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Charter Schools

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SB 1070 (Huff-R) Charter schools: admissions: preferences

Authorizes a charter school to also extend preference to pupils matriculating to a higher grade from one charter school to another charter school managed by the same charter school operator.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1263 (Pavley-D) Charter school location

Authorizes a charter school to locate outside the jurisdiction of the chartering school district with written approval from the school district within the jurisdiction of which the charter school chooses to operate and for purposes of construction, as specified; authorizes existing charter schools that are located outside the jurisdiction of the chartering school district to continue operation if they were approved prior to 4/1/13, and are in operation with students enrolled and attending before 9/15/14; and prohibits a school district with a negative certification from authorizing new charter schools located outside of their jurisdiction.
Vetoed

SB 1317 (Huff-R) Charter schools

Requires that charter schools be subject to a variety of the same open meeting, conflict of interest and disclosure laws as school districts, including the Ralph M. Brown Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 377 (Grove-R) Online charter schools

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

AB 445 (Chávez-R) Charter schools: oversight

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

AB 656 (Chávez-R) Charter schools: establishment

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

AB 913 (Chau-D) Charter schools

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

AB 948 (Olsen-R) Charter School Grant Facility Program

Expands eligibility for the Charter School Facility Grant Program in any year in which additional funds remain after state and federal funds have been allocated, by reducing the free and reduced-price meals threshold one percentage point at a time, from 70% to 60%.
Chapter 871, Statutes of 2014

AB 1032 (Gordon-D) Charter school facilities

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

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

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

AB 1531 (Chau-D) Charter schools operating as a nonprofit

Requires charter schools operated as a nonprofit public benefit corporation to nominate in the charter petition, twice the number of people needed for their board of directors, and requires the chartering authority to appoint a majority of the members of the board of directors for these charter schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2007 (Grove-R) Virtual or online charter schools: average daily attendance

Authorizes, until 1/1/18, a virtual or online charter school, as defined, to also claim independent study average daily attendance for a pupil who is enrolled in a virtual or online charter school and moves to a residence outside of the geographic boundaries in which the virtual or online charter school is authorized to operate for the duration of the virtual or online charter school course or courses or until the end of the school year, whichever occurs first. Requires the Department of Education to report to the appropriate policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst's Office on or before 12/31/16, on the Department of Education's assessment, as specified.
Chapter 807, Statutes of 2014

AB 2020 (Buchanan-D) Charter schools: pupil instruction: driver education

Authorizes the governing body of a charter school that serves pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to prescribe regulations determining who can profit by and who shall receive instruction in automobile training courses, as specified. Provides the opportunity for pupils, which may include pupils attending charter schools that serve pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to take driver education within the regular school day, and within the regular academic year, as defined. Also, deletes certain cross-references and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2225 (Allen-R) Charter schools: accountability: charter revocation

Authorizes charter schools to appeal a revocation of a charter made pursuant to recommendations by the California Collaborative of Educational Excellence.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

ACR 144 (Olsen-R) California Charter Schools Week

Proclaims 5/5/14, to 5/11/14, inclusive, and every second week in May thereafter, to be California Charter Schools Week; and joins the California Charter Schools Association in congratulating charter schools for the accomplishments and contributions they have made to public education.
Resolution Chapter 87, Statutes of 2014

Child and Day Care

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

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

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

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

SB 949 (Jackson-D) Distinguished After School Health Recognition Program

Establishes the Distinguished After School Health Recognition Program, for after school programs meeting specified requirements, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires that funding for the Program be subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute, or by funding from nonstate sources and sunsets the provisions of this bill on 1/1/18.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2014

SB 1123 (Liu-D) Child care and development services

Establishes new services under General Child Care and Development Programs for infants and toddlers and makes changes to eligibility, adult- and teacher-to-child ratios, and staffing requirements in classrooms.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

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

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

AB 1261 (Holden-D) Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits

Authorizes the Department of Education, until 1/1/20, as part of a pilot program, to accept monetary contributions made to the California Preschool Investment Fund, which this bill creates, by a person for purposes of preschool education, as provided. Requires the money in the Fund to be used to, among other things, fund state preschools part of the California state preschool program located in one of the five participating counties, as provided. Requires participating counties to report to the Department's Early Education & Support Division regarding the county's assessment of how the pilot program is performing. Requires any monies remaining in the Fund after 1/1/20, to be transferred to any other state fund identified by the Department that provides funding for increased access to preschool programs for low-income children. Allows for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/15, and before 1/1/19, a credit equal to 40% of the amount contributed by the taxpayer during the taxable year to the Fund, as provided. Limits the aggregate amount of credit not to exceed $250 million and requires the Department to establish a procedure for a person to obtain from the Department a receipt indicating specified information, including the amount of monetary contributions made, for purposes of the tax credits allowed under these provisions. Requires, until 1/1/20, the total annual amount of credits claimed pursuant to these provisions to be treated as though they were proceeds of taxes for purposes of calculating the monies to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts pursuant to a specified provision of the California Constitution.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1902 (Bonta-D) California State Preschool Program: part-day preschool: fees

Repeals the requirement to assess and collect fees for families with children in part-day preschool programs. Eliminates the requirement for the report on fees collected from families who have children enrolled in the California State Preschool Program to report the amount of family fees collected for the part-day preschool programs. Specifies that the authority provided to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a fee schedule shall not apply to the part-day preschool program.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1944 (Garcia-D) Child care: administration: preferred placement of children

Deletes the requirement that a parent of an 11 or 12 year old student provide certification that a before or after school program is not available, for the student to be eligible for subsidized child care.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2014

AB 2120 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Compensation: child care instructor

Provides that the overtime compensation requirements do not apply to a tutor, teaching assistant, instructional aide, student teacher, day care provider, vocational instructor, or other similar employee at a private elementary or secondary school.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 2125 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Child care: standard reimbursement rates

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to review the plan that establishes standards and assigns reimbursement rates for child care and development programs, and to submit recommendations for a single reimbursement system that reflects the actual current cost of child care based on the most recent regional market rate survey.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2302 (Mullin-D) Child care and developmental services: facilities

Authorizes the term of a loan provided under the Child Care Facilities Revolving Fund to be 10 years or a different term as established by regulations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

Higher Education

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

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

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

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

SB 174* (De León-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Provides for the use of funds from the College Access Tax Credit Fund, proposed to be established by SB 798 (de León), to be administered by the California Student Aid Commission, for purposes of increasing the amount of the Cal Grant B Access Award.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

SB 466 (DeSaulnier-D) California Institute for Criminal Justice Policy

Establishes the California Institute for Criminal Justice Policy (Institute), and requests the Institute be housed within the University of California, to consult with the University of California, one or more university-based programs with expertise in evaluating rehabilitation programs, and any other appropriate person or entity to conduct a cost-benefit analysis and develop a ranking on the effectiveness of crime prevention, rehabilitation, and recidivism reduction programs in California, or additional research as requested by the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

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

Increases the threshold in which the University of California may use a streamlined bidding process for constructions projects. Specifically, increases the threshold from $100,000 to $640,000, sets a qualifications process for prospective bidders on projects where costs exceed $300,000, and requires the public posting of certain contract information.
Chapter 364, Statutes of 2014

SB 517 (Wyland-R) Teacher Preparation Grant Program

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

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

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

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

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

SB 682 (Lara-D) California State University: student enrollment

Appropriates $22 million to the California State University for purposes of enrolling additional students. Expresses legislative intent that the appropriated funds be used for specified matters and will include legislative findings and declarations related to student enrollment.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 705 (Block-D) Community colleges: appropriation

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

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

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

SB 836 (Corbett-D) Brain research: Cal-BRAIN program

Establishes the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience Act of 2014 and requests the University of California Regents to establish the California Blueprint for Research to Advance Innovations in Neuroscience Act of 2014 program.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 841 (Cannella-R) University of California: medical education

Makes an annual General Fund appropriation of $1,855,000 to the University of California to support the expansion of University of California Merced's San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education. Makes legislative findings and declarations relative to health care needs in the San Joaquin Valley.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 845 (Correa-D) Postsecondary education: electronic disbursement of student

Requires the California Community College Board of Governors and the California State University Trustees, and requests the University of California Regents and the governing body of an accredited private post-secondary educational institution, to develop one or more model contracts and all binding contracts, as specified, for use by their respective systems to disburse a financial aid award, scholarship aid, campus-based aid award, or school refunds onto debit cards, prepaid cards or other preloaded cards issued by a financial institution, as specified, and to post model and actual contracts on their respective Internet Web sites.
Chapter 120, Statutes of 2014

SB 850 (Block-D) Community college districts: baccalaureate degree program

Authorizes the California Community Colleges Board of Governors, in consultation with the California State University and the University of California, to establish a statewide baccalaureate degree pilot program at not more than 15 California Community Colleges Board districts, as specified.
Chapter 747, Statutes of 2014

SB 943 (Beall-D) California State University: personal services contracting

Establishes standards for the use of personal services contracts by the California State University.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 965* (Leno-D) San Francisco Community College District funding

Provides the San Francisco Community College District with additional funding for the next three years, as specified, as the college works to restore student enrollment and maintain accreditation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 999 (Liu-D) CalFresh: student eligibility

Requires the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor's Office and the Department of Social Services to establish detailed guidelines identifying categories of students that may qualify for federal exemptions that will allow them to receive CalFresh benefits, and recommends that the California State University Chancellor's Office, and the University of California President's Office do the same. Requires CCCs to provide specific documentation to students who may qualify for an exemption. Authorizes a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training program to enter into an agreement with a CCC or a California State University campus to establish an Employment and Training program, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1022 (Huff-R) Postsecondary education: labor market outcome information

Requires the California State University, and requests the University of California, to post annual updated labor market data regarding their graduates on their Internet Web sites.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2014

SB 1023 (Liu-D) Community colleges: foster youth

Authorizes the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to enter into agreements with up to 10 California Community Colleges districts to establish the Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support program in order to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for foster youth.
Chapter 771, Statutes of 2014

SB 1068 (Beall-D) Community colleges: accreditation

Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC), by 1/1/16, to report on the feasibility of creating an independent accrediting agency to accredit the CCCs and other two-year private postsecondary educational institutions, and to make recommendations relative to CCC accreditation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1149 (Galgiani-D) Cal Grant Program: appeals process

Requires the California Student Aid Commission to establish an appeal process for a postsecondary education institution that becomes ineligible for Cal Grant participation because it fails to satisfy the three-year cohort loan default rate and graduation rate requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1196 (Liu-D) Public postsecondary education: state goals

Establishes a process for setting postsecondary educational attainment goals and requires that these goals guide the development of plans by the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California for making progress toward the state's goals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1210 (Lara-D) Postsecondary education: California DREAM Loan Program

Establishes the California DREAM Loan Program (CDLP) for purposes of extending loans to students who meet the requirements established by AB 540 (Firebaugh, Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001) and have financial need, and authorizes any campus of the University of California and the California State University to participate, as specified. Declares the Legislature's intent that funds be appropriated to participating institutions annually for the CDLP; requires that participating institutions annually contribute discretionary funds as specified, in their CDLP revolving fund; and entitles each participating institution to an administrative cost allowance equal to 5% of the loan funds it awards each year.
Chapter 754, Statutes of 2014

SB 1247 (Lieu-D) California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009

Extends the sunset date for the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, under the California Private Postsecondary Education Act, from 1/1/15, until 1/1/17; and provides for statutory changes to the protections provided to students and the requirements placed on private postsecondary educational institutions.
Chapter 840, Statutes of 2014

SB 1264 (Pavley-D) Educator Excellence Program: loan assumption agreements

Establishes the Educator Excellence Program, an assumption loan program to be administered by the California Student Aid Commission for up to 6,500 teachers who satisfy all of the following: (a) complete initial or additional teaching credentials, a qualifying master's degree in education or teaching, or National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification; (b) agree to teach in a subject area designated as an area of teacher shortage; and (c) agree to teach at a school site that has a population of unduplicated English learner, students eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and foster youth equal to or greater than the district's unduplicated pupil count under the Local Control Funding Formula. Declares the Legislature's intent that the program be fully funded commencing with the Budget Act of 2015.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1325 (Yee-D) California State University: contractors

Requires that contracts entered into by the California State University on or after 1/1/15, comply with all of the following: that any data collected, pursuant to the contract, by the contractor relating to a student or a faculty member of the university, including data relating to his/her use of university resources, shall be provided to the university in both electronic and paper formats; that any service or instruction provided, pursuant to the contract, by a nonstate agency contractor to a student or faculty member of the university by the contractor shall conform to pertinent federal statutes and regulations relating to student and faculty data; that any service or instruction provided, pursuant to a contract entered into by a nonstate agency subcontractor with a nonstate agency contractor, comply with the bill; and that any contract entered into with a nonstate agency explicitly address the issue of ownership of intellectual property, and acknowledge that other contracts entered into by the university may determine the rights to that intellectual property.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1330 (Hueso-D) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Establishes the California Yellow Ribbon Matching Fund, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and will appropriate $1 million to the fund. Monies in the fund will be continuously appropriated for purposes of paying a portion of a student's nonresident tuition, provided that the student is enrolled at the California Community Colleges, the California State University, or University of California (UC), and is eligible for tuition and fee benefits under the federal Yellow Ribbon Program. Requires that monies disbursed to a student by the California Yellow Ribbon Matching Fund not exceed the amount the student is to receive under the federal Yellow Ribbon Program. Applies only to the UC if the Regents of the UC adopt a policy to coordinate with the Student Aid Commission for purposes of the fund providing benefits to students enrolled at the UC who meet the requirements of the fund.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1369 (Block-D) Community colleges: Disability Services Program

Renames the provision of services to community college students with disabilities as the Disability Services Program and makes several program modifications.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1391 (Hancock-D) Community colleges: inmate education programs

Allows California Community Colleges to receive full funding for credit-course instruction offered in correctional institutions and seeks to expand the offering of such courses.
(Chapter 695, Statutes of 2014)

SB 1425 (Block-D) Community colleges: degree audit system

Requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor to procure a commercially available system(s) for conducting automatic degree audits and requires all California Community Colleges to have the auditing system in place by 2020.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

SR 47 (Leno-D) City College of San Francisco

Urges the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges to consider the progress City College of San Francisco has made and, as necessary, provide the college with additional time to continue solving problems and keep its accreditation intact.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 13* (Conway-R) Nonresident tuition exemption: veterans

Requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and request the University of California, to update and adopt policies no later than 7/1/15, regarding tuition rates for eligible veterans and their eligible dependents to ensure conformity to, and compliance with, a specified federal statute and the requirements of existing law.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2014

AB 46 (Pan-D) California State University: online education

Requires the trustees to make available to the Academic Senate of the California State University specified information relating to all matriculated students of the California State University who are enrolled in online courses, irrespective of whether the courses or programs in which they are enrolled are provided by faculty of the California State University or by another entity. Requires this information to be provided in compliance with all relevant state and federal provisions of law safeguarding the privacy of the students involved.
Vetoed

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

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

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

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

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

Adds to the Donahoe Higher Education Act a provision requiring the California State University Trustees, and the University of California Regents if they act by appropriate resolution as specified, to determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for California residents in each incoming first-year class in their respective segments. Requires that the tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set for California residents in each incoming first-year class under the bill will not be increased, other than to make a cost-of-living adjustment not to exceed 2%, until that class has completed at least four academic years.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

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

Requires the California State University Trustees, and requests the University of California Regents, to determine the amounts of undergraduate tuition and mandatory systemwide fees for each incoming first-year class. Requires that the tuition and mandatory systemwide fees set for an incoming first-year class under the bill not be increased, other than to make a cost-of-living adjustment not to exceed 2%, for that class for at least six academic years, except as adjusted for inflation, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requires the California Student Aid Commission and Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to post additional links on their Internet Web sites to provide information such as net cost, financial aid, and student loan debt that can be used by students and families to evaluate their college choices.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AB 548 (Salas-D) Community college registered nursing programs

Extends until 1/1/20 the California Community College districts' associate degree nursing programs admissions process and requires the Chancellor of the California Community College to submit a report on or before 3/1/15, and annually thereafter to the Legislature and the Governor, as specified.
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2014

AB 586 (Fox-D) Community colleges

Makes a nonsubstantive change in the provision that specifies that the California Community Colleges are postsecondary schools that are part of the public school system of the state.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 640 (Hall-D) Cal Grant Program: renewal awards

Requires the California Student Aid Commission to implement an appeal process for schools that fail to meet the requirements to be a qualifying Cal Grant institution because they do not meet cohort default or graduation rate requirements, and specifically authorizes the California Student Aid Commission to consider cohort size and the likelihood of the institution regaining eligibility in the following academic year, in assessing whether an appeal should be granted.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

States that a faculty member shall be deemed to have completed the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th contract year, as appropriate, if the faculty member provides service for a percentage of the academic year as is required in an agreement between the governing board of the California Community College district and the exclusive bargaining representative of the faculty member, as provided.
Chapter 204, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AB 834* (Williams-D) School Performance Fact Sheets

Authorizes a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, and owned by an institution operating under the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education within the Department of Consumer Affairs, to satisfy the disclosure requirements of the School Performance Fact Sheet through alternative means.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2014

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

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

AB 938 (Weber-D) Public postsecondary education: fees

Requires a campus of the California State University that has implemented a student success fee to use its institutional aid to pay the cost of the student success fee for low-income students, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

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

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

AB 977 (Salas-D) Community colleges: career technical education programs

Requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor to convene a group of experts in career technical education, business, or industry to research ways to address issues related to implementing differential funding for credit-bearing high-cost, high-demand courses and programs at the community colleges, and to report its recommendations to the Legislature by 1/1/16.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Deletes the 2% cap on the number of new Cal Grant B recipients who are required to be eligible for the payment of tuition or fees or both in their first academic year of attendance, and establishes a phased in expansion of eligibility for the payment of tuition or fees or both in their first academic year of attendance for new Cal Grant B recipients as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

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

Establishes a statutory formula which increases and stabilizes the amount of the current Cal Grant award for students attending private colleges accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and requires these colleges, as a condition of funding the Cal Grant maximum award established by the bill, to annually report specified performance metrics to the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU). Requires the AICCU, in collaboration with the public segments of higher education, to determine the form and content of these metrics, as specified. Requires that the AICCU provide that information in a cumulative report to the Legislature, the Governor, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst's Office beginning 3/15/15, and by that date annually thereafter.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

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

Repeals the provisions establishing and providing for the duties of California Postsecondary Education Commission, and commencing 7/1/15, establishes the California Higher Education Authority, under the administration of an 11-member board of directors. Specifies the appointing authorities and the length of the terms of the members of the board of directors. Establishes a nine-member student advisory committee to advise the board of directors on all matters related to student fees and policies, student financial aid, student services, student life, and other appropriate educational policy. Also sets forth the responsibilities of the authority relating to public and private postsecondary education in this state, to be carried out by the authority in accordance with a specified schedule. Requires the board of directors to convene a technical working group, including specified persons, to advise on data and policy matters before the board of directors.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

AB 1451 (Holden-D) Concurrent enrollment

Authorizes the governing board of a school district, until 7/1/20 to enter into a formal concurrent enrollment partnership agreement with a community college district located within its immediate service area, with the goals of developing a seamless pathway from high school to community college, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1456 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Higher education: tuition and fees: study

Requires the California Student Aid Commission and the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study of the effects of enacting legislation to establish a "Pay it Forward, Pay it Back Pilot Program."
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1538 (Eggman-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Provides alternative criteria for an otherwise ineligible postsecondary education institution to maintain eligibility for participation in the Cal Grant program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1540 (Hagman-R) Concurrent enrollment: secondary school: community colleges

Expands the opportunity for high school students to enroll in California Community College computer science courses and makes other changes to concurrent enrollment provisions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1544 (Allen-R) Student financial aid

Increases the membership of the Student Aid Commission to 16 by adding an additional representative from public, proprietary, or nonprofit postsecondary schools located in California.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1549 (Rendon-D) Postsecondary education: sexual assault: audits

Requires the California State Auditor, beginning 1/1/15, and every three years thereafter, until 1/1/25, to audit two institutions selected by the California State Auditor from each segment of public postsecondary education, including the University of California, to determine if their practices are consistent with Title IX, its implementing regulations, and federal guidance on Title IX related to sexual harassment and assault. Requires a public institution, including a campus of the University of California, found to have practices that are inconsistent with those federal requirements and guidance to transfer funds from that institution's administrative budget to the institution's Title IX compliance office to provide additional resources to that office, in an amount determined by the governing board of the institution, and requires the California State Auditor, within one year of the audit, to report to the Legislature on those transfers of funds.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1557 (Holden-D) Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges

Specifies that members of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (BOG CCC), to the greatest extent possible, be inclusive and representative of the many demographic groups found in California, and that the BOG CCC reflects diversity of race and gender, and include, among others, disabled persons and veterans. Provides that each member of the BOG CCC to bring his/her own best thinking and personal views to the BOG CCC's discussion, as specified.
Chapter 496, Statutes of 2014

AB 1590 (Wieckowski-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Requires the California Student Aid Commission to certify cohort default rate and graduation rate data, for postsecondary educational institutions seeking to participate in the Cal Grant Program, by November 1, instead of October 1, annually. Revises federal loan program participation requirements for private Cal Grant qualifying institutions to include participation in the Stafford Loan Program rather than the Perkins Loan Program.
Chapter 667, Statutes of 2014

AB 1606 (Chávez-R) Community college employee: leaves of absence

Allows California Community College academic and classified employees to use up to 30 days of leave, as specified, for the purpose of bonding with a new child.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2014

AB 1834 (Williams-D) Higher Education Employees

Expands the definition of employees under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to include student employees whose employment is contingent upon their status as students.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1838 (Bonilla-D) Healing arts: medical school accreditation

Provides that accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools, or the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation is deemed to meet existing state curriculum and clinical medical school requirements.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2014

AB 1906 (Wilk-R) Community college property: direct costs for use

Expands, until 1/1/20, the definition of "direct costs," for purposes of determining the amount a governing board of a California Community College may charge for the use of its facilities or grounds under the Civic Center Act.
Chapter 233, Statutes of 2014

AB 1924 (Logue-R) Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Expresses the intent of the Legislature to establish a pilot program with the goal of creating a model of articulation and coordination among K-12 schools, California Community Colleges (CCCs), and campuses of the California State University (CSU) that will allow students to earn a baccalaureate degree for a total cost as close as possible to $12,000. Establishes a Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program that will include campuses of the CSU, CCC districts, and county offices of education in up to seven areas of the state, but will only include institutions that explicitly request inclusion in the program. Requires the public postsecondary educational institutions and local educational agencies participating in the pilot program to coordinate their efforts to expedite the progress of participating students from high school to CCCs to CSU. Authorizes participating high school students to earn an unlimited number of Advanced Placement course credits, and provides these students with priority enrollment at participating community colleges. Imposes grade point average and time requirements on participating students at the community college stage of the pilot program. Requires a participating CSU campus to accept a minimum of 60 semester units earned by a participating student at a high school or CCC. Requires a participating students to receive priority enrollment status at a participating CSU, and requires the participating students to enroll at that CSU either in the summer term or the fall semester immediately succeeding the pupil's completion of the required community college coursework, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1925 (Logue-R) Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program: University of California

Expresses the intent of the Legislature to establish a pilot program with the goal of establishing a coordinated curriculum that enables students, including, but not necessarily limited to, students who have earned college course credit through concurrent enrollment in high school and the California Community College, to earn a baccalaureate degree from a participating University of California (UC) campus within three years of graduating from a secondary school, at a total cost to the student as close as possible to $25,000, excluding the cost of mandatory campus-based fees. Authorizes the UC to establish a Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program that includes any campus of the UC, any campus of the California Community Colleges that volunteers to participate, and any secondary educational institution that volunteers to participate. Places specified conditions on the operation of the pilot program, which will apply to the UC only to the extent made applicable by action of the Regents of the UC.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1927 (Frazier-D) Student financial aid: debit cards

Requires the California Community College Board of Governors, the California State University Trustees, the University of California Regents and the governing bodies of private nonprofit and for-profit postsecondary educational institutions, as a condition for participating in the Cal Grant Program to adopt policies, that best serve the needs of the students, when negotiating contracts with banks and other financial institutions to disburse a student's financial aid award, and other refunds onto debit, prepaid, or preloaded cards, and requires the policies to meet specified requirements.
Vetoed

AB 1942 (Bonta-D) Community colleges: accreditation

Requires the California Community Colleges (CCCs) Board of Governors, in determining whether a CCC district satisfies minimum conditions, as specified, to review the accreditation status of the CCCs within that district; requires the accrediting commission of the CCC to report to the appropriate subcommittees of the Legislature upon the issuance of a decision that affects the accreditation status of a CCC and, on a biannual basis, any accreditation policy changes that affect the accreditation process or status for a CCC.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2014

AB 1953 (Skinner-D) Higher Education Energy Efficiency Act: financial assistance

Enacts the Higher Education Energy Efficiency Act. Creates the Higher Education Energy Efficiency Fund in the State Treasury and will make monies in the fund available to the Energy Commission (Commission), upon appropriation, to provide financial assistance, including no-interest or low-interest loans and loan loss reserves, to University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) campuses for building retrofits to reduce the demand for energy. Requires the Commission to consult with the Public Utilities Commission, the President of the UC, and the Chancellor of the CSU to expand existing partnerships in order to prioritize projects based on greenhouse gas reductions and allow specified facilities to receive funds under this Act. Requires the Commission, in consultation with the President of the UC and the Chancellor of the CSU, to establish a system to prioritize eligible campuses for this financial assistance, as specified. Requires the recipients of this financial assistance to report to the Commission the annual energy savings achieved from projects supported by the financial assistance, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1969 (Levine-D) Postsecondary education: intersegmental coordination

Requires the Chancellor of the California State University and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and requests the President of the University of California to coordinate the efforts of their respective segments when procuring system-wide information technology and software for the purposes of enhancing student achievement, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1976 (Quirk-Silva-D) Student financial aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards

Requires the California Student Aid Commission, beginning in the 2015-16 award year, to award Competitive Cal Grants using data from the three award years immediately preceding an award year to calculate a "take rate" to estimate the number of awards to be granted to achieve a target of 22,500 awards, and then reduces the target number of awards in the subsequent year by the number of awards granted over 22,500.
Vetoed

AB 1977 (Roger Hernández-D) Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships

Appropriates $82.2 million from the General Fund for the University of California to allocate, without regard to fiscal year, to Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships, including a minimum allocation, in an unspecified amount, to the Puente program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1989 (Chesbro-D) Underage drinkers: students: winemaking and brewery programs

Creates a narrow exception to current Alcoholic Beverage Control Act provisions relating to consumption or possession of alcoholic beverages by underage persons by allowing students who are at least 18 years of age and enrolled in degree granting programs in enology or brewing at accredited public postsecondary educational institutions to taste, but not consume, an alcoholic beverage for educational purposes as part of the instruction in a course required for a degree.
Chapter 162, Statutes of 2014

AB 2000 (Gomez-D) Public postsecondary education: nonresident tuition

Expands eligibility for the exemption from paying nonresident tuition at California's public postsecondary institutions established under the provisions of AB 540 (Firebaugh, Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001) to students who attained credits earned in California from a California high school equivalent to three or more years of full-time high school coursework, and a total of three or more years of attendance in California elementary schools, California secondary schools, or a combination thereof.
Chapter 675, Statutes of 2014

AB 2070 (Campos-D) Community college: apprenticeship instructors: qualification

Provides additional ways for a person to satisfy the minimum qualifications required to serve as an apprenticeship instructor teaching a credit apprenticeship course at a California Community College.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2087 (Ammiano-D) Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges

Requires the regulations that describe the conditions under which the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) may appoint a special trustee to manage a CCC district must include specific benchmarks to indicate the presence of local capacity to resume management of the CCC district and clear standards that require meaningful consultation by a special trustee, or his/her designee, with the CCC district prior to decision making.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2014

AB 2092 (Chávez-R) Donahoe Higher Education Act: 4-year baccalaureate degree

Requires the Trustees of the California State University, and requests the Regents of the University of California, to offer to eligible students an agreement guaranteeing that a student who meets certain conditions may complete a baccalaureate degree within four academic years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2099 (Frazier-D) Postsecondary education: Title 38 awards

Establishes minimum student outcome requirements for postsecondary institutions approved by the California State Approving Agency for Veterans Education in order to participate in federal veterans' education benefits.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2014

AB 2103 (Gomez-D) Community colleges: student fees

Reduces the California Community College fee from $46 to $44 per unit per semester, effective with spring term of the 2015 calendar year.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2152 (Levine-D) Public postsecondary education institutions: contracts

Places limits and conditions on public postsecondary institutions' contracts with federal intelligence agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2153 (Gray-D) Postsecondary education: course offerings

Defines "supplanting" for purposes of special session instructional programs offered at the California State University.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2160 (Ting-D) Cal Grant Program: grade point average

Requires a grade point average for all high school seniors at public schools to be submitted to the California Student Aid Commission electronically by a school or school district official.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2014

AB 2232 (Gray-D) University of California: medical education

Makes an annual General Fund appropriation of $1,225,000 to the University of California (UC) to support the expansion of UC Merced's San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education. Makes legislative findings and declarations relative to health care needs in the San Joaquin Valley, and to the importance of the UC Merced's San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2247 (Williams-D) Postsecondary education: accreditation documents

Requires all campuses of every public and private postsecondary education institution in California that receives state or federal financial aid funding to make available on the institution's Internet Web site the following accreditation documents: the institution's institutional accreditation visiting team reports and the institutional accreditation agency action letters, as specified.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2014

AB 2265 (Weber-D) California State University: educational opportunity program

Requires the California State University (CSU) to provide a direct link to information and application forms for the educational opportunity program approved by the CSU Trustees on the online version of the CSU Mentor Application, and to attach an informational brochure for this program to its electronic and printed application forms for undergraduate admission. Requires, when the CSU next revises this mentor application following the bill's enactment, that the revised electronic and printed forms of the mentor application include a description of the educational opportunity program approved by the trustees.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2295 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Community college faculty: sick leave

Extends the length of time, from one year to three years, for which California Community College faculty are entitled to transfer a leave of absence for illness or injury upon his/her acceptance of election of employment to another school district or California Community College district.
Chapter 814, Statutes of 2014

AB 2324 (Williams-D) Trustees of the California State University: faculty member

Provides that when the two-year term of office on California State University Board of Trustees ends for the appointed faculty member, and the Governor has not appointed a successor member, as specified, the faculty member may remain in office after the term expires for one additional year, or until a successor is appointed by the Governor, whichever occurs first.
Chapter 340, Statutes of 2014

AB 2350 (Bonilla-D) Equity in Higher Education Act: pregnancy discrimination

Establishes various requirements for postsecondary educational institutions that are intended to prevent pregnancy discrimination, including the prohibition of requiring a graduate student to take a leave of absence, withdraw, or limit the student's studies due to pregnancy related issues, as specified.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2014

AB 2352 (Chesbro-D) Community colleges: early and middle college high schools

Exempts a student attending an early college high school (ECHS) from lower community college enrollment status, as specified. Provides that a community college district may claim state apportionment funding for middle college high school and ECHS students for courses required for the students' middle college high school or ECHS programs even if the courses do not comply with existing statutory criteria applicable to other high school students taking community college courses.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2431 (Dababneh-D) Postsecondary education: animal research

Requires any public postsecondary educational institution, or independent institution of higher education as defined, that confines dogs or cats for science research, and purposes and intends to destroy the dog or cat used for those purposes, to first offer the dog or cat to an animal adoption or rescue organization, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2445 (Chau-D) Community colleges: transportation fees

Clarifies that a California Community College district governing board may enter into, or extend, a contract for transportation services funded by the proceeds of a fee levied upon all students of a campus upon a favorable vote of the majority of the students of that campus.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2014

AB 2486 (Gomez-D) Exemption of nonresident tuition for victims of crime

Provides that students who have attended a California high school for three or more years, and graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent of high school graduation, a victim of certain crimes and refugees, as specified, are eligible for the waiver of fees, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2548 (Ting-D) Postsecondary education

Requires the Department of Education to periodically conduct studies of the percentages of California public high school graduates estimated to be eligible for admission into the University of California and the California State University.
Vetoed

AB 2566 (Weber-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Extends, effective 2015-16, the Cal Grant Entitlement program period of eligibility by one year, allowing an applicant for Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards to submit a financial aid application no later than March 2 of the 2nd academic year, rather than the 1st academic year, after high school graduation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2610 (Williams-D) California State University: special sessions

Defines "supplanting" for purposes of special session instructional programs offered at the California State University, and expands oversight and reporting relative to special session instructional programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2705 (Williams-D) Community colleges: faculty

Amends various provisions in the Education Code related to the California Community College faculty and changes the references from "part-time" and "temporary" faculty to "contingent" faculty.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2721 (Pan-D) California State University Trustees

Expands the membership of the California State University Board of Trustees, by requiring the Governor to appoint to the Board, a permanent non-faculty employee, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 2726 (Daly-D) University of California: real property sales

Revises existing law governing how the University of California sells real property.
Chapter 361, Statutes of 2014

AB 2736 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Postsecondary education: California State University

Authorizes the California State University Trustees to fix a voluntary fee, as defined, for voluntary membership in the statewide student organization, and makes several corrections and changes to various provisions of the Education Code affecting the California State University.
Chapter 511, Statutes of 2014

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

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

ACR 95 (Gomez-D) California Community Colleges: part-time faculty

Expresses the intent of the Legislature that California Community College districts not reduce the hours of part-time faculty or part-time classified employees for the purpose of avoiding implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2014

ACR 119 (Muratsuchi-D) Community colleges: career technical education

Encourages the Chancellor of the California Community College in consultation with affected stakeholders, including, but not limited to, experts in the field of career technical education, business and industry representatives, faculty, and organized labor representatives to develop at least three options to address the long-term funding needs of career technical education and other workforce and training programs at the California Community College campuses, in a manner that adequately funds the programs that regions deem valuable to their economies, and to submit those options to the Legislature before 4/1/15.
Resolution Chapter 156, Statutes of 2014

HR 26 (Williams-D) Student loan forgiveness

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

HR 41 (Ting-D) City College of San Francisco

Urges the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges to consider the progress of City College of San Francisco toward achieving compliance with standards and to provide the City College of San Francisco additional time to continue solving problems while keeping its accreditation intact.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 49 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Higher education: tuition and fees: pilot program

Encourages the Legislative Analyst as the lead, and the California Student Aid Commission to conduct a study, as specified, on the effects of enacting a "Pay it Forward, Pay it Back Pilot Program" as an alternative to existing student financial aid programs.
Adopted by the Assembly

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SB 223 (Liu-D) Maximum Categorical Funding Flexibility and Accountability

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

SB 267 (Pavley-D) Pupil assessment: eligible pupil with a disability

Revises the definition of an "eligible pupil with a disability" by revising the date by which a pupil is required to be scheduled to receive a high school diploma and the date by which the school district or state special school is required to certify that the pupil has satisfied or will satisfy all other state and local requirements for the receipt of a high school diploma to the pupil's anticipated graduation date. Revises the commencement date for an eligible pupil with a disability to participate in the alternative means of demonstrating the level of academic achievement in the required content standards to be contingent upon the state board's determination that the alternative means have been implemented. Repeals the State Board of Education's authority to extend that date.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SB 915 (Hill-D) Standardized testing: inadequate or improper test conditions

Imposes specified requirements on test agencies and schools when they learn of a complaint or notice of inadequate or improper test conditions in the administration of the Advanced Placement test.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2014

SB 945 (Morrell-R) California Assessment of Student Performance

Adds a summative assessment in history-social science to the state's assessment system beginning with the 2018-19 school year.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1108 (Padilla-D) English learners: reclassification

Extends the deadline for the Department of Education to issue the report on English learner reclassification established by SB 1108 (Padilla, Chapter 434, Statutes of 2012). Adds "reclassified English learners" as a numerically significant pupil subgroup for the purposes of the Academic Performance Index.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1346 (Wyland-R) Schools: local control and accountability plans

Adds several requirements to the Local Control Funding Formula/Local Control and Accountability Plans related to parental involvement and programmatic and fiscal accountability for the purpose of insuring the academic needs of English learner pupils are being met.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 938 (Weber-D) Standardized tests: reports

Requires, until 1/1/17, any company that administers standardized college admission tests to report annually to the California Postsecondary Education Commission or its successor agency, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction regarding the number of test scores for each type of standardized test that were canceled or invalidated, and the associated reasons for cancellation or invalidation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 959 (Bonilla-D) Pupil assessment

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

AB 1548 (Mullin-D) Standardized tests: reports

Requires, until 1/1/17, any company that administers standardized college admission tests to report annually to the California Postsecondary Education Commission or its successor agency, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction regarding the number of test scores for each type of standardized test that were canceled or invalidated, and the associated reasons for cancellation or invalidation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1573 (Jones-Sawyer-D) Student Achievement via Excellence accountability system

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop, by 7/1/16, the Student Achievement via Excellence accountability system for the schools under the jurisdiction of a county board of education or a county superintendent of schools, community day schools, specified charter schools, nonpublic/nonsectarian schools providing special education, continuation high school, opportunity schools, and other alternative schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1719 (Weber-D) Kindergarten: evaluation and annual reporting

Requires, no later than 1/1/17, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide the Legislature with an evaluation of kindergarten program implementation in the state, including part-day and full-day kindergarten programs.
Chapter 723, Statutes of 2014

AB 1806 (Bloom-D) Completed coursework: homeless children or youth

Extends policies and procedures for suspension, expulsion, graduation requirements and completed coursework to students who are homeless that are currently provided to students who are in foster care.
Chapter 767, Statutes of 2014

AB 1866 (Bocanegra-D) Pupil attendance: California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement

Expands the information reported through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to include specific data relative to truancy.
Vetoed

AB 1879 (Ian Calderon-D) School accountability: local control and accountability plan

Requires school district governing boards to consult with expanded learning programs, as defined, operating in partnership with the school district on or after 1/1/15. Requires school district governing boards to consult with the persons listed above when these local control and accountability plans are updated, as well as when they are adopted.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1892 (Bocanegra-D) Pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient

Adds, within that state priority, identification of any specialized programs or services provided to pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient in order for them to maintain proficiency in English and access the common core academic content standards, adopted as specified, and a broad course of study that includes certain subject areas. Specifies that a local control and accountability plan also include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority for pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1931 (Morrell-R) California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

Adds a summative assessment in history-social science as adopted by the State Board of Education, in accordance with recommendations from the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to the subjects assessed by the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, beginning in the 2018-19 school year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2057 (Bonilla-D) Pupil assessment: alternate performance assessments

Requires the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress to include the California Alternate Performance Assessment being administered in grades two to 11, inclusive, in English language arts and mathematics and in grades five, eight, and 10 in science, until successor assessments for those subject matters are implemented. Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) and the Department of Education (DOE) to submit, no later than 2/1/15, a report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature, school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools on the status of the successor alternate assessments in English language arts and mathematics and science. Requires for the 2014-15 school year, each local educational agency to administer the alternate field tests in a manner determined by DOE in consultation with the president or executive director of the SBE and requires DOE, with the approval of the SBE and the Director of Finance, to amend the assessment contract, as appropriate, to accommodate the alternate assessment field testing and to allow for any necessary studies using information collected from the field tests.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2167 (Muratsuchi-D) Pupils: California Healthy Kids Survey

Codifies the California Healthy Kids Survey, to collect data on pupil perceptions of school climate, school safety, and pupil health.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2225 (Allen-R) Charter schools: accountability: charter revocation

Authorizes charter schools to appeal a revocation of a charter made pursuant to recommendations by the California Collaborative of Educational Excellence.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2296 (Hagman-R) English learners: assessment of English language development

Require this early literacy assessment to be administered for a period of four years beginning after the initial administration of the assessment or until 1/1/17, whichever occurs last.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2303 (Bloom-D) State Recognition Program of Multiple Pathways to Biliteracy

Establishes the State Recognition Program of Multiple Pathways to Biliteracy be administered by the Department of Education for purposes of recognizing school districts and county offices of education demonstrating excellence in providing and supporting multiple opportunities for students in grades 1-12 to attain high achievement and linguistic biliteracy through biliteracy programs. Authorizes the use of alternate assessments for the purpose of the State Seal of Biliteracy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2307 (Donnelly-R) Common core academic content standards

Permits a school district to opt out of any state statute or regulation that will require the use of the Common Core State Standards by that school district.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2380 (Weber-D) Single plan for pupil achievement categorical programs

Adds various requirements for school districts that elect to prepare a single plan for pupil achievement, including the requirement for a school district to ensure in its consolidated application that a schoolsite council has developed and approved a single plan for pupil achievement for schools participating in programs funded through the Local Control Funding Formula.
Vetoed

AB 2408 (Allen-R) School accountability: local control and accountability plan

Expands the governing board of the California Collaborative for Education Excellence from five to seven members by adding a representative of charter schools, appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and a parent of a California public school pupil, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.
Vetoed

AB 2440 (Hagman-R) Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress

Authorizes school districts to delay until the 2015-16 school year the administration of any assessment aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics and either to administer no standardized test or to administer instead an assessment pursuant to the provisions of the former Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2518 (Dababneh-D) School intervention: parent empowerment

Specifies that if the intervention identified in the petition is the restart model, as specified, and the petitioners opt to solicit charter school or educational management organization proposals for the selection of a specific charter school or educational management organization operator, then all parents and legal guardians of pupils attending the school have the right to participate in the selection of the charter school or educational management organization operator, regardless of whether they signed the petition. Makes nonsubstantive changes by updating cross-references.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2600 (Bonilla-D) California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress

Changes the name of the Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress to the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.
(Died at Senate Desk)

School Curriculum

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

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

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

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

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

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

SB 714 (Block-D) Pupil instruction: independent study

Authorizes commencing with the 2015-16 school year and ending on 6/30/22, a school district or county office of education to offer independent study courses in accordance with prescribed conditions, including, among others, that the courses be taught under the general supervision of certificated employees who hold the appropriate subject matter credential, that the courses are annually certified, by school district or county office of education governing board resolution, to be of the same rigor and educational quality as equivalent classroom-based courses, and that certificated employees assess whether each pupil is making satisfactory educational progress and conduct teacher-pupil meetings in person at least twice per calendar month. Provides that statewide testing results for pupils enrolled in these courses shall be reported and assigned to the school in which a pupil is enrolled for classroom-based courses and to any school district or county office of education within which that school's testing results are aggregated. Provides that a signed learning agreement, as specified, shall be completed and on file, and specifies the computation of average daily attendance for these courses. Prohibits pupils from being required to enroll in the courses.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 897 (Steinberg-D) Pupil instruction: independent study

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider whether and how to incorporate a specified social studies framework into California's history-social science framework and content standards, and requires specified adult education courses and classes to distribute information and include instruction on government and civic education.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2014

SB 1006 (Wyland-R) School curriculum: American history and government

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) and the State Board of Education (SBE) to devise a curriculum for enhancing pupil knowledge of our history and form of government and for increasing civic participation. Requires the SPI and the SBE to mandate that high school students demonstrate proficiency in their knowledge of our history, government, and legal system, as it developed over time and in comparison to the history, forms of government, and legal systems of other countries. Increases this American government and civics course requirement to a one-year course, commencing with the 2019-20 school year. Requires the SPI, with the approval of the SBE, to develop an additional section to be included in the high school exit examination that tests U.S. history and government in accordance with the statewide academically rigorous content standards for history-social science adopted by the SBE, as specified. Requires the SPI to subject the U.S. history and government section to specified field testing and review requirements before adoption by the SBE. Requires the SBE, by 1/1/17, to adopt a U.S. history and government section developed by the SPI for inclusion in the high school exit examination. Requires, commencing with the 2020-21 school year and each school year thereafter, each pupil completing grade 12 to, in addition to successfully passing the English language arts and mathematics sections of the high school exit examination, to successfully pass the U.S. history and government section adopted by the SBE. Requires, commencing with the 2018-19 school year, each pupil to take the high school exit examination, including the U.S. history and government section, in grade 10 and allows each pupil to take the examination during each subsequent administration, until each section of the examination has been passed.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1008 (Wyland-R) Science education: STEM curriculum

Makes specified findings and declarations, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider strategies to introduce, and expose to pupils, a complete science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program at age appropriate levels from kindergarten through each of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Requires the STEM program to include certain elements, including the development of a STEM curriculum that includes a wide array of engineering fields, opportunities to design and perform scientific experiments that explore challenging questions developed by pupils, and training for current teachers interested in a STEM curriculum.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1016* (Wyland-R) Pupil instruction: common core academic content standards

Repeals as of 5/15/14, statutes that appropriated $1.25 billion in 2013 to support the implementation of the Common Core state standards, the Next Generation Science Standards for California Public Schools, and the California English Language Development standards. In addition, creates pilot programs that measure effectiveness in the adopted common core academic content standards and the curriculum frameworks that are aligned to the common core standards, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1057 (Corbett-D) Pupil curriculum: history-social science content standards

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene a group of history-social science experts to revise the history-social science content standards by 3/30/18. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt, reject or modify the revised standards by 7/30/18. Requires the Superintendent and the Board, by 10/1/18, to report certain information on the implementation of those standards to the Governor and appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. Expresses legislative findings and declarations relating to history-social science content standards.
Vetoed

SB 1143 (Liu-D) Pupil instruction: independent study

Specifies that if more than 10% of the total average daily attendance for local education agencies is claimed utilizing the course-based independent study approach, then any average daily attendance in excess of 10% shall be reduced by the prior year statewide average rate of absence for either elementary districts or high school districts, as applicable. Also specifies that the use of course-based independent study shall not be deemed to prohibit the right to collectively bargain any subject within the scope of representation.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1165 (Mitchell-D) Sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention and education

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider including sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education in the Health Framework for California Public Schools and permits a school district to provide sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education, as specified.
Chapter 713, Statutes of 2014

SB 1174 (Lara-D) English language education

Amends and repeals various provisions of Proposition 227 of 1998, including repealing the requirement that all children be taught English by being taught in English and instead allows school districts and county offices of education, in consultation with language experts in the field and parents, to determine the best language instruction methods and language acquisition programs to implement.
Chapter 753, Statutes of 2014

SB 1200 (Padilla-D) Public postsecondary education: academic standards

Requests the University of California (UC) and requires the California State University to develop guidelines for high school computer science courses to be approved for admission, and encourages UC to ensure that computer science courses that satisfy the math subject area requirements for admission build upon fundamental math content in courses that align with the academic content standards developed by the Academic Content Standards Commission. States legislative intent that UC and the California State University align their respective model academic standards for high school courses in language arts and math to the Commission.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2014

SB 1380 (Wyland-R) Pupil instruction: social science: genocide

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider including the Armenian Genocide in the history-social science framework, and encourages instruction to include specific components.
Chapter 441, Statutes of 2014

SB 1387 (Liu-D) Pupil instruction: independent study

Extends the maximum duration of an independent study agreement under this bill's provision to two semesters or one school year for a school on a year-round calendar. Permits the required signatures on the independent study written agreement to be submitted through a PDF or facsimile copy of the original written agreement.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1419 (Wyland-R) American military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq

Encourages the instruction in social sciences to include instruction on the American military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, including Operation Desert Storm, and encourages that instruction to include a component drawn on personal testimony, especially in the form of oral or video histories, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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

Makes changes to provisions governing independent study programs regarding online synchronous pupil instruction, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

AB 455 (Medina-D) Common core standards: Braille and American Sign Language

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards in Braille and American Sign Language that are aligned to the common core standards.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 646 (Cooley-D) Public education governance: regional P-20 councils: advisor

Requires the Department of Education to study best practices of state and regional P-20 councils in California and across the nation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 659 (Nazarian-D) Pupil instruction: Armenian Genocide

Requires the Department of Education to incorporate materials related to the Armenian Genocide into those publications, and requires the Instructional Quality Commission to include the Armenian Genocide in the recommended history-social science curriculum framework when the history-social science framework is revised as required by law. Also specifies that the Legislature encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide, including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides. Defines oral testimony to mean firsthand accounts of significant historical events presented in a specified format.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

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

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

AB 1530 (Chau-D) Model curricula: computer science

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to consider identifying, developing or revising model curriculum on computer science for kindergarten to sixth grade. Codifies legislative intent to encourage the establishment of programs of instruction in computer science, and regarding the concepts that should be included in computer science instruction.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1539 (Hagman-R) Content standards: computer science

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission and the State Board of Education to consider developing computer science content standards.
Chapter 876, Statutes of 2014

AB 1616 (Buchanan-D) Pupil instruction: civics

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission, when revising the history-social science framework, to ensure that these course requirements are also included in all history and social science courses and grade levels, as appropriate. Requires the Commission, whenever the history-social science framework is revised, to receive input from civics learning experts for the purpose of integrating civics learning content, concepts, and skills, at all appropriate grade levels, with the standards established by the State Board of Education in core curriculum areas, as specified, and to consider how civics and history instruction includes, at all appropriate grade levels, the application of that content. Makes a statement of legislative intent with regard to the subsequent history-social science framework.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1750 (Alejo-D) High school: ethnic studies

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to evaluate existing standards, curricula, programs and training regarding ethnic studies at the high school level, and make recommendations for establishing a "California Cultures" multicultural or ethnic studies course that can be incorporated into existing high school curriculum.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1754 (Hagman-R) Portable electronic devices and instructional materials

Prohibits the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized through Proposition 39 of 2000, which amended Article XIII A, Section 1(b) and Article XVI, Section 18(b) of the California Constitution, to be used to purchase either of the following: (1) portable electronic devices, including, but not limited to, laptop computers and tablet computers, as specified; and (2) basic or supplemental instructional material.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1764 (Olsen-R) School curriculum: mathematics: computer science

Allows a school district to award mathematics credit for completion of a California State University and University of California approved "Category C" computer science course, if the district requires more than two years of mathematics courses for graduation.
Chapter 888, Statutes of 2014

AB 1854 (Linder-R) Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate fees

Re-establishes, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, a grant program to cover the costs of Advanced Placement examination fees or International Baccalaureate examination fees, or both, for eligible economically disadvantaged high school pupils or foster youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1912 (Holden-D) Pupil instruction: election of President of Barack Obama

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission during the next revision of the history-social science curriculum framework, to consider including, and recommending for adoption by the State Board of Education, instruction on the election of President Barack Obama and the significance of the United States electing its first African American President, as appropriate. Requires the Board to adopt, modify, or reject the curriculum framework recommended by the Commission.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2014

AB 1915 (Nazarian-D) Pupil instruction: social sciences: Armenian Genocide

Enacts the Armenian Genocide Education Act and provides that the instruction in human rights issues may also include particular attention to the study of the inhumanity of the Armenian Genocide.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2014

AB 1940 (Holden-D) Advanced placement program: grant program: STEM curriculum

Establishes a grant program to expand science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) advanced placement programs in high schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2016 (Campos-D) Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention

Requires the State Board of Education to consider including age-appropriate content on sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in the next revision of the health content standards.
Chapter 809, Statutes of 2014

AB 2110 (Ting-D) Pupil instruction: computer science

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider incorporating computer science curriculum content into the mathematics, science, history-social science, and English language arts/English language development frameworks.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2178 (Levine-D) Pupil instruction: Blended Learning Pilot Program

Establishes, starting in 2015-16, the Blended Learning Pilot Program, administered by the State Board of Education for the purpose of exploring best practices in blended learning. Participation in the pilot, among other things, allows a local education agency to seek a waiver of education statute with the stated goal of achieving certain educational benefits.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 108 (Wagner-R) Education: Computer Science Education Week

Designates the week of 12/8/14, as Computer Science Education Week.
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2014

ACR 119 (Muratsuchi-D) Community colleges: career technical education

Encourages the Chancellor of the California Community College in consultation with affected stakeholders, including, but not limited to, experts in the field of career technical education, business and industry representatives, faculty, and organized labor representatives to develop at least three options to address the long-term funding needs of career technical education and other workforce and training programs at the California Community College campuses, in a manner that adequately funds the programs that regions deem valuable to their economies, and to submit those options to the Legislature before 4/1/15.
Resolution Chapter 156, Statutes of 2014

ACR 154 (Gray-D) Modesto City Schools: World Geography-World Religions class

Acknowledges the Modesto City Schools' initiative and achievement in teaching the unique World Geography-World Religions course as a grade nine requirement and recommends that this course be considered for adoption by other school districts in the state.
Resolution Chapter 122, Statutes of 2014

School Facilities

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SB 869* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) School facilities: construction: bond act

Provides statutory changes necessary to enact education facilities-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2014

SB 1067 (Beall-D) Schoolsites: selection

Requires all new schoolsites acquired by the governing board of a school district or charter school to have at least two points of entry and exit onto the schoolsite, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1112 (Hueso-D) Fire protection: school inspection: fire alarm systems

Requires schools to submit a copy of records of maintenance, inspection and testing of fire alarm systems to the chief of any city or county fire department or district providing fire protection services, as specified, and requires the receiving entity to review of these documents within a reasonable time.
(Died Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1157 (Hancock-D) School Facilities Funding

Prohibits the transfer of funds from the Seismic Mitigation Program for any other purpose, as specified, and requires that any High Performance Schools funds transferred as the result of a Budget Act of 2014 be used only for projects that meet the original intent of the funds.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014, a state general obligation bond act that provides funds to construct and modernize education facilities, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the next statewide general election, and to provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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

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

AB 239 (Hagman-R) School financing: common core implementation

States the intent of the Legislature to appropriate an unspecified amount from the General Fund to equip all kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, schoolsites with broadband network infrastructure to help those schools with the implementation of the common core academic content standards.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

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

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

AB 1032 (Gordon-D) Charter schools: facilities

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

AB 1261 (Holden-D) Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits

Authorizes, until 1/1/20, the Department of Education, as part of a pilot program, to accept monetary contributions made to the California Preschool Investment Fund, which this bill creates, by a person for purposes of preschool education, as provided. Requires the money in the Fund to be used to, among other things, fund state preschools part of the California state preschool program located in one of the five participating counties, as provided. Requires participating counties to report to the Department's Early Education and Support Division regarding the county's assessment of how the pilot program is performing. Requires any monies remaining in the Fund after 1/1/20, to be transferred to any other state fund identified by the Department that provides funding for increased access to preschool programs for low-income children.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1473* (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Act of 2014: Education Facilities Trailer Bill

Provides statutory changes necessary to enact education facilities-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1581 (Buchanan-D) School facilities: construction contracts

Requires, until 1/1/19, that school districts entering into lease/leaseback or lease-to-own contracts comply with specified pre-qualification requirements, if the project is funded with state bond funds, the expenditure of the project is $1 million or more, and the average daily attendance of the school district is more than 2,500.
Chapter 408, Statutes of 2014

AB 1647 (Wilk-R) Bonds: school districts and community college districts

Exempts a school district or community college district whose electors approved the issuance of a note in an election held on or before 1/1/14, and began issuing a note pursuant to that authority on or before 1/1/14, from, among other requirements, the requirements, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1664 (Hagman-R) School facilities: sale or lease of real property

Modifies the Naylor Act to authorize a school district to offer open-space property to a school district, county office of education or a governmental entity that provides child care and development services, prior to offering the property to a city, park or recreation district, regional park authority or a county, if the school district had purchased, constructed, modernized, or made improvements on the property using state bond funds, and makes other related and conforming changes.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2014

AB 1668* (Wieckowski-D) California Educational Facilities Authority

Allows the California Educational Financing Authority to accept loan proceeds or issue other evidences of indebtedness necessary to allow for private placement loans. Makes several technical and conforming changes to the Authority's conduit bond.
Chapter 154, Statutes of 2014

AB 1726 (Bonta-D) Oakland Unified School District: sale of surplus property

Exempts the sale of property pursuant to the provisions, as specified, from provisions that require a governing board of a school district seeking to sell or lease surplus property to first offer that property to a charter school. Extends the termination date of the provisions, as specified, from 6/30/16, to 6/30/20. Makes legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special law for the Oakland Unified School District.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1971 (Bocanegra-D) Best Value procurement pilot program

Establishes, until 1/1/20, a pilot program to authorize the Los Angeles Unified School District to use a best value procurement method for public projects that exceed $1 million, and requires submission of specified reports on the use of this procurement method.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1979 (Nazarian-D) School facilities: California School Finance Authority

Expands the definition of "project," for purposes of the California School Finance Authority Act, to include reimbursement of specified educational facility costs to be financed or refinanced, expands the authority to use the intercept repayment method beyond payments for debt service to include other bond-related costs, and consolidates the caps on the total amount of revenue bonds that may be issued and outstanding at any time under the Act.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2014

AB 2235* (Buchanan-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act

Makes changes to the existing School Facility Program and authorizes the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014 to provide for the issuance of $4.3 billion in general obligation bonds for construction and modernization of education facilities (to become effective only if approved by voters), and requires its submission to voters at the 11/4/14, statewide general election.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2437 (Hagman-R) School infrastructure: network infrastructure

Requires the Department of Education to establish a competitive grant program to provide grants to local education agencies for the construction of network infrastructure necessary to administer computer-based assessments. Appropriates $500 million General Fund for the 2014-15 fiscal year for this program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 128 (Ting-D) Living Schoolyard Month

Designates the month of May as Living Schoolyard Month.
Resolution Chapter 68, Statutes of 2014

School Finance

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

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

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

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

SB 174* (De León-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program

Requires the Treasurer to certify the amount of monies available in an academic year from the College Access Tax Credit Fund for distribution, and provides that an amount determined by the Student Aid Commission will be available for expenditure, upon appropriation to the Commission by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, from the College Access Tax Credit Fund, for distribution to students to supplement Cal Grant B access cost awards to bring those students' total annual awards for access costs to not more than $5,000 and to defray the administrative costs incurred by the Commission in implementing the bill. Becomes operative only if SB 798 (de León) is enacted and becomes operative on or before 1/1/15.
Chapter 363, Statutes of 2014

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

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

SB 386 (Correa-D) School finance: county superintendents of schools

Prohibits a county superintendent of schools who, in the 2012-13 fiscal year, received funds from specified funding sources on behalf of, or provided funds to, a regional occupational center or program consortium, from redirecting that funding for another purpose unless otherwise authorized by law or pursuant to an agreement between the members of the regional occupational center or program consortium and the county superintendent of schools. Requires the calculation of the base entitlement for the county superintendent of schools and the members of the regional occupational center or program consortium to be adjusted, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

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

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

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

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

SB 858 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 32, Statutes of 2014

SB 859 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance: local control funding formula

Provides the statutory changes necessary to enact education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2014

SB 860 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact postsecondary education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2014

SB 876 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance

Makes various technical changes to the education trailer bills, adopted as part of the Act of 2014 Budget.
Chapter 687, Statutes of 2014

SB 971 (Huff-R) School finance: categorical programs

Repeals or modifies numerous provisions of the Education Code that are considered obsolete or unnecessary in light of the passage of the Local Control Funding Formula/Local Control Accountability Plans (AB 97, Assembly Budget Committee, Chapter 47, Statutes of 2013, and SB 97, Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Chapter 357, Statutes of 2013), as specified.
Chapter 923, Statutes of 2014

SB 1017* (Evans-D) Education finance: oil and gas severance tax

Establishes the State Higher Education Endowment Corporation. Imposes an oil and gas severance tax upon any operator for the privilege of severing oil or gas from the earth or water in this state. Requires the Board of Equalization to deposit all tax revenues into the State Higher Education Fund, which is created by this act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1028 (Jackson-D) Student financial aid: Cal Grant C awards

Requires the California Student Aid Commission, in selecting students to receive a Cal Grant C award, to give special consideration to students who meet specified criteria, including the employment status of the applicant, giving greater weight to the long term unemployed; requires a Cal Grant C award to be utilized only for occupational or technical training in a course of not less than four months, as specified; and establishes new criteria and processes for identifying areas of occupational and workforce training which qualify for the awards.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2014

SB 1047 (Walters-R) Education finance: budgets: long-term obligations

Permits the Superintendent of Public Instruction or county office of education, as specified, to disapprove an adopted local educational agency budget if the local educational agency does not disclose long-term actuarial obligations, including, but not limited to, the debts and retiree obligations of the county offices of education or school district, as applicable.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1069 (Torres-D) Student Tuition Recovery Fund: claims

Requires the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to adopt regulations to make students who uses a Cal Grant, a Pell Grant, or both, eligible to apply for payment from the Student Tuition Recovery Fund. Requires the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to pay the California Student Aid Commission, if a student uses a Cal Grant to pay tuition from the Student Tuition Recovery Fund. Contingent upon the amendment or continuation of the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1105 (Liu-D) Cal Grant Program application: voter registration

Requires the standardized student financial aid application, if the application is submitted online, to permit the applicant to apply to register to vote online by submitting an affidavit of registration electronically on the Internet Web site of the Secretary of State.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1149 (Galgiani-D) Cal Grant Program: renewal awards

Requires the California Student Aid Commission to establish an appeal process for a postsecondary education institution that becomes ineligible for Cal Grant participation because it fails to satisfy the three-year cohort loan default rate and graduation rate requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1166* (Vidak-R) Education finance: home-to-school transportation

Requires school districts, as defined, to receive state reimbursement for the full cost of home-to-school transportation of pupils. Commencing with the 2014-15 fiscal year, these costs shall be reimbursed through an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1221 (Hancock-D) After school programs

Modifies various requirements for participation in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program and the After School Education and Safety Program.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2014

SB 1248 (Lara-D) California Collaborative for Educational Excellence

Requires the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to report to the State Board of Education on or before 10/15/15, with recommendations for methods, study designs, and data needs to evaluate the effectiveness of local control and accountability plans in closing the achievement gap and achieving the state priorities in existing law. Further, requires the report to provide methods for the statewide identification and dissemination of best practices.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1346 (Wyland-R) Schools: local control and accountability plans

Adds several requirements to the Local Control Funding Formula/Local Control and Accountability Plans related to parental involvement and programmatic and fiscal accountability for the purpose of insuring the academic needs of English learner pupils are being met.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1394* (Wyland-R) Education finance: local control funding formula

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations, by 1/15/15, that (1) requires any expenditure of Local Control Funding Formula monies for the primary benefit of low-income, foster youth, and English language learners be expended on programs or services that are evidence based, as specified, (2) requires the Department of Education to suspend local control funding formula funding if a local control and accountability plan is not significantly improving pupil reading and comprehension skills and English learner performance, and (3) prohibits local educational agencies from receiving local control funding formula monies, if their local control and accountability plan does not include evidence-based programs.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1396 (Hancock-D) Multitiered intervention and support program

Requires the Department of Education to designate funds to a county office of education to establish professional development activities to support the development and expansion of multitiered intervention and support program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1421 (Fuller-R) School facilities: school sites on military bases

Authorizes the State Allocation Board, if requested by an applicant, to give priority on its "Unfunded Approval - Lack of Authority" list, to applications submitted before 5/1/14, for funding under the School Facility Program. This priority is for schools located on military installations that are eligible for United States Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment school construction grants for which priority cannot be granted above hardship applications.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

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

AB 146* (Gorell-R) School finance: annual budgets: reserve balance

Repeals the provisions prohibiting excess reserve balances in school district budgets.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

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

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

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

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

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

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

AB 943* (Nestande-R) K-12 education programs and scholarships

Enacts the Education Investment Incentives Act.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

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

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

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

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

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

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

AB 1463 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1464 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance: local control funding formula

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1465 (Assembly Budget Committee) Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact postsecondary education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1480 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget Act of 2014: Education Trailer Bill

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact education-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 1754 (Hagman-R) Portable electronic devices and instructional materials

Prohibits the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized through Proposition 39 of 2000, which amended Article XIII A, Section 1(b) and Article XVI, Section 18(b) of the California Constitution, to be used to purchase either of the following: basic or supplemental instructional material, or portable electronic devices, including, but not limited to, laptop computers and tablet computers, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1946 (Chesbro-D) School finance: necessary small high schools

Expands the definition of a necessary small high school to include a high school maintained by a unified school district as the only comprehensive high school if the high school has an average daily attendance of less than 268 pupils and the school district has 50 or fewer pupils per square mile of school district territory, as measured by enrollment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2216 (Muratsuchi-D) Regional occupational centers and programs: funding

Extends the existing maintenance of effort requirement for local educational agencies that operate Regional Occupational Centers and Programs from the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year to the end of the 2016-17 fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2235* (Buchanan-D) Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act

Makes changes to the existing School Facility Program and authorizes the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014 to provide for the issuance of $4.3 billion in general obligation bonds for construction and modernization of education facilities (to become effective only if approved by voters), and requires its submission to voters at the 11/4/14, statewide general election.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2319 (Bonilla-D) School finance: Broadband Infrastructure Fund

Establishes the Broadband Infrastructure Fund Program to provide adequate Internet capacity to support new content standards and assessments, and establishes the Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund to support the integration of common core academic content standards in instruction for grades K-12, inclusive, for purposes of establishing quality instructional programs for all pupils.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2377 (John A. Pérez-D) Student loans: California Student Loan Refinancing Program

Establishes the California Student Loan Refinancing Program to provide student loan refinancing options to qualified borrowers.
Chapter 816, Statutes of 2014

AB 2486 (Gomez-D) Exemption of nonresident tuition for victims

Requires that a student who is a victim of trafficking, domestic violence, or other serious crimes who has either been granted a status, as specified, or is a person who has attended a California high school for three or more years and graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent of high school graduation, be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges to the same extent as an individual who is admitted to the United States as a refugee, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2544 (Roger Hernández-D) School finance: preschool funding

Establishes a new school district and charter school funding formula for preschool education.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2585 (Daly-D) School finance: annual budgets

Eliminates the dual budget adoption option for school districts and county offices of education, revises and recasts provisions related to approval of conditional or disapproved budgets, and makes other technical and clarifying changes.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2014

AB 2684* (Stone-D) Average Daily Attendance: Service on a Precinct Board

Deems a pupil serving as a member of a precinct board for an election to be participating in independent study, as specified, for purposes of calculating average daily attendance, thus allowing the school district to generate state apportionment payments for the pupil's absence.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

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

School Safety/Pupil Safety

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SB 49 (Lieu-D) School safety plans

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SB 544 (DeSaulnier-D) School safety programs: funding

Requires the Department of Education to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of creating a specialized license plate program to generate funds for school violence prevention programs.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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

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

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

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

SB 840 (Lara-D) Local educational agency policies against bullying

Requires each local educational agency to develop, in collaboration with stakeholders, and implement a policy against bullying containing specified components. Requires local educational agencies to provide documentation of incidents to the Department of Education, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 967 (De León-D) University and college student safety: sexual assault

Requires the governing board of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing boards of independent postsecondary institutions, as specified, to adopt a policy concerning campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking that includes specified components and standards.
Chapter 748, Statutes of 2014

SB 1177 (Steinberg-D) Student Online Personal Information Protection Act

Establishes the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act to restrict the use and disclosure of information about K-12 students.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2014

SB 1221 (Hancock-D) After school programs

Modifies various requirements for participation in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program and the After School Education and Safety Program.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2014

SB 1266 (Huff-R) Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors

Requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, as specified. Authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use the epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction.
Chapter 321, Statutes of 2014

SB 1396 (Hancock-D) School climate: multitiered intervention and support program

Requires the Department of Education, to the extent one-time funding is available in the 2014-15 Budget Act, to designate funds to a county office of education to establish professional development activities to support the development and expansion of multi-tiered intervention and support programs, including but not limited to, school-wide positive behavior intervention and support.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1400 (Hancock-D) Community colleges: protective orders

Authorizes a California Community College district to require a student, whom the district has a protective order against, to apply for reinstatement, as specified.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2014

AB 127 (Skinner-D) Fire safety: fire retardants: building insulation

Requires the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair, Home Furnishings, and Thermal Insulation, to review flammability standards for building insulation materials; specifies that the State Fire Marshal, by 7/1/15, shall propose building standards that maintain overall building safety; and also makes legislative findings and declarations.
Chapter 579, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

AB 420 (Dickinson-D) Pupil discipline: suspensions and expulsions

Eliminates the authority to suspend a pupil enrolled in grades K-3, inclusive, and the authority to recommend for expulsion a pupil enrolled in grades K-12, inclusive, for disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of those school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties, as specified. Sunsets 7/1/18.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

AB 1216 (Campos-D) Pupil discipline suspension and expulsion: hate violence

Provides that a pupil in any of grades 4 to 12, inclusive, may also be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion if the superintendent of the school district or principal of the school determines that the pupil, by force or threat of force, willfully injured, intimidated, interfered with, oppressed, or threatened any other pupil because of the other pupil's actual or perceived familial status, socioeconomic status, or weight.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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

Requires a comprehensive school safety plan to include a tactical response plan, and revises the definition of "tactical responses to criminal incidents" to include a plan to safeguard against incidents that include a firearm, explosive, or other deadly weapon. Requires any vote to approve or update the tactical response plan to be announced in open session following a closed session, and prohibits the governing board of a school district or a county office of education from being required to disclose those portions of the tactical response plan that may be kept private.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1271 (Bonta-D) School safety plans: pupil mental health care

Adds pupil mental health requirements to the guidelines that the Legislature encourages schools to include when they update their school safety plans, as specified.
Chapter 794, Statutes of 2014

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

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

AB 1432 (Gatto-D) Mandated child abuse reporting: school employees: training

Requires local education agencies to annually train employees on their duties regarding the mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect, as specified.
Chapter 797, Statutes of 2014

AB 1433* (Gatto-D) Student safety

Requires the governing board of each public, private and independent postsecondary educational institution, which receives public funds for student financial assistance, to adopt and implement written policies and procedures governing the reporting of specified crimes to law enforcement agencies.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2014

AB 1455 (Campos-D) Pupils: bullying: counseling services

Authorizes the superintendent of a school district, the principal of a school, or the principal's designee to refer a victim of, witness to, or other pupil affected by an act of bullying, committed on or after 1/1/15, to the school counselor, school psychologist, social worker, child welfare attendance personnel, school nurse, or other school support service personnel for case management, counseling, and participation in a restorative justice program.
Chapter 229, Statutes of 2014

AB 1825 (Nazarian-D) Los Angeles Unified School District: inspector general

Extends the sunset date of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Office of the Inspector General by 10 years, from 1/1/15 to 1/1/25.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2014

AB 1993 (Fox-D) Bullying: training module

Requires the Department of Education to develop an online training module regarding bullying.
Chapter 418, Statutes of 2014

AB 2016 (Campos-D) Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention

Requires the Board of Education to consider including age-appropriate content on sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in the next revision of the health content standards.
Chapter 809, Statutes of 2014

AB 2167 (Muratsuchi-D) Pupils: California Healthy Kids Survey

Codifies the California Healthy Kids Survey, to collect data on pupil perceptions of school climate, school safety, and pupil health.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2217 (Melendez-R) Pupil and personnel health: automated external defibrillator

Authorizes schools to solicit and receive non-state funds for automatic external defibrillator, and clarifies those schools and school employees are not civilly liable when acting in good faith.
Chapter 812, Statutes of 2014

AB 2560 (Bonilla-D) Teacher credentialing: applications: child abuse reporting

Mandates the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to require a credential holder, as part of the initial issuance or renewal of a credential, to read and attest by signature, a statement regarding their duties as a mandated reporter.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2014

Teachers and School Employees

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Requires the governing board of a school district to evaluate and assess the performance of certificated employees using a multiple-measures evaluation system. Authorizes school districts to make specified employment decisions based on teacher performance, and expands the reasons districts may deviate from the order of seniority in terminating and reappointing teachers, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

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

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

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

Changes the deadline by which the governing board of a school district must notify probationary employees with a notice to non-elect for permanent status from March 15 to May 15 of the employee's second consecutive year of employment by the district. Changes the deadline by which the governing board of a school district must notify certificated employees with preliminary notification of a layoff from March 15 to May 15. Changes the deadline by which copies of an administrative law judge's proposed decision regarding a certificated employee's cause for layoff must be submitted to the governing board of a school district from May 7 to June 7. Changes the deadline by which the governing board of school district must notify certificated employees with final notification of a layoff from May 15 to June 15. Provides that the public school employer and the exclusive representative shall, upon request of the public school employer, meet and negotiate regarding changes to the preliminary and final notification deadlines for issuing layoff notices. Makes various legislative findings and declarations.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 657 (Block-D) Teachers: evaluations

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

SB 837 (Steinberg-D) Professional development: early childhood education

Clarifies the use of $25 million in state preschool funds appropriated in the 2014-15 Budget Act for professional development of transitional kindergarten and state preschool teachers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 843 (Correa-D) School employees: discipline: dismissal and suspension

Modifies the dismissal process by establishing a separate set of procedures for employees charged with certain types of serious and egregious conduct.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1060 (Liu-D) School employees: professional growth

Requires a local education agency, when offering professional development for teachers and other employees involved in the direct instruction of pupils, to evaluate professional learning that meets specified criteria.
Chapter 199, Statutes of 2014

SB 1164 (Liu-D) School employees: discipline: dismissal and suspension

Provides that the written charges against a permanent school employee may be amended only upon a motion before an administrative law judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings, requires that a notice of the governing board's intention to dismiss or suspend the employee, together with written charges filed or formulated, be sufficient to initiate a hearing, as prescribed, and prohibits the governing board of the school district from being required to file or serve a separate accusation. Additionally authorizes the immediate suspension of an employee for unprofessional conduct reasonably related to specified sex offenses, substance abuse offenses, and child endangerment offenses, as specified. Deletes obsolete provisions relating to the dismissal or suspension of a permanent employee based on knowing membership by the employee in the Communist Party. Requires in a dismissal or suspension proceeding against a permanent employee, if a hearing is requested by the employee, that the hearing be commenced within 60 days from the date of the employee's demand for a hearing. Requires that the hearing be commenced within six months from the date of the employee's demand for a hearing, and be completed by a closing of the record within seven months of the date of the employee's demand for a hearing, except as authorized for good cause by the presiding administrative law judge, as specified. Provides that a Commission on Professional Competence shall consist solely of an administrative law judge for charges involving only specified sex offenses, substance offenses, and child endangerment offenses. Requires that, in a dismissal or suspension proceeding carried out under the above provisions, except for a hearing involving only charges of specified sex offenses, substance abuse offenses, and child abuse offenses, the parties make specified disclosures in lieu of certain written discovery, as prescribed, and authorizes the parties to obtain discovery by oral deposition. Requires the governing board and the state to share equally the expenses of the hearing if the Commission on Professional Competence determines that the employee should be dismissed or suspended. Additionally authorizes a certificated employee to be charged with a mandatory leave of absence offense for murder and attempted murder. Deletes the exceptions for marijuana, mescaline, peyote, or tetrahydrocannabinols.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1185 (Huff-R) School teachers: termination and reappointment

Allow school districts to exempt teachers in career pathways programs from the seniority-based staffing provisions in current law.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1264 (Pavley-D) Educator Excellence Program: Loan Assumption Agreements

Establishes the Educator Excellence Program, an assumption loan program to be administered by the California Student Aid Commission for up to 6,500 teachers who satisfy all of the following: (1) complete initial or additional teaching credentials, a qualifying master's degree in education or teaching, or National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification; (2) agree to teach in a subject area designated as an area of teacher shortage; and (3) agree to teach at a school site that has a population of unduplicated English learner, students eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and foster youth equal to or greater than the district's unduplicated pupil count under the Local Control Funding Formula.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1396 (Hancock-D) Profession development: multitiered intervention and support

Requires the Department of Education to designate funds to a county office of education to establish professional development activities to support the development and expansion of multitiered intervention and support program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SR 57 (Huff-R) Education Equality Month

Proclaims June 2014 as Education Equality Month.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 135 (Buchanan-D) Certificated employees: evaluation

Requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to adopt a policy on the reporting of child abuse and the responsibilities of mandated reports, as specified, in accordance with the requirements of Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. Further requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, at a minimum, to review the mandated reporting requirements of school employees with all school personnel within the first six weeks of each school year, as part of a regularly scheduled staff meeting.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 215 (Chesbro-D) School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings

Modifies the dismissal procedures for certificated employees who have attained permanent status and establishes a separate set of dismissal processes for employees charged only with egregious misconduct, as specified.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2014

AB 430 (Olsen-R) Teacher Professional Growth Plan

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

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

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

AB 708 (Nestande-R) Teachers: compensation: career technical education teachers

Requires, for a teacher who holds a five-year clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential, that the three years of work experience, as specified, be deemed to be the equivalent of a baccalaureate degree, and requires that the holder of a five-year clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential be placed on and advance along the salary schedule of the school district in the same manner as a teacher with a baccalaureate degree.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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

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

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

Makes changes to the procedures used for dismissal and suspension proceedings for permanent certificated employees that are dismissed for serious or egregious unprofessional conduct, as defined, among other changes. Specifies that a collective bargaining agreement entered into or renewed on or after 1/1/15, shall not require the removal of an employee's records pertaining to discipline, complaints, reprimands, or investigations of potential offenses after any given time period. Authorizes a governing board to immediately suspend a permanent employee for serious or egregious unprofessional conduct, as defined, and adds serious or egregious unprofessional conduct as a reason for dismissal of a permanent employee.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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

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

AB 1432 (Gatto-D) School employees: training: mandated child abuse reporting

Requires local education agencies to annually train employees on their duties regarding the mandated reporting of child abuse and neglect, as specified.
Chapter 797, Statutes of 2014

AB 1469 (Bonta-D) State teachers' retirement: Defined Benefit Program: funding

Provides for statutory changes necessary to enact State Teachers' Retirement System provisions of the Budget Act of 2014.
Chapter 47, Statutes of 2014

AB 1562 (Gomez-D) Employment: leave

Expands eligibility for unpaid family and medical leave under the California Family Rights Act to public or private school employees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1606 (Chávez-R) Community college employee: leaves of absence

Allows California Community College academic and classified employees to use up to 30 days of leave, as specified, for the purpose of bonding with a new child.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2014

AB 1619 (Gonzalez-D) Permanent school employees

Allows certain educators and employees in small school districts, county offices of education, and regional occupational centers or programs to attain permanent employment under specified conditions.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1834 (Williams-D) Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act

Expands the definition of employees under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act to include student employees whose employment is contingent upon their status as students.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2084 (Morrell-R) School employees: discipline: suspension and dismissal

Defines, among other things, the egregious conduct of school employees, and revises numerous procedures for hearings of employees dismissed or suspended for a charge of egregious misconduct, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2168 (Campos-D) School employees: San Jose Unified School District

Declares that the San Jose Unified School District was, and is, authorized to enter into, and execute the provisions of, a specified collective bargaining agreement between that district and the San Jose Teachers Association.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2240 (Grove-R) School employees: elementary and secondary education

Requires district superintendents to make teacher transfer decisions in the best interest of pupils; and specifies that a school district may deviate from terminating or reappointing a certificated employee in order of seniority to achieve compliance with constitutional requirements related to equal protection of the law as it applies to pupils.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2295 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Community colleges: academic employees

Extends the length of time, from one year to three years, for which California Community College faculty are entitled to transfer a leave of absence for illness or injury upon his/her acceptance of election of employment to another school district or California Community College district.
Chapter 814, Statutes of 2014

AB 2324 (Williams-D) Trustees of the California State University

Provides that when the two-year term of office on California State University Board of Trustees ends for the appointed faculty member, and the Governor has not appointed a successor member, as specified, the faculty member may remain in office after the term expires for one additional year, or until a successor is appointed by the Governor, whichever occurs first.
Chapter 340, Statutes of 2014

AB 2558 (Williams-D) Community colleges: faculty and staff development

Renames the Community College Faculty and Staff Development Fund to the Community College Professional Development Program and provides that if funds are appropriated for this purpose, all employees, both faculty and staff, are eligible to receive professional development opportunities.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2014

AB 2559 (Eggman-D) Community college employees: suspension

Specifies that for purposes of Article 4 of the Sections 87660, et seq., of the Education Code, "suspension" includes, but is not limited to, involuntary leave with partial or full compensation during the period of leave.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2560 (Bonilla-D) Teacher credentialing: applications: child abuse reporting

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to require a credential holder, as part of the initial issuance or renewal of a credential, to read and attest by signature, a statement regarding their duties as a mandated reporter.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2014

HR 40 (Medina-D) School bus drivers

Recognizes school bus drivers for their continued and excellent services to youth of the State of California.
Adopted by the Assembly

Miscellaneous

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SB 173 (Liu-D) Education funding: adult education

Requires the Department of Education, in conjunction with the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (OCCCCs), to coordinate and issue assessment policy guidelines regarding assessments to be used by school districts and community college districts for purposes of placement in adult education courses offered by those districts as part of an adult education consortium. Requires the Department and the OCCCC, as a part of the report required under the adult education consortium program, to jointly develop and issue policy recommendations to the Legislature regarding a comprehensive accountability system for adult education courses offered by school districts and community college districts in accordance with prescribed requirements. Requires the OCCCC and the Department to coordinate and issue recommendations, including recommendations as to whether or not fees should be assessed, and fee policy guidelines to be used by school districts and community college districts regarding the authority to charge fees for courses offered pursuant to the adult education consortium program.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SB 331 (Liu-D) Libraries: collaborative network

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

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

Requires the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board to identify, and confirm by documentation, all persons who are eligible for scholarships under the California Memorial Scholarship Program by use of various methods, including, among others, media outreach and communication with the Special Master of the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, and, after creating a new list of eligible persons, to notify those persons of their eligibility by no later than 7/1/15. Requires the Scholarshare Investment Board to service these scholarships only for individuals determined to be eligible by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 2014

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

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

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

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

SB 451 (Huff-R) Open Enrollment Act

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

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

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

SB 565* (Knight-R) Public school volunteers

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

SB 596 (Yee-D) Pupil health: multitiered and integrated interventions

Requires the Department of Education to establish a three-year pilot program, as specified, to encourage inclusive practices that integrate mental health, special education, and school climate interventions following a multi-tiered framework.
(Died in the Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

SB 619 (Yee-D) State employees: training: civics orientation

Requires the Department of Education, if private funds are secured for this purpose, to develop and make available online a state employee civics orientation on federal and state government by 1/1/15. Requires employees hired or promoted after 7/1/15, to complete the orientation, and submit a certification statement to an appointing power or supervising official, to be kept and made available as specified.
(Died in the Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

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

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

SB 923 (Pavley-D) Educational apprenticeships

Establishes the Educational Apprenticeship Innovation Prize as a competitive grant program for purposes of promoting apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and career pathways between local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and businesses of importance to local economies.
Vetoed

SB 1007 (Wyland-R) Career technical education

States findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the need for career technical education programs, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to consider various measures to enhance and improve career technical education.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1055 (Liu-D) Public School Health Center Support Program

Renames the Public School Health Center Support Program the School-Based Health and Education Partnership Program and makes changes to the requirements and funding levels. Creates a new type of grant to fund interventions related to obesity, asthma, alcohol and substance abuse, and mental health.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1082 (Huff-R) Parent resources Internet Web site

Requires the Department of Education to create a dedicated parent resources Internet Web site that provides specified information concerning public education and specified school level data.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1107 (Monning-D) Pupil attendance: Attorney General report: truancy

Requires the Attorney General and the Department of Education to jointly submit a report on elementary school truancy and chronic absenteeism to the Governor, the Legislature, and to the State Board of Education, as specified, on or before 9/30/15, and annually thereafter. Requires, upon the request of the Attorney General or the Department of Education, county and local prosecuting authorities or local educational agencies, respectively, to provide specified information in anonymized format to the requesting entity.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1111 (Lara-D) Pupils: involuntary transfer: county community schools

Requires parental consent for referrals to a county community school by a school attendance review board, school district, or probation department, except for situations where a student is expelled or pursuant to a court order. Establishes the right of a student to reenroll in his/her former school or another school upon completion of the term of involuntary transfer to a county community school.
Chapter 837, Statutes of 2014

SB 1137 (Torres-D) School transportation: apportionments

Creates a new transportation funding formula, beginning in the 2015-16 fiscal year, to provide specified local education agencies (LEAs) with a minimum of 50% of approved transportation costs, thereby providing equalization funding for LEAs that are reimbursed at less than 50% through Home-to-School Transportation funding. Provides an annual cost-of-living adjustment for school transportation funding and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a process to provide start-up transportation funding to LEAs not currently providing transportation services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1172 (Steinberg-D) Pupil health: vision appraisals

Deletes the existing vision screening requirements and instead, requires, during the kindergarten year or upon first enrollment or entry in a California school district of a pupil at an elementary school, and in grades 2, 5, and 8, the pupil's vision to be appraised by the school nurse or other authorized person.
Chapter 925, Statutes of 2014

SB 1229 (Fuller-R) Week of the School Administrator

Moves the date of the "Week of the School Administrator" from the first full week in March to the second full week of October of each year.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2014

SB 1239 (Wolk-D) Pupil health care services: school nurses

Requires school districts that are eligible to receive concentration funding under the Local Control Funding Formula to employ at least one school nurse as a supervisor of health, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1347 (Anderson-R) Public contracts: school districts: charter schools

Requires a school district or charter school to annually post on its Internet Web site a list of any contracts for the construction of a public work or improvement involving an expenditure of more than $15,000 that was awarded in the prior calendar year, and requires the list to contain specified information.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1349 (Jackson-D) Information relating to competitive athletics

Requires public schools, including charter schools, to make public specific information regarding pupil participation in competitive athletics, beginning with the 2015-16 school year and annually thereafter. Makes legislative findings and declarations relative to gender equity in athletics.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2014

SB 1403 (Wolk-D) Library district: Dixon Unified School District

Authorizes the governing board of the Dixon Unified School District to provide, by resolution, that the Dixon Unified School District Library District shall be governed by a separate governing board, as specified. States the findings and declarations of the Legislature as to the necessity of a special law with respect to the Dixon Unified School District.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1405 (DeSaulnier-D) Pesticides: schoolsites

Requires, under the Healthy Schools Act of 2000, a school designee to post on the Internet Web site of a schoolsite an integrated pest management plan if certain pesticides are used at a schoolsite; requires reporting of specified pesticide use at a schoolsite; and requires individuals applying pesticides at schoolsites to complete an annual training.
Chapter 848, Statutes of 2014

SB 1455 (DeSaulnier-D) Public libraries: facilities: comprehensive needs assessment

Requires the State Librarian, using existing resources, to prepare a comprehensive assessment on the statewide need for the construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of public libraries, and submit a report to the Governor, the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst's Office, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before 8/15/15. Makes findings and declarations regarding public libraries, the role libraries play in the educational system and as a community's only public point of access to resources for learning, and the growing need for public library facilities.
Vetoed

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

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

SCR 3 (Huff-R) School Choice Week

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

SCR 79 (Galgiani-D) School and college textbooks: recycled paper

Urges the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the University of California, the Chancellor of the California State University, and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to ensure that all persons in their respective jurisdictions responsible for the procurement of school or college textbooks are aware of the benefits of recycled paper, and that those persons consider those benefits when purchasing textbooks for use in their respective institutions.
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2014

SCR 86 (Hueso-D) Heavy school backpacks

Acknowledges the health risks that heavy backpacks pose to schoolchildren and recommends that certain measures be taken in order to avoid injury.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2014

SCR 105 (Lieu-D) Financial Aid and Literacy Month

Declares the month of April 2014 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the continuing need for increased financial literacy.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2014

SCR 137 (Walters-R) National Child Awareness Month

Recognizes the month of September 2014 as National Child Awareness Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2014

SR 22 (Huff-R) School Choice Week

Recognizes the week of 1/26/14, through 2/1/14, as "School Choice Week."
Adopted by the Senate

SR 57 (Huff-R) Education Equality Month

Proclaims June 2014 as Education Equality Month.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SR 60 (Mitchell-D) Relative to mathematics misplacement

Requests local school boards to develop, adopt, and monitor a fair, objective, and transparent mathematics placement policy.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 275 (Alejo-D) Migrant education

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

AB 320 (Nazarian-D) Tobacco use programs

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

AB 475 (Brown-D) Student athletes: scholarships

Requires that, commencing with the 2015-16 academic year, certain requirements are placed on four-year universities located in California as it relates to student athletes; defines the terms "licensing fees" and "permission-to-contact letter" for purposes of the Student Athlete Bill of Rights; and specifies an institution of higher education that receives, as an average, less than $20 million in annual income derived from media rights and licensing fees for intercollegiate athletics shall not be subject to the requirements of this bill.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 558 (Cooley-D) Class size reduction

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

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

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

AB 684 (Medina-D) General educational development test

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

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

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

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

Makes changes to the eligibility criteria for the Parent Empowerment Program.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

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

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

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

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

AB 944 (Nestande-R) Distance learning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

AB 1279 (Conway-R) Open Enrollment Act

Expands the Open Enrollment Act, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1362 (Ting-D) Education technology

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

AB 1441 (Stone-D) Pupils in foster care: transfers between schools

Establishes requirements related to the transfer of credits for foster youth who transfer from one local education agency to another.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1442 (Gatto-D) Pupil records: social media

Requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school that considers a program, as specified, to gather or maintain in its records any information obtained from social media of any enrolled pupil to notify pupils and their parents about the proposed program.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2014

AB 1444 (Buchanan-D) Elementary education: kindergarten

Requires, beginning with the 2016-17 school year, a student to have completed one year of kindergarten before being admitted to the first grade, thereby requiring kindergarten attendance, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1518 (Eggman-D) Military: National Guard: youth challenge program

Codifies the authority in federal law for the existing California National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program and specifies certain geographic areas to be served, subject to the availability of funding.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2014

AB 1584 (Buchanan-D) Pupil records: privacy: 3rd-party contracts

Authorizes a local educational agency, pursuant to a policy adopted by its governing board or governing body, as appropriate, to enter into a contract with a third party to provide services for the digital storage, management, and retrieval of pupil records, provided the contract includes specific provisions about the use, ownership, and control of the pupil records, as specified.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2014

AB 1599 (Assembly Education Committee) Education: omnibus bill

Makes technical, non-controversial revisions to numerous provisions of the Education Code.
Chapter 327, Statutes of 2014

AB 1643 (Buchanan-D) Pupil attendance: school attendance review boards

Adds a representative of the county district attorney's office and a representative of the county public defender's office to county and local school attendance review boards and makes changes to the provisions governing school attendance review boards.
Chapter 879, Statutes of 2014

AB 1667 (Williams-D) Tuberculosis testing in schools

Replaces current mandatory tuberculosis testing for school employees and volunteers with a tuberculosis risk assessment administered by a health care provider.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 2014

AB 1670 (Donnelly-R) Open Enrollment Act: waiver: parent notice

Specifies the governing board of any school district requesting a waiver of the provisions of the Open Enrollment Act that require a school to be included on the list of low-achieving schools, shall send a written notice to the parents or guardians of each pupil attending each school that would otherwise be listed; and, specifies the notice shall include, but not be limited to, instruction on how to contact the State Board of Education regarding the request by the school district to waive the listing requirement.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1672 (Holden-D) Pupil attendance: truancy

Requires, beginning 6/1/15, the governing boards that have established a School Attendance Review Board to adopt rules and regulations requiring the school district to gather specified information for the prior school year.
Vetoed

AB 1677 (Gomez-D) Nursing education: service in public hospitals

Establishes a postsecondary education loan assumption program for registered nurses, or those in an accredited nursing program, who agree to work in specified state or local public health care facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1781 (Linder-R) California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program

Permits a person who receives a California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program grant to use the grant in summer session if the person submits a letter from his/her unit commander that states that the summer session will not adversely impact the person's attendance at mandatory military training, as specified.
Chapter 207, Statutes of 2014

AB 1817 (Gomez-D) Voter registration: high school pupils

Requires high schools to allow any person authorized to register voters by the county election official to do so on high school campuses during specified times, and authorizes high schools to appoint students to be voter outreach coordinators, as specified.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2014

AB 1840 (Campos-D) Pupil health: vision appraisal

Authorizes a child's vision to be appraised by using an eye chart or any scientifically validated photoscreening test. Requires photoscreening tests to be performed, under an agreement with, or the supervision of, an optometrist or ophthalmologist, by the school nurse or a trained individual who meets requirements established by the Department of Education.
Chapter 803, Statutes of 2014

AB 1851 (Bradford-D) School attendance: interdistrict attendance

Extends the sunset date, from 7/1/15 to 7/1/18, that authorizes county boards of education, with countywide average daily attendance greater than 180,000, to determine whether a pupil who has filed an interdistrict appeal should be permitted to attend in the district in which the pupil desires to attend, within 40 schooldays.
Chapter 104, Statutes of 2014

AB 1878 (Stone-D) Foster care: data

Proposes a series of changes to improve the sharing and protection of information and data related to the social, educational and health outcomes of children in foster care.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1950 (Campos-D) Career education: Career Education Incentive Program

Establishes the Career Education Incentive Program which provides one-to-one matching grant funds to school districts, charter schools, county offices of education, and community college districts for the purpose of regional career technical education programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1955 (Pan-D) Pupil health: Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, starting 7/1/14, to establish the Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration, to provide grants over a three year period to local educational agencies to employ one full-time school nurse and one full-time mental health professional, and ensure the schoolsite library is open one hour before and three hours after the regular school day. Authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt emergency regulations to implement the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2033 (Salas-D) Agricultural career technical education: grant funding

Provides a continuous appropriation of $4,134,000 each year, beginning in 2015-16, for the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2055 (Buchanan-D) Pupil instruction: bicycle safety instruction

Authorizes the governing board of the school district to provide time and facilities for bicycle safety instruction to other public agencies that provide bicycle safety instruction.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2111 (Ammiano-D) Pregnant and parenting teens: Cal-SAFE

Repeals existing statutes that govern the California School Age Families Education Program, and reestablishes Cal-SAFE as an optional program that may be offered by a local education agency, which includes school districts, charter schools, or county superintendents of schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2127 (Cooley-D) Interscholastic sports: full-contact football practices

Limits full-contact football practices and requires a student-athlete who has suffered a concussion or head injury to complete a graduated return-to-play protocol of at least seven days, as specified.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2014

AB 2133 (Chávez-R) Special education: certification

Requires a local educational agency to send the applicant an acknowledgment, rather than a signed verification to special education students, as specified. Deletes the provision requiring the Department of Education to mail renewal application materials, and instead requires the Department to provide electronic notification of the availability of these materials to certified nonpublic, nonsectarian schools and agencies at least 120 days before the date their current certification expires.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2141 (Hall-D) Pupil attendance: truancy: referrals for prosecution

Requires a state or local agency conducting a truancy-related mediation or prosecuting a pupil or a pupil's parent or legal guardian to provide the outcome of each referral to the agency that made a referral.
Chapter 897, Statutes of 2014

AB 2276 (Bocanegra-D) Pupils: transfers from juvenile court schools

Makes a number of changes regarding the transfer of pupils from juvenile court schools to district schools.
Chapter 901, Statutes of 2014

AB 2287* (Pan-D) Free and reduced-price meals: gluten-free meals

Requires school districts and county superintendents of schools to consider incorporating into the free or reduced-price meals application packet or notification of eligibility for the free or reduced-price meals program a notification and request for a gluten-free meal if a child qualifies for free or reduced-price school meals and the child has a statement from a licensed physician supporting a need for gluten-free meals, as specified. Requires school districts and county superintendents of schools to consider making meal substitutions for a child who does not meet the definition of disability pursuant to federal law but does have celiac disease, a wheat allergy, or a gluten intolerance and the child has provided a written statement to the school signed by a licensed physician identifying the child as having one of these conditions.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2341 (Quirk-Silva-D) California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System

Adds an indicator to the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to identify pupils of military families, and requires local educational agencies to report enrollment of pupils of military families, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2384 (Bradford-D) Schoolsite councils

Statutorily authorizes schoolsite councils to be established at any school and imposes requirements, as specified, on those schoolsite councils. Provides that the requirements proposed to be added by this bill regarding schoolsite councils shall prevail if the applicable provisions in existing law are in conflict.
Vetoed

AB 2449 (Bocanegra-D) Pupil nutrition: free or reduced-price meals: adequate time

Requires school districts and county offices of education to ensure that each of their schools provide students adequate time to eat after being served a meal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2481 (Bradford-D) Length of schoolday and school year

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before 12/1/15, to provide the Legislature with a cost-benefit analysis of the length or structure of school days or school years in public elementary and secondary schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2504 (Chau-D) Public contracts: schools: cloud service providers

Requires specified terms, related to data types and disclosure, to be included in a school district contract with a cloud service provider entered into on or after 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2512 (Bonilla-D) Pupil rights: gender equity: interscholastic athletics

Authorizes, beginning 1/1/18, school districts and county offices of education to include information relative to compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) gender equity in the "school climate" category of local control and accountability plans.
Vetoed

AB 2555 (Bocanegra-D) Cradle-to-career initiatives: plan

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in collaboration with various other state agencies and private organizations, to develop a five year plan for expanding cradle-to-career initiatives in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2602 (Eggman-D) Farm to School Program

Establishes the Farm to School Program within the Department of Food and Agriculture, contingent upon funding provided by the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2706 (Roger Hernández-D) Schools: health care coverage: enrollment assistance

Requires schools to add to enrollment forms, for the 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 school years, information about health care coverage options and enrollment assistance, as specified.
Chapter 827, Statutes of 2014

AB 2710 (Muratsuchi-D) School superintendent contracts: ethics training

Requires school district and County Office of Education officials to receive ethics training and makes changes related to employment contracts and public disclosure.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 109 (Brown-D) Latino Education and Advocacy Days

Declares the last week of March every year as a statewide week of advocacy for Latino education.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2014

ACR 115 (Ian Calderon-D) California Museum Month

Proclaims May 2014 as California Museum Month and recognizes the essential role that museums have in the State of California as educational institutions.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2014

ACR 124 (Wieckowski-D) Mathematics Awareness Month

Proclaims April 2014 as Mathematics Awareness Month and, among other things, encourages colleges, universities, and other organizations to hold events to celebrate Mathematics Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 46, Statutes of 2014

ACR 140 (Weber-D) 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

Commemorates the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education decision, one of the landmark United States Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century.
Resolution Chapter 157, Statutes of 2014

ACR 149 (Weber-D) School Attendance Awareness Month

Designates the month of September 2014 as School Attendance Awareness Month, and encourages public officials, educators, and communities in California to observe the month with appropriate activities and programs.
Resolution Chapter 142, Statutes of 2014

ACR 166 (Atkins-D) Dropout Recovery Week

Declares the week of 8/4/14, to 8/10/14, inclusive, as Dropout Recovery Week, and states that the Legislature intends to encourage the support of dropout recovery high schools with creative teaching strategies, alternative assessments, and adequate resources.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2014

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

Declares that the Legislature supports federal standards for healthy meals, including those standards recently adopted pursuant to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, urges the President and the Congress of the U.S. to ensure that reimbursement rates for school meals are adequate to fully fund the cost of producing a nutritious school meal relative to the cost of living in a region, and states that the eligibility scale used to qualify families for free and reduced-priced meals be adjusted, as specified.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2014

 

 

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Measure and Reference Author Measure Title
SB 8 - Higher Education Yee-D Public postsecondary education: executive compensation
SB 10 - Teachers and School Employees Padilla-D School employees: dismissal, suspension and leave of absence
SB 49 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Lieu-D School safety plans
SB 58* - Higher Education Cannella-R Public postsecondary education: funding
SB 63 - School Finance Wolk-D School attendance: high schools
SB 143* - School Finance Fuller-R Education finance: necessary small high schools
SB 160 - Teachers and School Employees Lara-D Classified school employees: misconduct against a child
SB 173 - Miscellaneous Liu-D Education funding: adult education
SB 174* - Higher Education De León-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
SB 174* - School Finance De León-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
SB 192 - Child and Day Care Liu-D Early learning and educational support services
SB 192 - Miscellaneous Liu-D Early learning and educational support services
SB 212* - Higher Education Pavley-D Student financial aid: school loans assumption
SB 223 - School Accountability Liu-D Maximum Categorical Funding Flexibility and Accountability
SB 223 - School Finance Liu-D Education finance: categorical funding
SB 231 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Correa-D Bullying: California Bullying Prevention Clearinghouse
SB 237 - Miscellaneous Calderon-D High school diplomas: retroactive: veterans
SB 267 - School Accountability Pavley-D Pupil assessment: eligible pupil with a disability
SB 302 - Miscellaneous Cannella-R School cafeterias: cafeteria fund
SB 312 - Miscellaneous Knight-R Absences: confidential medical services: consent
SB 316 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Block-D School safety: door locks
SB 329 - Higher Education Gaines-R Lake Tahoe Community College: nonresident tuition
SB 331 - Miscellaneous Liu-D Libraries: collaborative network
SB 384* - Miscellaneous Gaines-R California Memorial Scholarship Program
SB 386 - School Finance Correa-D School finance: county superintendents of schools
SB 420 - Higher Education Walters-R Public postsecondary education: resident classification
SB 421 - Miscellaneous Hernandez-D Grants: economically disadvantaged high school pupils
SB 428* - School Safety/Pupil Safety Anderson-R School safety: The Safe Classrooms Act
SB 430 - Miscellaneous Wright-D Pupil health: vision examination: binocular function
SB 432 - School Accountability Price-D School accountability: advisory committee: creativity index
SB 441 - Teachers and School Employees Calderon-D Education employment: certificated employees
SB 451 - Miscellaneous Huff-R Open Enrollment Act
SB 452 - Miscellaneous Huff-R School intervention: parent empowerment
SB 453 - Teachers and School Employees Huff-R School employees: teachers: evaluation: termination
SB 464 - Child and Day Care Jackson-D Child care: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Act
SB 466 - Higher Education DeSaulnier-D California Institute for Criminal Justice Policy
SB 495 - Higher Education Yee-D Postsecondary education employees: physicians
SB 502 - Higher Education Block-D University of California: bidding requirements
SB 512 - School Accountability Wyland-R Pupil assessment: high school exit examination
SB 517 - Higher Education Wyland-R Teacher Preparation Grant Program
SB 518 - School Curriculum Wyland-R Pupil instruction: science and mathematics
SB 520 - Higher Education Steinberg-D California Online Student Incentive Grant programs
SB 521 - School Curriculum Wyland-R Civics and American government education
SB 524 - School Curriculum Lara-D Pupil instruction: Pathways Curriculum Task Force
SB 531 - Teachers and School Employees Knight-R School employees: discipline: suspension and dismissal
SB 542 - School Accountability Wyland-R Pupils: English learners: reclassification
SB 544 - School Safety/Pupil Safety DeSaulnier-D School safety programs: funding
SB 547 - Higher Education Block-D Public postsecondary education: online courses
SB 559 - Teachers and School Employees Huff-R Certificated employees: layoff notices
SB 561 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Fuller-R Pupil discipline: expulsions: mental health evaluation
SB 565* - Miscellaneous Knight-R Public school volunteers
SB 587 - School Finance Emmerson-R School finance: categorical programs
SB 596 - Miscellaneous Yee-D Pupil health: multitiered and integrated interventions
SB 619 - Miscellaneous Yee-D State employees: training: civics orientation
SB 634 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Price-D School safety plans: safety drills
SB 657 - Teachers and School Employees Block-D Teachers: evaluations
SB 660 - School Finance Hancock-D School finance: career technical education
SB 682 - Higher Education Lara-D California State University: student enrollment
SB 687 - Miscellaneous Anderson-R School volunteers: school facility maintenance
SB 696 - School Accountability Block-D School accountability: Academic Performance Index: civics
SB 705 - Higher Education Block-D Community colleges: appropriation
SB 714 - School Curriculum Block-D Pupil instruction: independent study
SB 730 - Higher Education Hancock-D School districts: pupil attendance at community college
SB 836 - Higher Education Corbett-D Brain research: Cal-BRAIN program
SB 837 - Teachers and School Employees Steinberg-D Professional development: early childhood education
SB 840 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Lara-D Local educational agency policies against bullying
SB 841 - Higher Education Cannella-R University of California: medical education
SB 843 - Teachers and School Employees Correa-D School employees: discipline: dismissal and suspension
SB 845 - Higher Education Correa-D Postsecondary education: electronic disbursement of student
SB 850 - Higher Education Block-D Community college districts: baccalaureate degree program
SB 858 - School Finance Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill
SB 859 - School Finance Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance: local control funding formula
SB 860 - School Finance Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill
SB 869* - School Facilities Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee School facilities: construction: bond act
SB 876 - School Finance Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Education finance
SB 897 - School Curriculum Steinberg-D Pupil instruction: independent study
SB 915 - School Accountability Hill-D Standardized testing: inadequate or improper test conditions
SB 923 - Miscellaneous Pavley-D Educational apprenticeships
SB 943 - Higher Education Beall-D California State University: personal services contracting
SB 945 - School Accountability Morrell-R California Assessment of Student Performance
SB 949 - Child and Day Care Jackson-D Distinguished After School Health Recognition Program
SB 965* - Higher Education Leno-D San Francisco Community College District funding
SB 967 - School Safety/Pupil Safety De León-D University and college student safety: sexual assault
SB 971 - School Finance Huff-R School finance: categorical programs
SB 999 - Higher Education Liu-D CalFresh: student eligibility
SB 1006 - School Curriculum Wyland-R School curriculum: American history and government
SB 1007 - Miscellaneous Wyland-R Career technical education
SB 1008 - School Curriculum Wyland-R Science education: STEM curriculum
SB 1016* - School Curriculum Wyland-R Pupil instruction: common core academic content standards
SB 1017* - School Finance Evans-D Education finance: oil and gas severance tax
SB 1022 - Higher Education Huff-R Postsecondary education: labor market outcome information
SB 1023 - Higher Education Liu-D Community colleges: foster youth
SB 1028 - School Finance Jackson-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant C awards
SB 1047 - School Finance Walters-R Education finance: budgets: long-term obligations
SB 1055 - Miscellaneous Liu-D Public School Health Center Support Program
SB 1057 - School Curriculum Corbett-D Pupil curriculum: history-social science content standards
SB 1060 - Teachers and School Employees Liu-D School employees: professional growth
SB 1067 - School Facilities Beall-D Schoolsites: selection
SB 1068 - Higher Education Beall-D Community colleges: accreditation
SB 1069 - School Finance Torres-D Student Tuition Recovery Fund: claims
SB 1070 - Charter Schools Huff-R Charter schools: admissions: preferences
SB 1082 - Miscellaneous Huff-R Parent resources Internet Web site
SB 1105 - School Finance Liu-D Cal Grant Program application: voter registration
SB 1107 - Miscellaneous Monning-D Pupil attendance: Attorney General report: truancy
SB 1108 - School Accountability Padilla-D English learners: reclassification
SB 1111 - Miscellaneous Lara-D Pupils: involuntary transfer: county community schools
SB 1112 - School Facilities Hueso-D Fire protection: school inspection: fire alarm systems
SB 1123 - Child and Day Care Liu-D Child care and development services
SB 1137 - Miscellaneous Torres-D School transportation: apportionments
SB 1143 - School Curriculum Liu-D Pupil instruction: independent study
SB 1149 - Higher Education Galgiani-D Cal Grant Program: appeals process
SB 1149 - School Finance Galgiani-D Cal Grant Program: renewal awards
SB 1157 - School Facilities Hancock-D School Facilities Funding
SB 1164 - Teachers and School Employees Liu-D School employees: discipline: dismissal and suspension
SB 1165 - School Curriculum Mitchell-D Sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention and education
SB 1166* - School Finance Vidak-R Education finance: home-to-school transportation
SB 1172 - Miscellaneous Steinberg-D Pupil health: vision appraisals
SB 1174 - School Curriculum Lara-D English language education
SB 1177 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Steinberg-D Student Online Personal Information Protection Act
SB 1185 - Teachers and School Employees Huff-R School teachers: termination and reappointment
SB 1196 - Higher Education Liu-D Public postsecondary education: state goals
SB 1200 - School Curriculum Padilla-D Public postsecondary education: academic standards
SB 1210 - Higher Education Lara-D Postsecondary education: California DREAM Loan Program
SB 1221 - School Finance Hancock-D After school programs
SB 1221 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Hancock-D After school programs
SB 1229 - Miscellaneous Fuller-R Week of the School Administrator
SB 1239 - Miscellaneous Wolk-D Pupil health care services: school nurses
SB 1247 - Higher Education Lieu-D California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009
SB 1248 - School Finance Lara-D California Collaborative for Educational Excellence
SB 1263 - Charter Schools Pavley-D Charter school location
SB 1264 - Higher Education Pavley-D Educator Excellence Program: loan assumption agreements
SB 1264 - Teachers and School Employees Pavley-D Educator Excellence Program: Loan Assumption Agreements
SB 1266 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Huff-R Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors
SB 1317 - Charter Schools Huff-R Charter schools
SB 1325 - Higher Education Yee-D California State University: contractors
SB 1330 - Higher Education Hueso-D Public postsecondary education: resident classification
SB 1346 - School Accountability Wyland-R Schools: local control and accountability plans
SB 1346 - School Finance Wyland-R Schools: local control and accountability plans
SB 1347 - Miscellaneous Anderson-R Public contracts: school districts: charter schools
SB 1349 - Miscellaneous Jackson-D Information relating to competitive athletics
SB 1369 - Higher Education Block-D Community colleges: Disability Services Program
SB 1380 - School Curriculum Wyland-R Pupil instruction: social science: genocide
SB 1387 - School Curriculum Liu-D Pupil instruction: independent study
SB 1391 - Higher Education Hancock-D Community colleges: inmate education programs
SB 1394* - School Finance Wyland-R Education finance: local control funding formula
SB 1396 - School Finance Hancock-D Multitiered intervention and support program
SB 1396 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Hancock-D School climate: multitiered intervention and support program
SB 1396 - Teachers and School Employees Hancock-D Profession development: multitiered intervention and support
SB 1400 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Hancock-D Community colleges: protective orders
SB 1403 - Miscellaneous Wolk-D Library district: Dixon Unified School District
SB 1405 - Miscellaneous DeSaulnier-D Pesticides: schoolsites
SB 1419 - School Curriculum Wyland-R American military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
SB 1421 - School Finance Fuller-R School facilities: school sites on military bases
SB 1425 - Higher Education Block-D Community colleges: degree audit system
SB 1455 - Miscellaneous DeSaulnier-D Public libraries: facilities: comprehensive needs assessment
SCA 5 - Miscellaneous Hernandez-D Public education: student recruitment and selection
SCA 15 - Higher Education Yee-D University of California: retirement benefits
SCR 3 - Miscellaneous Huff-R School Choice Week
SCR 79 - Miscellaneous Galgiani-D School and college textbooks: recycled paper
SCR 86 - Miscellaneous Hueso-D Heavy school backpacks
SCR 105 - Miscellaneous Lieu-D Financial Aid and Literacy Month
SCR 137 - Miscellaneous Walters-R National Child Awareness Month
SR 22 - Miscellaneous Huff-R School Choice Week
SR 47 - Higher Education Leno-D City College of San Francisco
SR 57 - Teachers and School Employees Huff-R Education Equality Month
SR 57 - Miscellaneous Huff-R Education Equality Month
SR 60 - Miscellaneous Mitchell-D Relative to mathematics misplacement
AB 13* - Higher Education Conway-R Nonresident tuition exemption: veterans
AB 41 - School Facilities Buchanan-D School facilities: school building capacity
AB 46 - Higher Education Pan-D California State University: online education
AB 51 - Higher Education Logue-R Postsecondary education: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program
AB 67* - Higher Education Olsen-R Public postsecondary education: funding
AB 88* - School Finance Buchanan-D School finance: new pupil funding formula
AB 127 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Skinner-D Fire safety: fire retardants: building insulation
AB 135 - Teachers and School Employees Buchanan-D Certificated employees: evaluation
AB 136 - School Facilities Buchanan-D School facilities: sale or lease of real property
AB 138 - Higher Education Olsen-R Public postsecondary education: undergraduate tuition
AB 146* - School Finance Gorell-R School finance: annual budgets: reserve balance
AB 159 - Higher Education Chávez-R Postsecondary education: tuition and mandatory fees
AB 181 - Higher Education Logue-R Postsecondary education: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program
AB 200 - School Finance Hagman-R Education finance: categorical programs
AB 202 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Donnelly-R School security: School Marshal Plan
AB 215 - Teachers and School Employees Chesbro-D School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings
AB 239 - School Facilities Hagman-R School financing: common core implementation
AB 255 - Higher Education Waldron-R Public postsecondary education: digital arts pilot program
AB 273 - Child and Day Care Rendon-D California Partnership for Infants and Toddlers Act
AB 275 - Miscellaneous Alejo-D Migrant education
AB 283 - Higher Education Bloom-D Community colleges: property tax revenues
AB 303 - Higher Education Ian Calderon-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program: U.S. Armed Forces
AB 314 - Higher Education Pan-D Colleges/universities: health care coverage: student plans
AB 320 - Miscellaneous Nazarian-D Tobacco use programs
AB 330 - Higher Education Chau-D Student financial aid: information
AB 342 - School Curriculum Blumenfield-D Online instruction and independent study
AB 348 - School Finance Conway-R School finance: necessary small schools
AB 349 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Gatto-D Classified school employees: allegations of misconduct
AB 368 - Higher Education Morrell-R Public postsecondary education: resident classification
AB 377 - Charter Schools Grove-R Online charter schools
AB 377 - School Finance Grove-R School finance: online charter schools
AB 387 - Higher Education Levine-D Public postsecondary education: online education
AB 391 - School Curriculum Wieckowski-D Pupil instruction: personal finances
AB 420 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Dickinson-D Pupil discipline: suspensions and expulsions
AB 430 - Teachers and School Employees Olsen-R Teacher Professional Growth Plan
AB 445 - Charter Schools Chávez-R Charter schools: oversight
AB 450 - Higher Education Jones-Sawyer-D Postsecondary education: community college trustee areas
AB 455 - School Curriculum Medina-D Common core standards: Braille and American Sign Language
AB 470 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Mullin-D School safety and teacher training
AB 470 - Teachers and School Employees Mullin-D Teacher training: school safety
AB 475 - Miscellaneous Brown-D Student athletes: scholarships
AB 479* - Higher Education Donnelly-R Textbooks: sales and use taxes: exemptions
AB 534 - Higher Education Wieckowski-D Postsecondary education: student loan counseling
AB 548 - Higher Education Salas-D Community college registered nursing programs
AB 558 - Miscellaneous Cooley-D Class size reduction
AB 586 - Higher Education Fox-D Community colleges
AB 640 - Higher Education Hall-D Cal Grant Program: renewal awards
AB 641 - Child and Day Care Rendon-D Child care: family child care providers
AB 646 - School Curriculum Cooley-D Public education governance: regional P-20 councils: advisor
AB 656 - Charter Schools Chávez-R Charter schools: establishment
AB 659 - School Curriculum Nazarian-D Pupil instruction: Armenian Genocide
AB 675 - Higher Education Fong-D Community colleges: employment of faculty
AB 682 - Miscellaneous Ian Calderon-D State procurement: food: plumped poultry
AB 684 - Miscellaneous Medina-D General educational development test
AB 699 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Donnelly-R School safety: Safe School Guarantee
AB 708 - Teachers and School Employees Nestande-R Teachers: compensation: career technical education teachers
AB 728 - Miscellaneous Muratsuchi-D Land use: school advertising displays
AB 733 - Higher Education Mansoor-R Community colleges: academic credit for military training
AB 734 - Higher Education Mansoor-R University of California: regent meetings
AB 736 - Higher Education Fox-D California State University: Antelope Valley campus
AB 806 - Higher Education Wilk-R Community colleges: salaries of classroom instructors
AB 815 - Miscellaneous Conway-R School intervention: parent empowerment
AB 834* - Higher Education Williams-D School Performance Fact Sheets
AB 895 - Higher Education Rendon-D Postsecondary education: online education task force
AB 913 - Charter Schools Chau-D Charter schools
AB 938 - Higher Education Weber-D Public postsecondary education: fees
AB 938 - School Accountability Weber-D Standardized tests: reports
AB 939 - Miscellaneous Melendez-R Pupil and school personnel health
AB 940 - Miscellaneous Morrell-R Schools: volunteers: school facility maintenance
AB 943* - School Finance Nestande-R K-12 education programs and scholarships
AB 944 - Miscellaneous Nestande-R Distance learning
AB 947 - Teachers and School Employees Beth Gaines-R School employees: terminations
AB 948 - Charter Schools Olsen-R Charter School Grant Facility Program
AB 950 - Higher Education Chau-D Community colleges: full-time instructors
AB 951 - Miscellaneous Medina-D Educational rights of homeless children
AB 959 - School Accountability Bonilla-D Pupil assessment
AB 970 - Miscellaneous Alejo-D Pupils: limited English proficiency
AB 977 - Higher Education Salas-D Community colleges: career technical education programs
AB 1015 - School Facilities Hagman-R School facilities: high-performance grants and tax credits
AB 1016 - Miscellaneous Quirk-Silva-D Foreign language instruction: teaching credential
AB 1032 - Charter Schools Gordon-D Charter school facilities
AB 1032 - School Facilities Gordon-D Charter schools: facilities
AB 1066 - School Finance Holden-D School finance: average daily enrollment
AB 1076 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Olsen-R School safety: panic buttons
AB 1085* - Higher Education Beth Gaines-R Cal Grant Program: private institutions
AB 1086 - Charter Schools Morrell-R Charter schools: financial reports
AB 1093 - Higher Education Grove-R Student financial aid: veterans
AB 1146 - Higher Education Morrell-R Community colleges: concurrent enrollment
AB 1152 - School Finance Ammiano-D School finance: categorical programs
AB 1162 - Higher Education Frazier-D Student financial aid: debit cards
AB 1178 - School Curriculum Bocanegra-D Pupil instruction: CA Promise Neighborhood Initiative
AB 1199* - Higher Education Fong-D Community colleges: funding
AB 1209 - Higher Education Bonilla-D Teacher credentialing: visiting faculty permits
AB 1214 - School Finance Muratsuchi-D Regional centers and programs: funding
AB 1216 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Campos-D Pupil discipline suspension and expulsion: hate violence
AB 1221 - Teachers and School Employees Wilk-R School employees: discipline: suspension and dismissal
AB 1241 - Higher Education Weber-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 1261 - Child and Day Care Holden-D Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits
AB 1261 - School Facilities Holden-D Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits
AB 1264 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Conway-R Comprehensive school safety plans: tactical response plans
AB 1271 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Bonta-D School safety plans: pupil mental health care
AB 1279 - Miscellaneous Conway-R Open Enrollment Act
AB 1285 - Higher Education Fong-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 1306 - Higher Education Wilk-R Public postsecondary education: New University of California
AB 1318 - Higher Education Bonilla-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 1338 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Buchanan-D School employees: child abuse: reporting
AB 1338 - Teachers and School Employees Buchanan-D School employees: child abuse: reporting
AB 1348 - Higher Education John A. Pérez-D California Higher Education Authority
AB 1362 - Miscellaneous Ting-D Education technology
AB 1364 - Higher Education Ting-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 1432 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Gatto-D Mandated child abuse reporting: school employees: training
AB 1432 - Teachers and School Employees Gatto-D School employees: training: mandated child abuse reporting
AB 1433* - School Safety/Pupil Safety Gatto-D Student safety
AB 1441 - Miscellaneous Stone-D Pupils in foster care: transfers between schools
AB 1442 - Miscellaneous Gatto-D Pupil records: social media
AB 1444 - Miscellaneous Buchanan-D Elementary education: kindergarten
AB 1451 - Higher Education Holden-D Concurrent enrollment
AB 1455 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Campos-D Pupils: bullying: counseling services
AB 1456 - Higher Education Jones-Sawyer-D Higher education: tuition and fees: study
AB 1463 - School Finance Assembly Budget Committee Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill
AB 1464 - School Finance Assembly Budget Committee Education finance: local control funding formula
AB 1465 - School Finance Assembly Budget Committee Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill
AB 1469 - Teachers and School Employees Bonta-D State teachers' retirement: Defined Benefit Program: funding
AB 1473* - School Facilities Assembly Budget Committee Budget Act of 2014: Education Facilities Trailer Bill
AB 1480 - School Finance Assembly Budget Committee Budget Act of 2014: Education Trailer Bill
AB 1518 - Miscellaneous Eggman-D Military: National Guard: youth challenge program
AB 1530 - School Curriculum Chau-D Model curricula: computer science
AB 1531 - Charter Schools Chau-D Charter schools operating as a nonprofit
AB 1538 - Higher Education Eggman-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 1539 - School Curriculum Hagman-R Content standards: computer science
AB 1540 - Higher Education Hagman-R Concurrent enrollment: secondary school: community colleges
AB 1544 - Higher Education Allen-R Student financial aid
AB 1548 - School Accountability Mullin-D Standardized tests: reports
AB 1549 - Higher Education Rendon-D Postsecondary education: sexual assault: audits
AB 1557 - Higher Education Holden-D Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
AB 1562 - Teachers and School Employees Gomez-D Employment: leave
AB 1573 - School Accountability Jones-Sawyer-D Student Achievement via Excellence accountability system
AB 1581 - School Facilities Buchanan-D School facilities: construction contracts
AB 1584 - Miscellaneous Buchanan-D Pupil records: privacy: 3rd-party contracts
AB 1590 - Higher Education Wieckowski-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 1599 - Miscellaneous Assembly Education Committee Education: omnibus bill
AB 1606 - Higher Education Chávez-R Community college employee: leaves of absence
AB 1606 - Teachers and School Employees Chávez-R Community college employee: leaves of absence
AB 1616 - School Curriculum Buchanan-D Pupil instruction: civics
AB 1619 - Teachers and School Employees Gonzalez-D Permanent school employees
AB 1643 - Miscellaneous Buchanan-D Pupil attendance: school attendance review boards
AB 1647 - School Facilities Wilk-R Bonds: school districts and community college districts
AB 1664 - School Facilities Hagman-R School facilities: sale or lease of real property
AB 1667 - Miscellaneous Williams-D Tuberculosis testing in schools
AB 1668* - School Facilities Wieckowski-D California Educational Facilities Authority
AB 1670 - Miscellaneous Donnelly-R Open Enrollment Act: waiver: parent notice
AB 1672 - Miscellaneous Holden-D Pupil attendance: truancy
AB 1677 - Miscellaneous Gomez-D Nursing education: service in public hospitals
AB 1719 - School Accountability Weber-D Kindergarten: evaluation and annual reporting
AB 1726 - School Facilities Bonta-D Oakland Unified School District: sale of surplus property
AB 1750 - School Curriculum Alejo-D High school: ethnic studies
AB 1754 - School Curriculum Hagman-R Portable electronic devices and instructional materials
AB 1754 - School Finance Hagman-R Portable electronic devices and instructional materials
AB 1764 - School Curriculum Olsen-R School curriculum: mathematics: computer science
AB 1781 - Miscellaneous Linder-R California National Guard Education Assistance Award Program
AB 1806 - School Accountability Bloom-D Completed coursework: homeless children or youth
AB 1817 - Miscellaneous Gomez-D Voter registration: high school pupils
AB 1825 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Nazarian-D Los Angeles Unified School District: inspector general
AB 1834 - Higher Education Williams-D Higher Education Employees
AB 1834 - Teachers and School Employees Williams-D Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act
AB 1838 - Higher Education Bonilla-D Healing arts: medical school accreditation
AB 1840 - Miscellaneous Campos-D Pupil health: vision appraisal
AB 1851 - Miscellaneous Bradford-D School attendance: interdistrict attendance
AB 1854 - School Curriculum Linder-R Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate fees
AB 1866 - School Accountability Bocanegra-D Pupil attendance: California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement
AB 1878 - Miscellaneous Stone-D Foster care: data
AB 1879 - School Accountability Ian Calderon-D School accountability: local control and accountability plan
AB 1892 - School Accountability Bocanegra-D Pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient
AB 1902 - Child and Day Care Bonta-D California State Preschool Program: part-day preschool: fees
AB 1906 - Higher Education Wilk-R Community college property: direct costs for use
AB 1912 - School Curriculum Holden-D Pupil instruction: election of President of Barack Obama
AB 1915 - School Curriculum Nazarian-D Pupil instruction: social sciences: Armenian Genocide
AB 1924 - Higher Education Logue-R Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program
AB 1925 - Higher Education Logue-R Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program: University of California
AB 1927 - Higher Education Frazier-D Student financial aid: debit cards
AB 1931 - School Accountability Morrell-R California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress
AB 1940 - School Curriculum Holden-D Advanced placement program: grant program: STEM curriculum
AB 1942 - Higher Education Bonta-D Community colleges: accreditation
AB 1944 - Child and Day Care Garcia-D Child care: administration: preferred placement of children
AB 1946 - School Finance Chesbro-D School finance: necessary small high schools
AB 1950 - Miscellaneous Campos-D Career education: Career Education Incentive Program
AB 1953 - Higher Education Skinner-D Higher Education Energy Efficiency Act: financial assistance
AB 1955 - Miscellaneous Pan-D Pupil health: Healthy Kids, Healthy Minds Demonstration
AB 1969 - Higher Education Levine-D Postsecondary education: intersegmental coordination
AB 1971 - School Facilities Bocanegra-D Best Value procurement pilot program
AB 1976 - Higher Education Quirk-Silva-D Student financial aid: Competitive Cal Grant A and B awards
AB 1977 - Higher Education Roger Hernández-D Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships
AB 1979 - School Facilities Nazarian-D School facilities: California School Finance Authority
AB 1989 - Higher Education Chesbro-D Underage drinkers: students: winemaking and brewery programs
AB 1993 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Fox-D Bullying: training module
AB 2000 - Higher Education Gomez-D Public postsecondary education: nonresident tuition
AB 2007 - Charter Schools Grove-R Virtual or online charter schools: average daily attendance
AB 2016 - School Curriculum Campos-D Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention
AB 2016 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Campos-D Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention
AB 2020 - Charter Schools Buchanan-D Charter schools: pupil instruction: driver education
AB 2033 - Miscellaneous Salas-D Agricultural career technical education: grant funding
AB 2055 - Miscellaneous Buchanan-D Pupil instruction: bicycle safety instruction
AB 2057 - School Accountability Bonilla-D Pupil assessment: alternate performance assessments
AB 2070 - Higher Education Campos-D Community college: apprenticeship instructors: qualification
AB 2084 - Teachers and School Employees Morrell-R School employees: discipline: suspension and dismissal
AB 2087 - Higher Education Ammiano-D Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
AB 2092 - Higher Education Chávez-R Donahoe Higher Education Act: 4-year baccalaureate degree
AB 2099 - Higher Education Frazier-D Postsecondary education: Title 38 awards
AB 2103 - Higher Education Gomez-D Community colleges: student fees
AB 2110 - School Curriculum Ting-D Pupil instruction: computer science
AB 2111 - Miscellaneous Ammiano-D Pregnant and parenting teens: Cal-SAFE
AB 2120 - Child and Day Care Ridley-Thomas-D Compensation: child care instructor
AB 2125 - Child and Day Care Ridley-Thomas-D Child care: standard reimbursement rates
AB 2127 - Miscellaneous Cooley-D Interscholastic sports: full-contact football practices
AB 2133 - Miscellaneous Chávez-R Special education: certification
AB 2141 - Miscellaneous Hall-D Pupil attendance: truancy: referrals for prosecution
AB 2152 - Higher Education Levine-D Public postsecondary education institutions: contracts
AB 2153 - Higher Education Gray-D Postsecondary education: course offerings
AB 2160 - Higher Education Ting-D Cal Grant Program: grade point average
AB 2167 - School Accountability Muratsuchi-D Pupils: California Healthy Kids Survey
AB 2167 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Muratsuchi-D Pupils: California Healthy Kids Survey
AB 2168 - Teachers and School Employees Campos-D School employees: San Jose Unified School District
AB 2178 - School Curriculum Levine-D Pupil instruction: Blended Learning Pilot Program
AB 2216 - School Finance Muratsuchi-D Regional occupational centers and programs: funding
AB 2217 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Melendez-R Pupil and personnel health: automated external defibrillator
AB 2225 - Charter Schools Allen-R Charter schools: accountability: charter revocation
AB 2225 - School Accountability Allen-R Charter schools: accountability: charter revocation
AB 2232 - Higher Education Gray-D University of California: medical education
AB 2235* - School Facilities Buchanan-D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
AB 2235* - School Finance Buchanan-D Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act
AB 2240 - Teachers and School Employees Grove-R School employees: elementary and secondary education
AB 2247 - Higher Education Williams-D Postsecondary education: accreditation documents
AB 2265 - Higher Education Weber-D California State University: educational opportunity program
AB 2276 - Miscellaneous Bocanegra-D Pupils: transfers from juvenile court schools
AB 2287* - Miscellaneous Pan-D Free and reduced-price meals: gluten-free meals
AB 2295 - Higher Education Ridley-Thomas-D Community college faculty: sick leave
AB 2295 - Teachers and School Employees Ridley-Thomas-D Community colleges: academic employees
AB 2296 - School Accountability Hagman-R English learners: assessment of English language development
AB 2302 - Child and Day Care Mullin-D Child care and developmental services: facilities
AB 2303 - School Accountability Bloom-D State Recognition Program of Multiple Pathways to Biliteracy
AB 2307 - School Accountability Donnelly-R Common core academic content standards
AB 2319 - School Finance Bonilla-D School finance: Broadband Infrastructure Fund
AB 2324 - Higher Education Williams-D Trustees of the California State University: faculty member
AB 2324 - Teachers and School Employees Williams-D Trustees of the California State University
AB 2341 - Miscellaneous Quirk-Silva-D California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
AB 2350 - Higher Education Bonilla-D Equity in Higher Education Act: pregnancy discrimination
AB 2352 - Higher Education Chesbro-D Community colleges: early and middle college high schools
AB 2377 - School Finance John A. Pérez-D Student loans: California Student Loan Refinancing Program
AB 2380 - School Accountability Weber-D Single plan for pupil achievement categorical programs
AB 2384 - Miscellaneous Bradford-D Schoolsite councils
AB 2408 - School Accountability Allen-R School accountability: local control and accountability plan
AB 2431 - Higher Education Dababneh-D Postsecondary education: animal research
AB 2437 - School Facilities Hagman-R School infrastructure: network infrastructure
AB 2440 - School Accountability Hagman-R Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress
AB 2445 - Higher Education Chau-D Community colleges: transportation fees
AB 2449 - Miscellaneous Bocanegra-D Pupil nutrition: free or reduced-price meals: adequate time
AB 2481 - Miscellaneous Bradford-D Length of schoolday and school year
AB 2486 - Higher Education Gomez-D Exemption of nonresident tuition for victims of crime
AB 2486 - School Finance Gomez-D Exemption of nonresident tuition for victims
AB 2504 - Miscellaneous Chau-D Public contracts: schools: cloud service providers
AB 2512 - Miscellaneous Bonilla-D Pupil rights: gender equity: interscholastic athletics
AB 2518 - School Accountability Dababneh-D School intervention: parent empowerment
AB 2544 - School Finance Roger Hernández-D School finance: preschool funding
AB 2548 - Higher Education Ting-D Postsecondary education
AB 2555 - Miscellaneous Bocanegra-D Cradle-to-career initiatives: plan
AB 2558 - Teachers and School Employees Williams-D Community colleges: faculty and staff development
AB 2559 - Teachers and School Employees Eggman-D Community college employees: suspension
AB 2560 - School Safety/Pupil Safety Bonilla-D Teacher credentialing: applications: child abuse reporting
AB 2560 - Teachers and School Employees Bonilla-D Teacher credentialing: applications: child abuse reporting
AB 2566 - Higher Education Weber-D Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program
AB 2585 - School Finance Daly-D School finance: annual budgets
AB 2600 - School Accountability Bonilla-D California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress
AB 2602 - Miscellaneous Eggman-D Farm to School Program
AB 2610 - Higher Education Williams-D California State University: special sessions
AB 2684* - School Finance Stone-D Average Daily Attendance: Service on a Precinct Board
AB 2705 - Higher Education Williams-D Community colleges: faculty
AB 2706 - Miscellaneous Roger Hernández-D Schools: health care coverage: enrollment assistance
AB 2710 - Miscellaneous Muratsuchi-D School superintendent contracts: ethics training
AB 2721 - Higher Education Pan-D California State University Trustees
AB 2726 - Higher Education Daly-D University of California: real property sales
AB 2736 - Higher Education Assembly Higher Education Committee Postsecondary education: California State University
ACA 2 - School Finance Nestande-R Education finance: payment of state apportionments
ACR 76 - Higher Education Lowenthal-D Public postsecondary institutions: freedom of speech
ACR 95 - Higher Education Gomez-D California Community Colleges: part-time faculty
ACR 108 - School Curriculum Wagner-R Education: Computer Science Education Week
ACR 109 - Miscellaneous Brown-D Latino Education and Advocacy Days
ACR 115 - Miscellaneous Ian Calderon-D California Museum Month
ACR 119 - Higher Education Muratsuchi-D Community colleges: career technical education
ACR 119 - School Curriculum Muratsuchi-D Community colleges: career technical education
ACR 124 - Miscellaneous Wieckowski-D Mathematics Awareness Month
ACR 128 - School Facilities Ting-D Living Schoolyard Month
ACR 140 - Miscellaneous Weber-D 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
ACR 144 - Charter Schools Olsen-R California Charter Schools Week
ACR 149 - Miscellaneous Weber-D School Attendance Awareness Month
ACR 154 - School Curriculum Gray-D Modesto City Schools: World Geography-World Religions class
ACR 166 - Miscellaneous Atkins-D Dropout Recovery Week
AJR 31 - Miscellaneous Skinner-D Child nutrition programs: school meals
HR 26 - Higher Education Williams-D Student loan forgiveness
HR 40 - Teachers and School Employees Medina-D School bus drivers
HR 41 - Higher Education Ting-D City College of San Francisco
HR 49 - Higher Education Jones-Sawyer-D Higher education: tuition and fees: pilot program