizes, subject to voter approval at the March 2000 Primary Election, the issuance of $1 billion in General Obligation bonds for the purposes of financing K-12 wiring and cabling, technological modernization of buildings, telecommunications or computer equipment, adding power sources, hardware, software, and other related equipment.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 881 (Haynes-R) Categorical education: testing program

Allows any school with scores in the lowest fifth percentile of the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test to spend state and federal categorical education funds for programs intended to improve pupil performance on the STAR test.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 950 (Brulte-R) School finance

Revises statutory funding formulas to equalize school district revenue limits and equalizes the allocation of "core" revenues of county offices of education.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1079 (Leslie-R) School transportation

Increases the maximum enrollment and decreases the annual mileage threshold permitted for a county unified school district to qualify for additional home-to-school transportation funding.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1379 (Poochigian-R) Average daily attendance: reorganized school districts

Allows a school district to apply to the State Board of Education to adjust attendance counts for up to four years in order to adjust financially to declining enrollment following a district reorganization or transfer of territory.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1399* (Rainey-R) Education technology

Expands, over four fiscal years commencing 2000-01, the Digital High School Education Technology Grant Act of 1997 to grades four to eight, and grade nine if grade nine is not part of a high school and revises the funding selection process.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1405 (Rainey-R) Advanced placement programs: transportation of pupils

Establishes a grant program to provide funding for the cost of transporting high school students to advanced placement courses.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1548 (Schiff-D) Education

Authorizes school districts that meet certain criteria to receive a block grant of funding in lieu of specified state categorical program allocations and appropriates funds for three education projects.

(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1561 (Knight-R) Community day schools: funding

Authorizes a small county office of education to operate a community day school.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1609 (Monteith-R) Transportation costs

Establishes funding for school transportation for summer school and after school programs in rural areas.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1614 (Chesbro-D) School finance

Repeals an outdated provision in current law that specifies that a few school districts must return to their 1982-83 instructional time offerings or else lose their incentive funding and any cost-of-living funding since their initial receipt of incentive money.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1667* (Alpert-D) Education and government

Is the Omnibus Education Budget Trailer Bill. Appropriates a total of $1.5 billion in current year Proposition 98 funds and $8.9 million in Budget-year Proposition 98 funds.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 1689* (Escutia-D) Advanced placement program

Establishes the Advanced Placement Challenge Grant Program.

Chapter 73, Statutes of 2000

SB 1711* (Poochigian-R) Educational technology academies: pilot project

Requires that two educational technology academies be funded, one in Fresno County and one in Santa Clara County, and appropriates $10 million for that purpose.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1774 (Bowen-D) Computer access

Establishes a grant program to encourage schools and public libraries to make their computer facilities available to the public on evenings and weekends.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2078 (Karnette-D) Adult education

Removes individual 2.5 percent annual growth caps from adult education programs (operated by K-12 districts) and instead provides for allocation of a statewide 2.5 percent growth allowance.

Vetoed by the Governor

SJR 19 (Solis-D) Education: federal funding

Urges the President and Congress to enact legislation that would eliminate the existing hold-harmless provision under the federal Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and changes the funding formula used by those provisions.

Resolution Chapter 57, Statutes of 2000

AB 90 (Runner-R) Pupils: age of admission

Provides for an increase in K-12 school funding to the national average.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 121 (Leach-R) Educational resources

States the intent of the Legislature to implement the recommendations made by the Legislative Analyst's Office, when those recommendations are presented. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an inflation adjustment in the 1998-99 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter for the allocation of funding to school districts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 206 (Runner-R) Community colleges

Provides for the annual computation of revenue limit equalization adjustments for community college districts.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 615 (Runner-R) Categorical education funding

Establishes the Pilot Project for Categorical Education Program Flexibility to allow up to 75 school districts to consolidate funding received for various state categorical education programs into three local block grants.

Chapter 369, Statutes of 2000

AB 728 (Aroner-D) West Contra Costa Unified School District: loan repayment

Allows the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD) to repay an existing state loan without repaying any interest payment. Requires WCCUSD to repay its loan obligation without interest in the amount of $1,863,550 annually, beginning on January 1, 2000.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1005 (Ducheny-D) Education finance: adult education

Makes the following changes relating to adult education: (1) Establishes a Joint Policy Council on Adult Education and Noncredit Programs to address standards, accountability, quality and coordination of program services; (2) establishes a Blue Ribbon Committee to study the adequacy of funding; (3) modifies attendance accounting to authorize "rounding up" attendance in lab classes and to provide a five minute break every two hours; (4) allows state funding to be used for up to three staff development days per year; (5) authorizes state funding for foreign language classes; and (6) expands from five percent to 10 percent the percentage of a district's adult block entitlement that may be used for implementation of the program for demonstrations on adult education instructional delivery system.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1073 (Campbell-R) School finance: district budget reserve

Authorizes school districts to use a portion of the funding for its categorical programs in the "Mega Item" to meet its required annual budget reserve.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1750 (Pescetti-R) School finance

Establishes the Schools Making Achievement a Reality Today (SMART) block grant program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1752 (Runner-R) School funding

Appropriates $2.350 billion over five years for schools with the intent to fund K-12 by an amount equal to the national average.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1908 (Lempert-D) School bonds

Enacts the Strict Accountability in Local School Construction Bonds Act of 2000, contingent upon the passage of a proposed proposition for the November 2000 ballot lowering the vote threshold for passage of school bonds from two-thirds to a 55 percent voter approval.

Chapter 44, Statutes of 2000

AB 1996 (Campbell-R) School finance: district budget reserve

Permits school districts, and the County Office of Education in Orange County to meet required Budget reserves with state categorical funding and thereby allow those funds to be used for non-categorical purposes.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2133 (Leach-R) School finance

Provides equalization funding to school districts that receive less than 90 percent of the average revenue limit (discretionary funding) per pupil statewide. Specifies that its provisions would not be implemented unless $368 million is appropriated in the 2000-01 fiscal year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2205 (Florez-D) Community day schools: county-operated: funding

Allows a community day school operated by a county office of education to serve as many pupils as could be, but are not being served by school districts within the county's jurisdiction.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2265 (Aroner-D) West Contra Costa Unified School District

Annually appropriates, until January 1, 2006, $800,000 for allocation to the West Contra Costa Unified School District. Appropriates $800,000 to the Kern County Office of Education for use by the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to complete specified assessments and improvement plans for West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Chapter 578, Statutes of 2000

AB 2308 (Dutra-D) Base revenue limits: school districts

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate equalization funding to bring 98 percent of all school districts' revenue limits (discretionary per-pupil funding) within $50 of the statewide average over a five-year period.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2361 (Campbell-R) Attendance reduction due to military base closure

Provides additional state funding to school districts in which a military base closed during or since 1996.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2467 (Thompson-R) Necessary small schools

Makes various changes to necessary small school funding.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2540 (Nakano-D) School district revenue limit

Provides an equalization funding adjustment to school districts' revenue limits (general purpose funding) based on the attendance accounting prior to 1998-99.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2634 (Calderon-D) Continuation high schools

Establishes a formula to increase funding for continuation high schools that meet specified criteria, provided that funding is provided in the Budget Act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2732 (Alquist-D) Revenue limits

Repeals the formula and instructions for computing equalization adjustments for juvenile court schools as of June 30, 2001. Sunsets the current formula for computing equalization adjustments for court and community school revenue limits at the end of the 2000-01 fiscal year. Also restores the funding mechanism for six small counties with 20 or fewer Average Daily Attendance.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2740 (Zettel-R) Education technology grant program

Establishes the Digital Schools Education Technology Grant Act and requires education technology grants to be provided to public schools maintaining any of grades 4 to 8, inclusive. The program would also applies to grade 9 in middle schools or junior high schools.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2793 (House-R) School finance: declining average daily attendance

Authorizes a school district to retain funding if its Average Daily Attendance declines.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2831 (Alquist-D) School finance

Establishes the California Commission on Restructuring School Finance for Kindergarten and Grades one to 12, inclusive, and requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study comparing other states' per pupil funding.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2880* (Calderon-D) School finance: deficit reduction

Eliminates the deficit factor, corresponding to a $1.84 billion amount for deficit reduction in the 2000-2001 Budget.

Chapter 76, Statutes of 2000

AB 2882 (Reyes-D) Education technology and professional development grants

Establishes the Education Technology Grant Program to provide one-time grants to school districts and charter schools for purposes of acquiring computers for classrooms.

Chapter 78, Statutes of 2000

ACA 20 (Baldwin-R) Schools: private school scholarships

Requires the state to annually provide a scholarship, upon request by the parent, for purposes of enrolling the child in a scholarship-redeeming private school. Prohibits the Legislature from enacting any law pertaining to private schools except by a three-fourths vote. Repeals the minimum funding guarantee for education and replaces it with a specified calculation.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

ACA 25 (Robert Pacheco-R) Public education finance: community college funding

Places a measure on the statewide ballot to amend the California Constitution to (1) remove the California Community College from the provisions of Proposition 98, which provides a constitutionally-guaranteed minimum level of funding for K-14 education, and (2) create a new and separate funding guarantee for community colleges.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

ACA 26 (Villaraigosa-D) Public school funding

Freezes the planned reduction in the vehicle license fee and instead directs the future related funds to finance schools.

(Died in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

AJR 28 (Reyes-D) Education: Title I funding

Urges the President and Congress of the United States and the United States Secretary of Education to provide for allocation of funds under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 according to the number of poor, eligible children in each state and also not to extend the hold-harmless provisions of that act.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

School Facilities

SB 62 (Perata-D) School facilities

Allows a school district to apply 50 percent of the current market value of a school site in meeting its matching share requirement under the State School Facilities Program.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 121 (Haynes-R) School facilities

Annually transfers specified General Fund surplus moneys to the newly-created Public School Construction Fund.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 174 (Brulte-R) School facilities: high school districts

Exempts high school districts on a multi-track year-round education schedule from the required reduction in school facility funding eligibility.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 302* (Hughes-D) Education facilities

Provides that the Los Angeles Unified School District shall not be liable to the State Allocation Board for the local match represented by local developer fees that were set aside for a prescribed space-saver school project that is no longer viable, and authorizes the Los Angeles Unified School District to expend an amount not to exceed $23 million in developer fees obtained for that project prior to June 4, 1994, for specified purposes.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 303 (Johnston-D) School facilities

Authorizes funding under the Greene Act for construction or modernization upon property leased to the school district, if certain conditions are met.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 440* (Chesbro-D) Laytonville Unified School District

Allows the Laytonville Unified School District to continue the use of its temporary non-Field Act compliant high school gymnasium, until December 31, 2002.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 853 (Perata-D) School facilities: hardship considerations

Expresses legislative intent to explore hardship considerations for school districts in order to ensure fair and equitable facilities funding for all school districts.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 871 (Escutia-D) Class Size Reduction Program: facilities-related costs

Extends the date that school districts may apply for facilities-related funding in order to implement the Class Size Reduction Program.

Chapter 749, Statutes of 2000

SB 1018 (Senate Education Committee) School facility construction: joint use

Provides that a school district may enter into an agreement with another governmental entity that includes some or all of the territory of the school district for the purposes of a joint use project. Provides for joint use projects between community colleges and school districts and requires that funds allocated pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 for joint use facilities between a community college district and a school district be jointly administered by the State Allocation Board and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1094 (Johnston-D) Educational facilities

Expands the authority of the California Educational Facilities Authority (CEFA) by allowing it to offer financing from tax-exempt revenue bonds to cultural institutions and allows CEFA to make grants to private universities of higher education.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1203 (Poochigian-R) School and community college facilities

Modifies the K-12 and community college facility funding program by establishing the criteria by which joint-use facilities are to be evaluated by the State Allocation Board and the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1469* (Costa-D) School buildings: relocatable buildings

Provides that nonretrofitted relocatable classroom facilities which cannot be used after September 30, 2000, can continue to be used if they are upgraded. Adds an additional criteria if a district wishes to use a non-State Department of General Services approved relocatable building through September 30, 2007, to include the criteria that the relocatable building was manufactured and in use for classroom purposes on or before May 1, 2002, and bears a commercial coach insignia of approval from the State Department of Housing and Community Development.

Chapter 747, Statutes of 2000

SB 1602 (Dunn-D) Year-round school grants: teaching station

Allows a school district that participates in the Year-Round Operational Grant program to utilize up to two classrooms per participating school for academic remediation during intercessions without jeopardizing its funding under the grant program.

Chapter 751, Statutes of 2000

SB 1631 (Hayden-D) Environmental safety standards: schoolsites

Requires the development of standards and protocols for protecting children's health in school buildings.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1729 (Hayden-D) School seismic safety

Requires all new school sites to be evaluated by an engineering geologist, in consultation with a geotechnical engineer, for potential seismic hazards, and provides for additional monitoring.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1776 (Costa-D) School facilities: eligibility for state funding

Expands the number of school districts that can qualify for reimbursement under a narrowly targeted school construction funding program under the Leroy F. Greene Lease Purchase Program (as modified by AB 191 of 1998).

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1795 (Alpert-D) School facilities: joint-use project

Authorizes the State Allocations Board to establish a joint-use program for use of unused "old" Lease Purchase Program Funds.

Chapter 753, Statutes of 2000

SB 1870 (Alarcon-D) Nonstructural earthquake safety

Appropriates an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the State Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of establishing a pilot program of grants in an unspecified amount to two school districts (one northern and one southern) for the reduction of seismic hazards posed by nonstructural objects within public school buildings.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1884 (Chesbro-D) Zoning and schools

Applies the city or county building and zoning ordinances to the location and construction of a charter school's facilities that are outside the territorial boundaries of the school district that granted the charter.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 2066 (O'Connell-D) School facilities

Makes several changes to the state's school facility programs. This is the State Department of General Services' technical cleanup measure relating to the School Facilities Program.

Chapter 590, Statutes of 2000

SB 2186* (Soto-D) School facilities

Requires the State Allocation Board (SAB) to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2001, on retrofitting existing public or private buildings for school purposes in compliance with the Field Act, where such usage can save time and money. Requires the SAB to prepare an addendum to the Cost Reduction Guidelines to include guidelines for districts to pursue retrofit of existing public and private buildings for public school use.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCA 1 (O'Connell-D) School facilities: bonds

Allows for the approval of local general obligation bonds for school facilities by majority vote rather than the currently-required two-thirds threshold. Lifts the one percent cap on property taxes established by Proposition 13 for the purpose of repaying bonds to finance new schools for making improvements to existing schools.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 20 (Lempert-D) School facilities: automated fire detection

Enacts the Green Oaks Family Academy School Fire Safety Protection Act, which, among other things, prohibits the State Department of General Services from approving school construction or modernization projects unless the projects contain an automatic fire detection and alarm system approved by the State Fire Marshal.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 148 (Thomson-D) School facilities

Changes the name of the State School Deferred Maintenance Fund to the School Major Maintenance Match Fund. Requires any school applying for funding to review, on an annual basis, its major maintenance plan and certify that it is in compliance with the plan.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 275 (Corbett-D) School facilities

Authorizes the use of revenues from the lease of portable classrooms for deferred maintenance and the purchase of additional portable classrooms.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 424* (Wildman-D) School facilities: design-build contracts

Authorizes school districts to enter into design-build contracts for school construction projects that exceed $10 million in cost and establishes a process which must be followed.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 701 (Lempert-D) School facilities: architect/engineer

Specifies that the current law regarding contracts between architects and school districts shall not be construed as transferring the architect's copyright to the district.

Chapter 348, Statutes of 2000

AB 801 (Cardenas-D) School facilities

Adjusts the state school construction funding available to school districts, meeting specified criteria, that wish to demolish existing school buildings and replace them with multistory buildings.

Chapter 458, Statutes of 2000

AB 1088 (Honda-D) School facilities: building capacity

Authorizes year-round school districts that have more than 50 percent of students on multi-track year-round education and have bonded to 90 percent of statutory bonding capacity to count 10 percent of the students toward the calculation for state assistance for school construction funds.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1089 (Correa-D) School facilities

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to establish procedures whereby an applicant may request funds in addition to the per-pupil amount or waiver of the local match requirement if extraordinary circumstances justify such treatment and the hardship provisions do not provide an adequate solution.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1295 (Firebaugh-D) School facilities: joint-use projects

Clarifies existing law concerning regulations adopted by the State Department of Personnel Administration to implement employee benefits for "excluded" state employees.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1366* (Steinberg-D) School facilities

Exempts the sale of the property at 520 Capitol Mall by the Sacramento City Unified School District from specified sections of current law that govern the sale of land owned by school districts and, instead, comply with public notice and sale requirements specified in this bill.

Chapter 376, Statutes of 2000

AB 1378 (Dutra-D) School facilities construction: pilot project

Allows the State Allocation Board to develop a demonstration program in as many as four districts to construct small-sized schools that jointly utilize specified centralized nonclassroom facilities (schools-within-schools).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1516 (Florez-D) School facilities improvement districts

Makes a number of changes related to school facility improvement districts, including authorizing such districts to issue bonds based on the amount of proposed assessed value, rather than actual value.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1633 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) School facilities: disabled veteran business enterprises

Requires school districts to comply with a three percent participation goal for disabled veteran business enterprises when utilizing state school construction bond funds.

Chapter 133, Statutes of 2000

AB 1691 (Kaloogian-R) School facilities: charter schools

Authorizes charter schools to apply for apportionments for per-pupil school facility funding pursuant to the Greene Act.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1743 (Villaraigosa-D) School facilities

Enacts the Urban School Construction Reform Act of 2000 to modify the existing School Facility Bond Act to help urban school districts access additional state funds.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1755 (Cardenas-D) Joint use property: leased

Establishes a process by which the State Allocation Board apportions bond funds to pay school districts for lease costs for joint use projects.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1813 (Wildman-D) Schoolsite funding: cleanup contracts

Clarifies the amount of state school bond funding that can be made available to pay for the cost of environmental cleanup of school sites. Provides for a streamlined process for the State Department of Toxic Substance Control to use in procuring contractors to perform hazardous substance site investigation and cleanup in cases of emergency and imminent danger.

Chapter 725, Statutes of 2000

AB 2115 (Lempert-D) School facilities: fire detection

Requires new school construction projects to include automated fire detection, alarm and sprinkler systems. Requires school modernization projects to include automated fire detection and alarm systems.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2116 (Briggs-R) School facilities: portable classrooms: detoxification

Provides a preference if schools contract to detoxify portable classrooms.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2128 (Corbett-D) School facilities: maintenance

Redefines terminology related to school deferred maintenance.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2181 (Maldonado-R) School facilities funding

Appropriates $600 million from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board for deposit into the 1998 State School Facilities Fund for the purposes of providing additional funds for new construction and modernization projects, including, but not limited to, hardship applications.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2266* (Firebaugh-D) Public school funding

Proposes that an unspecified amount of general obligation bonds for K-12 facilities and for higher education facilities be submitted for voter approval on the November 2000 general election ballot.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2408* (Firebaugh-D) School facilities

Authorizes state-bond-funded school construction projects to occur on leased land under specified conditions.

Chapter 530, Statutes of 2000

AB 2422 (Machado-D) School facilities: pest control

Exempts school districts engaged in the practice of structural pest control application at a schoolsite from specified fees. Requires districts to ensure application is performed by qualified individuals.

(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 2443 (Wildman-D) School facilities: environmental hardship schoolsites

Allocates funding to the State Allocation Board to provide school facility funds to school districts to address hazardous waste problems.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2485 (Baldwin-R) School facility construction and modernization

Authorizes charter schools to apply directly for state school facilities aid bond funding.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2586 (Campbell-R) School facilities: funding

Makes minor changes to the provisions of law which allow the School Finance Authority to offer interim financing loans to school districts in anticipation of receiving funding from the State Allocation Board.

Chapter 193, Statutes of 2000

AB 2601 (Cardenas-D) School facilities

Increases, substantially, the state school bond funding available to pay for the costs of site acquisition for new school construction.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2644* (Calderon-D) Schoolsites: environmental investigations

Makes various changes to the environmental review process to acquire property to build schools.

Chapter 443, Statutes of 2000

AB 2791 (Alquist-D) School facilities: stop work notice

Grants the State Department of General Services the authority to issue a stop work order for certain construction projects.

Chapter 463, Statutes of 2000

AB 2811 (Robert Pacheco-R) Field Act: waivers

Extends, until January 1, 2002, any State Allocation Board waivers of Field Act requirements for existing private buildings if the work to make the buildings comply with the Field Act has started by January 1, 2000.

Chapter 202, Statutes of 2000

AB 2822 (Cardoza-D) School facilities: joint-use project

Requires the State Allocation Board to approve three joint-use projects between school districts and park agencies and to report to the Governor and the Legislature by January 1, 2005, on any savings that resulted from the projects.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2866* (Migden-D) State government

Makes changes in existing law relating to general government to implement provisions of the Budget Bill for the 2000-01 fiscal year, including the California Science Center Math and Science School. Permits state school funds to be expended to construct a school on leased land at the California Science Center.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

ACA 3 (Mazzoni-D) School facilities: bonds

Requires the approval of only a majority of voters on school facilities general obligation bonds.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

Bilingual Education

SB 918 (Escutia-D) English language learners

Establishes the Direct Supplemental Instruction for English Language Learners Program for the purposes of providing additional funding and other resources to applicant school districts in order to facilitate provision of additional direct instruction and other assistance for pupils who are not proficient in English, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 922 (Escutia-D) English learners: professional development

Requires that adequate professional development time and funding are provided for all school district credentialed teachers for the purpose of implementing standards to assess English learners.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1037 (Hughes-D) Language Equity Advisory Committees

Expands and recasts the provisions of existing law relative to district and school advisory committees established for the parents and guardians of pupils with limited English proficiency, or English Language Learners.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1227 (Knight-R) English language education

Creates a mechanism for informing parents of their rights relating to English language education and penalizes districts that fail to comply.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1667* (Alpert-D) Education and government

The Omnibus Education Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, creates a new English Language and Intensive Literacy Program.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 2192 (Soto-D) English language education: teaching

Establishes the English Language Learner Teacher Coaching Pilot Program to be administered by the San Bernardino County Office of Education, contingent upon an appropriation in the Budget Act or other legislation.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2154 (Soto-D) English language education

Establishes the Head Start in English Grant Program.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2585 (Cardenas-D) English language development test

Requires school districts to annually submit to the State Department of Education specified information on pupils who are English learners and receiving supplemental instruction.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2645 (Calderon-D) Instructional materials: English language

Authorizes school districts, until June 30, 2002, to use 100 percent of their state instructional materials funds for English Language Learners.

Vetoed by the Governor

Charter Schools

SB 326 (Lewis-R) Charter schools

Establishes an appeal process for denied applications for charter school renewals. (This process is identical to an existing appeal process for new charter school applications.)

Chapter 160, Statutes of 2000

SB 426 (Lewis-R) State Department of Education: federal moneys

Relieves school district (or county or state) governing boards from liability for repayment of defaulted loans made to charter schools from the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 861 (Hughes-D) Charter schools

Authorizes the State Board of Education to delegate its supervisorial and oversight responsibilities for charter schools to the Trustees of the California State University.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 998 (O'Connell-D) Charter schools

Provides that each school district shall make available to each charter school operating in the school district facilities sufficient for the charter school to accommodate all of the charter school's in-district students in conditions reasonably equivalent to those in which the students would be accommodated if they were attending other public schools of the district.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1667* (Alpert-D) Budget Trailer Bill

The Omnibus Education Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, allows a charter school to participate in the California School Age Families Education Program.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 1702* (Johnson-R) Charter schools funding

Modifies the funding procedures for county community schools that are also charter schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1705 (Morrow-R) Charter district: Capistrano Unified School District

Establishes an alternate process for the Capistrano Unified School District to become a charter district.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1727 (Lewis-R) Charter School Revolving Loan Fund

Appropriates $25 million from the General Fund to the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund where it will be available to be disbursed as start-up loans for charter schools.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1728* (Lewis-R) Charter schools: Revolving Loan Fund

Allows a charter school to use a loan from the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund after the first year of the charter school's operation. Establishes criteria for the Superintendent of Public Instruction to use when considering applications for loans from the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund.

Chapter 429, Statutes of 2000

SB 1759 (Lewis-R) Charter School Revolving Loan Fund

Requires that a charter school shall be solely liable for repayment of a loan from the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund. Establishes the interest rate that charter schools are required to pay on loans from the fund in order to establish a security fund against loan default.

Chapter 586, Statutes of 2000

SB 1841 (Poochigian-R) Charter schools: waivers

Requires charter schools that seek a waiver from the State Board of Education to submit the application to the local educational agency that authorized the schools' charter and requires specified documentation and a public hearing.

Chapter 464, Statutes of 2000

SB 1884 (Chesbro-D) Building and zoning ordinances: school districts

Applies city or county building and zoning ordinances to the location and construction of a charter school's facilities that are outside the territorial boundaries of the school district that granted the charter.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1914 (Poochigian-R) Charter schools: denial of petitions

Prohibits the denial of a petition to establish a charter school if the denial is based upon the costs of serving special education pupils.

Chapter 88, Statutes of 2000

SB 2105 (Lewis-R) Charter schools

Requires a local education agency that is the chartering authority for a charter school to submit reports to the State Teachers' Retirement System and the State Public Employee's Retirement System on behalf of the charter school's employees.

Chapter 466, Statutes of 2000

AB 101* (Steinberg-D) Joint powers agreements: charter schools

Allows a charter school to be considered a public agency, as defined, for the purpose of being eligible for membership in a joint powers agreement.

Chapter 14, Statutes of 2000

AB 696* (Washington-D) Charter schools: interdistrict program

Allows a charter school that has a charter issued by the Los Angeles County Board of Education prior to June 1, 1997, to continue to operate at a higher than average funding rate, until June 30, 2003.

Chapter 19, Statutes of 2000

AB 842 (Migden-D) Charter schools: laws governing

Requires that all certificated and classified employees at a charter school be members of the collective bargaining unit of the school district where the charter is located.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1054 (Oller-R) Special education funding: charter school transfers

Requires that when a special education pupil transfers from a school district school to a charter school the school district shall continue to receive an amount, adjusted for inflation, equal to any funding that the school district would otherwise be entitled to on the basis of that pupil's enrollment in the school district during the prior school year without reducing the funding provided to the charter school for the transferred pupil.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1691 (Kaloogian-R) School facilities: charter schools

Authorizes charter schools to apply for apportionments for per-pupil school facilities funding pursuant to the Greene Act.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2074 (Jackson-D) Pupils: supplemental instruction

Requires the State Department of Education to accept applications by school districts and charter schools for the establishment of pilot projects to implement supplementary intervention programs in grades four to six.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2485 (Baldwin-R) Charter school facilities

Authorizes charter schools to apply directly for state school facilities aid bond funding. Adds "charter school" to the definition of a "school district" under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2659 (Lempert-D) Education

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt criteria for the review and approval of charter school petitions that are presented to the board. Makes technical revisions to AB 1908 (Lempert), Chapter 44, Statutes of 2000, relating to school bonds.

Chapter 580, Statutes of 2000

Class Size Reduction

SB 871 (Escutia-D) Class Size Reduction Program: facilities

Extends the date that school districts may apply for facilities-related funding in order to implement the Class Size Reduction Program.

Chapter 749, Statutes of 2000

SB 1406 (Rainey-R) Class size reduction: grade 9

Allows school districts to receive funding for grade 9 class size reduction (CSR) if the class includes non-grade 9 students. Prohibits the State Board of Education from waiving the requirement that no more than 22 pupils can be in the classroom to qualify for funding under the CSR program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1470 (Sher-D) Class size reduction

Provides flexibility to school districts that receive class size reduction (CSR) funding. Allows school districts to quality for funding for the K-3 CSR program if the average class size in each grade level in each school is no more than 20 pupils and if no individual class exceeds 22 pupils.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1518 (Brulte-R) Class size reduction

Expands and renames the 9th Grade Class Size Reduction Program to allow school districts to also reduce the class size of one English course in each of grades 10 and 11.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1836 (O'Connell-D) Class size reduction

Allows school districts, without the space to implement the Ninth Grade Class Size Reduction Program (NGCSR), to use NGCSR funding to lease, construct, or acquire classroom space to put them in a position to implement class size reduction in the future.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 628 (Baugh-R) Class size reduction

Allows specific school districts to reapply for state funding for facilities to implement the Class Size Reduction (CSR) program, if they did not receive such funding in 1996-97 and 1997-98. Extends the sunset date on CSR facility funding from June 30, 1999 to June 30, 2002.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 783 (Battin-R) Class size reduction: grade seven

Reduces class size in grade seven English or math classes. Provides $165 per pupil to school districts that reduce class sizes to 20 pupils in the seventh grade in English and math classes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 922 (Davis-D) Class size reduction

Enacts the Eight Grade Class Size Reduction for Mathematics Program, contingent upon funding in next year's Budget Act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1029 (Campbell-R) Class size reduction

Increases funding for the ninth grade Class Size Reduction Program (CSR), provides more flexibility in the number of students per classroom in CSR, and extends the program to grades four through six.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1608 (Strom-Martin-D) School districts: class size reduction

Provides additional flexibility to small schools in participating in the K-3 class size reduction program.

Chapter 743, Statutes of 2000

AB 1926 (Leonard-R) Class size reduction

Expands the Class Size Reduction Program by one grade level per year beginning with the 2001-02 school year until every grade level is included in the program.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2183 (Campbell-R) Class size reduction

Expands the Class Size Reduction Program into grades four and five. Current law provides funding for grades K-3.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2242 (Nakano-D) Class size reduction

Expands the Class Size Reduction (CSR) Program. Gives school districts the option to implement the CSR program in grades K-5 at 23:1 if the school district is currently operating its 20:1 CSR program in grades K-3.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

School Safety

SB 425 (Brulte-R) School district police services

Establishes the California Onsite Police Services Program and the continuously appropriated California Onsite Police Services (COPS) for Schools Fund. Transfers $190,000 from the General Fund to the COPS for Schools Fund.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 432 (McPherson-R) School emergency telephones

Appropriates $60 million from the General Fund for allocation to school districts and county offices of education to fund the costs of providing an emergency wireless telephone in every public school classroom.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 504 (Knight-R) School safety: crime reporting

Modifies existing reporting requirements of student criminal activities by school principals to local law enforcement and classroom teachers.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Similar legislation included SB 1628 (Morrow-R), which died in Senate Education Committee.

SB 650 (Karnette-D) Students: violations on school grounds

Authorizes certain school personnel and their designees to arrest or cite into court minors believed to have committed a misdemeanor or infraction on school grounds, as specified.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 840 (Rainey-R) School safety

Imposes a mandatory minimum incarceration of six months for any misdemeanor battery of a school employee, regardless of injury, and allows a fine of up to $2,000, while the standard maximum misdemeanor fine is $1,000, and imposes a five-year prison enhancement upon a defendant where the victim of a serious felony is a school employee or student, in addition to any other enhancements related to the serious felony.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1440 (Rainey-R) School safety

Expands the applicability of the Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act from grades 8 to 12 inclusive, to kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1580 (Alpert-D) School safety

Modifies the School Safety Violence Protection Act enacted in 1999 to improve program administration and coordination, expands grant eligibility from grades K-7 to K-12, and resolves other conflicts created when two overlapping and sometimes conflicting bills were enacted in 1999.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1667* (Alpert-D) Education and government

The Omnibus Education Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, expands the Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act to grades 1 to 12 rather than grades 8-12.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SCR 77 (Hughes-D) School safety

Proclaims October 2000 as School Safety Month and January 15 through 19, 2001, as Yellow Ribbon Week to demonstrate a commitment to school safety.

Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2000

AB 280 (Zettel-R) Vehicles: speed limits

Provides that the prima facie vehicle 25 mile-per-hour speed limit with respect to school grounds is applicable when approaching or passing within 500 feet of the school grounds.

Chapter 521, Statutes of 2000

AB 800 (Washington-D) Pupil safety: injurious objects

Requires a system to be adopted that will protect students who report the presence of injurious objects at schools.

Chapter 265, Statutes of 2000

AB 961 (Steinberg-D) Educational: pupil suspensions and expulsions

Provides that the data on pupil suspensions and expulsions will not be calculated unless the methodology has been approved by the State Board of Education.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1390 (Havice-D) Pupils: violence prevention

Establishes the Bullying Prevention Grant program for grades 5 and 6, and appropriates $150,000 to the State Department of Education for the purpose of implementing the program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1602 (Machado-D) School safety

Makes a number of changes to the law relative to School Safety Plans, Interagency Safe School Model Programs, and the School/Law Enforcement Partnership.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1745 (Cardenas-D) Pupil safety

Requires school districts to ensure that at least ten percent of either the certificated or classified staff or one certificated or classified employee, whichever is greater, at each school site to be certified to perform CPR by September 1, 2001.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1785 (Villaraigosa-D) Hate violence

Requires the State Department of Education to include the reporting of hate-motivated incidents and hate crimes, as defined, on the standard crime reporting form and revises the state educational curriculum to include human relations education.

Chapter 955, Statutes of 2000

AB 1931 (Scott-D) Hate violence

Requires the State Department of Education to provide regional training for school personnel in the identification and determination of hate violence and establishes a grant program for students and teachers to participate in specified educational programs.

Chapter 959, Statutes of 2000

AB 2260 (Shelley-D) Healthy Schools Act of 2000

Establishes the Healthy Schools Act of 2000. Requires each schoolsite to maintain records of all pesticides used at the site for four years. Requires the State Department of Pesticide Regulation to establish an integrated pest management program for school districts and adopts a training program.

Chapter 718, Statutes of 2000

AB 2715 (Olberg-R) Controlled substances: schoolyard drug trafficking

Expands the number of offenses and controlled substances for which a conviction subjects a person to an enhancement of an additional three, four, or five years in the state prison, if the violation is on the grounds of or within 1,000 feet of, a school at any time.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2743 (Brewer-R) Pupil expulsion

Requires a recommendation of expulsion for a public school pupil who threatens serious physical injury to another person, except as specified.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

Child and Day Care

SB 549* (Ortiz-D) Taxes: credits: child care

Provides a tax credit equal to 50 percent of costs incurred or contributions made for constructing child care facilities to low-income children and a credit for below-market rate loans to build child care facilities.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 568* (Alarcon-D) Foundations for learning

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a strategic plan to provide for the study and establishment of foundations for learning and school success for infants and children up to six years of age.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 624 (Schiff-D) Preschool reading guidelines

Requires the State Department of Education to include funding for pre-kindergarten learning development guidelines in their quality improvement expenditure plan. Requires migrant child care and development, state preschool, and general child care and development programs to use kindergarten learning development guidelines.

(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 845 (Escutia-D) Child care master plan

Requires the State Department of Education to develop a child care and development master plan by January 1, 2002, to guide state policy in the area. Requires the plan to be updated every five years.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 925 (Vasconcellos-D) Child Care and Development Services

Requires the Child Development Policy Advisory Committee to develop a master plan for child care and development services by January 1, 2002.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 967 (Perata-D) Child Care Partnership Fund

Establishes a Child Care Partnership Fund to be administered by the State Department of Education for the purpose of providing state funds to match private business which invests in child care. Appropriates $30 million from the General Fund for this purpose.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1004 (Escutia-D) Child care

Requires client notification of individuals excluded from family day care homes.

Chapter 549, Statutes of 2000

SB 1443 (Rainey-R) Child care facilities outreach

Requires the State Department of Education to conduct outreach to community-based organizations to encourage them to apply for funds to provide child care services.

(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 1619 (Alpert-D) Playground safety

Requires the State Department of Social Services (DSS) to convene a working group to develop recommendations for minimum safety requirements for playgrounds at child care centers. Specifies that the working group is to provide recommendations to DSS by September 2001, and to the Legislature by November 1, 2001.

Chapter 550, Statutes of 2000

SB 1661* (Solis-D) Child care tax credit

Provides a 50 percent income tax credit to taxpayers that contribute to a licensed child care facility that is being built or expanded.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1667* (Alpert-D) Education and government

The omnibus education Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, provides for $25 million for the childcare facilities revolving loan fund.

Chapter 71, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 1703* (Escutia-D) Child care

Appropriates the sum of $42 million to the State Department of Education for specified child care purposes.

Chapter 704, Statutes of 2000

SB 1907 (Solis-D) Child care facilities

Creates the Child Care Capacity Development Grant and Loan Matching Fund, within the State Department of Housing and Community Development, to offer money in the fund to counties which match the funding, administer a county-level child care grant and loan fund, and demonstrate a need for additional child care facilities.

(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

SB 2005 (Ortiz-D) Child care and development services

Requires the State Department of Education to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2002, on the effectiveness and availability of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten readiness programs, subject to funds being appropriated for purposes of the report.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 2014 (Speier-D) Child Care Facilities Financing Act

Enacts the Child Care Facilities Financing Act, which authorizes the sale of $1 billion in bond funds, subject to approval of the voters at an unspecified election. Bond funds are available for loans or grants to any person or entity for the construction, renovation, or acquisition of licensed child care and child development facilities in California.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 2016* (McPherson-R) State property: Salinas: child care facility

Authorizes the State Department of General Services to transfer, without charge to the City of Salinas, all interests held by the state in a former State Department of Employment Development building at 342 Front Street in Salinas, where a child care facility is to be developed.

Chapter 449, Statutes of 2000

SB 2150* (Polanco-D) Income taxes: credit: child care

Provides a tax credit of $350 for each child of the taxpayer for whom the taxpayer paid at least $2,500 in child care expenses. Specifies that the credit will only be available if the taxpayer's household income is below two times the poverty level, which ranges from $27,650 for a two-person family to $48,800 for a five person family.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 105 (Alquist-D) Child care and development services

Requires the Child Development Programs Advisory Committee and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, the Secretary of Education, and the Chairman of the California Children and Families First Commission, to develop a child care master plan by January 1, 2002, and submit it to the Legislature by February 1, 2002.

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

AB 153 (Cunneen-R) Child care and development: reimbursement

Allows a case-by-case increase in the reimbursement rate for subsidized child care programs in certain geographic areas.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 212 (Aroner-D) Child care and development

Clarifies how funds will be appropriated and used to address child care employee retention.

Chapter 547, Statutes of 2000

AB 401* (Strickland-R) Taxes: credits: child care

Eliminates the sunset date on the Employer Child Care Contribution Credits and allows a child care tax credit for any child under the age of 13.

(Failed passage in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 443 (Mazzoni-D) Child care: family support

Establishes a grant program in which providers of state-subsidized child care would provide a variety of parent education and support services.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 554 (Papan-D) Child care and development services

Increases the income eligibility threshold for subsidized child care from 75 to 85 percent of the state's median income in certain counties with high housing costs. (These counties are the ones where CalWORKs grants are higher because of higher housing costs.)

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 561 (Romero-D) California Child Care Health Linkages Program

Establishes a grant program in eight named counties for child care centers to employ family health coordinators to assist families with children in care to understand health and nutrition programs available to them, to gain access to health services, assist in monitoring the center's compliance with health and safety requirements, and to establish linkages with needed social and educational support services.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 916 (Davis-D) Child development: parent education programs

Authorizes nonprofit entities that provide family support and education services to families with children from birth to five years of age to apply to the State Department of Education for grants to implement and maintain parent education programs for the provision of information, advice, assistance, resource materials, and guidance. Requires the State Department of Education to, among other things, award grants from funds appropriated for the establishment of parent education programs.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1056 (Steinberg-D) Pre-kindergarten programs

Authorizes the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate funds, subject to an appropriation in the annual budget, to school districts to enhance school-based readiness programs for pre-kindergarten children.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1910* (Migden-D) Children and family health programs

Specifies the powers, duties, and responsibilities of Children and Families Commissions established by counties pursuant to the California Children and Families First Act of 1998 (Proposition 10).

Chapter 150, Statutes of 2000

AB 1923* (Cardenas-D) Credit: child care facilities

Authorizes an income tax credit in an amount equal to 50 percent of qualified expenditures for any taxpayer who contributes to the construction or expansion of a licensed child care facility in California.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1986 (Wiggins-D) Child care and development

Revises indicators of program quality and requires the development of an evaluation system for child care and development programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2011 (Wayne-D) Family day care homes: licensing

Revises requirements for unannounced site visits to licensed family day care homes by requiring such visits every two years and as often as necessary to ensure compliance.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2160 (Cunneen-R) Child care and development: reimbursement rates

Authorizes increased reimbursement rates for state-funded child care centers and school-age extended day programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2431 (Runner-R) Child day care: denial of licensure

Expands the list of crimes that preclude an individual from obtaining a childcare license or working in a child care facility.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2504 (Washington-D) Licensed child care facilities

Requires that written or oral parental consent be obtained before a child in a day care facility is interviewed by an individual from the Community Care Licensing Division of the State Department of Social Services.

(Died in Assembly Human Services)

AB 2597 (Cardenas-D) Child Care and Development Facilities Direct Loan Fund

Increases the flexibility of the Child Care Facilities Financing Program in order to increase the number of potential eligible projects and credit-worthy borrowers.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2778 (Jackson-D) Child care facilities: financial intermediary

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a nonprofit organization to increase available financing opportunities for child care centers and family day care homes.

Chapter 548, Statutes of 2000

AB 2876* (Aroner-D) Budget Trailer Bill: child care facilities

Among other provisions, prohibits fees from being charged between July 1, 2000, and July 1, 2001, for any costs associated with obtaining a criminal background check or conducting a child abuse index check of volunteers at a child care facility, and prohibits fees from being charged after that date if funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act and provided the exemptions do not cause an increase in fees for other types of providers.

Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000

AB 2907 (Assembly Education Committee) Education

The State Department of Education's omnibus "cleanup" bill to correct technical errors in statute, update cross references and delete obsolete references.

Chapter 1058, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

Special Education

SB 536 (Poochigian-R) Special education: transportation

Revises the formula for reimbursement of special education transportation costs so that districts and county offices receive 80 percent of their actual costs or their traditional entitlement, whichever is greater.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1035 (Hughes-D) Special education: deaf pupils

Provides for the establishment of a regionalized system for the delivery of services for deaf and hard of hearing pupils.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1633 (Alpert-D) Education

Includes numerous changes to conform state special education statutes to federal law and to update state statutes concerning the State Diagnostic Centers and special education services.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1843 (Solis-D) Special education

Establishes new procedures for the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to give notice to, and withhold funds from, a local educational agency that has failed to comply with state or federal law regarding special education. Establishes procedures for the SPI to restore withheld funds upon correction of the compliance issue.

Chapter 286, Statutes of 2000

SB 1856 (Figueroa-D) California School for the Deaf

Authorizes the State Department of General Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education (DOE), to sell specified surplus property at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont to the City of Fremont for specified purposes. Requires that the net proceeds from the sale of the property be appropriated to DOE for the 2000-01 fiscal year for the purposes of repairing and upgrading the middle school activity center and other necessary related improvements at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont.

Chapter 367, Statutes of 2000

AB 355 (Davis-D) Special education

Limits the amount apportioned to districts for providing services to exceptional needs individuals placed in specified institutions. Requires the development and adoption of goals and standards for the performance of individuals with exceptional needs, as specified. Requires the operation of a complaint management and resolution process regarding school districts' failure to provide services.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 570 (Dickerson-R) Special education: Caseload Reduction Program

Establishes the Caseload Reduction Program to provide school districts with funding for reducing special education caseloads.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 609 (Wildman-D) Special education: use of Braille

Requires districts to provide Braille instruction to functionally blind students, unless the Individualized Education Plan team determines that Braille instruction is not appropriate for the student, and adds requirements for materials on publishers of instructional materials.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1054 (Oller-R) Special education funding: charter schools

Requires that when a special education pupil transfers from a school district school to a charter school the school district shall continue to receive an amount, adjusted for inflation, equal to any funding that the school district would otherwise be entitled to on the basis of that pupil's enrollment in the school district during the prior school year without reducing the funding provided to the charter school for the transferred pupil.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1795* (Dutra-D) Special education

Extends the sunset date for the special education program, by one year, to June 30, 2001. Specifies that this bill reactivates the program on the date the bill becomes effective.

Chapter 137, Statutes of 2000

AB 1925 (Dickerson-R) Special education: caseload reduction

Establishes a pilot project to reduce class sizes in special education. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a two-year pilot program to provide funding to 1,000 special education teachers to reduce their case load to 24 units, based on a new weighted factor system.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1940 (Papan-D) Special education: performance goals and indicators

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish performance goals and indicators for special education and include individuals with exceptional needs in state and local assessments, with appropriate accommodations as needed, and consistent with federal law.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2055 (Dickerson-R) School finance: special education

Appropriates $332,289 to provide a declining enrollment adjustment for eleven small special education local plan areas incurred in fiscal year 1999-2000.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2321 (Mazzoni-D) Special education

Authorizes a special education pilot program to test alternative due process hearing procedures in up to three Special Education Local Plan Areas, subject to the availability of funds.

Chapter 591, Statutes of 2000

AB 2375 (Honda-D) Juveniles: special education

Revises and clarifies existing law pertaining to the responsibilities of county welfare department child protective services personnel and juvenile court personnel to ensure that educational services are provided to children adjudged a dependent of the court, including special education services for children with learning disabilities or whose exceptional needs justify accommodations.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2392 (Corbett-D) Special education for foster children

Allows a foster parent or guardian to request that a foster child in his/her care be assessed for special education services and to participate in the child's Individual Education Plan process.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2625 (Rod Pacheco-R) State special schools

Increases the salaries for teachers at three state special schools so that they are more comparable to the salaries in the surrounding school districts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2877* (Thomson-D) Public health programs: Budget Act implementation

The omnibus trailer bill for health and human services implementing the policy in the 2000-01 Budget Act. Contains many provisions, including, requiring children in the state schools for the blind and deaf to be tested for tuberculosis every two years.

Chapter 93, Statutes of 2000

AJR 40 (Wildman-D) Special education: federal funding

Memorializes the President and Congress to provide the full federal share of funding for special education programs.

Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2000

School Accountability and Testing

SB 435 (Poochigian-R) High schools: Golden State Examination

Requires that the State Board of Education adopt the Golden State Examination, and that the Golden State Examination be aligned to statewide academic content and performance standards.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 578* (Poochigian-R) Standardized Testing and Reporting: reading list

Requires the publisher of the statewide Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) system to make available a report that provides the numerical distribution of the reading scores of all pupils that took the STAR test, and a customized reading list for each individual pupil who has taken the English Language Arts portion of the STAR test. Also reimburses the publishers $0.50 per customized report.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 842 (Rainey-R) Pupil testing: Standardized Testing and Reporting

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt, and school districts to administer, a diagnostic reading test to all pupils in grade one.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 922 (Escutia-D) English learners: pupil assessment

Requires that, in order to fully assess English learners, the program for professional development be targeted to increase the capacity of school leaders, teachers, and other personnel, and requires the professional development to be research-based and to follow current, effective models to ensure that instructional personnel increase their skills.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 961 (Poochigian-R) School accountability: Governor's Performance Award

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations related to categorical flexibility and performance awards for schools in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program and adds additional categorical programs to the list of waivable programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1552* (Alpert-D) Public Schools Accountability Act

Makes technical and clarifying changes to the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.

Chapter 695, Statutes of 2000

SB 1632* (Poochigian-R) Education resources

Modifies the School Accountability Report Card (SARC), requires the State Department of Education to develop a standardized template for SARC, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually review the capacity of school districts to provide additional data.

Chapter 996, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was SB 1400 (Poochigian-R), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 294 (Leonard-R) Transfer Empowerment Alternatives for Children Act

Enacts the Transfer Empowerment Alternatives for Children Act. Requires the State Board of Education to identify those schools that perform in the lowest 25th percentile, based on the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program Achievement Test, and authorizes a pupil attending such a school to receive a transfer award that would allow the pupil to transfer to an alternative public school, or to an eligible participating private school, where the pupil could redeem that transfer award.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 360 (Davis-D) Pupil testing

Requires the California State University (CSU) to offer its proficiency exams in English and math to all high school pupils who have completed the 10th grade, beginning on January 1, 2000. Further requires CSU to offer these tests twice a year, and to administer and keep records of the test results for high school students.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 666 (Romero-D) College admissions testing opportunity program

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a statewide college admissions test-taking program to increase the number of pupils taking college admissions tests.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1828 (Dickerson-R) California STAR/Rising STAR Student Scholarship Program

Creates a new state scholarship program that consists of (1) the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program (STAR) Scholarship which awards high achieving high school students who score in the top five percent of their schools in the 11th grade on the annual STAR exam by guaranteeing the equivalent of a full scholarship to a University of California (UC), California State University (CSU), or California Community College (CCC); and (2) the Rising STAR Scholarship which rewards improving students, as specified, on the basis of providing the equivalent of a full tuition scholarship at a UC, CSU, or CCC.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2153 (Mazzoni-D) Professional development: school administrators

Establishes the Accountability, Curriculum, and Pupil Assessment Professional Development Program, as a grant program to be administered by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to support school principals and other school administrators in their professional development.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2162 (Mazzoni-D) School accountability: school action plan

Allows schools in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming School Program to increase the number of instructional days and length of teacher contracts.

Chapter 190, Statutes of 2000

AB 2812 (Mazzoni-D) California Assessment of Academic Achievement

Repeals existing requirements that the State Board of Education (SBE) adopt an assessment of applied academic skills, known informally as a "matrix test," upon joint certification of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the SBE that the current standardized test of basic skills and "augmentation" have been further augmented with a writing sample to be administered once in elementary school and once in middle school.

Chapter 576, Statutes of 2000

Higher Education

SB 22 (Brulte-R) Public postsecondary education: student fees

Reduces resident student fees for 1999-2000: (a) for University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) undergraduate students by 10 percent; (b) for UC and CSU graduate students by 15 percent, and (c) California Community College (CCC) students from $12 per unit to $11 per unit. Provides a blank appropriation from the General Fund to UC, CSU and CCC to offset the revenue lost as a result of the fee reduction. These provisions apply to UC only to the extent that the Regents adopt a resolution to do so.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 58 (Hayden-D) Postsecondary education

Establishes the Statewide Service Learning Center Program to encourage campuses of higher education to incorporate service learning in their curriculums. Expands the Student Academic Partnership Program to include assistance to pupils in grades 7-12.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 67 (Murray-D) Institute for Preservation of Jazz

States the intent of the Legislature that the Institute for Preservation of Jazz at California State University, Long Beach, be funded by a variety of sources, including grants and contributions from private sources, public entities dedicated to the arts, and the General Fund.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 145 (Hughes-D) Admissions criteria: standardized testing

Establishes a pilot study that would create pools of talented students to which alternative admissions criteria to these institutions may be applied, admit students from these pools, and monitor the academic progress and success of all students granted alternative admission through the pilot study and compare them with a control group of regularly admitted students.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 222 (Polanco-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Extends the authorization for school districts to offer intensive supplemental summer, after school and Saturday school programs from the present authorization for grades 2 through 6 to a new authorization for grade 1 through grade 6.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 338 (Wright-R) Intercollegiate athletics

Requires the University of California and the California State University to notify a student athlete on scholarship of any proposed suspension or elimination of an athlete program, to honor the scholarship, and to make efforts to place the student. Prohibits the discontinuation of an intercollegiate athletic team unless specified notification efforts have been undertaken.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 358 (Ortiz-D) Classified employees: short-term employees

Prohibits the number of short-term employees in the classified service from exceeding 20 percent of the school district's or community college district's total classified workforce. Requires the governing board of each school and community college district to specify the services to be performed by the employee and to certify the ending date of the service, prior to hiring the short-term employee.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 572 (Alarcon-D) Assumption of Loans for Personal Computers Program

Enacts the Assumption of Loans for Personal Computers Program, to be administered by the Student Aid Commission, for the purpose of providing low-income students an opportunity to purchase their own personal or laptop computers.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 576 (McPherson-R) California Postsecondary Education Commission

Appropriates $90,000 from the General Fund to the California Postsecondary Education Commission for expenditure by January 1, 2002, for the purpose of funding a strategic action plan for language development, teaching and learning.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 610 (Costa-D) Private postsecondary education

Allows a Western Association of Schools and Colleges accredited private postsecondary educational institution to offer short-term, non-degree programs.

(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)

SB 796 (Dunn-D) Public postsecondary education: credit cards

Requests the University of California and the governing boards of public and private institutions of higher education, and requires the California State University and California Community Colleges, to adopt policies, with specified requirements, to regulate the marketing practices used on campuses by credit card companies.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 825 (Escutia-D) Medical Education Innovations Program

Establishes the Medical Education Innovations Program in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to enhance educational opportunities for individuals likely to provide primary health care services to medically under-served populations in California.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 860 (Hughes-D) Higher education labor relations

Authorizes the Public Employment Relations Board to penalize an employer for repeated unfair labor practices.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 872 (Polanco-D) Education: citizenship centers

Establishes a Citizenship Center Program to provide outreach to eligible immigrant residents, citizenship instruction, and assistance with the naturalization process.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 919 (Vasconcellos-D) Master Plan for Service Learning

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to develop a Master Plan for Service Learning. Requires a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 921 (Vasconcellos-D) Faculty, Counselor, and Librarian Employment Fund

Creates the Faculty, Counselor, and Librarian Employment Fund in the State Treasury, and transfers $40 million to the fund from the General Fund and appropriates this amount for allocation during the 1999-2000 fiscal year to provide for a net increase of 2,000 full-time faculty positions in the California Community Colleges over a five-year period.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 990 (McPherson-R) California Community Colleges

Provides for the annual transfer of funds from the General Fund to the State School Fund for allocation to community colleges to compensate for estimated, but unreceived property tax and student fee revenues.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1129 (Knight-R) Community colleges: nonresident tuition

Allows Cerro Coso Community College, in the Kern Community College District, to waive nonresident tuition for Nevada students wishing to attend either the campus' main campus in Ridgecrest or one of Cerro Coso's off-campus centers.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1141 (Morrow-R) Postsecondary education: student government fees

Prohibits students from being compelled to pay mandatory student government fees for the purpose of funding or subsidizing political or ideological activities or organizations.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1211 (Monteith-R) Postsecondary education: articulation agreements

Requires that articulation and transfer program agreements be made between California State University campuses and community college districts that have a minimum of 20 applicants.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1330 (Alpert-D) Student financial aid

Reorganizes, consolidates and streamlines duplicative conflicting and outdated provisions of the Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE). Increases the maximum amount of loan assumption benefits that can be earned under APLE for individuals who teach four years in math, science or special education, as specified. Increases the amount of the loan assumption for those teachers who also teach in schools scoring in the lowest 20th percentile of the Academic Performance Index.

Chapter 583, Statutes of 2000

SB 1347 (Vasconcellos-D) California Community Colleges: Board of Governors

Increases the membership of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges by adding an additional non-voting student member.

Chapter 390, Statutes of 2000

SB 1450* (McPherson-R) Student fees

Requires that student fees at the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) for instruction during summer terms not exceed the fees charged during other academic terms. Appropriates $24 million from the General Fund to reimburse UC and CSU for their loss in fee revenue.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 1451 (Figueroa-D) Student financial aid: Office of Statewide Health Planning

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in administering the California State Loan Repayment Program, to allocate the maximum loan repayment amount consistent with federal law to mental health professionals who serve in a "Health Professional Shortage Area."

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1484 (Poochigian-R) University of California: School of Veterinary Medicine

Appropriates $300 million to the Regents of the University of California for the purpose of upgrading facilities to address accreditation problems at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1547* (Costa-D) California State University: real property transactions

Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to sell, lease or exchange real property located on four campuses. (The four campuses are CSU Fresno; Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; CSU Channel Islands; and CSU, Northridge.) Requires that funds received from such transactions be continuously appropriated to the trustees for facility construction and/or deferred maintenance on the campus that generated those funds.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1564 (Karnette-D) Student financial aid

Increases the amount eligible for assumption by the Student Aid Commission under the Assumption Program of Loans for Education generally from $11,000 to $15,000. Requires the commission to assume a total of up to $20,000 after a program participant has completed four consecutive school years of teaching service in mathematics or science.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1604 (O'Connell-D) Trustees of the California State University

Increases the membership of the Board of Trustees for the California State University by appointing a non-faculty employee (classified employee) for a two-year term.

(Died at Senate Desk)

SB 1644* (Ortiz-D) Student financial aid

Enacts the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program, which revises and expands the Cal Grant Program and provides guarantees, as specified, for Cal Grant awards, effective the 2001-02 academic year. Creates the Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program, and appropriates $1.5 million from the General Fund to the Student Aid Commission for administrative costs related to this act.

Chapter 403, Statutes of 2000

SB 1681* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2000: augmentation and appropriation

Reappropriates and appropriates monies to augment the State Budget of 2000, including revising specified appropriations made to the University of California related to educational programs and outreach.

Chapter 672, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 1688* (Polanco-D) Education: scholarships

Creates (1) the Governor's Scholars Program to entitle pupils to scholarships as rewards for earning test scores in the top 10 percent statewide of the standards aligned STAR test "augmentation," or for earning a test score in the top five percent of their high school class on the norm-referenced STAR test (SAT9), and (2) Governor's Distinguished Mathematics and Science Scholars Program to provide scholarships to pupils who attain specified scores on Advanced Placement Examinations in calculus and physical sciences.

Chapter 404, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was SB 1503 (Polanco-D), which died in Assembly Education Committee.

SB 1721 (Hayden-D) California State University

Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to establish a number of research institutes and specified study programs at two campuses: African American Political Studies and Central American Political Studies at California State University, Northridge; and Portuguese Studies at California State University, Stanislaus.

Chapter 752, Statutes of 2000

SB 1723 (Chesbro-D) California State University: building and operating fees

Increases from $40 to $125 per student per academic year, the maximum amount California State University trustees, upon a two-thirds favorable student vote, may establish for a building and operating fee.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 1737 (Hayden-D) Postsecondary education

Requests that the University of California assemble a group of scholars to draft a research proposal to analyze the extent to which businesses, including insurance companies, profited from slavery, as specified, and report to the Legislature by January 1, 2002.

Chapter 1038, Statutes of 2000

SB 1747 (Alpert-D) California State University: study

Requires the State Department of Fair Employment and Housing to conduct a comprehensive study on whether wage gaps exist between male and female nonfaculty employees, and between white and minority nonfaculty employees, of the California State University.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1768 (Hayden-D) Public postsecondary education: state policy

Declares that the following is California policy: (1) All students have an equal opportunity to study and succeed academically regardless of socioeconomic background; (2) all qualified individuals, regardless of socioeconomic background, have the right and opportunity to participate in public postsecondary education; and (3) ensures access, affordability, and quality education for all qualified applicants.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1779 (Johnston-D) California State University

Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to pledge the revenues derived from various fees (consolidated financing) to the retirement of future bond projects instead of requiring each project to be serviced by only one fee.

Chapter 285, Statutes of 2000

SB 1788* (Burton-D) Student financial aid

Enacts the Cal Grant Guarantee Program. Establishes the Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program, to be administered by the Student Aid Commission to assist community college students in being informed about financial aid opportunities. Revises the formula for calculating a portion of the Cal Grant B award.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 1898 (Solis-D) California Student and Access Program

Expands the California Student and Access Program. Requires the Student Aid Commission to establish a pilot program to assist community college students to transfer to a four-year college or university.

Chapter 588, Statutes of 2000

SB 1929 (Haynes-R) Public postsecondary education: research misconduct

Requests the Regents of the University of California, and requires the Trustees of the California State University and Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, to adopt appropriate procedures for allegations of research misconduct.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 2097 (Hayden-D) Study: wrongful convictions of innocent persons

Requests the Regents of the University of California, as well as any interested private postsecondary institution, to consider the creation of law school projects that undertake teaching and research on wrongful convictions of innocent persons, that study the causes of these wrongful convictions, and that propose remedies for this problem.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 2118 (Poochigian-R) Postsecondary education: Cal Grant Program

Clarifies the goal of the Cal Grant student financial aid program and appropriates $137 million for the Cal Grant Program.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SCA 2 (Hughes-D) University of California: student eligibility

Provides, commencing January 1, 2002, that only the students who rank in the upper 12.5 percent of their graduating high school class at their particular high school, based on educationally sound measures of high school performance, including grade point average, are eligible for admission to the University of California.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SCR 13 (Hayden-D) University of California: teacher training

Strongly encourages the Regents of the University of California to set an institutional goal of doubling the number of its graduates who become California public school teachers, to arrange programs and priorities of the university to achieve that goal in five years; and to report annually to the Legislature on its progress and needs in meeting that goal.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SCR 22 (Solis-D) College Awareness Month

Proclaims February 2002 as "College Awareness Month," and encourages students to earn a college education so they may contribute to the economic, social, and political future of California.

Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2000

SCR 82 (Chesbro-D) California State University

Requests the Trustees of the California State University to conduct an educational needs demand assessment in Crescent City.

Resolution Chapter 154, Statutes of 2000

SCR 83 (Polanco-D) Higher education facilities funding

States legislative intent to reserve for community college facilities, from the proceeds of the next bond measure, funds in an amount necessary to increase the community college share of higher education proceeds to one-third.

(Died in Assembly awaiting assignment)

SCR 89 (Vasconcellos-D) Office of Student Regent of the University of California

Recognizes, commends, and celebrates the contributions of the Office of Student Regent and the 26 students who have held that office.

Resolution Chapter 133, Statutes of 2000

SJR 33 (Polanco-D) University of California: national laboratories

Declares that the Legislature strongly endorses the continuation and extension of the University of California's management and operations contracts for the Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, and urges the United States Department of Energy to negotiate the contract extensions.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 8 (Cardenas-D) Postsecondary education: community college trustee areas

Requires the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District to be elected by and from seven separate trustee areas. Requires all community college districts to elicit and consider public comments regarding proposed adjustments to existing trustee areas prior to their adoption.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 14 (Ducheny-D) Higher Education Partnership Act of 2000

Expresses the intent of the Legislature to establish a policy framework for funding the University of California and the California State University.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 80 (Baldwin-R) Community college facilities

Exempts the construction of new California Community Colleges (CCC) facilities from the Field Act and instead requires CCC facilities to be constructed pursuant to provisions of the California Building Standards Act.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 94 (Cedillo-D) California State University: performing arts center

Makes findings and declaration regarding the California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA) and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and St. Vibiana's Cathedral and states that the budget contains $4 million in one-time funds to fund the CSULA Performing Arts Center.

Chapter 370, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was AB 2235 (Cedillo-D), which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 108 (Mazzoni-D) Instructional strategies: statewide subject matter projects

Authorizes additional projects for the statewide Subject Matter Projects program, adds two members to the concurrence committee, expands the criteria used by the project advisory board in recommending funding for local sites, and adds one year to the sunset date.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 126 (Runner-R) Postsecondary education: year-round academic programs

Adds to the Donahoe Higher Education Act provisions that require, in accordance with a specified schedule, the University of California and the California State University to operate year-round and provide the same level of course offerings and quality of instruction in all terms of the academic year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 172 (Firebaugh-D) Public postsecondary education: international study

Establishes the International Higher Education Scholarship Act with two separate programs: (1) the International Higher Education Scholarship Program to be administered by the California State University (CSU), and (2) the Community College International Student Exchange Program. Appropriates $126,500 from the General Fund to CSU for purposes of the international scholarship program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 200 (Wright-D) Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act

Makes a number of changes to the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act.

(Died in Assembly awaiting concurrence)

AB 206 (Runner-R) Community colleges

Provides for the annual computation of revenue limit equalization adjustments for community college districts.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 211 (Romero-D) Public employees: health: plans

Expands the eligibility for health benefits coverage under the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act to certain part-time employees of the California State University.

Chapter 12, Statutes of 2000

AB 252 (Scott-D) Cal Grant awards: summer college attendance

Requires the Student Aid Commission to study and report to the Governor and Legislature by January 1, 2002, on the need for incentives to encourage financial aid recipients to attend college during summer terms.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 383 (Cardoza-D) Community colleges: salaries for academic employees

Requires local community college districts to adopt for temporary academic employees a uniform salary schedule based on years of training and experience and subjects taught in the same faculty service area.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 389 (Jackson-D) Community colleges: work force training

Expands an existing program providing economic development matching funds to community colleges to add "high demand sectors, including but not limited to," training in specific nursing specialty areas which have experienced staffing shortages. Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to identify funding needs for consideration in the annual Budget Act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 434 (Aroner-D) Student aid: emancipated foster youth

Establishes the Cal Grant F program administered by the Student Aid Commission, to be known as the Tom Woods Higher Education Outreach and Assistance Act for Emancipated Foster Youth, to provide higher education financial assistance for four years to foster youth after they emancipate from the foster care system.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 475* (Ducheny-D) Community College Leadership Institute

Establishes within the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, a leadership development institute operated under contract with a doctoral level university in California for the recruitment and training of community college faculty and administrators.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 511* (Alquist-D) Tax relief: graduate student assistance

Excludes up to $5,250 from an employee's income for graduate student assistance paid by an employer on behalf of the employee's income for graduate student assistance paid by an employer on behalf of the employee, starting after January 1, 2000.

Chapter 107, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was AB 2 (Alpert-D), which died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.

AB 632* (Romero-D) Public postsecondary education: student residency

Provides that students (1) holding an emergency teaching credential and (2) employed by a school district in positions requiring certification qualifications for the academic year in which the students enroll at a University of California or a California State University (in courses necessary to fulfill teaching credential requirements), are entitled to resident classification for the purpose of determining tuition and fees.

Chapter 949, Statutes of 2000

AB 666 (Romero-D) College admissions testing opportunity program

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a statewide college admissions test-taking program to increase the number of pupils taking college admissions tests.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 829 (Baldwin-R) Postsecondary education: student government fees

Prohibits any student from being compelled to pay mandatory student government fees for the purposes of funding or subsidizing political or ideological activities or organizations.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 914 (Keeley-D) Postsecondary education: student fees

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to conduct a study on the existing student fee structure at California public postsecondary institutions and make recommendations that will ensure that fee increases are graduate, moderate and predictable. Establishes a broad student fee policy for the state.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1090 (Correa-D) California Community Colleges: contract education

Specifies that contract education programs may relate to literacy, English as a second language, or basic skills training and clarifies qualification for apportionment.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1123 (Cardoza-D) Distance learning: the California Distance Learning Policy

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to review and evaluate the state's policy on distance learning in cooperation with the state's higher education institutions and the Governor's Office of Education, and make recommendations to the Legislature every three years beginning in 2001.

Chapter 467, Statutes of 2000

AB 1197 (Firebaugh-D) Public postsecondary education: residency

Qualifies long-term California residents, as specified, regardless of citizenship status, for the lower resident fee payments at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. Is applicable to the University of California if the Regents so decide.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1297 (Firebaugh-D) Public health: University of California Medical School

Requires the California Research Bureau to conduct three studies relating to (1) establishing a University of California Medical Student Loan Forgiveness Project, (2) foreign medical school graduate residency and licensing issues, and (3) whether an increase in the number of physicians practicing in a medically underserved area leads to increased access.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1337 (Havice-D) Public postsecondary education: community college faculty

Provides that California Community Colleges faculty employment disputes related to tenure that are settled in arbitration where the employee is not represented by the exclusive representative (employee union) shall not be considered as "precedent setting" for purposes of interpreting collective bargaining agreements or tenure procedures and processes.

Chapter 124, Statutes of 2000

AB 1346 (Runner-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Revises the criteria for determining residency status for active duty military members and their dependents for purposes of paying student fees at the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California (UC). Applies to UC only to the extent that the Regents adopt a resolution to do so.

Chapter 571, Statutes of 2000

AB 1351 (Lempert-D) Community colleges: temporary employees

Requires community college districts to give qualified part-time faculty a preferred right of retention in the following academic year, when specified conditions are met.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1372 (Reyes-D) California State University: nonacademic employees

Requires the California State University to grant permanent status to a part-time employee who has served for three consecutive years.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1441 (Lempert-D) California Community Colleges

Contains technical clean-up language that addresses a chaptering-out problem inadvertently created by AB 1291 (Strom-Martin), Chapter 1024, Statutes of 1998. The language being restored by this bill will allow the Board of Governors and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to continue to secure procurement contracts without approval of the State Department of General Services, as specified.

Chapter 36, Statutes of 2000

AB 1452 (Alquist-D) University of California: report: long-term care and aging

Requests the University of California, through its Academic Geriatric Resource Program, to conduct a study and prepare a report containing findings and recommendations concerning future workforce needs of California's aging population.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1529 (Baldwin-R) Teacher credentialing

Requires, for the purpose of making recommendations to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), that any credentialing body, as specified, would have equal status before the CTC and provides that any individual graduating from any institution recommended by such an authority would, if it meets certain other requirements, be deemed to meet the requirements for the commission to grant a California teaching credential.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1566 (Lowenthal-D) Postsecondary education: pilot project mentoring

Establishes a Pilot Mentoring Program, under which the State Superintendent of Public Instruction would award five grants to public institutions of higher learning that would collaborate with school districts to develop these programs.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1648 (Aroner-D) Metropolitan Transportation Commission: study

Requests the University of California's Institute of Transportation Studies to submit a report to the Legislature which evaluates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's compliance with specified federal and related state transportation laws. Requests that the University of California, in preparing its report, seek input from stockholders concerned with public transportation in the region.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1738* (Washington-D) Postsecondary education: Compton Community College

Appropriates $3,100,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors for allocation for expenditure, without regard to fiscal year, for the purpose of completing construction of the Ralph Dills Technology Building located on the campus of Compton Community College.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1739 (Bock-I) Educational opportunities for veterans

Requires the California Student Aid Commission, in consultation with the State Department of Veterans Affairs, to conduct a study on the needs of veterans in higher education.

Chapter 572, Statutes of 2000

AB 1773 (Romero-D) Intellectual property

Prohibits any business, agency, or person from preparing, causing to be prepared, giving, selling, transferring, or otherwise distributing or publishing, any contemporaneous recording of an academic presentation, as defined, of an instructor of record, as defined, employed by the California Community Colleges, the California State University, or the University of California, as specified.

Chapter 574, Statutes of 2000

AB 1820 (Wright-D) Geriatric medicine

Enacts the Geriatric Medical Education Training Act of 2000, which increases the amount of training in geriatric care required for licensure as a physician.

Chapter 440, Statutes of 2000

AB 1850 (Correa-D) California public universities: spouses and children

Provides certain educational benefits available from the California State University, the University of California, or the Hastings College of Law to a surviving spouse of a deceased person.

Chapter 40, Statutes of 2000

AB 1857 (Romero-D) California State University: student body organizations

Establishes the Gloria Romero Open Meetings Act of 2000 to generally require California State University student body organizations to conduct its business in open public meetings. Exempts these organizations from other existing provisions of law related to open meetings.

Chapter 330, Statutes of 2000

AB 1861 (Runner-R) Public postsecondary education: articulation agreements

Requests the University of California and requires the California State University to develop and maintain transfer articulation agreements with all of the California Community Colleges.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1898 (Wright-D) Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education

Exempts private security guard training schools that meet certain specified requirements from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education's licensing requirements.

Chapter 273, Statutes of 2000

AB 1918 (Romero-D) Community College Students Act

Enacts the Access to Transfer Information for Community College Students Act. Requires each community college district to provide students with copies of the transfer core curriculum, as defined.

Chapter 187, Statutes of 2000

AB 1922 (Romero-D) Community college faculty

Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to inform the Legislature of changes in the diversity of the faculty and the progress made in meeting goals regarding diversity in the workplace.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1935 (Wildman-D) California State University: auxiliary organizations

Requires the California State University to prepare a report relating to auxiliary organizations by February 1, 2001, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1958 (Romero-D) Public postsecondary education: deferred enrollment

Requests the University of California and requires the California State University to develop a process through which a student admitted to full-time undergraduate status may apply to defer enrollment for at least one year.

Chapter 355, Statutes of 2000

AB 1976 (Rod Pacheco-R) Riverside School for the Arts

Allows the Riverside Community College District and the Riverside County Office of Education to enter into a joint powers agreement to develop and operate the Riverside School for the Arts, a regional arts learning program.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 2007 (Runner-R) Joint-use education facilities: Antelope Valley College

Exempts from Field Act provisions any joint-use facility at Antelope Valley College. Appropriates $1 million from the State General Fund to the California Community Colleges Chancellor to implement a cooperatively developed baccalaureate degree program by Canada College and San Francisco State University.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2010 (Runner-R) Community colleges

Directs the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to implement a program whereby any community college student may choose to pay an additional $1 per unit fee to fund a statewide book purchasing grant program for low-income community college students.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2138 (Keeley-D) Higher education labor relations: mediation

Provides for binding fact-finding as a method of resolving bargaining disputes between the University of California and employee organizations representing its faculty and librarians.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2143 (Lempert-D) Higher education labor relations

Requires that statutes providing a minimum level of benefits and rights for higher education employees shall take precedent in cases where there is a conflict between the statute and a memorandum of understanding reached between a higher education employer and an employee organization.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2159 (Robert Pacheco-R) Student financial aid

Expands the eligibility for students to participate in the Graduate Assumption Program of Loans for Education, as specified.

Chapter 460, Statutes of 2000

AB 2195 (Ashburn-R) School districts and community college districts

Requires that in school and community college districts with registered voters of less than 30,000 persons, a petition for a special election to fill a vacancy be signed by at least five percent of the number of registered voters of the district at the time of the last regular election for governing board members.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2323 (Ducheny-D) Center for International Education Synergy

Declares the Legislature's intent to provide general funds through the annual Budget Act to support the proposed Center for International Education Synergy.

Chapter 462, Statutes of 2000

AB 2337 (Ducheny-D) Community college finance

Appropriates $5.4 million General Fund to the California Community Colleges to augment the 2000-01 Budget Act in order to fund part-time faculty office hours ($2.1 million) and support the further development and implementation of apprenticeship programs ($3.3 million).

Chapter 746, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2348* (Ducheny-D) Sales and use taxes: exemption: college textbooks

Exempts the purchase of college textbooks by college students from the five percent State General Fund sales and use tax.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2378 (Leach-R) Student financial aid: reentering students

Requires the Student Aid Commission to establish a grant program for students who are entering an institution of higher education after an absence from the workforce or educational institution in order to care for family members.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2384 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Postsecondary education

An omnibus higher education bill, which makes a variety of technical, conforming and clarifying amendments to the higher education portion of the Education Code.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2388 (Lempert-D) Community colleges

Recasts and reorganizes the higher education provisions of various codes relative to the California Community Colleges.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2409 (Migden-D) Public postsecondary education: summer session fees

Makes findings and declaration about year-round operations at the California State University, University of California, and the California Community Colleges. Subject to Budget funding, the bill requires that summer session fees be reduced to the level of fees for other academic terms.

Chapter 383, Statutes of 2000

AB 2413 (Machado-D) Community colleges: financial aid: outreach program

Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop an intensive financial aid outreach program to increase statewide awareness of the availability of student financial aid.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2434 (Wildman-D) Community colleges

Provides that part-time California Community College faculty who have received satisfactory job performance reviews shall have the right to earn and retain annual reappointment rights, as negotiated, based on the order of employment date.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2440 (Thompson-R) University of California

Appropriates $75,000 to the University of California (UC) to fund a study to review the possibility of establishing a UC extension facility in northern San Diego County.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2476 (Romero-D) California Community College Deferment Act

Establishes a 12-year pilot program called the California Community College Deferment Act under which up to 500 freshmen admitted to the University of California (UC) could, instead, enroll for two years at a community college and be guaranteed admission as a junior to the UC campus that originally admitted them as freshmen.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2496 (Washington-D) Community colleges: book grants

Requires the board of governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) to provide a book grant to students whose fees are waived because of demonstrated financial need. Requires the grants to be used only at campus bookstores. Appropriates $65 million to the Chancellor of the CCC without regard to fiscal year.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

Similar legislation was AB 2376 (Lempert-D), which died in Assembly Higher Education Committee.

AB 2497 (Romero-D) California State University: employees

Makes all State of California public agencies subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2563 (Zettel-R) Student financial aid

Modifies the Assumption Loan for Education program to increase funding to qualifying applicants.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2565 (Zettel-R) Public postsecondary education

Increases the percentage of state lottery funds that can be used for bond repayments for education technology infrastructure from 25 to 50 percent. Creates, in statute, a technology and telecommunication/communications program. Requires the Chancellor's Office to submit to the state an annual report on the program. Exempts the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges from the State Department of Information Technology approval process.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2602* (Battin-R) Sales and use taxes: exemptions

Exempts purchases made by any public or private school or community college district, provided the purchase is made using a purchase order and the aggregate value of the purchase is $1,000 or greater.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2666 (Battin-R) Gasoline

Allows the sale of federally-approved reformulated gasoline in California, subject to a state excise fee, and asks the University of California to study aspects of allowing its use.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2791 (Alquist-D) School and essential services facilities: stop work notice

Authorizes the State Department of General Services to issue a stop work order on a K-12 school, community college, or an essential service facility if project construction is not conforming to structural safety design requirements.

Chapter 463, Statutes of 2000

AB 2794 (Havice-D) California Community Colleges Economic Development Program

Reauthorizes the California Community Colleges Economic Development Program, contingent upon funding being appropriated in the annual Budget Act.

Chapter 939, Statutes of 2000

AB 2815 (Kuehl-D) Unemployment insurance: disability benefits

Allows employees of the State of California, the California Legislature and the California State University to be covered by the State Disability Insurance program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2834 (Alquist-D) Geriatric specialist training

Requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to (1) administer grants to California postsecondary educational institutions that establish fee-waiver programs for students who enroll in a program leading to bachelor of science or masters degrees in gerontology, and (2) provide $60,000, as specified, to medical residents who complete a fellowship in geriatrics and practice as geriatricians.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2866* (Migden-D) State government

Makes changes in existing law relating to general government to implement provisions of the Budget bill for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2881* (Wright-D) Teachers: professional development institutes

Expands existing teacher professional development institutes, currently administered jointly by the University of California, California State University and the independent colleges and universities, and creates four new institutes for specific subject areas and grade levels.

Chapter 77, Statutes of 2000

AB 2883* (Villaraigosa-D) University of California

Authorizes the University of California (UC) to establish three research institutes to be located on separate UC campuses.

Chapter 79, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was AB 1943 (Villaraigosa-D), which died in Senate Education Committee.

ACR 61 (Alquist-D) Extended Opportunity Programs and Services

Commends the staff, students, and community supporters of the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services program of the California Community Colleges on its 30th anniversary and the Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education program on its 17th year of operation.

Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2000

ACR 179 (Torlakson-D) California State University

Requests the Trustees of the California State University to conduct a study of the expansion of programs and services at the Contra Costa campus of California State University, Hayward.

Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2000

HR 54 (Cardenas-D) California Community College Days

Declares April 27 to May 4, 2000, to be "California Community College Days."

Adopted by the Assembly

School Employees

SB 39 (Alpert-D) State Teachers' Retirement System

Increases the maximum retirement allowance from 2.40 percent to 2.50 percent for STRS members having 30 years of credited service, provides additional increases for members with 29 or more and 31 or more years of credited service who retire on and after January 1, 2001, and makes related changes.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 51 (Alpert-D) Teachers: additional compensation

Authorizes a school district to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for a grant to provide additional compensation to credentialed teachers. Provides $1,000 to a qualifying teacher for one week of additional schoolwork outside the regular school year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 151 (Haynes-R) Teaching credentials

Provides an alternative process for an individual who has already passed the California Basic Education Skills Test to quality for a single subject teaching credential.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 237 (Karnette-D) Administrative services credentials

Provides that the minimum requirements for a preliminary services credential with a specialization in administrative services include completion of a minimum of ten years rather than three years of successful, full-time classroom teaching experience in the public schools, as specified. Provides that on July 1, 2001, the governing board of a school district may not employ an individual in any administrative or supervisory position unless he/she holds a valid preliminary services credential with a specialization in administrative services or a valid professional services credential with a specialization in administrative services, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 356 (Hughes-D) Employment: leave for parents or guardians

Requires school districts, and specific state agencies, to provide notice to the public concerning existing provisions of law that allow a parent to take time off from work to participate in school or licensed child day care facility activities related to their child.

(Died at Senate Desk)

SB 358 (Ortiz-D) Classified employees: short-term employees

Prohibits the number of short-term employees in the classified service from exceeding 20 percent of the school district's or community college district's total classified workforce. Requires the governing board of each school and community college district to specify the services to be performed by the employee and to certify the ending date of the service, prior to hiring the short-term employee.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 360 (Solis-D) Classified employees

Requires that before employing a short-term employee, the governing board of a school or community college district is required to specify the service required to be performed and certify the estimated ending date of the service.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 409 (Escutia-D) Teachers: advanced placement courses

Establishes a five-year pilot program to provide matching grants to school districts to train teachers to offer instruction in advanced placement courses. The program is administered by the State Department of Education and sunsets on January 1, 2005.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 462 (Monteith-R) Education technology

Includes teacher training within the technology-based staff development needs that the California Technology Assistance Project is required to work with the school districts and county offices of education to meet.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 473 (Ortiz-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits

Authorizes a school district, community college district, or county office of education to pay all or part of a member's costs for nonqualified services (airtime), as specified.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 573 (Alarcon-D) Teachers: hard to staff schools

Authorizes a pilot project through the Los Angeles County Office of Education to provide professional development to new teachers in hard to staff schools through the use of telecommunications-based distance learning, satellites and videoconferencing. Amends AB 2881 (Wright), Chapter 77, Statutes of 2000, to include instructor-led, interactive online training in the English Language Development Professional Institutes.

Chapter 986, Statutes of 2000

SB 715* (Hughes-D) Classified school employees

Makes various technical and substantive changes to the Education Code relating to school personnel commissions and the merit system

Chapter 1, Statutes of 2000

SB 883 (Haynes-R) Underperforming educator preparation institutions

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to monitor the performance of graduates of various institutions and authorizes administrative action, as specified, to effect an improvement.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 918 (Escutia-D) English language learners: direct supplemental instruction

Establishes the Direct Supplemental Instruction for English Language Learners Program for the purposes of providing additional funding and other resources to applicant school districts in order to facilitate provision of additional direct instruction and other assistance for pupils who are not proficient in English, as needed to correct academic deficits that may result in the inability to progress fully in the academic program when a pupil is placed in a sheltered or structured English immersion program without understanding English, and when a pupil is placed in an English language mainstream classroom before attaining full fluency.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 958 (Karnette-D) School principals: evaluations

Requires the governing board of each school district to request anonymous evaluations of principals by teachers at the school where the principal is assigned.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1061 (Schiff-D) School employees: teacher credentialing fee

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to waive the fee for first time teaching credential applicants subject to funds being appropriated expressly for this purpose in the annual Budget Act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1078 (Baca-D) Certificated school employees

Requires that the governing board of a school district review the basis by which a certificated employee on probationary status is not reelected for employment, provide that basis to the employee in writing, and provides that the employer may appeal the decision.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1295 (Perata-D) Teaching paraprofessionals

Requires the State Department of Education to develop program standards for a training program for teaching paraprofessionals, as defined, for purposes of the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program, and make those standards available by January 1, 2001.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1331 (Alpert-D) School districts: fiscal crisis: hiring process

Expands the required duties of the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to include, under specified circumstances, conducting reviews and providing technical assistance to school districts related to employee hiring personnel systems.

Chapter 584, Statutes of 2000

SB 1397 (Solis-D) Unemployment insurance: educational employees

Makes K-14 classified school employees who are laid-off over spring break or the winter holiday eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1415 (Rainey-R) Pupil discipline

Permits certificated and administrative personnel employed by the school district to administer reasonable forms of pupil discipline, as defined, in appropriate circumstances and in accordance with school district pupil discipline policies and prohibits offensive physical contact, as defined.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1431 (Haynes-R) Teachers: subject matter preparation and examination

Makes several changes to the requirements for teacher credentialing pertaining to subject matter testing.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1435 (Johnston-D) Teachers' health benefits: Medicare premiums

Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System to pay the premium of Medicare Part A for specified retired members of the Defined Benefit Program.

Chapter 1032, Statutes of 2000

SB 1499 (Perata-D) Teacher training: Reading Partnership Act of 2000

Enacts the Reading Partnership Act of 2000 to provide matching grants to up to three unified school districts for staff development and teaching support services to improve reading instruction.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1505 (Burton-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: minimum benefits

Expands eligibility for the minimum guaranteed allowance enacted last year in SB 713 (Burton), Chapter 632, Statutes of 1999, that is paid to retired members of the State Teachers' Retirement System.

Chapter 1026, Statutes of 2000

SB 1527 (Hughes-D) Teacher credentialing

Authorizes a school district to initiate and establish a joint integrated program of professional preparation with an accredited postsecondary institution, if it meets certain criteria.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1549 (Poochigian-R) Education: school personnel: medication

Requires the State Department of Education to review and develop recommendations for regulations relative to assistance to pupils with medical needs by qualified health and school personnel.

Chapter 281, Statutes of 2000

SB 1575 (Murray-D) Teacher credentialing: emergency permits

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to develop a plan to address the disproportionate number of teachers on emergency permits.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1585 (Chesbro-D) Technology career development

Establishes the Technology Careers High School Development Program to provide competitive grants to four geographically dispersed school districts to train teachers and administrators on how to establish a technology based career program and to disseminate this information to other school districts. Appropriates $1 million to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the grants.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1598 (O'Connell-D) Teacher salaries

Establishes a funding incentive to reimburse school districts and county offices of education for the costs associated with increasing fully credentialed beginning teacher salaries to $38,000.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1643* (O'Connell-D) Teachers' salaries

Establishes a funding incentive to reimburse school districts and county offices of education for the costs associated with increasing fully credentialed beginning teacher salaries to $34,000. Provides $55 million in Proposition 98 funding for this purpose in the Budget Act of 2000.

Chapter 69, Statutes of 2000

SB 1666* (Alarcon-D) Teachers: recruitment and incentives

Makes numerous changes in current law and creates new programs relative to the recruitment of and incentives for teachers.

Chapter 70, Statutes of 2000

SB 1692* (Ortiz-D) State teachers' retirement: reinstatement

Provides enhance retirement benefits to members of the State Teachers' Retirement System who retired from service and reinstate and perform at least one additional year of service before retiring again.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1693 (Ortiz-D) State teachers' retirement: supplemental payments

Increases the minimum purchasing power guarantee from the State Teachers' Retirement System Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account from 75 percent to 80 percent of the members initial monthly allowance.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1694 (Ortiz-D) Public employees' retirement: membership election

Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) who become employed by the state in a bargaining unit that represents educational employees or that supervises or manages such employees, to remain in STRS, and allows state members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) employed by the State Department of Education who are subsequently employed in service that requires membership in the STRS to remain in PERS.

Chapter 880, Statutes of 2000

SB 1722 (Hayden-D) Immigrant professionals

Establishes the Immigrant Professional Teacher Recruitment Program to help immigrant professionals reenter professions they practiced in their countries of origin.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1733 (Knight-R) Pupil and personnel health

Authorizes the existing program of professional growth for teachers to include a course in first aid.

Chapter 283, Statutes of 2000

SB 1752* (Poochigian-R) Taxes: deduction: educational expenses

Includes as a miscellaneous itemized deduction up to $500 in instructional materials purchased by a public school teacher.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1796 (Alpert-D) Teacher credentialing

Increases from 15 to 19 the number of members making up the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1797 (Alpert-D) Public employees' retirement: postretirement teaching

Authorizes a retiree to serve, without reinstatement or loss or interruption of benefits, as a teacher in an underperforming school, as defined, and to receive five years additional service credit for that service, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 1798 (Alpert-D) Teacher credentialing: preparation programs

Deletes the requirement that the national accrediting body satisfy the applicable conditions set forth in the accreditation framework in order to substitute for state accreditation the accreditation by that body of an institution's education unit or other specific program.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1842* (Speier-D) Staff development

Authorizes school districts, county offices of education and charter schools to be reimbursed for two staff development days in addition to the three days currently authorized. Appropriates $154 million from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the 2000-01 school year for the cost of the two days.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1879 (Perata-D) Teacher salaries: bonus program

Establishes a teacher service incentive program to provide school districts that agree to add five days to the school year, among other things, with funding to increase the salaries of fully credentialed teachers in low performing schools.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1928 (Haynes-R) Public retirement fund investments: foreign companies

Requires the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System to report on the extent to which they are invested in foreign companies that pose threats to national security, and encourages the boards of these pension funds not to invest in those companies.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1960 (Burton-D) Public school employee labor relations

Requires the implementation of a mandatory "fair share" or "agency shop" fee for all public school and community college employees who are members of a bargaining unit. Amends a similar statute relative to the University of California and the California State University to require that the State Public Employment Relations board bear the costs of conducting an election to rescind the organizational security arrangement.

Chapter 893, Statutes of 2000

SB 2073 (Alarcon-D) Teachers: California Pre-Internship Training Program

Modifies the California Pre-Internship Teaching Program to provide additional training to a teacher candidate 30 days prior to the beginning of the internship. Appropriates $1.2 million to support this modification.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 2122 (Ortiz-D) Retirement systems: investments: information sharing

Authorizes and encourages the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System to cooperate and share information that may assist each agency in developing appropriate investment strategies.

Chapter 320, Statutes of 2000

SB 2187 (Soto-D) Teacher Home Loan Program

Creates the Teacher Home Loan Program under the California Housing Finance Agency to provide mortgage loans for the purchase of new or existing homes specifically to teachers who meet specified criteria.

(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)

SB 2192 (Soto-D) English language education: teacher coaching program

Establishes the English Language Learner Teacher Coaching Pilot Program to be administered by the San Bernardino County Office of Education, contingent upon an appropriation in the Budget Act or other legislation.

Vetoed by the Governor

SCR 81 (Karnette-D) Day of the Teacher

Proclaims May 10, 2000 to be Day of the Teacher.

Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2000

AB 6 (Calderon-D) California Teacher Academy Program

Establishes the California Teacher Academy Program to encourage more high school students to enter the teaching profession.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 50 (Migden-D) State Public Employees' Retirement System

Continues provisions of existing law allowing school districts to provide more than the proposed "automatic" lump-sum death benefit of $2,000, permitting payments of $3,000, $4,000, or $5,000 by State Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) contract amendment. Requires an increase of the "automatic" lump-sum death benefit for retired employee members of PERS from $600 to $2,000.

Chapter 947, Statutes of 2000

AB 81 (Cunneen-R) Schools: employees: taxes: credits

Offers three types of incentives to increase the number of qualified math and science teachers and the quality of math and science instruction in public high schools, community colleges, and vocational institutions in California.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 107 (Knox-D) Public employee retirement system investments

Prohibits new or additional investments by the State Public Employees' Retirement System and the State Teachers' Retirement System, on and after January 1, 2001, in tobacco companies, as defined, and requires a divestment of those existing investments by July 1, 2002.

(Failed passage in Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 141* (Knox-D) State teachers' retirement: postretirement earnings

Extends the existing State Teachers' Retirement System half-year earnings limitation exemption for retired school administrators who returned to service to fill a vacancy.

Chapter 22, Statutes of 2000

AB 167 (Honda-D) Public Employees' Retirement System

Increases from two percent to three percent the annual cost-of-living adjustment applied to allowances of school employee members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 286 (McClintock-R) Teacher selection and compensation

Sets forth requirements relating to the number of pupils per teacher in grades one through six and sets the salary for employees to be based on the number of pupils, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 309 (Mazzoni-D) Teacher credentialing: alternative certification

Creates an alternative certification program in administrative services, whereby any school district, county office of education, or regionally-accredited public or private college or university, acting alone or in a consortium, could sponsor a program by submitting a plan for approval to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 318 (Lempert-D) California Paraprofessional Incentive Program

Establishes a grant program for the employment and training of paraprofessionals in kindergarten through grade six.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 397 (Florez-D) Certificate employees: criminal record summary

Allows a school district to employ a certificated employee (teacher, counselor, etc.) for 45 days prior to receipt of a criminal background check, provided that the individual has recently been employed in good standing as a certificated employee in another California school district, and has never been fired from a teaching position.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 415 (Havice-D) School volunteers

Requires school districts to submit annually the names of school volunteers to local law enforcement to be checked against the list of registered sex offenders on the State Department of Justice's CD-ROM or other electronic medium.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 429 (Correa-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: gain-sharing revenue

Provides an ad hoc increase to members of the State Teachers' Retirement System of between one percent and six percent.

Chapter 1027, Statutes of 2000

AB 578 (Honda-D) Education: domestic violence: teacher training

Establishes a permissive program for teacher training and distribution of information to school districts and county offices of education relative to domestic violence and sexual assault.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 657 (Strickland-R) Teachers

Establishes a pilot program to provide merit-based awards to certificated school employees.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 684 (Honda-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits

Changes the annual cost of living adjustment for benefit recipients of the State Teachers' Retirement System from a two percent simple increase to a two percent compounded increase, effective September 1, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 707 (House-R) School psychologist: qualifications

Establishes a two-year services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services for the prelingually deaf, which candidates are exempt from the requirement of passage of the basic skills proficiency test. Authorizes a community college district that participates in a merit system for classified employees to exempt designated senior classified administrative positions from the employment requirements of current law.

Chapter 951, Statutes of 2000

AB 723 (Campbell-R) Teacher probationary period

Permits, for specified employees, the governing board of the school district the option of granting tenure rights to an employee of a school district who, after having been employed by the school district in a position requiring certification qualifications for three complete consecutive school years, rather than two complete consecutive school years, is reelected for a succeeding school year.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 727 (Mazzoni-D) Staff Development Act of 1999

Establishes the Staff Development Act of 1999 to provide grants to local education agencies to pay up to $2,500 per teacher as reimbursement for fees and materials for credentialed teachers to take college and university courses to increase knowledge of subjects for which the state board has approved content standards.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 752 (Davis-D) Credentialing and curriculum: dance and theatre

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to provide for an optional concentration in dance or theatre within two or more of the existing single subject credential areas, and authorizes persons with credentials in English or physical education before January 1, 2005 to teach theatre or dance.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 770 (Honda-D) Middle School Core Subject Teacher Support Program

Establishes the Middle School Core Subject Teacher Support Program, a 45-hour teacher training program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 786 (Machado-D) Pesticides: school employees

Requires that certain school employees whose duties require them to handle pesticides receive training in the safe handling and application of pesticides.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 816 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State Teachers' Retirement System

Constitutes the State Teachers' Retirement System annual omnibus bill making various changes in the retirement law which they administer.

Chapter 1025, Statutes of 2000

AB 820 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Teachers' retirement

Allows a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System, and a nonmember spouse, to make partial redeposits, effective July 2, 2001, of previously refunded member contributions. Allows a member to purchase a portion of creditable service that was previously excluded from coverage.

Chapter 1020, Statutes of 2000

AB 821 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) Retirement

Changes the period to be used for computing "final compensation" for retirement benefits for members of the State Teachers' Retirement System, with 25 or more years of service, from the average of the three highest years' compensation to the highest compensation earnable by a member during a 12-month period.

Chapter 1028, Statutes of 2000

AB 877* (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: out-of-state teachers

Revises the requirements for teachers prepared in states other than California to become credentialed in California. Establishes requirements for administrators prepared outside of California to become credentialed in California and teachers prepared outside of the United States to become credentialed in California.

Chapter 703, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 899 (Alquist-D) Teacher credentialing

Requires that the list the State Department of Education is required to furnish to the Student Aid Commission of teaching fields that have the most critical shortage of teachers not include references to teaching in a self-contained classroom or teaching pursuant to a multiple subject credential.

Chapter 371, Statutes of 2000

AB 908 (Alquist-D) Teacher credentialing: gender equity training

Establishes a gender equity-training program for teachers and requires the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing to survey teacher-training programs and adopt or revise standards relating to the inclusion of gender equity training in teacher credentials.

Chapter 459, Statutes of 2000

AB 913 (Pescetti-R) Criminal records

Requires an employer to request from the State Department of Justice records of all convictions or any arrest pending adjudication of any person who applies for employment in which he/she would provide in-home educational or counseling services to any minor.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 967 (Ducheny-D) Instructional strategies

Expands the statewide subject matter projects (SMP) to allow pre-intern teachers to attend the SMP, and initiates pilot projects to assist pre-internship permit teachers to meet subject matter requirements.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1006 (Ducheny-D) School counselors

Establishes the Beginning Counselor Support Pilot Program to provide grants to school districts in the administrator preparation program for the purposes of developing, implementing, and evaluating new models and structures for preparing and certifying school counselors.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1009* (Correa-D) Public employees' retirement: purchasing power protection

Increases, from 75 percent to 80 percent, the purchasing power protection provided to retirees of local contracting agencies of the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

Chapter 483, Statutes of 2000

AB 1080 (Villaraigosa-D) teacher tax credit

Follow-up measure to AB 2879, which allowed a teachers tax credit. Simplifies the method to be used by teachers when calculating the value of teacher retention tax credits to which they are entitled.

Chapter 603, Statutes of 2000

AB 1087* (Calderon-D) Teachers: salaries

Revises the Jack O'Connell Beginning Teacher Salary Incentive Program by specifying how incentive funding may continue to be received by school districts and county offices of education in future years by including the incentive in district revenue limit funding.

Chapter 405, Statutes of 2000

AB 1213 (Strom-Martin-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits

Enhances retirement benefits for members of the State Teachers' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1294 (Firebaugh-D) Teachers: training and retention

Authorizes the State Teachers' Retirement Board to establish procedures to provide subsidized below-market interest rate home loans to teachers in hard-to-staff schools, as defined, subject to specified terms.

(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)

AB 1296 (Firebaugh-D) Teachers: hard to staff schools

Makes a teacher holding an emergency permit and a pre-intern participating in the California Pre-Internship Teaching Program also eligible to participate in the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System. Establishes the hard to staff school program and defines a hard to staff school as one in which 25 percent of the staff are any combination of first and second year teachers, teachers who are serving with an emergency permit or pre-intern certificate, participants in an alternative certification program, or teachers who are teaching outside of the authorization designated on their credential.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1324 (Zettel-R) Credentialed employees

Permits a teacher who does not hold a specialist credential to teach pupils with mild to moderate disabilities to continue to teach such pupils if the teacher holds one of several other credentials and has at least ten years experience teaching in a special day class.

Chapter 109, Statutes of 2000

AB 1509 (Machado-D) STRS: Defined Benefit Supplement Program

Creates the Defined Benefit Supplement Program for all State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) members that divert 25 percent of the STRS contributions, or two percent of payroll, into a tax deferred account that will be available to the teacher upon retirement in a lump sum payment or as an annuity.

Chapter 74, Statutes of 2000

AB 1514 (Leach-R) State basic skills proficiency test

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to review the state basic skills proficiency test to evaluate the test's content validity and reliability, and the scores needed to pass the component part of the test.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1538 (Robert Pacheco-R) California Master Teacher Act

Provides funding to a teacher training program, the Classroom Teacher Instructional Improvement Program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1710 (Ducheny-D) California Initiative for Teaching

Requires the Student Aid Commission to administer the California Mathematics Initiative for Teaching, which is currently administered by the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and expands the program to increase the number of teachers who are competent and certified to teach English language learners and science. Renames the program to the California Initiative for Teaching.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1733 (Wildman-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: postretirement earnings

Eliminates the current postretirement earnings limitation for members of the State Teachers' Retirement System who first return to work more than one year after retirement and increases the current $19,650 limit to $22,000 for other retired members.

Chapter 896, Statutes of 2000

AB 1736 (Ducheny-D) State teachers' retirement: postretirement compensation

Permanently eliminates the existing earnings limitations for teachers who retire on or before July 1, 2000, and return to the classroom to provide remedial instruction in grades two through 12, inclusive.

Chapter 351, Statutes of 2000

AB 1780 (Washington-D) Classified school employees

Deletes the exemption that prohibits part-time playground positions from entering classified service.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1829 (Correa-D) Public Employees' Retirement System

Increases to $5,000 the death benefits for state and school members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System who retire on or before July 3, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1892 (Steinberg-D) California New Administrator Support Program

Establishes the California New Administrator Support Program to provide grants to local education agencies to provide mentoring to administrators who have completed coursework in a traditional administrator preparation program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1900 (Steinberg-D) Teachers

Doubles the funding rate for programs that support first and second year teachers and teacher interns in low performing schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1931 (Scott-D) Hate violence

Requires the State Department of Education to provide regional training for school personnel in the identification and determination of hate violence and establishes a grant program for students and teachers to participate in specified educational programs.

Chapter 959, Statutes of 2000

AB 1933 (Strom-Martin-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits

Establishes a "longevity bonus" for teachers who retire on or after January 1, 2001, and have, prior to January 2011, 30 or more years of credited service. Provides specified teachers with an increase in their monthly benefit allowance to $200 if they have 30 years of credited service, $300 for those with 31 years of service, and $400 for members with 32 or more years of credited service.

Chapter 1029, Statutes of 2000

AB 2017 (Strom-Martin-D) Parent-teacher conferences

Increases the number of paid staff development days from three to four and allows one of these days to be used for the purpose of conducting parent-teacher conferences. Appropriates $350,000 a year for three fiscal years to the State Department of Education to administer and make revisions to the Instructional Time and Staff Development Reform Program.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2036 (Nakano-D) School administrators: evaluation of certificated employees

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer a grant program aimed at training administrators on effective evaluation strategies and techniques that support instructional improvement. Appropriates $1 million from the General Fund to pay for the grants.

Chapter 935, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2060 (Steinberg-D) Federal tax credits: housing: teachers

Establishes the Extra Credit Teacher Home Purchase Program to provide financial aid to teachers for home purchases.

Chapter 331, Statutes of 2000

AB 2070 (Shelley-D) Teachers Homebuyer Assistance Program

Enacts the Teachers Homebuyer Assistance Program, administered by the California Housing Finance Agency, to provide home loan assistance, in the form of down payments, for teachers employed in low performing challenge schools.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2118 (Bock-I) Public retirement systems: merger study

Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of merging STRS into the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2145 (Reyes-D) School calendar

Establishes the 21st Century Education Act to extend the school teacher contract year for all schools serving kindergarten and grades one to 12 inclusive, from 180 days to 220 days on a voluntary basis.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2171 (Florez-D) School nurses: tobacco settlement funds

Creates the Tobacco Settlement Fund into which the state share of all funds received from the tobacco litigation Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 will be deposited, to be reappropriated for specific educational programs and services.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2177 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) School employees' retirement: contributions

Clarifies and standardizes reporting of compensation and service for school employee members of the State Public Employees' Retirement System and requires school employers to pay employer contributions in a timely manner.

Chapter 1030, Statutes of 2000

AB 2201 (Honda-D) State teachers' retirement: benefits: retirement board

Enacts several significant benefit enhancements to the State Teachers' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2274 (Cedillo-D) PERS: school member contribution rates

Reduces the employee contribution rate for school members of the State Public Employees' Retirement system from seven percent to five percent of payroll.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2311 (Davis-D) California School Library Media Teacher Expansion Program

Establishes the California School Library Media Teacher Expansion Program to help low-performing elementary and middle schools employ librarians.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2339 (Mazzoni-D) Teachers

Makes a variety of changes to the laws governing the Commission on Teacher Credentialing including the establishment of an outcome assessment process for teacher preparation programs, as specified. Appropriates $3,020,000 from the General Fund to county offices of education to pay for the purposes of the bill.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2383 (Keeley-D) Public employee health benefits: covered employees

Allows employees of local agencies that contract with the State Public Employees' Retirement System who are employed part-time to participate in the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act. Requires the State Teachers' Retirement Board to calculate the actuarial cost of providing specified health benefits to actual members of the defined benefit programs of the State Teachers' Retirement System, as specified.

Chapter 874, Statutes of 2000

AB 2456 (Wright-R) State teachers' retirement: retirement option program

Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System, who retire on or before January 1, 2002 and are at least 60 years of age, to elect to receive a lump-sum payment and a reduced monthly allowance. Specifies that the provisions of this bill sunset on January 1, 2011.

Chapter 897, Statutes of 2000

AB 2472 (Romero-D) Public school employees: disclosure

Establishes the Reporting by Public School Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act and the Reporting by Community College Employees of Improper Governmental Activities Act, which provide protections to public school employees who report improper governmental activities.

Chapter 531, Statutes of 2000

AB 2473 (Strom-Martin-D) Staff development

Requires the state to reimburse, at the state per diem rate, overnight accommodations for participants of the California Reading Professional Development Institutes when the nearest institute is more than 70 miles and one hour from the school at which the participant teachers. Allows for on-line study for the follow-up portion of the institute.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2578 (Wesson-D) Classified employees: notice of layoff

Increases from 30 days to 60 days the current notification requirement that school districts must comply with prior to laying off classified school employees.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2590 (Campbell-R) United States armed forces: bonus

Establishes the California State Troops to Teachers Act to assist school districts in the hiring of retired officers of the armed forces as schoolteachers.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2609 (Lowenthal-D) Specialized secondary schools

Provides for the participation of emergency permit holders in the California Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers and establishes the Credentialed Teacher Development Program.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2649 (Calderon-D) Education: teacher salaries

Authorizes the minimum annual salary for certificated employees to be an amount equal to $35,000.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2670 (Bock-I) School nurses

Establishes a committee to study specified issues relative to school nurses and pupil health.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2680 (Bock-I) Credentialed Teacher Retention Bonus Program

Establishes the Credentialed Teacher Retention Bonus Program to provide bonus pay to teachers in low-performing schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2689 (Corbett-D) Educational counseling

Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study relating to student support personnel.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2691 (Corbett-D) Classified employees: personnel commission appointments

Changes the process of appointing members of personnel commissions for classified school employees.

Chapter 488, Statutes of 2000

AB 2700 (Lempert-D) Defined Benefit Supplement Program

Makes all compensation received by a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System creditable beginning July 1, 2002, and makes technical changes to the State Teachers' Retirement System Defined Benefit Supplement Program.

Chapter 1021, Statutes of 2000

AB 2839 (Firebaugh-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: benefits

Provides a two percent at age 55 service retirement allowance for members of the State Teachers' Retirement System who retire on or after January 1, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2879* (Jackson-D) Income Taxes: credit: teacher retention

Authorizes a nonrefundable credit equal to $250, $500, $1,000, and $1,500 to teachers based on their years of teaching experience.

Chapter 75, Statutes of 2000

AB 2881* (Wright-D) Teachers: professional development institutes

Expands existing teacher professional development institutes, currently administered jointly by the University of California, California State University and the independent colleges and universities, and creates four new institutes for specific subject areas and grade levels.

Chapter 77, Statutes of 2000

ACR 130 (Havice-D) School crossing guards

Declares the week of September 4, 2000, as "School Crossing Guards Week."

Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2000

Miscellaneous

SB 179 (Alpert-D) Healthy Start support services

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award "sustainability grants" to Healthy Start agencies and appropriates $1 million.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 206 (Baca-D) Interscholastic athletics

Requires the California Interscholastic Federation to permit any individual who is qualified to participate in specified golf tournaments to play a practice round within a week of the tournament, on the golf course on which the tournament will be played, provided there is an available tee time.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 247 (Wright-R) Adult education

Authorizes foreign language instruction for adults to the list of courses that may be offered in adult education programs, but prohibits these courses from being counted for purposes of apportionment.

(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 278 (Karnette-D) School attendance review boards

Establishes a $250,000 grant program for activities related to school attendance review boards.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 306 (Hayden-D) Parent Involvement Grant Program

Establishes the Parent Involvement Grant Program administered by the State Department of Education to provide competitive grants to nonprofit community-based organizations to offer training for parents and guardians of school age children to enhance their involvement in the education of their children in public schools.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 327 (Schiff-D) Reading skills: instruments

Establishes the voluntary Early Readers Diagnosis and Assistance Program to provide diagnostic reading assessments to K-2 students.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 376 (Ortiz-D) School districts: declining enrollment

Authorizes a loan to certain school districts that experience a decline in average daily attendance, as specified, due to a military base closure.

Chapter 581, Statutes of 2000

SB 411 (Escutia-D) Homework

Establishes the Homework Hotline Communication Technology Grant Pilot Program for low-performing elementary, middle and secondary schools and for special education, alternative and community schools.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 444 (Alarcon-D) Pupils: suspensions, expulsions

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the coordination of data on the number of student suspensions and expulsions by gender, age, race, and primary language.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 452* (Schiff-D) School libraries

Enacts the Classroom Library Purchase Act and appropriates $25 million for allocation on the per pupil enrollment in kindergarten and grades one to four for the purpose of providing quality fiction and nonfiction books to be used at the discretion of classroom teachers and for home use by pupils.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 472 (Poochigian-R) Schools: mathematics

Requires the State Department of Education and the State Board of Education to make a joint recommendation to the Legislature on the implementation of mathematics institutes for teachers in grades four, five, and six, who would specialize in mathematics.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 484 (Rainey-R) Truancy: attendance accounting

Creates a Truancy Prevention Model Pilot Program in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to be administered jointly by the county offices of education of the two counties.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 503 (Knight-R) Vehicles: driver's licenses: minors

Requires an application by a pupil under the age of 18 years for a driver's license to contain certification by the pupil's school of enrollment that the pupil is attending school and does not have more than 10 consecutive days, or 15 total days, of unexcused absences in a single semester, and has not been expelled from school, as specified. Requires the county board of education, or a private school administrator, as specified, to authorize the issuance of a waiver to a person who does not meet these requirements upon a determination that a personal or family hardship exists that requires that the person obtain a driver's license for his/her, or a family member's, employment, or for medically related purposes.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

SB 541 (Johnston-D) Education: pregnant and parenting teens

Makes several changes, primarily minor and technical, to the California School Age Families Education Program for pregnant and parenting students and their children.

Chapter 1057, Statutes of 2000

SB 564* (Perata-D) Oakland Unified School District

Requires an external assessment of the Oakland Unified School District, as specified, with findings and recommendations to be submitted to a community board convened, appointed, and chaired by the Mayor of the City of Oakland. The community board would make recommendations to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Governing Board of the Oakland Unified School District relative to either transferring the powers of the governing board to an appointee of the Mayor or granting the district 12 months to show improvement, with further action to be taken if the district has failed to show progress.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 566 (Escutia-D) School health centers

Creates the School Health Center Grant Program, under which grants shall be made to qualifying school health centers to assist them in delivering health services to students. Requires the State Department of Health Services(DHS) to administer the grant program; however, it cannot become operative unless funds for its purposes are appropriated in the Budget Act. Requires DHS to establish a study group to explore long-term strategies for the support of school health centers.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

SB 582 (Alpert-D) After school programs

Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to support a program to train grant coordinators and site managers for after school programs. States legislative intent and declarations regarding the number of after-school programs, and the need to support and replicate successful ones.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 760 (Alpert-D) School district organization

Recasts and re-enacts provisions of existing law relative to the Commission on School District Consolidation and Reorganization, making changes in its membership, and delineating various issues to be examined in preparing a study and recommendation for the Legislature. Appropriates $100,000 for support of the commission and repeals the commission on January 1, 2003.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 773 (Alarcon-D) After school programs

Establishes the After School Community Partnership Program, to be administered by the State Department of Education, whereby the department would select up to eight school districts from among districts that apply for grants to establish after school pilot programs for secondary school pupils in the 2000-01 to 2003-04 school year, inclusive.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 779* (Schiff-D) Summer school

Extends the authorization for school districts to offer summer, after school, and Saturday school programs from the present authorization for grades two through six to grades two through nine.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 799 (Ortiz-D) Grant Joint Union High School District

Requires that any school district that succeeds the Grant Joint Union High School District in Sacramento County must provide for a specified open enrollment plan for pupils in grades seven to 12, inclusive, and must provide free transportation to the pupils who participate in that plan.

Chapter 1037, Statutes of 2000

SB 818* (Poochigian-R) Personal income taxation: credits: school uniforms

Allows a specified tax credit for a student required public school uniform or $250.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 839 (Alpert-D) Education

Specifies that the State Department of Education shall be administered by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in whom all executive and administrative functions of the department are vested.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 882 (Haynes-R) Opportunity scholarships

Allows the parents of pupils who attend low-performing schools to obtain an "opportunity scholarship" in order to allow the pupil to attend another school in a public school district, or a private school that agrees to participate in this program.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 889 (Schiff-D) Reading

Establishes the Middle Grades Reading Competency Act of 2000 to provide financial assistance for the purchase of materials and services that will assist middle schools in teaching reading to pupils whose reading performance is two or more years behind grade level.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 891 (Costa-D) Vocational education: truck driver

Authorizes any person owning or operating a school, or giving instruction for the driving of motor trucks, as specified, to apply to the council for a grant, to pay a portion of the costs charged to a student for a six-week truck driver training course that uses a curriculum, as specified.

(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)

SB 975 (Perata-D) Extended School Year Pilot Program

Establishes the two-year Extended School Year Pilot Program to authorize additional financial assistance for up to six school districts to extend the school year to 200 days in schools with below average achievement test scores.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 977 (Solis-D) School district reorganization

Prohibits an action to reorganize the boundaries of a school district without the consent of a majority of the members of the school district if the district has obtained an emergency loan from the state and the district has a pupil population from a low-income household.

Chapter 599, Statutes of 2000

SB 992 (Knight-R) Education technology: computers

Requires that every computer at a public elementary or secondary school, as specified, that has access to the Internet or an on-line service shall have a blocking software program that is capable of blocking sites that make reference to or contain harmful matter.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1033 (Hughes-D) Child health and disability prevention

Requires school districts to exclude from school attendance any child new to California who has not provided a certificate documenting a health screening and evaluation within the prior 18 months.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1034 (Hughes-D) Compton Unified School District

Requires, subject to Budget Act appropriation, funds be allocated to the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to implement specified recovery plans for the Compton Unified School District.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1044 (Murray-D) Earthquake emergency procedures

Requires the governing board of each school district and the county superintendent of schools of each county to adopt a policy for the acquisition of equipment and supplies that would be needed for school sites used as community shelters or disaster centers after a 7.0 magnitude or greater earthquake.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1085 (Knight-R) Donated food distribution

Requires the State Department of Education, acting in its capacity as the California State Agency for Donated Food Distribution, to contract for an independent evaluation of the efficacy and desirability of entering into contracts with a private entity to provide food distribution services for surplus food commodities donated by the federal government.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1138 (Vasconcellos-D) Pilot Technology Training and Dissemination Center

Establishes the East San Jose Pilot Technology Training and Dissemination Center and appropriates $2,109,720 to the East Side Union High School District for expenditure over a three-year period to establish and support the center.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1320 (Escutia-D) Pupil health: diabetes

Sets forth guidelines and requirements for schools relating to pupils with diabetes.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1324 (Escutia-D) Instructional programs

Consolidates summer school programs into remedial and non-remedial supplemental instruction programs. Removes limits ("caps") on the amount of remedial supplemental instruction for which school districts may claim state funding, but does not lift the cap on non-remedial (a.k.a. "core") programs.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1326 (Hayden-D) Human relations: school curriculum

Requires the State Department of Education to review and report on the adequacy of instruction on human relations issues in curriculum, and requires the State Board of Education to make adjustments to the curriculum as needed. Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to place a priority on the existing provisions regarding the reporting of hate crimes by specified postsecondary institutions. Adds hate crimes to the list of offenses that are to be reported in the annual school crime report.

(Refused passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1331 (Alpert-D) School districts: fiscal crisis: hiring process

Expands the required duties of the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to include, under specified circumstances, conducting reviews and providing technical assistance to school districts related to employee hiring personnel systems.

Chapter 584, Statutes of 2000

SB 1346 (Poochigian-R) State Board of Education: waivers

Adds another finding that the State Board of Education may make in order to deny a school district's request to waive an existing provision of the Education Code. The additional finding would be the applicant school district has not conducted a required public hearing on the sufficiency of the textbooks and instructional materials used in the district.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1348 (Vasconcellos-D) Parenting education

Proposes to convene a top level statewide summit to determine whether the state should develop a master plan for parenting education in nonschool settings.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1349 (Kelley-R) Home economics and technology vocational education

Reestablishes the Home Economics Careers and Technology Advisory Committee, which developed state programs in home economics careers and technology education. Sunsetted January 2000.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1354 (Poochigian-R) Algebra instruction

Adds algebra to the required course of study for grades seven through 12 and adds Algebra I to the courses required for the receipt of a high school diploma commencing with the graduating class of the 2003-04 school year.

Chapter 1024, Statutes of 2000

SB 1360 (Hayden-D) Los Angeles Unified School District

Extends by four years to January 1, 2005, the law granting investigative powers, including authority to subpoena witnesses and compel the production of all records and reports deemed relevant and material, and to administer oaths and take testimony to the Inspector General of Los Angeles Unified School District 's Office of the Inspector General.

Chapter 750, Statutes of 2000

SB 1369* (Poochigian-R) Taxes: students

Creates a tax credit for 100 percent of eligible fees up to $350 and 50 percent of eligible fees in excess of $350 paid by any taxpayer on behalf of any student who is a resident of this state.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1380 (Escutia-D) Los Angeles Unified School District

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to enter into a contract to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of reorganization in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Chapter 335, Statutes of 2000

SB 1387 (Hughes-D) Compton Unified School District & Compton Community College

Extends authorization, from January 1, 2001 to January 1, 2002, for the Compton Unified School District to increase the school year in specified schools in exchange for additional funding. Appropriates $3 million to the Compton Community College to complete a technology building.

Chapter 942, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

SB 1390 (Murray-D) Instruction: visual and performing arts

Requires that the State Board of Education adopt content standards in the curriculum area of visual and performing arts.

Chapter 432, Statutes of 2000

SB 1412 (Haynes-R) Public libraries

Specifies that the existing policy public libraries are required to adopt concerning public access to videotapes, adhere to the standards of the motion picture industry for access to motion pictures in theaters, and requires, upon request of a parent or guardian of a minor, a public library to disclose the title of an item loaned to the minor, if the parent or guardian received a bill for a late fee or lost item.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1438* (Rainey-R) Taxes: credits: educational expenses

Provides a 100 percent tax credit for the amount of qualified educational expenses, not to exceed $200, that are paid or incurred during the taxable year by any teacher or parent at a qualifying educational institution.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1439 (Alpert-D) Native American curriculum

Requires the State Department of Education to issue a request for proposal for the development of a model curriculum on California Native American history, culture, and tribal sovereignty, to be incorporated into educational materials for pupils in grades one to 12 inclusive.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1441 (Haynes-R) Vocational education

Prohibits the State Board of Education, or any local school district governing board, from requiring pupil participation in specified work experience and vocational programs as a condition of grade promotion or graduation.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1504* (Escutia-D) Advanced Placement Program

Establishes the Advanced Placement Challenge Grant Program to assist high schools in providing college-level courses to interested and prepared pupils.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1514 (Hayden-D) School food

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an advisory task force to explore ways to inform parents about the healthfulness and nutritional value of all food served in public schools, including genetically engineered foods.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1550 (Alpert-D) School governing boards

Adjusts the statutory ceiling on governing board member compensation.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1617 (Leslie-R) Internet: harmful matter

Requires public libraries, with Internet access available to persons under 18 years of age, to purchase and use filtering software which will deny access to obscene material and to limit the access of children to the Internet if such software is not used by the library.

(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

Similar legislation was SB 238 (Boca-D), which failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee.

SB 1618 (O'Connell-D) Interscholastic athletics

Extends, from January 1, 2001, to January 1, 2002, the sunset date for the statutory authorization for the California Interscholastic Federation.

Chapter 585, Statutes of 2000

SB 1634 (Bowen-D) Internet access centers

Requires the State Department of Education to establish a program for the creation of Internet access centers to be available to the general public throughout the state. Specifies that nonprofit organizations, state or local governments, or school districts can operate these centers.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1683* (Escutia-D) Supplemental remedial instruction

The trailer bill to the 2000-2001 Budget Act. Implements Budget decisions made regarding supplemental instruction and summer school.

Chapter 72, Statutes of 2000

SB 1688* (Polanco-D) Education

Creates (1) The Governor's Scholars Program to entitle pupils to scholarships as rewards for earning test scores in the top ten percent statewide of the standards aligned STAR test "augmentation," or for earning a test score in the top five percent of their high school class on the norm-referenced STAR test (SAT9); (2) Governor's Distinguished Mathematics and Science Scholars Program to provide scholarships to pupils who attain specified scores on Advanced Placement Examinations in calculus and physical sciences; (3) Intensive Algebra Instruction Academies to provide summer school instruction in pre-algebra and algebra to pupils in grades seven and eight; and (4) Algebra Academies Professional Development Institutes to train teachers in methods of algebra instruction in grades seven and eight.

Chapter 404, Statutes of 2000

Similar legislation was SB 1503 (Polanco-D), which died in Assembly Education Committee.

SB 1701* (Johnson-R) Sales and use taxes: textbooks

Exempts from tax the purchase of textbooks by a public school or a K-12 public school student, as specified.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1790 (Rainey-R) Vocational education

Reinstates the California State Council on Vocational Education, and related former provisions and makes changes to the required membership and duties of the council.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1845 (Polanco-D) Prisons: inmate education

Establishes within the State Department of Corrections a Correctional Board of Education to oversee all correctional education activities and appoints a Superintendent of Correctional Education to administer educational programs within the State Department of Corrections.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1892 (Alarcon-D) Courses of study

Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a needs assessment survey to determine the availability and accessibility of courses and coursework in career technology and computer literacy.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1893 (Perata-D) Public contracts: purchasing preferences

Requires state agencies and school districts to purchase agriculture products produced in California if the cost and quality are equal or superior to those produced outside California. If California products are not found to be equal, preference is to be given to products produced in other states over foreign products, if the cost and quality are equal.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1913 (McPherson-R) Compulsory education

Expressly authorizes courts to order persons convicted of violating a specified compulsory education infraction in the Education Code to enroll a child in school, and to provide proof of enrollment; and provides civil contempt, as specified, as a remedy for a person's failure to do so, as specified. Sunsets these provisions on January 1, 2005.

Chapter 465, Statutes of 2000

SB 1931 (O'Connell-D) Approval of courses

Adds approved construction apprenticeship programs to classes that qualify for reimbursement by the state if specified requirements are met, and adds as a requirement that classes may be conducted at the facility of an approved program.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 1938* (Speier-D) Learning disabilities

Reenacts and makes changes to the Miller-Unruh Basic Reading Act of 1965.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1948* (Lewis-R) Taxes: credits

Grants a 50 percent tax credit for employer cost of lending employees to school districts to teach mathematics or science.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 1953 (Mountjoy-R) Authorized instruction: firearm safety

Authorizes any public secondary school to offer instruction, in any of grades 10 to 12, in firearm safety, including the use of firearms in hunting.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1991 (Solis-D) Clean alternative: Fueled School Bus Program

Establishes the Clean Alternative School Bus Program to purchase clean alternative fueled buses, infrastructure, school bus maintenance, and technology advancement efforts relative to alternative fuels for school buses.

(Died in Senate Transportation Committee)

SB 2068* (Solis-D) Taxes: exemptions: school buses

Exempts from the state-imposed six percent sales and use tax, buses powered by natural gas, electricity or fuel cells when purchased or leased for use exclusively in public transit or school bus service.

(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 2071* (Polanco-D) School districts: state monitor

Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to appoint a State Monitor for the Los Angeles Unified School District, and establishes and monitors the progress towards accountability benchmarks for the district. Establishes the guidelines for the functions of a central unit to support the Los Angeles Unified School District's semi-autonomous local districts, commencing July 1, 2001.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 2088 (Hughes-D) Job order contracting

Authorizes job order contracting by school districts and other public entities.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 2109 (Karnette-D) Pupil transportation

Prohibits, commencing in the 2001-02 fiscal year and each year thereafter, the governing board of any school district or county office of education or any joint powers authority from contracting with a common carrier to provide for the transportation of pupils, except as provided.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 2188 (Soto-D) After school programs

Requires the State Department of Education to give primary emphasis to a school's capacity to integrate extended learning opportunities with the regular school day when selecting schools to participate in the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program.

Chapter 582, Statutes of 2000

SB 2189 (Soto-D) Pupil instruction: health

Adds a one-semester course in health education to the required course of study required for the receipt of a high school diploma commencing with the graduating class of the 2004-05 school year.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SCR 69 (Chesbro-D) Adult education

Designates the week of March 6 through March 10, 2000, as California Adult Education Week.

Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 2000

SCR 78 (Escutia-D) Physical Education Week

Proclaims the week of May 1 through May 7, 2000, as "California Physical Education Week" and recognizes the importance and value of a sound standards-driven physical education experience for California pupils.

Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2000

SCR 84 (Polanco-D) Los Angeles Unified School District: joint committee

Establishes, until November 30, 2000, the Joint Committee on the Los Angeles Unified School District, for the purpose of providing legislative scrutiny over the operations of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Provides membership and funding specifications for the committee, and requires the committee to submit a report to the Legislature at the end of the legislative session.

(Refused adoption on Assembly Floor)

AB 21 (Leonard-R) Schools: inspection

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to inspect each public school at least once every two years and submit a report of his/her findings to the Governor, the Legislature, and the State Board of Education. The report is required to rank the schools in categories of comparable grade levels in order of the quality of education offered by the schools, identify the strengths and weaknesses of each school, and include achievement scores and rates for dropouts, attendance, college entrance, and vocation program entrance.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 25 (Mazzoni-D) Pupils: age of admission

Establishes the voluntary Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program to test the effectiveness of changing the kindergarten age of entry.

Chapter 1022, Statutes of 2000

AB 29 (Robert Pacheco-R) Pupils: suspension and expulsion

Modifies the requirements for school districts to request information relative to a pupil who is transferring into the district, as well as requiring a school district to inform a pupil's teacher of additional acts beyond current law that the pupil may have engaged in.

Chapter 345, Statutes of 2000

AB 36* (Shelley-D) San Francisco Unified School District: fiscal management

Requires the San Francisco Unified School District to conduct an internal review of fiscal management practices.

Chapter 457, Statutes of 2000

AB 42 (Zettel-R) Pupil truancy

Provides for easier access to student records by judges and probation officers under specified conditions, and adds a representative of the health care profession to county, local, and state school attendance review boards.

Chapter 222, Statutes of 2000

AB 49* (House-R) Taxes: credit: private schools

Allows a credit in an amount equal to $500 for each child of the taxpayer that attends a private school in this state.

(Died In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 90 (Runner-R) Pupils: age of admission

Changes the age of admission to kindergarten and first grade, as specified. Authorizes establishment of a district tribunal for the purposes of determining, on a case-by-case basis, extraordinary circumstances supporting early admission. Provides for compensation to school districts for the loss in average daily attendance resulting from the bill.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 95 (Cunneen-R) Adult education

Modifies the method of recording attendance for adult education classes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 108 (Mazzoni-D) Instructional strategies

Authorizes additional projects for the statewide Subject Matter Projects program, adds two members to the Concurrence Committee, expands the criteria used by the project advisory board in recommending funding for local sites, and adds one year to the sunset date.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 222 (Kuehl-D) Education: nondiscrimination

Establishes the Dignity for All Students Act, which adds sexual orientation as a prohibited basis for discrimination in instructional services and programs.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 272 (Kuehl-D) Courses of study: graduation

Increases course requirements for the receipt of a high school diploma to require one year-long course in visual or performing arts and one year-long course in a foreign language, commencing with the graduating class of the 2004-2005 school year.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 277 (Washington-D) Compton Unified School District

Restores all legal rights, duties, and powers to the Personnel Commission of the Compton Unified School District.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 314 (Mazzoni-D) Reading comprehension: diagnosis

Requires each school district to administer a reading test to each pupil in grades K-2 to diagnose English reading skills.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 438 (Maddox-R) Pupils: suspension: expulsion

Requires school districts to suspend and recommend expulsion for students who possess any Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 449 (Maddox-R) Pupils: expulsions

Prohibits county community schools from offering independent study instruction to students who are probation-referred, on probation or parole, or have been expelled for specified offenses.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 513 (Mazzoni-D) Pupils: age of admission

Increases the age for attendance in kindergarten from five to six.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 661 (Vincent-D) Pupils: reporting

Requires all school districts to adopt and implement a policy (1) for assuring regular contact between the district and local law enforcement agencies, and (2) under which the school district would be notified when a pupil is charged with, or convicted of, a violent felony committed off campus, as specified.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 697 (Gallegos-D) Classroom instruction: listening, recording devices

Provides that any evidence obtained as a result of eavesdropping upon or recording a communication in a classroom that is in violation of current law may not be used in any judicial, administrative, or legislative proceedings, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 718 (House-R) School districts: competitive bidding

Provides that a bid solicitation by the governing board of a school may not specify a brand or trade name of a product. Specifies any contract awarded to a bidder that is not the lowest bid can only be done if extraordinary circumstances exist. Makes other changes to the school contracting process.

(Failed passage in Assembly Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, and Economic Development Committee)

AB 768 (Torlakson-D) Academic achievement

Provides school districts more flexibility to operate a longer summer school or after school program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 782 (Battin-R) Pupil attendance: course credit

Allows school districts to establish policies under which students may be denied course credit for exceeding specified numbers of excused absences.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 795 (Maldonado-R) School attendance: convictions

Prohibits a student who has been convicted of a violent felony or a sex offense from attending an elementary, middle, junior high, comprehensive senior high, opportunity, or continuation school.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 796 (Honda-D) Pupils: educational exchange

Transfers the duties and responsibilities of overseeing and administering a student exchange program between California and the Prefecture of Osaka from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Lieutenant Governor. Appropriates $140,000 from the General Fund to the Lieutenant Governor to support the program.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 886 (Zettel-R) Reading training programs

Appropriates $600,000 from the General Fund (Proposition 98) for reading programs in the Oakland Unified School District ($500,000) and the Lakeside Elementary School District ($100,000).

Chapter 744, Statutes of 2000

AB 897 (Alquist-D) Pupil Assistance for School Success Program

Establishes the Pupil Assistance for School Success Program, which requires participating districts to provide assistance to students at risk of failing the high school exit exam, or pupils identified by teachers or parents as failing to meet the state model standards.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 898 (Alquist-D) Education technology

Establishes the Grant Program for Technology Training and Dissemination Centers for the purpose of providing services predominately to disadvantaged pupils as measured by family income and English language proficiency.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 911 (Mazzoni-D) Education Technology Leadership Program

Establishes the Education Technology Leadership Program to be administered by the State Department of Education for the purpose of finding and supporting innovative and effective ways to deploy and support education technology resources to school districts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 940 (Campbell-R) School districts: parent volunteers

Allows any school district to use unpaid parent volunteers to perform specified jobs around the school if the school board first adopts a resolution setting out certain conditions.

(Died in Senate Industrial Relations Committee)

AB 946* (Washington-D) School nutrition

Requires an allocation for school breakfast and lunch programs to be made for a ward or dependent of the court who resides on the premises of certain residential facilities.

Chapter 20, Statutes of 2000

AB 1008 (Honda-D) Instructional programs: dropout prevention and recovery

Extends the sunset on the Alternative Education and Work Centers for School Dropouts and Educational Clinics, which serve the educational and vocational needs of high school dropouts until January 1, 2006. Also establishes the Dropout Prevention and Recovery Reform Act of 2000 as a five-year demonstration program in three counties to provide support services to K-12 pupils who are at risk of dropping out of school.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1031 (Shelley-D) Youth-to-youth peer programs

Establishes the Youth-to-Youth Peer Grant Program administered by the State Department of Education. Requires an evaluation by January 1, 2004, and sunsets the program on January 1, 2000.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1305 (Maddox-R) Health education

Provides that the Legislature finds and declares that the nonprofit organization, D.A.R.E. California, offers programs that meet the criteria for priority, and that, therefore, local D.A.R.E. programs shall be given priority for grants by the State Department of Education.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1307* (Granlund-R) Schoolbus certificates

Consolidates and expands provisions of the Vehicle Code that relate to denial, revocation, or suspension of a certificate to drive a schoolbus, pupil activity bus, a public paratransit vehicle, or a vehicle transporting developmentally disabled persons.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1437* (Briggs-R) School attendance: state of emergency

Allows, in the event that the Governor has declared a state of emergency, as defined, within a school district, a pupil to be excused from school, and requires that this absence not be deemed an absence in computing average daily attendance.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1623 (Campbell-R) Vocational education

Requires the State Department of Education to return, on or before January 1, 2001, $2,450,000 to the state fund through which federal vocational education funding is allocated. Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to return, on or before January 1, 2001, $500,000 to the state fund through which federal vocational education funding is allocated. Requires the State Department of Education to establish a vocational education division including specified staff members.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1690 (Kaloogian-R) Basic instructional materials

Adds to the criteria that the State Board of Education is required to consider whether the submitted basic materials have been field tested for a minimum of five years to show the effectiveness of the submitted program.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1721 (Cardenas-D) Pupil expulsion

Authorizes a county board of education to remand an expulsion matter to the governing board of a school district in order to properly report findings of fact in a pending case, and modifies the procedures and timetable for the provision of documents relative to an expulsion that have been requested by the concerned pupil.

Chapter 147, Statutes of 2000

AB 1735 (Thomson-D) Pupil services

Requires school districts and county offices of education to provide information to parents regarding the Medi-Cal and the State Healthy Families Program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1746 (Wildman-D) Indian education centers

Expands on services provided by the California Indian Education Centers by providing recovery programs for pupils who have dropped out of comprehensive schools.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1747 (Kaloogian-R) Public schools: patriotic exercises

Authorizes school districts to substitute the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance for a recitation of a specified excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1749 (Kaloogian-R) Student attendance

Prohibits students from leaving a school campus for any reason without written parental consent, and deletes provisions regarding the notification of parents and specified students of the authority of schools to excuse students to obtain confidential medical services without the parental consent.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1791 (Wiggins-D) School districts: epinephrine auto-injectors

Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to trained personnel, and authorizes trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to any person suffering from an anaphylactic reaction.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1827 (Mazzoni-D) Mathematics instruction: standards-based

Increases the eligibility of school districts to receive funding for the existing mathematics staff development program by expanding the program to include teachers in middle schools grades seven-eight and teachers holding intern or pre-intern teaching certificates.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1830* (Wildman-D) Pregnant and parenting teen education programs

Permits a school district, until January 1, 2002, to lease a building that has not been reviewed for earthquake safety, for the purpose of housing a pregnant and parenting teen education program.

Chapter 65, Statutes of 2000

AB 1873 (Wiggins-D) School-to-career opportunities

Establishes the Interagency Partnership for School-to-Career Programs and provides grants to local partnership geographic areas.

Chapter 793 - Item Vetoed

AB 1879 (Cunneen-R) Pupil curricula: brain and spinal cord injury

Directs the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, in partnership with the California Department of Education, to review and adopt curricula on brain and spinal cord injury prevention, and recommends and makes available a curriculum for California schools to use on a voluntary basis.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1906 (Longville-D) Education: hate violence prevention

Deletes the cost restrictions that require the State Board of Education to obtain private funds for any activities related to the implementation of the Hate Violence Prevention Act.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1911 (Wesson-D) Community service: high school graduation credits

Encourages school districts to offer high school students the opportunity to enroll in courses that include service learning activities for credit toward graduation. Requires school districts to establish policies for service-learning courses and how course credit will be assigned. Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to report on the community service learning program by November 1, 2005.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1914 (Nakano-D) California Civil Liberties Public Education Act

Extends the legislative intent to fund the State Librarian to continue to support the development and distribution of materials and education about the Japanese-American experience.

Chapter 132, Statutes of 2000

AB 1917 (Jackson-D) Domestic violence prevention instruction

Recommends, if money is provided in the annual Budget Act, the adopted course of study for grades one to 12 include age appropriate instruction in domestic violence prevention, with a minimum of two hours in grades one to six and four hours in grades seven to 12. Requires domestic violence prevention to be considered in the next cycle for adoption of the curriculum frameworks for health, personal and public safety and accident prevention.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1929 (Strickland-R) School programs: consolidated application process

Requires the State Department of Education to determine the feasibility of consolidating school district applications for categorically funded programs, and appropriates $40,000 to the State Department of Education for the study.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1945 (Lowenthal-D) School development plans

Adds the development of tolerance programs to the objectives that school site staff development plans should address.

Chapter 960, Statutes of 2000

AB 1976 (Rod Pacheco-R) Riverside School for the Arts

Allows the Riverside Community College District and the Riverside County Office of Education to enter into a joint powers agreement to develop and operate the Riverside School for the Arts, a regional arts learning program.

(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1980 (Aroner-D) Mental health: school intervention and prevention

Revises the Primary Intervention Program to provide consistency with the Early Mental Health Initiative.

(Died on Assembly Unfinished Business File)

AB 2014 (Runner-R) Library construction

Requires the California State Library Research Bureau to conduct an evaluation of joint-use projects that may be funded pursuant to the recently approved Library Bond Act of 2000.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2023 (Shelley-D) Education: California Arts Council: regional art centers

Requires the State Arts Council to establish at least four regional support centers that will promote arts education in the schools.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2025 (Leonard-R) Student financial aid: Cal Grant K-12

Establishes the Cal Grant K-12 awards to be awarded to parents or guardians, to be used to pay the tuition of their child or children at accredited private elementary or secondary programs or institutions in California.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2028 (Correa-D) School curriculum

Requires the State Board of Education to survey all school districts and county offices of education to determine their needs related to the adoption and implementation of character education programs and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2002.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2050 (Cardenas-D) Instructional programs: honors courses

Prohibits a school district from designating a course as an honors course, until it is approved by the University of California.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2074 (Jackson-D) Pupils: supplemental instruction

Requires the State Department of Education to accept applications by school districts and charter schools for the establishment of pilot projects to implement supplementary intervention programs in grades four to six.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2087 (Wright-D) Adult and vocational education

Establishes a task force to assess and report short-term and long-range recommendations for improving career technical education. Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a status report on the effort being made to comply with the inclusion of vocational education courses in the model curriculum standards.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2095* (Lempert-D) Personal income tax: scholarshare credit

Authorizes a refundable personal income tax credit of up to $200 for contributions made to a scholarshare trust on behalf of a qualified beneficiary.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 2105* (Scott-D) School-based mental health services

Requires the State Department of Education to establish a two-year pilot project in three school districts to improve the delivery of education services to children who need mental health services.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2147 (Wiggins-D) Zoning ordinances: public schools

Requires school siting and expansion decisions to be more closely coordinated with city and county land use planning processes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2150 (Zettel-R) Education technology within the public schools

Establishes an education technology grant program for middle schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2169 (Campbell-R) Pupil discipline

Authorizes school officials to require a pupil to perform community service on or off school grounds as part of disciplinary action.

Chapter 225, Statutes of 2000

AB 2206 (Baldwin-R) Pupils: accelerated grade level promotion

Requires school districts to develop policies for grade level promotion to permit students to accelerate their progress through school.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2207 (Baldwin-R) Pupils: gifted and talented

Authorizes the parents or guardians of highly gifted children to appeal a decision to deny a petition to enroll a pupil in a community college.

Chapter 1073, Statutes of 2000

AB 2223 (Leach-R) Pupils

Establishes the Integrated Demonstration Program for Pupil Intervention, Teacher Professional Development, and Teacher Retention which requires the County Superintendent of Schools of Contra Costa, Kern and Riverside Counties in conjunction with local school districts and post secondary education institutions to establish three-year demonstration programs for low performing schools.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2224 (Mazzoni-D) Reading comprehension: diagnosis

Establishes the Early Reading Comprehension Diagnosis Program requiring school districts to administer a reading diagnostic assessment approved by the State Board of Education to pupils in grades one through 12 who have demonstrated deficits on existing assessments.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2236 (Leach-R) Instructional materials: textbooks

Permits each school district to review instructional materials to determine when those materials are obsolete, as specified.

Chapter 461, Statutes of 2000

AB 2247 (Aroner-D) Education: independent study

Excuses the audit exceptions of two school districts (Berkeley Unified and Ducor Union Elementary) that each failed to meet a requirement of law and face substantial fiscal losses as a result.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2277 (Correa-D) Instructional minutes: reduction: parental notification

Requires the governing board of a school district to make certain notifications to the parent or guardian of each pupil, if the governing board proposes any action to reduce actual instructional minutes per day.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2298 (Pescetti-R) Vocational education

Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with a nine-member advisory group, to adopt a curriculum for industrial and technological education on or before January 1, 2002.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2313 (Correa-D) Education: gifted and talented pupils

Makes significant changes to the programmatic requirements of the Gifted and Talented Education Program, and restructures the funding formulas for the program.

Chapter 748, Statutes of 2000

AB 2330 (Lowenthal-D) School programs: aquariums

Establishes a grant program for non-profit aquariums to develop programs for pupils.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2391 (Longville-D) Conservation education

Appropriates $5 million to the State Department of Education for the purpose of repairs, upgrades and expansion of existing conservation education facilities under the direction of the Conservation Education Service in the State Department of Education.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2429* (Wildman-D) Education of prisoners

Allows programs for adults in correctional facilities to grow by up to 14 percent in the 2000-01 fiscal year before returning to the 2.5 percent annual limit on funded growth.

Chapter 640, Statutes of 2000

AB 2453 (Runner-R) Pupil records

Authorizes foster family agencies with jurisdiction over currently enrolled or former pupils to access records of grades and transcripts, and individualized education plans maintained by school districts or private schools of those pupils.

Chapter 67, Statutes of 2000

AB 2474 (Wiggins-D) Education: vocational education: advisory councils

Establishes an Industry-Sector Statewide Advisory Council for each of the 15 identified industry-sectors.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2486 (Washington-D) Public libraries: resources for youths

Establishes the Youth Mentoring and Safe Communities Grant Program to authorize the State Librarian to provide grants to public libraries for the purpose of providing youth with high-quality services outside of school hours.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2528 (Wesson-D) Communities in Schools Program

Authorizes the establishment of a pilot project for the Communities in Schools Program to increase graduation rates and promotion rates for students that are at risk of dropping out of school.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2553 (Hertzberg-D) Recycling: education grants

Requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the State Department of Conservation to establish a program to award grants and provide incentives to school districts and county offices of education to implement source reduction and recycling programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2556 (Hertzberg-D) School and community partnership collaborations

Establishes two new grant programs to be administered by the State Department of Education: (a) the School Community Partnership Program appropriates $8 million for county planning activities, and (b) the School and Community Partnerships Grant Program appropriates $4 million for the provision of services.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2558 (Hertzberg-D) Senior Volunteer Pilot Program

Establishes a three-year neighborhood-based pilot program to promote senior volunteers to work with children and school staff.

Chapter 597, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2593 (Cardenas-D) After school programs

Increases the grant amount for the After-School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2613 (Rod Pacheco-R) Coursework

Establishes the Honors Grant Program to provide grants to public high schools that increase their honors level coursework.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2631 (Knox-D) Summer food service and after school snack programs

Provides grants to governmental agencies and non-profit organizations for the Summer Food Service Program or the Federal After-School Snack Program. Appropriates $700,000 from the General Fund for the grants.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2640 (Aanestad-R) Liability of school contractors

Exempts school transportation providers from liability in specified situations.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2647 (Calderon-D) Adult Education: vocational courses

Authorizes Adult Education programs to offer vocational instruction through "cooperative education programs" that allow pupils to earn course credit for on-the-job site training.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2718 (Olberg-R) Read, Write, and Speak English Literacy Project

Authorizes school districts to implement a Read, Write, and Speak English Literacy Project.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2773 (Aanestad-R) Remedial instruction: small rural school districts

Authorizes a small rural school district to enter into a contract with a private entity for the purpose of providing basic remedial instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades one to eight, inclusive, who have been retained or identified as being at risk of retention, if certain conditions are met.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2790* (Alquist-D) Mathematics education

Expands the uses for which mathematics professional grants can be applied, increases funding per teacher and reappropriates fund for the existing Comprehensive Professional Development in Mathematics, grades four to 12, inclusive.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2803 (Shelley-D) School athletics: safety

Establishes the Pupil Athletic Access and Safety Program pilot project, to provide grants in three specified areas of the state to support a public/private partnership to facilitate pupil participation and safety in high school athletics.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2827 (Cardoza-D) Jobs for California Graduates Program

Creates a regional program for at-risk youth to complete secondary education and transition into work.

Chapter 313, Statutes of 2000

AB 2866* (Migden-D) Budget Trailer Bill: Oakland Military Institute

Among other provisions, allows the Adjutant General of the California Military Department to establish, in cooperation with the City of Oakland and a school district, an Oakland Military Institute which would be a college preparatory nonresidential military style academy for low-achievers with a disadvantaged background.

Chapter 127, Statutes of 2000 - Item Vetoed

AB 2907 (Assembly Education Committee) Education

Is the State Department of Education's annual omnibus "clean up" bill to correct technical errors in statute, update cross references and delete obsolete references.

Chapter 1058, Statutes of 2000

ACA 23 (Torlakson-D) Public library facilities: bonds

Provides for an exception from the property tax limitation, provides that property taxes imposed on bonds for library facilities are not special taxes, and requires approval of only a majority of voters for bonds for public library facilities.

(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

ACR 62 (Havice-D) Sober Graduation Month

Designates May 31 to June 30, 2000, as Sober Graduation Month.

Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2000

ACR 105 (Havice-D) Red Ribbon Week

Proclaims October 23 through October 31, 2000, as Red Ribbon Week, and encourages all Californians to help build drug-free communities.

Resolution Chapter 107, Statutes of 2000

ACR 108 (Wayne-D) Parent Teacher Association Month

Designates the month of February as Parent Teacher Association Month.

Resolution Chapter 32, Statutes of 2000

ACR 118 (Dutra-D) Vandalism and graffiti

States that the Legislature sends its support and condolences to Congregation Beth Torah, the students, faculty and administration of Washington High School, and the community of Fremont for the acts of vandalism and anti-Semitic and racist graffiti on their properties. States that the Legislature denounces these acts and resolves to combat hatred, promote unity, and assist in bringing those responsible for these crimes to justice.

Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2000

ACR 172 (Havice-D) Schools: pedestrian safety

Designates October 4, 2000, as Walk to School Day 2000 and encourages Californians to actively participate and promote pedestrian safety, education and a healthy lifestyle.

Resolution Chapter 125, Statutes of 2000

Index (in Bill Order)