Education

School Finance

SB 76 (Denham-R) Education finance: apportionments

Allows school districts to request approval from the State Board of Education to claim apportionments for students assigned to in-school suspension classrooms supervised by a noncertificated school employee.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 177* (Hollingsworth-R) Categorical funding programs

Authorizes the Santee Elementary School District and the Capistrano Unified School District, with specified conditions, to sell surplus real property, and related personal property, and deposit the net proceeds into the local general fund to use for any one-time general fund purpose.

Chapter 839, Statutes of 2004

A similar bill was SB 1599 (Hollingsworth-R), which died in Senate Education Committee.

SB 298 (Dunn-D) Governing board member accountability

Authorizes the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to appoint a trustee to assume the duties of a governing board of a school district if the SPI finds that the governing board has committed an act or omission that places the school district out of compliance with any provision of law and thereby places the school district in jeopardy of losing state or federal funding.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 332 (Romero-D) Adult education: average daily attendance audits

Provides that any average daily attendance adjustment for the 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, or 1993-94 fiscal years is null and void and waived if the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Department of Finance have not determined whether to waive the audit adjustment by June 30, 2005.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 409* (Hollingsworth-R) School finance: reserve accounts

Requires, for fiscal year 2004-05 only, school districts that received funding under the State School Facilities Program to deposit, into a maintenance of facilities account, an amount equal to two percent of the school district's general fund expenditures, including other financing uses for ongoing and major maintenance of school facilities.

Chapter 195, Statutes of 2004

SB 471 (Vasconcellos-D) No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine which provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are fully funded, which are partially funded, and which are not funded by the federal government, and to report these findings to the Governor and the Legislature during the hearings of the annual Budget Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 481 (McPherson-R) 21st Century Community Learning Centers

Specifies the annual allocation of the federal "No Child Left Behind" Act resources dedicated to California 21st Century Community Learning Centers programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 525 (Karnette-D) Categorical funding: block grants

Provides greater flexibility in the use of program funding by creating two categorical block grants. Combines three school safety and violence prevention programs, and establishes a block grant funding method for supplemental instruction.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 550* (Vasconcellos-D) Education

Implements the settlement agreement in Williams v. State of California by establishing minimum thresholds for teacher quality, instructional materials, and school facilities.

Chapter 900, Statutes of 2004

SB 651 (McPherson-R) Regional occupational centers: apportionments

Requires school districts that receive funding for supplemental instruction in reading to convene a pupil study team for each pupil recommended for retention because the reading skills are determined to be unsatisfactory at the end of second grade.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 662 (Torlakson-D) School finance: revenue limits: equalization

Repeals one of two current formulas for computing school district revenue limit equalization adjustments and establishes a priority for funding equalization, pursuant to the remaining formula, with future revenues made available to K-12 schools and community colleges, pursuant to the annual guarantee of funding established by Proposition 98.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 789* (Johnson-R) State economy: suspension of statutes

Suspends statutes related to personal services contracting and prevailing wage requirements for two years from the effective date of the bill. Also allows a school district that achieves specified levels of performance of the Academic Performance Index the authority to use funds it receives pursuant to specified law for purposes other than those for which they were appropriated.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 823 (Karnette-D) Adult education

States legislative intent to subsequently amend the bill to implement recommendations related to adult education made by the Joint Legislative Committee to Develop a Master Plan of Education.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 956 (McClintock-R) Public school expenditures

Mandates school principals, district boards, county superintendents and the State Department of Education to annually report on all funds expended for classroom purposes, as defined.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1101* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance

Suspends the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee for school districts and community colleges for the 2004-05 fiscal year.

Chapter 213, Statutes of 2004

SB 1129* (Johnson-R) Education finance

Authorizes a school district to sell, lease or leaseback surplus property, as specified, and to deposit the proceeds into the general fund of the school district and to use the proceeds from the transaction for any general fund purpose, except for salary and benefits.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1138 (Hollingsworth-R) School districts: four-day school week

Authorizes, beginning in 2004-05, four additional school districts to operate one or more schools on a four-day school week, and authorizes two school districts to operate a four-day school week until July 1, 2006.

Chapter 465, Statutes of 2004

SB 1142 (Chesbro-D) School districts: four-day school week

Eliminates the fiscal penalty associated with operating schools for less than 180 days for three school districts that are authorized to operate four-day school weeks.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1161 (Alpert-D) Public library construction and renovation

Establishes the California Reading and Library Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2006, authorizing the issuance of $600 million in bonds for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation.

Chapter 698, Statutes of 2004

SB 1190* (Chesbro-D) Vallejo City Unified School District

Appropriates $60 million for an emergency loan to the Vallejo City Unified School District (VCUSD), requiring the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to assume all the rights, duties, and powers of the governing board of the VCUSD and, in consultation with the Solano County Superintendent of Schools, to appoint an administrator to serve during the term of the loan.

Chapter 53, Statutes of 2004

SB 1253 (Karnette-D) Adult education

Deletes the restriction for state apportionment purposes on the reporting of average daily attendance in classes not located in facilities clearly identified in a manner to ensure that attendance in the classes is open to the general public.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1298* (Brulte-R) Revenue limits: equalization

Updates a formula for the equalization of school district revenue limits so that it may be used in the 2004-05 fiscal year and appropriates an unspecified amount for the purpose. Repeals a different formula for equalization of school district revenue limits.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1309 (Karnette-D) Adult education: funding

Modifies, commencing in 2005-06, growth caps on adult education programs operated by K-12 districts so that unused units of attendance may be reallocated to districts that are fully utilizing their allowances.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1416 (Vasconcellos-D) Weighted per pupil funding

States legislative intent to study ways a school district may receive school funding on the basis of a weighted per pupil formula.

(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 1442 (Ducheny-D) Education finance: Joint Commission on Adult Education

Establishes the Joint Commission on Adult Education to make recommendations regarding the coordination of adult education and noncredit community college programs in order to improve adult education services.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1454 (Hollingsworth-R) School finance: reserve for economic uncertainties

Authorizes, beginning in the 2005-06 fiscal year through the 2009-2010 fiscal year, a school district to meet the minimum reserve for economic uncertainties standard using restricted account funds, and authorizes the school district to use those funds for any purpose for which budget reserves may be expended.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1463 (Scott-D) Education finance

Establishes, for 2004-05 and thereafter, the allocation of the Proposition 98 guarantee between K-12 school districts and the community colleges.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1645 (Escutia-D) Economic impact aid

Establishes a task force to develop options for restructuring the funding formula for the Economic Impact Aid program.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1789 (Poochigian-R) Education finance: categorical education programs

Requires the State Department of Education to annually compile and update information regarding state and federal categorical education programs, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1906 (Sher-D) Surplus school property: Santa Clara Unified School District

Authorizes, until January 1, 2007, the Santa Clara Unified School District to use the proceeds from the sale of surplus real and personal property, as provided, to deposit the proceeds into the general fund of the school district or county office of education, and to use the proceeds from that transaction for any one-time general fund purpose. Provides that if the purchase of the property was made using the proceeds of a general obligation bond act or revenue derived from developer fees, the bill prohibits the amount deposited into the general fund of the school district or county office of education from exceeding the difference between the purchase price of the property and the proceeds of the transaction divided by the amount of the proceeds of the transaction, as defined.

Chapter 838, Statutes of 2004

AB 15 (Houston-R) School finance: revenue limits: equalization

Repeals one of the equalization adjustments. Appropriates $203 million from the General Fund to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for the 2003-04 fiscal year in augmentation of the amount appropriated for purposes of the remaining equalization adjustment.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 31 (Runner-R) School finance: revenue limits: equalization

Repeals one of the equalization adjustments for the 2003-04 fiscal year. Appropriates $203 million from the General Fund to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for the 2003-04 fiscal year in augmentation of the amount appropriated for purposes of the remaining equalization adjustment.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 48 (Simitian-D) School finance: revenue limits: equalization

Repeals provisions of current law, and last year's budget compromise, that calculates a revenue limit (RL) equalization adjustment using pre-SB 727 (Rosenthal-D), Chapter 855, Statutes of 1997, average daily attendance, but leaves in place the RL equalization formula created pursuant to AB 441 (Simitian-D), Chapter 155, Statutes of 2001. Specifies funding for RL equalization adjustment is subject to an appropriation for that purpose in the annual Budget Act.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 97* (Nation-D) Public schools

Reenacts the authorization on the School District of Choice process for interdistrict which self-repealed on January 1, 2004. Extends, for one year, a special education funding mechanism.

Chapter 21, Statutes of 2004

AB 222* (Corbett-D) Library construction and renovation

Establishes the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and renovation Bond Act of 2004, authorizing the issuance of $4.47 billion in bonds for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation, as well as specified youth library services, subject to voter approval.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 235 (Cogdill-R) School transportation

Requires the Office of the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study to review the current student transportation funding formula and make recommendations to the Legislature.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 349 (Haynes-R) Compton Unified School District

Enacts the Cal Grants for Kids Pilot Program to require the State Department of Education to establish a program within the Compton Unified School District whereby, upon the request of parents, children may be provided with educational certificates to fund their attendance at participating public or private schools.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

AB 448 (Matthews-D) Intensive reading programs: reimbursement

Authorizes a school district to receive "up-front" funding for K-4 elementary school intensive reading programs, rather than through a reimbursement process.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 546 (Diaz-D) Apprenticeship education

Specifies that any excess state apportionments to school districts and community college districts for student apprenticeship education programs shall be allocated according to a specified order.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 712 (Steinberg-D) Preschool for All Program

Establishes a study of the costs of providing state-supported preschool for three- and four-year-old children, and creates a committee to develop the criteria and curriculum to prepare well qualified preschool teachers.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 772 (Jackson-D) Educational equity

Requires that educational institutions provide annual assurances to the agency administering state funds, that each program or activity is conducted in compliance with the provisions of state and federal law prohibiting discrimination at elementary and secondary education institutions and prohibiting discrimination based on gender at postsecondary educational institutions.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 825 (Firebaugh-D) Education finance: categorical education program reform

Consolidates numerous K-12 education categorical funding programs and some supplemental instruction hourly reimbursement programs into several categorical block grants effective beginning 2005-06.

Chapter 871, Statutes of 2004

A similar bill was SB 1510 (Alpert-D), which died on the Assembly Inactive File.

AB 931 (Richman-R) School finance: categorical education programs

Authorizes a school district, for the 2003-04 fiscal year, to transfer to its general fund any categorical education program funds that were not expended or otherwise obligated in the 2003-03 fiscal year, with the exception of restricted federal funds, proceeds from general obligation or revenue bonds, and capital outlay sinking funds. Authorizes a school district to expend the transferred funds to offset a reduction of funds appropriated by the 2003 Budget Act.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 987* (Keene-R) School finance: necessary small schools

Makes permanent a special authorization that allows the Plumas Unified School District to receive necessary small school funding.

Chapter 105, Statutes of 2004

AB 1253 (Bermudez-D) Home-to-school transportation

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to examine home-to-school transportation funding formulas, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1366* (Simitian-D) Education finance

Corrects conflicts in current law, so as to allow transfer of property tax support for a charter school pupil who resides in a basic aid district, and to phase-in the impact of that transfer on the basic aid school district.

(Died on Assembly Unfinished Business File)

AB 1554* (Keene-R) School finance: necessary small schools

Deletes provisions of existing law relating to emergency loans to school districts and, instead, authorizes the state to make interim emergency loans and then transfer those loans to lease financing made available by the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, which will be authorized to issue revenue bonds for that purpose.

Chapter 263, Statutes of 2004

AB 1795 (Bermudez-D) East Whittier City School District

Requires, beginning in the 2005-06 fiscal year and every year thereafter, home-to-school transportation funding for the East Whittier City School District to be calculated as if it will receive $174,790 in the 2004-05 school year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1846 (Goldberg-D) No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Designates the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) as the state education official responsible to carry out the purposes and provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLBA) and vests the SPI with the power and authority to perform all acts necessary to receive the benefits and to allocate the funds provided by NCLBA.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1987 (Steinberg-D) High Priority Schools Grant Program

Clarifies that schools that receive a planning grant for the state's High Priority Schools Grant Program in 2001-02 are limited to receiving funding through 2004-05 only.

Chapter 757, Statutes of 2004

AB 2152 (Goldberg-D) Pupil achievement grant program

Establishes the Student Achievement Grant Program allowing school districts the option of receiving funding for specified categorical programs in a block grant. Grants school districts flexibility in the use of funds for specified categorical programs and requires a school district receiving those funds to assure that a percentage of funds are spent for direct services to students enrolled in schools ranked in deciles 1-3 on the Academic Performance Index.

Chapter 851, Statutes of 2004

AB 2153 (Daucher-R) Education finance: revenue limits

Requires, as of the 2005-06 fiscal year, existing school district revenue limit adjustments for Meals for Needy Pupils, continuation high schools, necessary small schools instructional time incentives, and specified interdistrict attendance adjustments to be added to the base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance for each district.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2178 (Simitian-D) Equalization funding

Establishes the Fairness in Education Funding Act and repeals one of two methods in existing law for distributing K-12 school district revenue limit equalization funding. Appropriates $10 million GF for the 2004-05 fiscal year for allocation and appropriates $80 million for community college funding equalization.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2373 (Goldberg-D) School finance: weighted per pupil funding

Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of allowing a school district to allocate funds to each school in its district based on a weighted per pupil formula, and make recommendations regarding its funding.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2382 (Mullin-D) Average daily attendance

Permits, commencing with the 2005-06 fiscal year, school district apportionment average daily attendance (ADA) to be calculated based on the average of the ADA for the three prior fiscal years if there was a decline in ADA in all three years and the average attendance for the three prior fiscal years exceeds 101 percent of the current year ADA.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2462 (Parra-D) Home-to-school transportation

Requires, commencing with the 2006-07 fiscal year, the state funding for home-to-school transportation be increased annually by the percentage cost-of-living adjustment provided to school district revenue limits and the percentage change in K-12 enrollment.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2535 (Steinberg-D) Instructional materials

Requires, beginning with the 2004-05 fiscal year, an appropriation of no less than $175 million in the annual Budget Act for allocation to local educational agencies for purchasing instructional materials.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2647 (Chavez-D) High School Remediation Funding Flexibility Program

Establishes the High School Remediation Funding Flexibility Program to provide funding for remediation instruction for high school students in grades 9-12 who are at risk of failing the California High School Exist Examination. Makes provisions for the delivery of this instruction.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2675 (Goldberg-D) Categorical programs: block grant programs

Establishes, beginning in the 2005-06 fiscal year, the Student Achievement Grant Program, which authorizes the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide school districts the option of receiving funding for specified programs through a block grant.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2706 (Berg-D) Education technology

Repeals obsolete sections of the Education Code related to education technology and amends other sections. Makes changes to the federally funded Education Technology Grant Program of 2002 and makes a number of changes designed to assist small school districts in applying for and receiving funding for the program.

Chapter 681, Statutes of 2004

AB 2727* (Daucher-R) Schools: uniform complaint process

Clarifies that only emergency or urgent facility conditions that threaten health or safety are subject to correction under the uniform complaint process. This is a cleanup to, and reflects the actual language of the proposed Williams v. State of California settlement.

Chapter 93, Statutes of 2004

AB 2756* (Daucher-R) School district administration: budgeting and finance

Makes substantive changes to the oversight process of a school district's fiscal condition, and changes processes and actions that follow a school district's receipt of an emergency loan.

Chapter 52, Statutes of 2004

AB 2776 (Bates-R) Quality Education Model: school funding

Requires the California Quality Education Commission to examine the advantages and disadvantages of apportioning school district funding on the basis of enrollment rather than the average daily attendance.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2851* (Laird-D) Budget Act: state mandates

Suspends operation of the mandate that requires school districts to submit investment reports if funding is not appropriated. Requires the Commission on State Mandates to review certain mandates to determine if they are reimbursable. Identifies certain mandates that have been repealed.

Chapter 316, Statutes of 2004

AB 2942* (Reyes-D) Supplemental instruction: Fresno Unified School District

Allows Cooper Middle School (Fresno Unified School District) to continue using supplemental instruction funding to extend their school day by 60 minutes until July 1, 2006, as specified in a waiver issued by the State Board of Education.

Chapter 537, Statutes of 2004

AB 3017 (Firebaugh-D) Advancement Via Individual Determination program

Makes certain findings and declarations regarding the success and continued need for funding of the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, and appropriates $1,256,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the support of the AVID program. Makes those amounts applicable toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

Vetoed by the Governor

ACA 13 (Pacheco-R) Public education finance

Provides, through a constitutional amendment, that community colleges would receive the same percentage share of the total funds allocated to school districts and community college districts as they received in the 1989-90 fiscal year.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

ACR 241 (Firebaugh-D) Opportunity to learn

Affirms support for the "opportunity to learn" principles and urges the Governor to refinance the balance of the emergency loan owed by the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

School Facilities

SB 6* (Alpert-D) School facilities: needs assessment: emergency repairs

Establishes the School Facilities Need Assessment Grant Program and the School Facilities Emergency Repair Account. One of four bills that implement the Settlement Agreement in Williams v. State of California.

Chapter 899, Statutes of 2004

SB 628 (Vasconcellos-D) School facilities: funding

Allows a high school or elementary school district to qualify for school facilities funding based upon the overcrowded condition of a high school attendance area without regard to the district wide average conditions.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 746 (Escutia-D) School facilities

Increases some districts' eligibility for state education bond funds by exempting classrooms built with funding provided from the Class Size Facilities Bond Act of 1998 from the calculations for determining ongoing eligibility for new construction funding.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1224 (Ortiz-D) Hazardous waste: school facilities

Requires school districts to contact the State Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), if a potential health risk caused by a hazardous material is discovered, allows DTSC to oversee, review and approve a site investigation and remediation for such a risk, and allows deferred maintenance funding to be used for the investigation, mitigation, and removal of hazardous materials.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1562 (Murray-D) School restrooms

Requires school districts to permit the city or county to inspect restrooms located at the school, and authorizes the city or county to conduct such inspections.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1851 (Bowen-D) State buildings and publicly funded schools: standards

Requires all new state and public buildings (except for publicly funded schools) to exceed current energy efficiency standards and be constructed and/or renovated to incorporate green building elements that are "cost-effective," as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 124* (Cogdill-R) Joint-use projects

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to consider, for the Bret Harte Union School District only, expenses previously incurred and paid by a school district on a joint-use project as credit toward meeting the school district's local matching fund requirement under the school lease purchase program, if the cost were incurred and paid after January 1, 1999.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 217 (Cohn-D) School facilities: funding

Allows the State Allocation Board (SAB), if SAB finds that a school district faces extraordinary circumstances in modernizing multiple facility projects, to extend the time the school district has to meet specified criteria to have funds released by an additional six months, for a total of 24 months.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 225 (Frommer-D) School facilities

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to make a supplemental new construction grant that does not exceed 50 percent of the per-pupil new construction grant, if a school district can demonstrate a lack of suitable school sites and proposes to reconstruct or remodel an existing school to increase its pupil capacity by at least 50 percent. Requires the State Architect to develop guidelines to assist school districts in determining whether non-Field Act buildings for least, as school facilities, may be retrofitted to meet pupil safety performance standards.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 275 (Dutton-R) School facilities: modernization

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to identify and document modernization projects costs that are required by the State Architect to ensure the project's compliance with accessibility standards.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 391 (Montanez-D) New school construction

Requires any construction of a new school site or modernization project to an existing school kitchen and dining facility to have an instructional garden area, as specified, and a fully functional modern school kitchen and dining facility.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 545 (Montanez-D) School facilities: joint-use projects

Requires the State Allocation Board to give priority for new construction grant funding under the State School Facility Program to projects located in educational empowerment zones.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 736 (Hancock-D) School facilities

Requires the State Allocation Board, by January 1, 2006, to adopt regulations to implement design standards for school facilities in accordance with guidelines established by the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) and incorporate minimum design and construction criteria developed by the CHPS. Authorizes these schools to be eligible for funding through the School Facilities Program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 787 (Dutra-D) School facilities funding

Modifies eligibility for modernization funding under the State School Facility Program and expands the type of projects to include athletic stadium facilities that can be funded with joint-use new construction funding.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1018 (Nakanishi-R) School facilities construction and modernization

Exempts school facility new construction or modernization projects from any requirement to pay local prevailing wages.

(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)

AB 1126 (Dutton-R) School facilities: modernization

Requires the State Allocation Board (SAB) to review school construction projects costs related to compliance with accessibility standards and report to the Legislature with recommendations for adjustments to that funding, if necessary. Requires the SAB to adjust school district modernization funding eligibility for inflation on a monthly, rather than annual, basis.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1395 (Lowenthal-D) School facilities

Requires every school district, by January 1, 2005, to develop a plan, to be known as the Restroom Facilities Improvement and Maintenance Plan, that addresses the problems associated with school restrooms and that meet minimum standards, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1465 (Chan-D) School facilities: new construction and modernization

Sets aside $20 million in state school bond funding for a pilot program allowing school districts to receive an increased amount of new construction and modernization funding when constructing or reconfiguring small high schools.

Chapter 894, Statutes of 2004

AB 1486 (Dutra-D) School facilities: lease-leaseback contracts

Establishes a process for the construction of school facilities by lease and leaseback following design-build principals.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1550 (Goldberg-D) Public education

Prohibits the operation of a Concept 6 program after July 1, 2012 and expresses legislative intent that all school districts eliminate the Concept 6 program as soon as practicable. One of four bills that implement the Settlement Agreement in Williams v. State of California lawsuit.

Chapter 901, Statutes of 2004

AB 1790 (Corbett-D) School facilities: seismic safety upgrades

States legislative intent to consider the development of a comprehensive program that will enable school facilities to be upgraded for seismic safety.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2035 (Nakano-D) School facilities: regional occupational centers

Provides that a regional occupational center shall be deemed to be a school district for the purposes of applying for school facility modernization funding.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2343 (Nation-D) School facilities: sprinkler systems

Requires, commencing July 1, 2005, an automatic fire sprinkler system to be installed in school facility modernization projects that have an estimated total cost in excess of $200,000.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2446 (Montanez-D) School facilities: joint-use projects

Removes teacher education facilities as an eligible joint-use facility project and allows park and preschool facilities as eligible for joint-use facilities.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2567 (Canciamilla-D) School facilities

Prohibits a school district with a negative fiscal status from being disqualified from receiving facility hardship assistance because the district sold surplus property.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2570 (Dutton-R) School facilities: hardship assistance

Allows a school district to apply for state school facility hardship funding (modernization and new construction) if the district demonstrates that due to unusual circumstances beyond its control, excessive costs need to be incurred in the protection of existing school facilities.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2863 (Pavley-D) School facilities: indoor air quality

Requires, beginning January 1, 2006, a school district applying for state school facilities funds to include in its plans for new construction and modernization of a school building, an indoor air quality management plan, and authorizes the use of certain funds to prevent indoor air problems in school facilities.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2950 (Goldberg-D) Critically overcrowded school facilities

Provides alternative methods for a school district in the critically overcrowded schools program to calculate enrollment for purposes of determining eligibility for the final apportionment.

Chapter 898, Statutes of 2004

ACR 21 (Nunez-D) Sanitary conditions in public schools

Urges state and local public school and public health officials to take every action within their power to correct the deplorable conditions found in many of the sanitary facilities of the state's public schools.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

Bilingual Education

AB 2413 (Diaz-D) Pupil assessment

Requires the State Department of Education to use specified federal funds to develop or adopt primary language assessments for reading, language arts and mathematics. Requires tests to be administered only if funding is available. Clarifies sunset dates for the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2698 (Goldberg-D) Pupil instruction: dual language education programs

Establishes incentive funding for dual language education programs, which are meant to promote academic achievement and cross-cultural communication, as specified, until January 2010.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2913 (Salinas-D) Teachers: limited-English-proficient pupils

Extends the deadline from January 1, 2005 to April 1, 2008, for credentialed teaches to complete the required 45 hours of staff development on methods that are specially designed to meet the needs of most limited English proficient students for delivering instruction in a subject area in English.

Chapter 169, Statutes of 2004

Charter Schools

SB 979 (Ducheny-D) Charter schools: pupil attendance

Authorizes the State Board of Education to grant waivers of five years in length to allow charter schools to receive funding for noncontinuously enrolled students over 19 years of age.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1423 (Brulte-R) Riverside Unified School District charter high school

Provides specified exemptions for a charter high school in the Riverside Unified School District.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1531 (Knight-R) Charter schools: operation

Deletes the restriction on the number of charter schools that are authorized to operate in California each year and makes technical, nonsubstantive changes.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1617 (Ducheny-D) Charter schools: average daily attendance

Authorizes, effective January 1, 2005, a pupil who is a California resident between the ages of 19 and 21 to generate average daily attendance for a charter school, upon continuous enrollment in a public school if the pupil is making satisfactory progress towards a high school diploma.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1726 (Ashburn-R) Charter schools: facilities: grants

Expands eligibility for participation in the Charter School Facility Grant Program, and expands the purposes for which these funds may be used.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1766 (McPherson-R) Delta Charter High School: geographical boundaries

Exempts the Delta Charter High School, located in the County of Santa Cruz, from the geographical boundaries and site limitations as specified in existing law.

Chapter 112, Statutes of 2004

SB 1778 (Ducheny-D) Charter schools: ADA

Provides that a pupil who is between 19 and 21 years of age, inclusive, is eligible to generate apportionments for a charter school upon enrollment and remains eligible for that purpose if he or she remains continuously enrolled in the school and is making satisfactory progress towards obtaining a high school diploma.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCR 21 (Aanestad-R) Charter schools

Resolves that the Legislature joins the California Network of Education Charters and proclaims April 28 through May 2, 2003 as California Charter Schools Week and calls upon all Californians to observe this week by recognizing the benefits of charter schools.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SR 38 (Poochigian-R) California Charter Schools Week

Declares that the week of May 3 through May 7, 2004, be designated as California Charter Schools Week.

Read and adopted

AB 97* (Nation-D) Public schools

Reenacts the School Districts of Choice authorization process for interdistrict attendance which self-repealed on January 1, 2004. Sunsets the authorization on January 1, 2008.

Chapter 21, Statutes of 2004

AB 604 (Dymally-D) Education: charter schools

Requires a charter school that operates schools at multiple sites to receive its funding directly from the county superintendent of schools of the county in which the chartering authority is located.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1307 (Haynes-R) Charter schools: authorization

Expands the entities authorized to approve a petition to establish a charter school.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1381 (Firebaugh-D) Charter school facilities funding: regulatory approvals

Requires the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations establishing a process for projects related to critically overcrowded schools to be subject to a streamlined method for obtaining prescribed regulatory approvals.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1464 (Bates-R) Charter schools: authorization

Creates more chartering authorities by authorizing institutions of higher education, big-city mayors and major nonprofit organizations to approve a petition to establish a charter school.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1638 (La Suer-R) Charter schools: nonclassroom-based instruction

Requires the State Board of Education, on or before February 1, 2004, to adopt regulations to include within the determination of the amount of average daily attendance funding a charter school is eligible to receive, the total amount of revenue that a school spends on the acquisition, construction, and maintenance of school facilities.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1860 (Reyes-D) Charter schools

Adds a compliance audit requirement to charter annual audits. Prohibits charter schools from expelling a pupil solely on academic performance. Requires charter schools to notify the appropriate school district governing board and county office of education when a pupil is expelled or leaves school without graduating or completing the school year and to provide that school district with a copy of the pupil's file. Requires charter schools to comply with the Public Records Act relating to public meetings.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2764 (Bates-R) Charter schools: alternative authority

Authorizes the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges to establish a pilot project, until January 1, 2011, to authorize and oversee charter schools. Allows up to one charter school per campus, not to exceed 20 charter schools per segment.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2781 (Benoit-R) Charter schools: operation

Deletes the restriction on the number of charter schools that are authorized to operate in California each year and makes technical nonsubstantive changes.

(Failed passage n Assembly Education Committee)

Class Size Reduction

SB 311* (Sher-D) Education: class size

Establishes a deduction schedule that the State Controller will be required to follow if a school district fails to maintain the maximum pupil-to-teacher ratio relative to the K-3 Class Size Reduction Program. Provides relief for districts affected by fires in 2003.

Chapter 910, Statutes of 2004

SB 837 (Alarcon-D) Class size reduction

Creates the Class Size Reduction Flexibility Alternative Program which allows school districts to receive incentive funding for elementary grade class size reduction, provided that the average annual class size, and individual day class size, of a participating class does not exceed specified limits that differ according to the Academic Performance Index ranking of the school.

(Failed passed in Senate Education Committee)

AB 228 (Leslie-R) Class size reduction

Allows all school districts to determine average class size on a participating school site basis in the same manner as certain small school districts and requires a school district to maintain an annual average class size that does not exceed 22 pupils to one teacher, provided that the school site annual average class size doe snot exceed an annual average class size ratio of 20 pupils to one teacher.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1129 (Goldberg-D) Class size reduction

Specifies the conditions by which an individual school site may qualify for the class size reduction program based on the annual Academic Performance Index decile ranking.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1377 (Benoit-R) School facilities

Authorizes the State Allocation Board to provide grants of up to $40,000 per eligible class, to school districts participating in the class size reduction program, as specified, for which less than $40,000 in state facilities funding per eligible classroom has been provided and for which applications were filed on or before July 1, 2001.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1670* (Kehoe-D) Class size reduction

Authorizes any school district located in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura counties to receive class size reduction funding for 2003-04, based on enrollment counts taken before October 2003 fires if the district lost enrollment.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2405 (Nakano-D) Class size reduction

Authorizes, on a pilot basis, Torrance Unified School District to implement an alternative class size reduction program to reduce class size in kindergarten and grades 1 to 5, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

School Safety

SB 848 (Karnette-D) School programs: pedestrian-bicyclist safety

Adds the City of Long Beach to the pilot project created in 2002 for safety-enhancement double-fine zones in school zones in the counties of Alameda, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1177 (Scott-D) School safety plans

Encourages a school site council, when updating the school safety plan, to consider the inclusion of gun violence prevention in health education programs in high schools.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1445 (Dunn-D) California State University: police

Requires the California State University (CSU) headquarters and each CSU campus to establish a police department and to maintain a minimum of 12 police officers in each department, with a minimum of two police officers on duty at all times. Makes a number of other changes to current law regarding CSU police services.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1954 (Vargas-D) School safety plans

Requires a school's comprehensive safety plan to include a uniform lock-down plan approved by the local law enforcement agency. Requires school districts to ensure school administrators conduct regular lock-down drills for school personnel, pupils, and law enforcement.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2180 (Dutton-R) Tolerance in public schools

Encourages school site councils to consider incorporating strategies to achieve the provision of professional education staff who are sensitive to the needs of pupils of all religions.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2885 (Jerome Horton-D) School safety plans

Authorizes the filing of a complaint of noncompliance with the school safety plans in accordance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act, as specified.

Chapter 272, Statutes of 2004

Child and Day Care

SB 14 (Escutia-D) Early Childhood Education Center and After School Facilities

Enacts the Early Childhood Education Center and After School Facilities Bond Act of 2003 to provide up to $5 billion in general obligation bonds for the construction, expansion and improvement of early childhood education centers and after school facilities, to be submitted to the voters at the November 2004 statewide general election.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 474 (Florez-D) Child day care facilities: criminal record information

Requires any person applying to operate or manage a child day care facility or family day care home, and other specified persons, to agree that the criminal record information obtained from the appropriate law enforcement agency may be disclosed by the State Department of Social Services to any parent or guardian of a client or prospective client in a licensed child day care facility or family day care home.

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 1104* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget Act of 2004: human services

Implements statutory changes to various human services programs necessary to achieve $340.3 million in savings assumed in the 2004-05 Budget Act, including provisions relating to child care fraud.

Chapter 229, Statutes of 2004

SB 1343 (Escutia-D) Child care: Infant and Toddler Care Master Plan

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a task force to develop Infant and Toddler Care Master Plan recommendations.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1657 (Scott-D) Child care: reporting

Requires the State Department of Education to convene a workgroup to address child care fraud.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1700 (Hollingsworth-R) Child care

Makes changes to the laws governing the California School Age Families Education program and child care local planning councils.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1897 (Burton-D) Child care reform

Enacts child care reform in four areas: assessment of supply and demand for subsidized care, workforce development, reimbursement rate pilot projects, and organization of family day care providers for specified purposes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 22 (Maddox-R) Child day care facilities: family day care homes

Requires the State Department of Social Services (DSS), before issuing a license to operate a child day care facility, and before specified people may be present in the home, to get specified information from local law enforcement regarding contacts with the applicant or other person. Authorizes DSS to revoke licenses, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 56 (Steinberg-D) Child care, development, and education

Specifies legislative intent that California develop a cohesive strategy to ensure that children have access to quality preschool programs, including programs that employ qualified staff.

(Died in Conference Committee)

AB 72 (Bates-R) Child care providers

Requires child care resource and referral agencies to remove from the program's referral list a licensed child day care facility with a revocation or temporary suspension order or that is on probation.

Chapter 358, Statutes of 2004

AB 366* (Mullin-D) Child care: substitute employee registry

Requires the State Department of Social Services (DSS) to operate the substitute child care employee registry (SER) pilot program providing clearance for temporary child care employees until January 1, 2008, authorizes continued operation at DSS' discretion thereafter, and makes related changes to the SER program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 379 (Mullin-D) Child care: funding

Defines a Family Child Care Home Education Network and requires that these entities support educational objectives for children in home-based child care programs that serve families eligible for subsidized child care.

Chapter 897, Statutes of 2004

AB 422 (Chan-D) Child development permits

Requires the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to complete a report on a pilot project regarding child development permits. Requires the CTC, within the report, to include recommendations to produce an efficient and streamlined system of preparation and issuance of child development permits.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 644* (Mullin-D) Taxation: low-income housing: child care

Requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to also consider child care as one of the criteria for selection of projects to which the low-income housing tax credits may be allocated.

(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1393 (Bates-R) After school programs

Extends the sunset on the statute authorizing the Six-to-Six Before and After School Program from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2009.

Chapter 366, Statutes of 2004

AB 1849 (Nation-D) Child care and development

Adopts several measures to provide financial relief to state-funded child care centers. Makes changes to the following areas: payment of license fees, rate increases to cover insurance costs, assignment of interest income, staff training, and conversion of latchkey programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2205* (Oropeza-D) California Helping Heroes Child Care Program

Creates the California Helping Heroes Child Care Program to provide child care to families with one or more pupils deployed in Iraq by the Armed Forces, subject to the availability of federal funding.

Chapter 555, Statutes of 2004

Special Education

SB 1094 (Murray-D) Special education: foster children

Requires a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that provides special education and related services to an individual with exceptional needs residing in a licensed children's institution or foster family home to comply with all applicable curriculum and facility requirements imposed on a public school in educating an individual with exceptional needs. Requires the teachers to hold special education teaching credentials for the subjects they teach.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1108* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance

The education omnibus Budget trailer bill that contains provisions necessary to implement the education portion of the 2004-05 Budget.

Chapter 216, Statutes of 2004 - Item Veto

SB 1348 (Machado-D) Special education: alternative dispute resolution

Requires the State Department of Education to administer a program to provide local grants for alternative dispute resolution for resolving special education disputes.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1895* (Burton-D) Special education: mental health services

Modifies mental health service delivery for students with special needs.

Chapter 493, Statutes of 2004

AB 42 (Daucher-R) Special education

Requires that, when a special education due process hearing results in a nonpublic, nonsectarian school (NPS) placement or the provision of nonpublic, nonsectarian agency (NPA) services, a written, reasoned decision, including any reasons for any NPS placement for such placement or services, shall be mailed to all parties to the hearing within 45 days from the receipt by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the request for a hearing.

Chapter 408, Statutes of 2004

AB 97* (Nation-D) Public schools

Extends, for one year, a special education funding mechanism. Reenacts the School Districts of Choice authorization for inter-district attendance which self-repealed on January 1, 2004 and sunsets the authorization on January 1, 2008.

Chapter 21, Statutes of 2004

AB 152* (Levine-D) Special education

Makes numerous amendments to the special education provisions of the Education Code, generally conforming state law to federal requirements relating to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Chapter 161, Statutes of 2004

AB 328 (Mullin-D) Special education: funding

Specifies that, in the 2004-05 fiscal year (FY) and each FY thereafter, federal funds provided for support of special education that are in excess of the 2003-04 amounts shall not be offset by reductions in General Fund (Proposition 98) appropriations, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 640 (Dutra-D) State special schools: categorical funding

Specifies that state special schools are eligible to apply for and receive categorical funds in the same manner that school districts and county offices of education are eligible to apply for and receive those funds.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 662 (Dutra-D) Special education: blind and visually impaired pupils

Establishes the Advisory Task Force for the Education of Visually Impaired Pupils within the State Department of Education (SDE) to provide input on the needs of visually impaired students to the Legislature, Governor, and other appropriate parties so they may formulate the most effective policy for the education of these pupils.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1336* (Daucher-R) Special education: funding

Requires, beginning in 2003-04, that special education funding for growth and cost-of-living adjustments be based on the actual prior year statewide average funding per unit of average daily attendance (ADA), rather than on the prior year statewide target per unit of ADA.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1858 (Steinberg-D) Foster children: education

Places new requirements on nonpublic schools which provide special education to foster youth who reside in licensed children's institutions and foster family homes.

Chapter 914, Statutes of 2004

AB 2015 (Chu-D) Special education: individualized education program team

Requires that an Individualized Education Plan team may include a foster care child with exceptional needs who is over the age of 13 if a surrogate parent has been appointed to represent his or her interests and specifies that the pupil has a right to decline participation.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2171* (Benoit-R) Teacher credentialing: special education

Adds school social workers to the types of Pupil Personnel Services Credentials that exempt prelingually deaf candidates from passing the California Basic Education Skills Test, and repeals and consolidates existing law, as specified.

Chapter 106, Statutes of 2004

AB 2359 (Daucher-R) Special education: reimbursement

Requires reimbursement for services for an exceptional needs child who is enrolled in a private/non-public school to be calculated from the date the court action was filed or the date of the due process hearing. Applies to actions on or after January 1, 2005.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2360 (Daucher-R) Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools

Requires that each pupil placed in a nonpublic, nonsectarian school by a school district, special education local plan area, or county office of education, be tested in accordance with the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2361 (Daucher-R) Special education: funding

Specifies, commencing with the 2009-10 fiscal year, that the amount of federal funds used to calculate special education funding may not exceed federal funds used in the calculation for the special education local plan area (SELPA) for the prior fiscal year, except that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may make adjustments necessary to reflect the changes in the configuration of a SELPA.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2362 (Daucher-R) Special education: due process hearing

Provides that the hearing officer in a special education due process hearing may not base a decision solely on nonsubstantive procedural errors, unless the hearing officer finds that the errors resulted in the loss of an educational opportunity or interfered with parental rights to participate in the process of formulating an individualized education program.

Chapter 81, Statutes of 2004

AB 2845 (La Suer-R) Behavioral interventions

Provides that the Board Certified Behavioral Analysts may conduct behavior assessments and provide behavior intervention services for local educational agencies.

Chapter 174, Statutes of 2004

AB 2909 (Salinas-D) Early intervention services

Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study of the current methods of providing special instruction and other services to infants and toddlers who are deaf and hard of hearing, and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2006.

Chapter 456, Statutes of 2004

AJR 83 (Daucher-R) Special education: federal funding

Memorializes the President and the Congress of the United States to provide the full federal share of funding for special education programs to the states so that this state and other states will not be required to take funding from other vital state and local programs to fund this under-funded federal mandate.

Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2004

School Accountability and Testing

SB 192 (Scott-D) Pupil assessment: Golden State Examination Program

Repeals the Golden State Examination Program and makes related conforming changes.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 241 (Knight-R) Pupil assessment: Golden State Examination Program

Repeals the Golden State Examination Program and makes related conforming changes.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 298 (Dunn-D) Governing board member accountability.

Authorizes the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to appoint a trustee to assume the duties of a governing board of a school district if the SPI finds that the governing board has committed an act or omission that places the school district out of compliance with any provision of law and thereby places the school district in jeopardy of losing state or federal funding.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 373 (Margett-R) High-performing schools

Establishes a deadline of July 1, 2004 for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to complete two tasks that are assigned in statute: (1) establishing the process and frequency for conducting reviews of achievement and compliance with state and federal categorical program requirements, and (2) establishing the content of these compliance review instruments, including criteria for differentiating the reviews based on the achievement levels of pupils and the record of compliance.

Expresses legislative intent that schools deemed to be high performing, defined as an Academic Performance Index of at least 800, with record of compliance with state and federal law, are not subject to Coordinated Compliance Review.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 550* (Vasconcellos-D) Education

Contains elements of the California v. Williams Settlement Agreement, including provisions related to the School Accountability Report Card.

Chapter 900, Statutes of 2004

SB 575 (Poochigian-R) School accountability report cards

Requires school districts to include in School Accountability Report Cards all of the elements required under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Specifies legislative intent that school districts and schools comply with the requirements of the federal NCLB Act.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 683 (Alpert-D) Pupil assessment data

Extends the repeal date of the California student assessment system statutes, including the Standardized Testing and Reporting program, from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2011.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 722 (McPherson-R) School performance

Amends existing law relating to the Academic Performance Index so that it conforms with requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and with the federal definition of annual yearly progress for the purpose of assessing school and school district progress toward meeting federal improvement targets.

Chapter 915, Statutes of 2004

SB 1299 (Alarcon-D) Pupils: academic review and counseling

Clarifies that the Tenth Grade Counseling Program may provide the specified academic counseling prior to the end of the eighth or ninth grades.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1316 (Alpert-D) Foster children: education

Places new requirements on nonpublic schools (NPS) which provide special education to foster youth who reside in licensed children's institutions and foster family homes, including specifying that an NPS is subject to the alternative accountability system and outlines the pupil testing procedures for NPS pupils.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 1384* (Scott-D) Pupil assessment data: electronic resources

Specifies that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction require the California Learning Resource Network to establish review criteria and a process for identification and review of electronic learning assessment resources, by December 31, 2004.

Chapter 397, Statutes of 2004

SB 1419 (Vasconcellos-D) School accountability

Provides for the development of the Opportunities for Teaching and Learning Index as a component of the Public School Accountability Program in order to measure the learning opportunities for K-12 pupils.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1420 (Vasconcellos-D) Minimum school conditions

Specifies legislative intent to establish a school accountability and support system which assures that each school district and county superintendent of schools provide pupils with fully credentialed instructors and adequate instructional materials in a clean and safe facility.

(Died in Assembly Desk)

SB 1448 (Alpert-D) Pupil assessment

Reauthorizes the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program until January 1, 2011, and makes various changes to the provisions of existing law governing the program.

Chapter 233, Statutes of 2004

SB 1802 (McPherson-R) Supplemental instruction

Requires a school district that receives supplemental instruction funding to convene a pupil study team for each pupil who is retained, or at risk of being retained, between the second and third grades because his or her reading ability is unsatisfactory.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 8* (Daucher-R) Local Education and Accountability Pilot Program

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to select three county offices of education to voluntarily participate in a three-year accountability pilot program, commencing with the 2003-04 academic year, with the goal of increasing pupil performance in low-performing schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 165 (Chan-D) School Accountability Report Card: requirements

Requires that the School Accountability Report Card include assessment of the availability of credential school nurses to provide authorized services, the ratio of credential school nurses per pupil and the amount of time each credential school nurse is on campus each month.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 356 (Hancock-D) Education: pupil testing

Revises the state testing program to (1) change school and staff rewards program to be only nonmonetary awards, (2) provide for diagnostic assessment but not standardized testing in grade 2, and (3) delay the requirement to pass the exit exam for high school graduation.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 497 (Wyland-R) Pupil testing: California High School Exit Exam

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, by October 1, 2005, to involve a component in American government and history in the existing high school exit examination.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 511 (Diaz-D) Information and communications technologies: assessment

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, by January 1, 2006, to report recommendations related to information and communications technology literacy, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 921 (Firebaugh-D) Pupil testing: English learners

Requires the State Board of Education to seek a waiver from those federal provisions that require assessment of the reading and writing skills of kindergarten and grade 1 English learners. Extends the Standardized Testing and Reporting program and testing of pupils in grades 2-11, including primary assessment for English learners, as specified, until July 1, 2011.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1841 (Chan-D) Reorganized high schools: grant programs

Provides that if a high school that is participating in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, or the High Priority School Program reorganizes into more than one smaller school, the successor schools will receive shares of the funding, as specified, and have an additional year, without added funding, to meet growth targets.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2066* (Steinberg-D) Underperforming schools program

Provides additional funding to school districts for schools identified for program improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Revises the provisions required for a school to exit the High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools.

Chapter 579, Statutes of 2004

AB 2080 (Firebaugh-D) Academic Improvement and Achievement Act

Appropriates $5 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to fund the Academic Improvement and Achievement Act.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2130 (Wyland-R) Pupil achievement: standardized testing

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct an annual analysis of the Standardized Testing and Reporting test results of those schools that in the previous year ranked below the 50th percentile on the Academic Performance Index (API). Requires the analysis to be presented to the governing board of the school district during a regularly scheduled meeting in conjunction with the presentation of the API rankings.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2131 (Pacheco-R) Education funding

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct an annual analysis of the Standardized Testing and Reporting test results of those schools that in the previous year ranked below the 50th percentile on the Academic Performance Index.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2413 (Diaz-D) Pupil assessment

Requires the State Department of Education to use specified federal funds to develop or adopt primary language assessments for reading, language arts and mathematics. Requires tests to be administered only if funding is available. Clarifies sunset dates for the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2569 (Yee-D) Comprehensive Pupil Learning Support System

Establishes the Comprehensive Pupil Learning Support System which intends to provide all pupils with a support system to ensure they will be productive and responsible learners and citizens.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2596 (Liu-D) School Accountability Report Card: requirements

Amends the School Accountability Report Card to include information on career and technical education and language contained in SB 550 (the Conference Committee bill that contains provisions of the California v. Williams Settlement Agreement).

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2744 (Goldberg-D) Content standards

Establishes a process for periodic review and revision of the state academic content standards.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2765 (Bates-R) California longitudinal pupil achievement data system

Requires the California longitudinal pupil achievement data system to also provide for a determination of the value added to pupil achievement by programs or courses as individual pupils progress through successive years of schooling.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2993 (McCarthy-R) Leroy Greene CA Assessment of Academic Achievement Act

Extends the operative date of the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act from January 1, 2005 until January 1, 2008.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

Higher Education

SB 160 (Alarcon-D) Higher education labor relations: University of California

Prohibits the University of California (UC) from using nonrepresented service contractors at any new facility, as defined, to perform services traditionally performed by represented UC employees. Permits UC to use nonrepresented service contractors only upon a showing of good cause.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 193 (Murray-D) Postsecondary education: Student Athletes' Bill of Rights

Prohibits California institutions of higher education from participating in any organizations that regulate student-athlete scholarships, which includes the National Collegiate Athletic Association and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 272 (Soto-D) Community college part-time faculty: social security

Requires community college districts to offer social security coverage to part-time faculty by July 1, 2004.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 279* (Chesbro-D) Public postsecondary education: excuse of tuition and fees

Repeals a sunset, thereby extending indefinitely provisions which excuse the mandatory systemwide undergraduate fees and tuition of the University of California and the California State University for any spouse or child of a contractor, or an employee of a contractor, who was killed in the performance of active law enforcement or active fire suppression and prevention duties.

Chapter 32, Statutes of 2004

SB 336 (Romero-D) Postsecondary Educational Institutions: hiring practices

Requires the Legislative Analyst Office to commission a study of the hiring practices of postsecondary educational institutions. Requires that the study specifically examine hiring search processes.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 371 (Hollingsworth-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Provides resident status, only for the purpose of determining the amount of public higher education tuition and fees, to a member of the armed services reserves, veterans or members of their immediate families, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 468 (Perata-D) Community colleges: homeland defense security training

Establishes, on a pilot basis, to the extent that funds are available, three Regional Centers for Domestic Security Training within the Peralta Community College District, Los Angeles Community College District, and San Diego Community College District. The centers will provide comprehensive security training courses and programs for private safety and security personnel.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 484 (Morrow-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Repeals the current law which limits a member of the armed forces seeking a graduate degree at a public institution of higher education to resident tuition and fees for one academic year, and indefinitely entitles active duty military personnel seeking a graduate degree to resident tuition and fees.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 542 (Murray-D) Postsecondary education

Eliminates the current authority of the State Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education over the approval and regulation of private postsecondary degree-granting institutions and administration of the Title 38 Veterans Administration benefits program, and authorizes the California Postsecondary Education Commission to administer these responsibilities.

(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)

SB 786 (Denham-R) Public postsecondary education: increases in tuition

Requires the California State University, and urges the University of California, to wait at least one semester or quarter before implementing adopted fee increases. Expresses legislative intent to adopt the same policy in any legislation which raises fees at the California Community Colleges.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 790 (Morrow-R) Personal services contracting

Repeals existing provisions of the Education Code that govern the conditions under which California school districts and community college districts may enter into personal service contracts for services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees. Authorizes school districts, county offices of education and community college districts to contract for the provision of non-instructional services, as specified, and declares that specified institutions of higher education are not restricted from entering into contracts for the provision of non-instructional services by the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 809* (Morrow-R) Public postsecondary education

Authorizes the State Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), for good cause, and based on the financial needs of a child who otherwise qualifies under this provision, to grant an exception to the annual income limit for that child. Requires DVA to adopt and publish regulations defining the conditions under which an income limit exception may be granted under this provision.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 905* (Chesbro-D) Educational enrichment: concurrent enrollment of pupils

Eliminates the cap and associated conditions on summer session concurrent enrollment by K-12 students at community colleges, and prohibits these K-12 students from displacing regular community college students.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 971 (Burton-D) California State University: outside employment

Prohibits designated California State University (CSU) employees from outside employment that could create a conflict of interest, requires CSU administrative personnel and full-time faculty to report outside employment, and requires designated CSU employees to attend ethics orientation courses.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1017 (Speier-D) Private postsecondary education: retention of records

Requires the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989 (Act), in the event of the closure of a private postsecondary educational institution subject to the Act, to gather and maintain, or provide for the maintenance of, the student transcripts and other records, as defined, that were maintained by that institution, for a period of at least five years following the closure of the institution.

(Died in Senate Business and Professions Committee)

SB 1108* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Education finance

Makes changes to a variety of education-related statutes in order to effectuate the changes included as part of the proposed 2004-05 Budget Act.

Chapter 216, Statutes of 2004 - Item Veto

SB 1175 (Denham-R) Community colleges: facilities

Allows community college buildings to be built in accordance with the Field Act or the California Building Standards Code.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 1245 (Kuehl-D) CA State University: Entry-Level Master's Nursing Program

Requires the Chancellor of the California State University, in consultation with the Board of Registered Nursing, to determine which campuses are eligible for the establishment of entry-level master's programs in nursing.

Chapter 718, Statutes of 2004

SB 1322 (Denham-R) Veterans: student financial aid

Extends by five years, from 2007 until 2012, the sunset date for the provisions of recently enacted legislation establishing an APLE-National Guard Program and providing other academic-related benefits. Expands the pool of beneficiaries for the provisions of this legislation. Makes technical and clarifying changes.

Chapter 554, Statutes of 2004

SB 1329* (Denham-R) Public postsecondary education: increases in tuition

Requires the California State University, and urges the University of California, to wait at least 90 days before implementing adopted fee increases and limits fee increases to no more than 10 percent in any calendar year. Expresses the intent of the Legislature to adopt the same policy in any legislation that raises fees at the California Community Colleges.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1331 (Alpert-D) Postsecondary education accountability

Establishes a California Postsecondary Education Accountability structure that provides an annual assessment of how the state is meeting statewide public policy goals in higher education, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1335 (Morrow-R) Academic Bill of Rights

Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests the University of California, to develop guidelines and implement an Academic Bill of Rights, as specified.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1337 (Morrow-R) Personal services contracts: community college districts

Requires that personal service contracts include assurance that the contractor's hiring practices meet applicable nondiscrimination procedures.

(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1415 (Brulte-R) Postsecondary education: Donahoe Higher Education Act

Requires, and requests, as appropriate, postsecondary education institutions to adopt a specified common course numbering system to facilitate the transfer process.

Chapter 737, Statutes of 2004

SB 1432 (Burton-D) California Community Colleges: employment of faculty

Requires that the establishment of standards and procedures for offers and assignments on the basis of seniority and continuity of service shall be a mandatory subject of negotiation between community college districts and temporary or part-time faculty.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1442 (Ducheny-D) Education finance: Joint Commission on Adult Education

Establishes the Joint Commission on Adult Education to make recommendations regarding the coordination of adult education and noncredit community college programs in order to improve adult education services.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1445 (Dunn-D) California State University: police

Requires the California state University (CSU) headquarters and each CSU campus to establish a police department and to maintain a minimum of 12 police officers in each department with a minimum of two police officers on duty at all times. Makes a number of other changes to current law regarding CSU police services.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1501* (Escutia-D) Student financial aid

Redirects the proceeds associated with an existing tax credit and uses them to fund "competitive" Cal Grant A and B awards, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1502 (McClintock-R) Public postsecondary education: resident classification

Expands the current entitlement to resident tuition and fees for an active member of the Armed Forces stationed in California, and their dependents, to include graduate study at the University of California and the California State University. Under current law, these persons are entitled to resident tuition and fees for graduate study for one year.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1503 (McClintock-R) Public postsecondary education: nonresident admissions

Excludes students without legal immigration status from provisions of current law that exempt a non-resident student meeting specified criteria from paying non-resident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1535* (Karnette-D) Public postsecondary education: student fee policies

Requires the Legislative Analyst Office and the California Postsecondary Education Commission, by February 1, 2005, to propose a statewide policy, with specified principles, for the mandatory systemwide student fees of public higher education institutions.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

SB 1544 (Figueroa-D) Private postsecondary education

Extends the repeal date of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act until July 1, 2007. Requires the Director of the State Department of Consumer Affairs to appoint an administrative monitor to assess the Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational education's administrative operations and enforcement processes. Makes several clarifying amendments. Appropriates $150,000 for the monitors contract.

Chapter 740, Statutes of 2004

SB 1588 (Poochigian-R) Public postsecondary education

Permits a current or retired faculty member who has been employed by a campus of the California State University or the California Community Colleges to voluntarily teach any for-credit course, without compensation. Prohibits the imposition of any financial penalty on a campus for engaging in this practice and precludes a community college form counting one of these courses as part of its full-time equivalent student calculation.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1727 (Scott-D) Community colleges: facilities

Repeals the provisions of the Field Act that apply to community college facilities, as specified. Provides that community college facilities be governed by appropriate provisions of the California Building Standards Code, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1785 (Scott-D) Public postsecondary education: transfer requirements

Establishes a transfer program ensuring that California Community College students who wish to earn a California State University baccalaureate degree are able to do so.

Chapter 743, Statutes of 2004

SB 1817 (Scott-D) Higher education governance: community colleges

Grants authority to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to appoint up to six deputy and vice chancellors who would be exempt from state civil service requirements.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1872 (Denham-R) Insurance: state departments

Exempts the University of California from restrictions placed on state agencies and their ability to negotiate life or disability insurance or an annuity.

Chapter 123, Statutes of 2004

SB 1875* (Alpert-D) Community colleges: funding

Provides that equalization funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act not be allocated to districts until the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges develops an equalization plan that is approved by the Director of the State Department of Finance. Requires the equalization plan to define districts as large, medium-sized, or small, as specified. Describes the computations to be made, and the information to be collected and analyzed, by the Chancellor in devising the equalization plan and provides that, after the approval of the plan, the equalization funds may be allocated to the appropriate districts.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SCA 12 (Scott-D) California Community Colleges: civil service exemption

Provides for the exemption from civil service of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC) and any deputy chancellors or vice chancellors of the CCC that are authorized by statute.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCA 17 (Murray-D) University of California: student eligibility

Specifies that any student who ranks in the top ten percent of their graduating class at a California public high school, as specified, would be entitled to admission to the University of California.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 40 (Runner-R) Community colleges: apportionments: equalization adjustment

Seeks to eliminate the apportionment differences among the community colleges of similar size. Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to compute annually an equalization adjustment aimed at reducing or eliminating per credit full-time equivalent student apportionment differences between community college districts of similar size (small, large and very large).

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 46 (Simitian-D) Identity theft

Prohibits public or private California universities and colleges from using a student's social security number for identification in a publicly available manner or such that the unauthorized third party will have access to the information.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 61* (Dymally-D) Compton Community College District: special trustee

Authorizes the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to appoint a special trustee to administer and oversee the Compton Community College District's operations.

Chapter 139, Statutes of 2004

AB 64 (Pacheco-R) California Community Colleges: annual budget

Requires the California Community Colleges Board of Governors to base the growth rate for the system upon higher education enrollment projections developed by the State Department of Finance and the California Postsecondary Education Commission.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 119 (Shirley Horton-R) Mandatory systemwide undergraduate student charges

Establishes state policies with regard to mandatory systemwide undergraduate student charges at the University of California and the California State University.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 153 (Calderon-D) Student financial aid: eligibility

Requires the California State University and the California Community Colleges to establish procedures that enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition, as specified, to apply for, and participate in, all student aid programs administered by these segments to the extent permitted by federal law.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 156 (Maze-R) Public postsecondary education: southern San Joaquin Valley

Requires the trustees, and requests the regents, to each develop a systemwide long-range plan, submit to the California Postsecondary Education Commission a letter of intent to expand and develop a needs study with respect to the establishment of campuses of their respective segments in the southern San Joaquin Valley, as defined.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 174 (Calderon-D) Community college fees

Places a 10 unit cap per semester on the enrollment fee charges for community college students. Only becomes effective if an increase in the community college enrollment fees is enacted and implemented on or before January 1, 2004.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 303 (Reyes-D) University of California: salaries of administrators

Prohibits any funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for University of California (UC) administrative salaries from being encumbered until the UC Regents certify to the State Controller that any administrative salary increase in the previous year does not exceed the highest salary increase for any university employee whose salary is determined by collective bargaining.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 307 (Maddox-R) Student financial aid: tuition and fee waivers

Establishes the Cal Grant National Guard award program. Awards qualifying members of the California Army National Guard and the California Air National Guard with full-time study or student loan repayment in an amount equivalent to the sum of the annual education fee and registration fee charged to California resident undergraduate students at the University of California for the academic year of the award without reference to financial need of the recipient.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 481 (Diaz-D) International Baccalaureate Programs

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually apportion to school districts up to $25,000 for each authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma and IB Middle Years program. Permits a school district with an IB Program, as specified, to apply for advanced placement grant funding in order to offset the fees paid by economically disadvantaged pupils taking IB examinations.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 491 (Diaz-D) Public postsecondary education: information technology

Enacts a statutory process for information technology projects of the California State University and the University of California that exceed $3 million in direct or related costs.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 546 (Diaz-D) Apprenticeship education

Specifies that any excess state apportionments to school districts and community college districts for student apprenticeship education programs shall be allocated according to a specified order.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 550 (Diaz-D) Systemwide student fee advisory committees

Establishes systemwide student fee advisory committees as official standing committees of the governing bodies of the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 554 (Daucher-R) Community colleges: enrollment fees

Makes major modifications related to California Community College enrollment fees. Eliminates the General Fund offset in current law which prevents community colleges from realizing any net gain from student enrollment fee revenue.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 598* (Nunez-D) Student financial aid: Student Aid Commission

Specifies that the activities of EdFund, the auxiliary organization of the California Student Aid Commission, shall not include loan origination or loan capitalization activities. EdFund will not be precluded from undertaking other permitted activities with financial institutions that conduct loan origination or loan capitalization activities.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 610 (Diaz-D) Postsecondary education finance

Clarifies that deferred maintenance funding allocated by the State Allocation Board for hardship projects may be used to accomplish a project using the most cost-effective repair or replacement alternative, and authorizes the Joint Powers Southern California Occupation Center and the Joint Powers Central County Occupational Center to expend deferred maintenance monies to fund the most cost-effective repair or replacement alternatives.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 655 (Liu-D) Student Aid Commission: National Guard program

Specifies that, in the 2004-05 fiscal year, the Student Aid Commission (SAC) shall issue up to 100 new warrants under the Assumption Program of Loans for Education-National Guard program. Provides that commencing with the 2005-06 fiscal year, SAC may not issue more than the number of warrants that are authorized by the Budget Act.

(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

AB 680 (Liu-D) Public postsecondary education: community college fees

Phases-in California Community College fee increases from $11 per unit to $25 per unit over a three-year period beginning in the 2003-04 academic year, as follows: 2003-04--winter/spring semester ($16 per unit), 2004-05 ($21 per unit), and 2005-06 ($25 per unit).

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 711 (Correa-D) Private postsecondary education

Exempts current Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education approved private degree-granting institutions from preliminary review of new degree, diploma, or certificate programs if the institution is accredited by specified nationally recognized accrediting agencies.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 843 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Public postsecondary education: mandatory student fees

Establishes a statewide policy regarding mandatory student fees at the University of California and California State University.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1175 (Koretz-D) The Holocaust and genocide

Establishes the Center for Excellence on the study of the Holocaust Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance as a program of the California State University (CSU) system, rather than a pilot program at CSU, Chico.

Chapter 364, Statutes of 2004

AB 1323 (Jackson-D) Student financial aid

Requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission, in collaboration with various stakeholders, to develop a plan, by December 31, 2004, for the implementation of a decentralized, campus-based approach for the Cal Grant programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1417* (Pacheco-R) Community College Partnership for Excellence Program

Restores funding and establishes an accountability process for the Community College Partnership for Excellence Program.

Chapter 581, Statutes of 2004

AB 1507* (Dymally-D) Community colleges: fiscal affairs

Clarifies the authority of the California Community College Board of Governors to authorize the Chancellor to suspend the authority of the board of trustees of a California community college district and to appoint a special trustee to administer and oversee a district's operations. Outlines the processes to be followed prior to, during implementation of, and to renew such action.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1508 (Pacheco-R) Community college funding

Creates an alternative funding formula for the California Community Colleges. Provides that the community college share of Proposition 98 funding not fall below specified levels.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1543 (Firebaugh-D) Community colleges: nursing programs

Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC), in consultation with nursing programs of the CCC from around the state, to submit recommendations for standardized admissions policies, including prerequisite requirements and methods for allocating slots in over-subscribed programs.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1571* (Garcia-R) Education finance: community college funding

Provides that, commencing with the 2003-04 fiscal year, community college funding shall not, for any reason, be reduced below the amount derived from the share calculated under the existing law, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1620 (Nunez-D) Community colleges: temporary and part-time faculty

Authorizes a temporary employee or any part-time faculty member to challenge, consistent with grievance procedures for permanent faculty, a decision made by a community college district not to reappoint them to the same teaching position for the next academic year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1646 (Benoit-R) Contracting for noninstructional services

Repeals provisions of the Education Code governing the conditions under which a local education agency or community college may contract for services customarily provided by classified school employees to achieve cost savings.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1648 (Dymally-D) Community colleges

Repeals, as of January 1, 2007, the funding scheme in current law, based on the number of full-time equivalent students attending the various community college campuses, for calculating the amount of funds to be apportioned to community college districts each year.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 1807 (Liu-D) Private postsecondary education

Changes the provision of the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act of 1989.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1819* (La Malfa-R) Public schools: concurrent enrollment of pupils

Eliminates specified requirements for, and restrictions upon, the admission of K-12 students to a community college summer session as special part-time or full-time students.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1880 (Maze-R) Tuition reductions: military veterans

Provides tuition reductions for military veterans meeting specified requirements.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1885 (Corbett-D) Employment: biotechnology employment and development

Makes legislative findings and declarations relating to the biotechnology industry in the East Bay region of Northern California and the establishment of the East Bay Biotechnology Center at the California State University, Hayward, at no expenditure of state funds.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1969 (Negrete McLeod-D) Ethics: semiannual orientation courses

Requires the California State University Trustees, and urges the University of California Regents, to offer semiannual orientation courses on the ethics statutes and regulations that govern official employee conduct to specified employees.

Chapter 264, Statutes of 2004

AB 1973 (Nation-D) California State University: employee relations

Authorizes the California State University (CSU) to agree to wage and benefit issues in a memorandum of understanding. Authorizes the CSU to reallocate resources to effectuate that agreement.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1997 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Student financial aid: National Guard

Makes several technical and clarifying changes to existing statue governing the National Guard Assumption Programs of Loans for Education (NGAPLE) and the granting of academic leave to members of the California National Guard who are called to active duty. Allows persons who have already earned a baccalaureate degree to apply for an NGAPLE warrant, and states that qualified applicants with demonstrable financial need have first priority for NGAPLE warrant sin the event that funding is insufficient to fund all qualified applicants.

Chapter 549, Statutes of 2004

AB 1999 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) California State University

Makes various technical, correcting, and nonsubstantive changes to the Education and Public Contract Codes relative to the California State University.

Chapter 417, Statutes of 2004

AB 2122* (Assembly Budget Committee) EdFund

Specifies that the activities of EdFund, the auxiliary organization of the California Student Aid Commission shall not include either the issuance of bonds or loan origination or loan capitalization activities.

Chapter 657, Statutes of 2004

AB 2169 (Liu-D) Academic degrees

Specifies that a person who suffers harm because of a document or degree that is not authorized from a school has a cause of action for damages or injunctive relief, or both, against the violator who causes the harm. Authorizes any court of competent jurisdiction to award damages, attorney's fees, and court costs to enforce these provisions.

(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2177 (Jackson-D) Community colleges: nursing programs

Directs community colleges with nursing education programs to implement merit-based admissions criteria.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

AB 2179 (Firebaugh-D) Community colleges: funding

Revises provisions of the community college apportionment formula relating to the relationship between certain demographic changes in the statewide population and the attendance level in a particular community college district.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10)

AB 2239 (Runner-R) Community colleges: classified service

Allows part-time community college students who are not in work-study or work experience programs to work on campus.

(Failed passage in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2339 (Negrete McLeod-D) Education governance: State Board of Education: Trustees

Provides that, to the extent possible, the State Board of Education, the California State University Board of Trustees and the University of California Board of Regents should not meet on the same day.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2387 (Firebaugh-D) Public postsecondary education: admissions policies

Authorizes the University of California and California State University to consider factors other than grade point average and test scores in admissions. Requires a report on these provisions and repeals them on January 1, 2015.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2415 (Benoit-R) School and community college districts: contracting

Repeals provisions of SB 1419 (Alarcon-D), Chapter 894, Statutes of 2002, which requires that before a school district contracts for non-instructional services, the school district must follow specific guidelines. Sets new contracting provisions.

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

AB 2457 (Goldberg-D) Private Postsecondary Education Act: authorization

Extends authorization for the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act, including the Student Tuition Recovery Fund, for two and one-half years from January 1, 2005 to July 1, 2007.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2469 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Public postsecondary education: reporting requirements

Eliminates or modifies various reporting requirements of the California State University and the California Postsecondary Education Commission.

Chapter 303, Statutes of 2004

AB 2477 (Liu-D) Postsecondary education: production and pricing of college

Urges textbook publishers to take specified actions to reduce the cost of college textbooks to students. Requires the Trustees of the California State University and the California Community Colleges and requests the Regents of the University of California to work with their respective academic senates and to encourage faculty to consider the least costly practices in selecting textbooks.

Chapter 556, Statutes of 2004

AB 2479 (Wyland-R) Public postsecondary education: tuition and fees

Deletes exemption in existing law for an alien without lawful immigration status.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 2574 (Diaz-D) Public postsecondary education: student fee policy

Identifies statewide policy principles to guide decisions about student fees at public postsecondary institutions.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2615 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Public postsecondary education

Eliminates or modifies various reporting requirements from the Education Code related to higher education.

Chapter 349, Statutes of 2004

AB 2637 (Diaz-D) California State University: whistleblower protection

Requires the California State University to employ an independent investigator on all complaints by employees alleging actual or attempted acts of reprisal, retaliation, threats, coercion, or similar improper acts by another employee after filing a written complaint.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2678 (Koretz-D) Postsecondary education: textbook rental services

Creates a process for the establishment of textbook rental services at public colleges and universities.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2710 (Liu-D) Public postsecondary education: resident student fee policy

Establishes, effective July 1, 2005, a resident student fee policy for the University of California and the California State University which, among other things, states legislative intent to, generally, limit undergraduate fee increases to eight percent annually, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2724 (Laird-D) Postsecondary education: Golden State Scholarshare Trust

Expands eligibility, as specified, for participating in the Scholarshare program and in the California Educational Facilities Authority program, and otherwise makes minor, corrective and other non-substantive changes.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2778 (Maze-R) Community colleges: faculty

Requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to develop regulations on the conditions in which waivers would be granted for hiring faculty, as specified, relating to the reduction in a district's base budget and to adopt their regulations.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2800 (Mountjoy-R) Academic materials: preparation, sale, or distribution

Establishes in the general Education Code provisions that mirror provisions in the Donahoe Higher Education Act that prohibit the advertisement, preparation, sale or distribution of academic work to be submitted for academic credit at a postsecondary educational institution, making these provisions applicable to postsecondary, elementary and secondary education. Expands applicability of these provisions to specifically include public or private secondary schools and materials submitted for admissions purposes.

(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2825 (Firebaugh-D) Community colleges: funding

Revises certain formulas for determining community college enrollment growth funding.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2833* (Plescia-R) Public postsecondary education: dual admissions program

Requires the California State University, and requests the University of California, to establish a dual admissions program for eligible freshmen applicants.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

AB 2849 (Lowenthal-D) Trustees of the California State University

Increases the membership of the Board of Trustees of the California State University by adding one additional non-faculty employee representative for a two-year term.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2923 (Liu-D) California Postsecondary Education Commission: duties, etc.

Recasts and revises provisions relating to the California Postsecondary Education Commission's duties, membership, priorities, and policy responsibilities.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2965 (Samuelian-R) Insurance: state departments

Exempts the University of California from specified restrictions on the ability of a state department to negotiate life or disability insurance, or to require the placing of that insurance or annuity through particular agents, brokers or companies.

(Died in Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 3010 (Laird-D) Community colleges: facilities

Requires the State Department of General Services and the California Community Colleges (CCC) to collaborate on improving the efficiency of CCC construction projects.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3063* (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Community college interstate attendance agreements

Authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to enter into an interstate attendance agreement directly with the governing body of institutions of postsecondary education providing the first two years of college education in bordering states, under specified conditions.

Chapter 309, Statutes of 2004

AB 3064 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Public postsecondary education: group purchasing programs

Authorizes a public postsecondary educational institution, governing board, or administrative organization or auxiliary established by a governing board, to purchase goods or services through a group purchasing program if specified criteria are met.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 3076 (Mullin-D) State Teachers' Retirement Law: temporary employees

Excludes community college faculty members who are classified as temporary employees form mandatory membership in the State Teachers' Retirement System Defined Benefit Program as of July 1, 2005.

Chapter 474, Statutes of 2004

ACA 13 (Pacheco-R) Public education finance

Provides, through a constitutional amendment, that community colleges will receive the same percentage share of the total funds allocated to school districts and community college districts as they received in the 1989-90 fiscal year.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

ACR 8 (Dymally-D) Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

Requests the Regents of the University of California and the President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (Drew University) to expedite plans to transform the medical doctorate joint training program at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Drew University, into a four-year program housed at the Drew University campus.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

ACR 9 (Dymally-D) Joint Committee for the Revision of the Education Code

Establishes the Joint Committee for the Revision of the Education Code Relating to Community Colleges. Provides for the membership of the joint committee, and requires the appointment of an advisory committee and the submission of a report to the respective chairs of the Assembly Higher Education Committee and the Senate Education Committee on or before April 15, 2004.

(Died in Assembly; pending committee assignment)

ACR 37 (Parra-D) University of California, Merced: economic forecasting model

Requests the University of California, Merced, to develop, not later than July 1, 2004, a feasibility study and plan for the establishment of an economic forecasting model with a primary focus on the Central Valley.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

ACR 86 (Maze-R) Higher education in the 34th Assembly District

Resolves that the University of California and the California State University should study where to locate a campus or satellite campus in the counties of Tulare, Kings, Kern, or Fresno (in the 34th Assembly District).

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 177 (Maze-R) University of California Cooperative Extension

Requests the United States Department of Agriculture, the Regents of the University of California (UC) and the county board of supervisors in the state to continue their support and funding of the UC Cooperative Extension as a priority.

Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2004

ACR 193 (Liu-D) Higher education

Declares that a top priority for future state policy an budgets is the provision of opportunities for high-quality higher education consistent with the provisions of the Master Plan for Higher Education.

Resolution Chapter 170, Statutes of 2004

ACR 219 (Houston-R) National Scholarship Month

Recognizes May 2004, and each May thereafter, as National Scholarship Month.

Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2004

HR 40 (Diaz-D) California State University

Urges the Trustees of the California State University (CSU) to develop a more inclusive selection process for filing vacancies in campus presidencies, and consider including public input from the communities that a prospective CSU president will represent, developing a diverse selection committee, and expanding the selection process to produce a diverse candidate pool.

(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)

School Employees

SB 102 (Burton-D) State teachers' retirement: service credit

Allows members of the State Teachers' Retirement System to count up to two-tenths of one year of unused sick leave in determining eligibility for career-based enhancements to the Defined Benefit Program allowances. Appropriates $124,000 from the Teachers' Retirement Fund for administrative expenses.

Chapter 911, Statutes of 2004

SB 147 (Torlakson-D) School Health Security Account Program

Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System Board of Administration, by July 1, 2005, to establish and administer the Health Security Account Program for school employees who have retired or have reached normal retirement age.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

SB 263 (Knight-R) State Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Allows a legislator, the Governor, or the Governor's designee to inspect test materials administered by the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing for entry to and advancement in the teaching profession, with specified restrictions.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 275 (Battin-R) Private school employees

Requires private schools to request subsequent arrest notification from the State Department of Justice and to require such schools to make declarations regarding the background checks of their employees and volunteers.

(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 696 (Scott-D) Teacher credentialing: suspension of credential

Requires a local governing board to notify the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) within 10 days of placing a teacher on mandatory sick leave due to mental illness, as specified. Requires the CTC to immediately suspend the credential of that teacher without conducting a second psychiatric evaluation.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 793* (Vasconcellos-D) Education: employees

Revises, from May 15 to June 15, the date by which certificated employees (teachers and administrators) are required to be notified by school districts of the termination of their employment.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1137 (Burton-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: retirement board

Requires the retired member seat on the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) Board currently appointed by the Governor, be elected by retired and disabled STRS members to a four-year term, beginning January 1, 2006.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1208 (Vincent-D) Teachers: state basic skills proficiency test

Exempts retired teachers from passing the California Basic Education Skills Test when being considered for employment by a school district if the teacher has taught for at least 15 years in a California public school and has met other specified requirements.

Chapter 113, Statutes of 2004

SB 1337 (Morrow-R) Contracts for management consulting services

Requires that personal services contracts include assurances that the contractor's hiring practices meet applicable nondiscrimination procedures. Clarifies that school districts must consider on a year-to-year basis any renewal of contracts for management consulting services relating to food service.

(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)

SB 1377 (Morrow-R) School and community college classified employees

Repeals certain guidelines that specify how school districts determine cost savings for the purpose of entering into personal services contracts for services currently or customarily performed by classified school employees, and establishes new guidelines. Authorizes a public school employee to unilaterally adjust the "work rules" of represented classified employees who provide noninstructional services.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1536 (McPherson-R) Education

Amends the Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act so that the availability of only credentialed personnel to provide counseling and other pupil support services is reported in the School Accountability Report Card. Makes various findings concerning educational counseling programs.

(Died in Conference Committee)

SB 1621 (Machado-D) Teacher credentialing: district interns

Allows the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue district credentials to participants of a specified pilot program to provide instruction to pupils with disabilities in special education classes.

Chapter 287, Statutes of 2004

SB 1658 (Karnette-D) School credentials: emergency permits

Permits the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue or reissue emergency permits for less than one year, but not to exceed one year.

Chapter 55, Statutes of 2004

SB 1798 (Torlakson-D) Physical education

Adds new physical education training requirements to the individual professional growth requirement a teacher must meet to renew his or her credential and makes other changes related to physical education.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1816 (Vincent-D) School employees: termination

Authorizes the Los Angeles County Office of Education, when making reductions in staff initiated during the 2004-05 school year because of a reduction in services or elimination of a county-run juvenile camp program, to retain the employees until the effective date of the closure or reduction in services of that juvenile camp program.

Chapter 260, Statutes of 2004

AB 164 (Wolk-D) Principal Training Program

Revises the existing Principal Training Program to include high school administrators, as specified.

Chapter 673, Statutes of 2004

AB 212 (Maze-R) State teachers' retirement: retirement incentive

Provides a retirement incentive of either an additional two years or four years of service credit for members of the State Teachers' Retirement System Defined Benefit Program that retire prior to May 16, 2007. Provides that the school district must certify that the benefit will result in a net savings to the district.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 220 (Leslie-R) School employees: temporary athletic team coach positions

Exempts temporary athletic team coach work performed by a full-time classified employee from provisions governing overtime compensation and authorizes the full-time classified employee to be paid on a stipend basis for that work. Applies these provisions to both merit and nonmerit system school districts.

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

AB 242 (Liu-D) Teachers

Makes changes related to emergency teaching permits and various higher education provisions related to faculty.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 265* (Mullin-D) State teachers' retirement: appropriations

Changes the formula for the General Fund contributions to the State Teachers' Retirement System Supplemental Benefit Maintenance Account beginning with fiscal year 2003-04 to include repayment of the $500 million reduction in payments, pursuant to SB 20X (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 6, Statutes of 2003-04, First Extraordinary Session.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 419* (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State Teachers' Retirement System: board elections

Makes clarifying changes to provisions enacted last year that revised the composition of the membership of the State Teachers' Retirement System Board of Administration and provided for three of the members to be elected by the members of the State Teachers' Retirement System beginning January 1, 2004.

Chapter 11, Statutes of 2004

AB 791 (Pavley-D) State Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Requires the Office of the Legislative Analyst to conduct a study regarding the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) that includes a review of the success of the CTC in performing its assigned functions, and an assessment of the feasibility of merging the CTC with the State Department of Education. The study is due by July 1, 2004.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 891 (Runner-R) School employees: sex offenses

Adds the existing offense of "continuous sexual abuse of a child" to the definition of a sex offense in Education Code sections for purposes of parental notification, background checks, licensing, and employment.

Chapter 124, Statutes of 2004

AB 1197 (Wiggins-D) Political Reform Act of 1974: conflicts of interest

Includes, under the definition of "designated employee," for purposes of the conflict of interest law, any board member, chief business officer, superintendent, assistant superintendent, deputy superintendent, associate superintendent, chief personnel officer, and general counsel (or their equivalents) of a public school district or county office of education.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1282 (Hancock-D) Staff development

Authorizes school districts to receive full average daily attendance reimbursement for up to three additional days of staff development. Requires specified conditions to be met in order to receive additional funding.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1586 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State teachers' retirement benefits

Makes minor changes to the benefit programs administered by the State Teachers' Retirement System.

Chapter 442, Statutes of 2004

AB 1650 (Simitian-D) Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005

Creates the Teacher Support and Development Act of 2005 by consolidating and streamlining a number of existing K-12 teacher preparation, support and development programs into a formula-based block grant, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1852 (Mullin-D) State teachers' retirement

Authorizes a member of the State Teachers' Retirement System to earn a longevity bonus and makes various changes to an early retirement incentive program.

Chapter 935, Statutes of 2004

AB 1918 (Montanez-D) School employees

Allows a classified or certificated school employee, in a school district that is not subject to the disability compensation laws, to use up to six weeks of the five-month period during which the employee receives differentiated pay to take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner, or to bond with a new child.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1993 (Mullin-D) Staff development: San Mateo County Pilot Program

Establishes the San Mateo County Staff Development Pilot Program, beginning in 2005-06 and sunsetting July 1, 2009.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2036 (La Suer-R) State teachers' retirement: longevity bonus

Applies a State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) longevity bonus to community college instructors who retire concurrently from STRS and the State Public Employees' Retirement System.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2154 (Daucher-R) Certificated school employees

Exempts the governing board of a school district from the requirement to reimburse the cost of a bond (furnished by the employee upon compulsory leave of absence) or pay full compensation for the period of the compulsory leave of absence, if the charges against the employee are dismissed because the employee completed a drug diversion program.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2171* (Benoit-R) Teacher credentialing: special education

Adds social workers to the types of Pupil Personnel Services Credential that exempt prelingually deaf candidates from passing the California Basic Education Skills Test, and repeals and consolidates existing law, as specified.

Chapter 106, Statutes of 2004

AB 2210* (Liu-D) Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System

Exempts a professional clear credential candidate from induction requirements that requires the State Commission on Teacher Credentialing to accept in its place completion of a fifth year of study if certain conditions exist.

Chapter 343, Statutes of 2004

AB 2225 (Wyland-R) Principal Training Program

Establishes the High School Administrator Support and Assistance Program to award incentive funding to provide high school site administrators with professional development in the areas of instructional leadership, teacher support, and date management.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2232 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State teachers' retirement: service credit

Allows the State Teachers' Retirement System to adjust the current formula for calculating and converting sick leave for part-time community college faculty to service credit.

(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 2233 (Assembly Public Employees, Retirement And Social Security Committee) State teachers' retirement

The annual State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) technical housekeeping bill, making various grammatical, technical and conforming changes to the Teachers Retirement Law to facilitate efficient administration of STRS.

Chapter 912, Statutes of 2004

AB 2286 (Mountjoy-R) Teacher credentialing: internship programs

Permits an intern accepted to a level one education specialist credential program to choose an early program completion option and receive a five-year preliminary credential, as specified.

Chapter 658, Statutes of 2004

AB 2335 (Liu-D) Principal Training Program

Includes, within the areas of instruction and training of the Principal Training Program, the evaluation and selection of staff development and in-service training to help school site administrators select courses that will most benefit certificated staff in terms of pedagogical instructional leadership, management skills, or academic subject matter knowledge.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2370 (Goldberg-D) Public schools: pupil evaluation of teacher and course

Permits a teacher to solicit pupil evaluations of his or her courses and prohibits certain actions from being taken against a teacher or pupil as a result of a pupil evaluation.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2394 (Dutra-D) Teachers: instructing deaf pupils: salaries

Applies the hiring criteria for hiring a certificated employee or a substitute teacher at the California School for the Deaf to all school districts or county offices of education and requires comparable salaries for teachers, specialists, and administrators of state special schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2554 (Pavley-D) State teachers' retirement: postretirement earnings

Modifies the existing State Teachers' Retirement System exemptions to the post-retirement earnings limitation for certain teaching positions, and extends the sunset of the program from July 1, 2005 to January 1, 2008.

Chapter 934, Statutes of 2004

AB 2559 (Diaz-D) Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Program

Requires school districts and county offices of education to convene committees composed of teachers for the purpose of establishing an annual opportunity for teachers to evaluate and make recommendations for the improvement of professional development programs and locally administered district induction programs.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2664 (Maddox-R) Teacher credentialing

Provides that, as it relates to the specialist instruction credential, the specialty requiring advanced preparation or special competence be an academic specialty.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2680 (Negrete McLeod-D) State Teachers' Retirement System: headquarters building

Authorizes the State Teachers' Retirement System Board of Administration to conduct real estate activities relating to the location of their headquarters building.

Chapter 378, Statutes of 2004

AB 2753 (Corbett-D) State teachers' retirement: early retirement incentive

Reduces the reemployment restrictions that apply to members of the State Teachers' Retirement System Defined Benefit Program who retire under either of two early retirement incentive programs.

(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2909 (Salinas-D) Early intervention services

Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study of the current methods of providing special instruction and other services to infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2006.

Chapter 456, Statutes of 2004

AB 2913 (Salinas-D) Teachers: limited-English-proficient pupils

Extends the deadline from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2008, for credentialed teachers to complete the required 45 hours of staff development on methods that are specially designed to meet the needs of limited English proficient students for delivering instruction in a subject area in English.

Chapter 169, Statutes of 2004

AB 3001 (Nunez-D) Teachers

Makes a number of changes related to teacher issues in order to implement the Williams v. the State of California settlement agreement.

Chapter 902, Statutes of 2004

This bill is one of four legislative measures, SB 6 (Alpert-D), SB 550 (Vasconcellos-D), and AB 1550 (Goldberg-D), that implements the settlement agreement of Williams v. the State of California.

ACR 104 (Pavley-D) Day of the Teacher

Proclaims May 12, 2004 as Day of the Teacher. Urges all Californians to observe the Day of the Teacher by taking the time to remember and honor all teachers who give the gift of knowledge through teaching.

Resolution Chapter 60, Statutes of 2004

ACR 218 (Houston-R) Teacher Appreciation Week

Designates May 9 through May 15, 2004, as Teacher Appreciation Week.

Resolution Chapter 67, Statutes of 2004

School Curriculum

SB 290 (Morrow-R) Instruction: adopted courses of study

Requires the State Department of Education to consider, in developing the next history-social science curriculum framework for grades 7 and 8, in an age-appropriate manner, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, substantive selections from the Federalist Papers, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and George Washington's Farewell Address.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 383 (Alarcon-D) Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission

Requires the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to recommend to the State Board of Education and the Legislature, by November 1, 2006, a model postsecondary readiness curriculum for public high schools.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 524 (Vasconcellos-D) Instruction: automobile driver education

Establishes conditions that must be met by a private secondary school, including a school offering courses over the Internet, before the State Department of Motor Vehicles accepts completion of a driver education course taken at these schools as satisfying the department's requirements of issuing a provisional driver's license to a person under 18 years of age.

Chapter 587, Statutes of 2004

SB 1421 (Vasconcellos-D) High school diploma: parenting education

Requires a school district, when developing its plan for a comprehensive health program, to include parenting instruction, as defined in current law.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1513 (Poochigian-R) Instruction: algebra

Specifies that a pupil who completes algebra coursework prior to grade 8 is not exempt from the algebra requirements for grades 9 to 12.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1574 (Battin-R) Public Schools: physical education instruction

Eliminates the requirement that 10 percent of school districts be selected to report on the extent of their compliance with physical education requirements and, instead, requires that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction monitor their compliance.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1741 (Hollingsworth-R) Schools: health and family life instruction

Requires that, on parental request, a student be excused from instruction on health or family life if any part of the instruction conflicts with the religious training or beliefs of that student, or the parent or guardian. Defines "religious training or beliefs" to include personal moral convictions.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

AB 581 (Chu-D) Curriculum: labor relations

Requires the State Department of Education to consider a labor relations curriculum in the next cycle in which the history/social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 705 (Corbett-D) Career technical education

Requests the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) to identify a model set of discrete competencies necessary for successful completion of a course of instruction in careers and technical education for the purpose of admissions to the UC and CSU.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 707 (Correa-D) School curriculum: personal financial management

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Department of Consumer Affairs to establish a Personal Financial Management Curriculum Task Force.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 756 (Montanez-D) Instruction: physical education

Requires a school district to certify annually in writing to parents and guardians of pupils in grades 1-6 that it has provided pupils with 200 minutes of physical education each ten days.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 907 (Pavley-D) Environmental education: content standards

Requires the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to revise academic content standards for history/social science and science to incorporate environmental education content, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 950 (Haynes-R) Prohibited instruction: human sexuality

Makes changes to the California Comprehensive Sexual health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 975 (Mullin-D) Courses of study: nutrition education

Requires the State Department of Education to produce a standardized written summary regarding nutrition education that includes, but is not limited to, nutrition education curriculum standards.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1016 (Canciamilla-D) Curriculum: John Muir Day

Authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide to be available to schools for exercises and instruction related to John Muir Day.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1021 (Yee-D) Curriculum framework: Armenian Genocide

Requires that the "Armenian Genocide" be considered in the next cycle in which the history/social science curriculum framework and its accompanying instructional materials are adopted.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1177 (Nakano-D) Educational materials: labor history

Requires textbooks adopted by school districts, for social science, history, or civic classes, contain material related to California's labor history and trace the advances and retreats of organized labor, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1278 (Jerome Horton-D) Secondary school courses of study

Requires school districts maintaining a high school to prescribe curriculum in existing courses of study on the economics of higher education, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1872 (Nakano-D) Instructional materials: labor history

Requires instructional materials for social science, history or civics education, as adopted by the State Board of Education, to contain information related to California's labor history, including tracing the advances and retreats of organized labor, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1925 (Haynes-R) Comprehensive sexual health and HIV/AIDS prevention

Requires a school district to notify the parent or guardian of a pupil if comprehensive sexual health or HIV/AIDS prevention instruction will be taught by outside consultants, or if that instruction is to be provided through an assembly with guest speakers.

Chapter 323, Statutes of 2004

AB 1972 (Steinberg-D) Adopted course of study: organ donation

Requires at lest 30 minutes of instruction regarding organ and tissue donation as part of the driver education course requirement for grades 7-12.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2263 (Dutton-R) Education: health instruction

Encourage sthe inclusion of instruction on safe firearms storage and accident prevention techniques for persons who encounter a firearm in instruction on public health and safety issues.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2327 (Chan-D) Nutrition and physical activity curriculum

Requires the State Department of Education to incorporate exercises and activities related to nutrition and physical activity into the reading, English language development, history/social science, science, and mathematics instructional materials criteria at their next revisions. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt model content standards for health education by December 1, 2006.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2340 (Liu-D) Vehicles: automobile driver education and training courses

Sets forth automobile driver education course requirements for private schools that offer that course, and makes related changes.

(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2416 (Goldberg-D) Reading First Plan

Authorizes the use of Reading First funds for purchase of supplemental materials.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2435 (Wiggins-D) Courses of study: financial planning

Permits school districts to provide instruction in economics courses related to the understanding of personal finances including budgeting, savings and credit.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2512 (Jerome Horton-D) Role of Filipinos in World War II

Specifies that social studies instruction may include instruction on World War II and the role of Filipinos in that war, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2944 (Samuelian-R) Curriculum: social studies: role and contribution of Sikhs

Encourages school districts to include instruction in history/social science on the role and contribution of the Sikhs in the development of California.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

ACR 116 (Yee-D) History and social science curriculum

Urges the State Board of Education to take action at the next instructional materials primary adoption cycle to ensure that history and social science textbooks used in California schools in grade 10 fairly and accurately portray human rights violations and other historical atrocities in a comprehensive manner.

Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2004

Miscellaneous

SB 16 (Soto-D) School-parent compacts

Requires each school district to establish a process in which each parent is given the opportunity to enter into a school-parent compact.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 40* (Alpert-D) Library construction and renovation

Enacts the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2004 for submission to the voters at the 2004 primary election. Authorizes the issuance of $2 billion in general obligation bonds for the purpose of financing library construction and renovation pursuant to a program administered by the State Librarian.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 70 (Torlakson-D) Education: after school programs

Requires that training and support provided by the State Department of Education for After School Education and Safety Programs, include the development and distribution of voluntary guidelines for physical activity programs that expand learning opportunities during the school day.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 164* (Knight-R) Pupil attendance

Extends, by four years, the sunset on the "School Districts of Choice" authorization process for inter-district attendance. The inoperative and repeal dates are extended from July 1, 2003 and January 1, 2004 to July 1, 2007 and January 1, 2008.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 198 (Hollingsworth-R) Schools: military recruiting access: federal law

Restates what constitutes a violation of federal law regarding school district on-campus access for military recruiting purposes and authorizes the Governor to take a specified action.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 258 (McPherson-R) Baldrige National Quality Program

Makes several legislative findings and declarations regarding the success of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program and its Criteria for Performance Excellence, as demonstrated in California and throughout the United States. Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, if funding is available, to review the program for the purpose of recommending how schools can implement it to increase pupil achievement.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 266 (Knight-R) Pupil records: access to directory information

Requires each school district to adopt a policy that does not deny a military services representative access to that pupil directory information for recruitment purposes. Authorizes the imposition of civil penalties for violation of this requirement.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 267 (Knight-R) Abstinence education

Requires the State Department of Health Services to develop and implement a program of abstinence education in a manner that maximizes federal financial participation and specifies the purpose and subjects of the program.

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 384 (Soto-D) Technology Integration Performance Index

Requires the State Department of Education to develop, on or before January 1, 2005, multiple measures for a Technology Integration Performance Index to determine the extent of technology integration in each elementary and secondary school.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 394 (Knight-R) Patriotic exercises

Requires that the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America be recited each day during the school year at each elementary and secondary school. Declares that a pupil or school employee who does not wish to participate in the recitation may remain silent and seated in the classroom during the exercise.

(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 432 (Ortiz-D) Early childhood development: preschool

States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing a Universal Preschool Program for all children three and four years of age.

(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 473 (Florez-D) Public schools: State School Health Advisory Council

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to appoint a State School Health Advisory Council (Council) to make recommendations regarding model health services programs and practices by January 1, 2005. Requires the Council to collaborate with the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Services to develop school health services and school nursing services criteria. Appropriates $144,000 from the General Fund to the SPI for the costs of the Council.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 524 (Vasconcellos-D) Instruction: driver training

Establishes conditions that must be met by a private secondary school, including a school offering courses over the Internet, before the State Department of Motor Vehicles accepts completion of a driver education course taken at these schools as satisfying the department's requirements for issuing a provisional driver's license to a person under 18 years of age.

Chapter 587, Statutes of 2004

SB 550* (Vasconcellos-D) Education

Contains provisions to implement the Settlement Agreement in Williams v. State of California, related to instructional materials, assignment of teachers, and the condition of school facilities.

Chapter 900, Statutes of 2004

SB 560 (Knight-R) Pupils: dependents of military families

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as it relates to high school age military dependents, to (1) appoint a military liaison, as specified, (2) convene a specified committee, (3) provide specified information to school districts, and (4) submit a report, as specified, to the Legislature.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 905* (Chesbro-D) Educational enrichment: concurrent enrollment of pupils

Eliminates the cap and associated conditions on summer session concurrent enrollment by K-12 students at community colleges, and prohibits these K-12 students from displacing regular community college students.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1221 (Morrow-R) Confidential medical services: parental notification

Modifies parent/guardian notice requirements regarding a school district's authority to excuse a pupil from school to obtain confidential medical services without parental or guardian consent.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1254 (Soto-D) California Technology Assistance Project

Extends, from January 2005 to January 2009, the sunset on the California Technology Assistance Project as administered by the State Department of Education.

Chapter 482, Statutes of 2004

SB 1271 (Ortiz-D) Grant Joint Union High School District

Imposes conditions, as specified, on any proposal to reorganize the Grant Joint Union High School District that is initiated by the Sacramento County Committee on School District Organization and approved by the State Board of Education before December 31, 2007.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1293 (Alarcon-D) Foster children: education

Declares legislative intent to minimize the fragmentation of the education of pupils in foster care.

(Died in Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 1316 (Alpert-D) Foster children: education

Places new requirements on nonpublic schools which provide special education to foster youth who reside in licensed children's institutions and foster family homes.

(Died on Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 1380 (Escutia-D) Instructional materials

Provides an adoption process for instructional materials with intent to specify a process consistent with implementation of standards-based reform and the principles of local control for local education agencies to identify, evaluate, and recommend instructional materials to the State Board of Education to supplement the existing process, and to provide an opportunity to create support and focus among teachers, administrators, governing boards and parents.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1383 (Soto-D) Instructional materials

Authorizes a school district to use instructional materials funds to purchase or lease technology-based materials, as defined, and expands the definition of "technology-based materials" to include equipment that is specifically excluded under current law.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1386 (Vasconcellos-D) Pupils: drug and alcohol testing

Specifies that random drug or alcohol testing of pupils by a school district is permitted only under specified conditions and that non-random drug or alcohol testing is permitted only upon a reasonable suspicion of the unlawful use of a controlled substance, or alcohol, by a pupil.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1405 (Karnette-D) Public schools: basic instructional materials

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct a process to review high school basic instructional materials, for pupils in grades 9-12, and determine the extent to which time materials are aligned to the content standards adopted by the State Board of Education.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1418 (Vasconcellos-D) Articulation of educational purpose and policy

Declares the purposes of public education in California and sets forth the principles that should guide the operation and future development of public schools.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1464 (Karnette-D) Public contracts

Authorizes school districts to publish notice for bids on the district's web site or through an electronic portal.

Chapter 739, Statutes of 2004

SB 1467 (Knight-R) Patriotic exercises

Requires public elementary and secondary school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1517 (Ashburn-R) Retroactive high school diplomas for veterans

Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to issue high school diplomas to veterans who did not receive diplomas due to their military service.

Chapter 255, Statutes of 2004

SB 1566 (Escutia-D) Schools: food and beverage nutrition standards

Establishes nutrition standards for food served in public schools outside the federal meal program commencing with the 2005-06 school year.

(Refused passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1574 (Battin-R) Public Schools: physical education instruction

Eliminates the requirement that 10 percent of school districts be selected to report on the extent of their compliance with physical education requirements and, instead, requires that the State Superintendent of Public Instruction monitor their compliance, as specified.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 1591 (Machado-D) Regional occupational programs: eligibility of pupils

Allows pupils who will become 16 years old during the school year to enroll in Regional Occupational Programs.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1630 (Speier-D) Steroids and performance-enhancing dietary supplements

Requires the State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), to develop a list of performance-enhancing dietary supplements, as defined, on or before January 1, 2006, with certain requirements. Requires the CIF to amend its constitution and bylaws to require that school districts prohibit a pupil from participating in high school sports on and after July 1, 2006, unless that pupil agrees to to use any of the prohibited substances identified by DHS and the parent or guardian of that pupil signs a notification form regarding those restrictions.

Prohibits schools, commencing July 1, 2006, from accepting sponsorships from manufacturers of those supplements and prohibits certain school employees from selling, distributing, or promoting those supplements.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1692 (Vasconcellos-D) Pupil health: vision appraisal

Requires school districts to provide each pupil, beginning no later than September 1, 2005, a specified notice and questionnaire regarding his/her vision at the time of school vision appraisals.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1771 (Scott-D) School district governing boards: meetings

Allows a school board to meet outside its district to interview members of the public residing in another district when considering the potential employment of an applicant for superintendent of the district.

Chapter 257, Statutes of 2004

SB 1795 (Alarcon-D) Pupil preparation

Authorizes the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an advisory panel to develop a challenging standards based curriculum, the majority of which shall be middle and high school teachers with competence in particular subject areas.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1798 (Torlakson-D) Physical education

Adds new physical education training requirements to the individual professional growth requirement a teacher must meet to renew his or her credential and makes other changes related to physical education.

(Died on Assembly Education Committee)

SB 1912* (Ashburn-R) Pupil health: self-administration of medication

Permits pupils to carry and self-administer inhaled asthma or auto-injectable epinephrine medication at school, as specified.

Chapter 846, Statutes of 2004

SCR 55 (Alpert-D) Educational Options Month

Proclaims May as Educational Options Month and encourages all Californians to work together to ensure the future success of every young student participating in educational options in our state.

Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2004

SCR 58 (McPherson-R) California Private School Recognition Day

Declares each March 22 to be California Private School Recognition Day.

Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2004

SJR 31 (McPherson-R) Vocational and technical education

Expresses the Legislature's endorsement of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 and urges the Congress to continue and fully fund the Perkins Act.

Resolution Chapter 187, Statutes of 2004

SR 36 (Ackerman-R) Personalized learning

Commends personalized learning and calls upon Californians to recognize the benefits and contributions of personalized learning as a promising choice in the California public education system.

Read and adopted

SR 41 (Vasconcellos-D) Drug prevention education in schools

Specifies that current drug education programs in California schools lack critical information and skills. Creates the Senate Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Education in Schools to review and design an effective education program.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SR 43 (Murray-D) Intercollegiate athletes

Resolves that the National Collegiate Athletic Association should take various actions for student athletes.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 12 (Goldberg-D) Instructional materials: adoption: reading level

Requires any instructional materials adopted by the State Board of Education or a school district to be selected in a manner that provides each pupil with materials that he or she can read independently and that are appropriate for his/her respective reading levels. Authorizes school districts to expend state funds, appropriated for the purpose of purchasing instructional materials, as specified, for the purposes prescribed by this bill.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 97* (Nation-D) Public schools

Reenacts the School Districts of Choice authorization for inter-district attendance, which self-repealed on January 1, 2004, and sunsets this authorization on January 1, 2008.

Chapter 21, Statutes of 2004

AB 229 (Pacheco-R) School districts: public project contracts

Increases the competitive bid expenditure threshold for school districts' public contract expenditures from its current $15,000 amount to $50,000, and adjusts the limit annually according to the California Construction Index compiled by the State Department of General Services.

(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 335 (Mullin-D) Scholarships: Governor's Scholars Program

Defines an alternative school as a comprehensive high school for purposes of permitting pupils in these schools the opportunity to receive a $1,000 scholarship under the Governor's Scholars Program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 368 (Chan-D) Healthy Families Program

Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to establish a Healthy Families local educational agency (LEA) billing option to reimburse a LEA for covered services it provides a child who is enrolled in the Healthy Families Program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 500 (Diaz-D) Grants

Requires schools applying for High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools to involve teachers and the exclusive bargaining representative of the certificated employees of the district in all phases of the development of the school's action plan.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 532 (Yee-D) Special interest license plates

Requires the issuance of special interest license plates with a design relating to classroom instruction and specifies that the revenues generated by these plates be used for classroom instruction support, including the purchase of books and instructional materials.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 639 (Liu-D) Regional occupational centers and programs

Authorizes Regional Occupational Centers or Programs to plan, establish, and maintain a partnership academy and to offer academic courses as part of its partnership academy.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 660 (Corbett-D) Master Plan for Pupil Support Services

Requires the State Department of Education to convene a voluntary working group for the purpose of developing a master plan for pupil support services.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 661 (Hancock-D) Prohibited instruction: questionnaires

Simplifies the procedure for schools to allow students to participate in surveys.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 666 (Haynes-R) Schools: patriotic exercises

Encourages each preschool and Head Start program that receives state funds or uses public school facilities to conduct age-appropriate patriotic exercises, and provides that this objective is satisfied by recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States flag. Requires that parents and guardians be notified of their rights to (1) refuse that their child participate in the recitation of the Pledge, and (2) receive immediate assistance in the event of apparent harassment, discipline retaliation or ostracism against the child as the result of their nonparticipation in this exercise.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

AB 745 (Goldberg-D) Local educational agencies: officers

Requires the governing boards of all local education agencies and community college districts to annually report all compensation received for certain administrative, certificated, and classified personnel.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 780 (Cogdill-R) School districts: reorganization

Establishes a program in the Counties of Fresno, Humboldt, and Ventura to place the duties of approval and disapproval of petitions for the unification of school districts on the county committee and makes conforming changes. Merges an elementary school district and a high school district if their boundaries become coterminous. Sunsets this program on January 1, 2009.

Chapter 652, Statutes of 2004

AB 810 (Runner-R) Pupils: age of admission

Moves up the dates in which a child must be appropriate age in order to enroll in specified grades.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 816 (Reyes-D) Consolidated application for categorical programs

Allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to add categorical programs to the monitoring process and recasts current law to conform to the revised monitoring system.

(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 858 (Goldberg-D) California Racial Mascots Act

Establishes the California Racial Mascots Act that prohibits, commencing January 1, 2006, all public schools from using the term "Redskins" for a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 905 (Hancock-D) After School Education and Safety Program: grants

Requires the State Department of Education to select between six and 10 recipients of the After School Education and Safety Program to participate in a two-year pilot program that evaluates alternative methods of funding.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 952 (Vargas-D) Child identification kits

Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to administer a two-year pilot program through which individuals and private organizations may donate child identification kits to the SDE for distribution to school districts and county offices of education for the parents or guardians of each elementary and secondary pupil.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 974 (Nation-D) Public schools: basic instructional materials

Requires the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to create and implement a process to review high school basic instructional materials, with certain requirements. Requires a fee to be imposed on publishers and manufacturers of instructional materials who choose to participate in the review, and creates the High School Basic Instructional Materials Review Fund in the State Treasury into which monies derived from those fee will be deposited for purposes of conducting high school basic instructional materials reviews. Provides that those funds will only be available to the SPI for that purpose upon appropriation by the Legislature. Sunsets on January 1, 2009.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2)

AB 1001 (Hancock-D) School districts: information reporting

Requires the State Department of Education to develop a plan to improve information technology systems maintained by school districts. Requires the plan to include a proposal to automate all daily reporting requirements imposed on school districts.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1010 (Pavley-D) Instructional materials: electronic format

Requires the publisher that makes basic instructional materials available to a school district in a hard copy format to also make instructional materials available in an electronic multimedia format upon adoption of instructional materials after January 1, 2005, by the State Board of Education or by the governing board of a school district that maintains a high school.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1012 (Steinberg-D) Pupils: interrogation

Provides a statutory framework for the questioning of elementary and high school pupils by peace officers, including requirements for parental or guardian notification, procedures when parents or guardians cannot be reached, and enumerated exigent circumstances where notification will not be required, as specified.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1041 (Runner-R) Pupils: excused absences: parental consent

Restricts school authorities from excusing a minor pupil enrolled in grades 1 through 12, inclusive, from the school campus before the end of the school day without the written consent of the pupil's parent or guardian.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1052 (Plescia-R) Electronic state school register pilot project

Authorizes a pilot program of paperless electronic attendance records for the San Diego Unified School District.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1134* (Spitzer-R) Education: interdistrict transfers

Extends the sunset, from July 1, 2003 until July 1, 2008, for provisions that require districts to give consideration to the child care needs of a pupil when evaluating a request for interdistrict transfer.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1259 (Yee-D) State Board of Education

State legislative intent that the Governor appoint members to the State Board of education (SBE) who are from, and represent, distinct geographical regions, and requires that advance notice of SBE meetings include substantial background materials on agenda times.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1334 (Garcia-R) School district reorganization

Prohibits an action to reorganize the boundaries of a school district without the consent of a majority of all of the members of the governing board of the school district if any of the territory proposed to be reorganized was subject to a reorganization action initiated within the previous five years and the pupil population of the territory to be reorganized meets specified characteristics.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1550 (Goldberg-D) Concept 6 program

Prohibits the operation of a Concept 6 program after July 1, 2012, and expresses legislative intent that all school districts eliminate the Concept 6 program as soon as practicable. (This is one of four bills that implement the Settlement Agreement in Williams v. the State of California lawsuit. The other bills in the four-bill package are SB 6 (Alpert-D), SB 550 (Vasconcellos-D), and AB 3001 (Goldberg-D).

Chapter 901, Statutes of 2004

AB 1595 (Wyland-R) Career education

Authorizes unified school districts to establish and maintain the cooperative career technical education programs or community classrooms as part of a career technical education course.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1636 (Kehoe-D) Pupil records

Allows a public officer or agency which maintains records for pupils relating to free or reduced-price meal eligibility to make those records available to a school for the purpose of identifying pupils eligible for school choice or supplemental education services.

Chapter 321, Statutes of 2004

AB 1646 (Benoit-R) Contracting for noninstructional services

Repeals provisions of the education code governing the conditions under which a local education agency or community college may contract for services customarily provided by classified school employees to achieve cost savings.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 1696 (Pavley-D) Office of Education on the Environment

Makes technical and clarifying changes to the statutes authorizing the Office of Education on the Environment.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1819* (La Malfa-R) Concurrent enrollment of pupils in high school

Eliminates specified requirements for, and restrictions upon, the admission of K-12 students to a community college summer session as special part-time or full-time students.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1820 (Maze-R) Four-day school week: Death Valley Unified School District

Authorizes the Death Valley Unified School District to operate one or more schools on a four-day school week until July 1, 2008.

Chapter 481, Statutes of 2004

AB 1822 (Chan-D) Schools: pupil immunizations

Makes various technical changes to statute in relation to immunization requirements for hepatitis B and the mumps.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1832 (Maze-R) School uniforms: Porterville Unified School District

Authorizes the governing board of the Porterville Unified School District to adopt a three-year school uniform pilot program for continuation high schools and community day schools in the district, and specifies a specific parental opt-out policy.

(Failed passage in Senate Education Committee)

AB 1897 (Reyes-D) School district governing boards: pupil members

Requires, beginning July 1, 2005, each school district with one or more high schools to appoint a preferential voting pupil member to the governing board of the school district, and requires that a pupil member not take any action as a member of the board that would incur any cost to the school district without the consent of the board.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1944 (Hancock-D) Pupil attendance: precinct board membership

Allows a pupil enrolled in a history or social science course who serves as a member of a precinct board for an election to receive school attendance credit for that service for purposes of computing average daily attendance.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1949 (Hancock-D) After school programs

Authorizes the administrator of an After School Education and Safety Program to conduct up to four staff development days per year.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1988 (Hancock-D) Schools: irradiated foods

Prohibits a school from serving irradiated foods, unless specified conditions regarding those sales are met.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2017 (Bermudez-D) Pupil Volunteer Award Program

Establishes the Pupil Volunteer Award Program and specifies legislative intent to promote civic service in high schools throughout the state by providing special recognition to certain high school pupils who obtain a specified number of valid community service hours.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2029 (Vargas-D) Vehicles: school pedestrian-bicyclist safety program

Expands existing provisions allowing specified counties to create double-fine zones in school zones to include San Diego County.

(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2050 (Nakanishi-R) Instructional materials

Changes the method by which local education agencies notify the general public of hearings to determine the availability of sufficient instructional materials.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2051 (Nakanishi-R) School dress codes

Seeks to make a distinction between highly restrictive school uniform policies which require students to wear only prescribed clothes and dress appearance codes, which prohibit only certain items of clothing.

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2132 (Reyes-D) Pupil health: self-administration of asthma medication

Authorizes a pupil to carry and self-administer medication or to receive assistance from school personnel, as specified, if the school district receives written statements, as specified.

Chapter 832, Statutes of 2004

AB 2180 (Dutton-R) Tolerance in public schools

Prohibits the public school system from intentionally demeaning individuals or groups based on their religious beliefs.

(Failed passage in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2183 (Liu-D) Career technical education

Allows a regional occupational center or program (ROC/P) to establish a partnership academy. Deems a ROC/P to be a school district and allows it to offer academic courses as part of its partnership academy.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2187 (Levine-D) Schools: nutritional content chart

Requires each public school to post a chart containing the nutritional content of each food item served on campus and requires that the chart be in public view within all school cafeterias, central eating areas or other areas where food is served.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2196 (Garcia-R) Pupil nutrition: food service

Requires a school district that elects to renew or enter into any contract with a commercial food vendor to make information available on the nutritional content of all food items sold, and requires food vendors to provide nutritional information about their food items. Effective January 1, 2007.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2200 (Hancock-D) School breakfast program

Requires, commencing with the 2005-06 school year, and each year thereafter, each school district and county superintendent of schools maintaining grades K-12 to make available to each eligible pupil a nutritionally adequate breakfast served through the national school breakfast program.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2220 (La Suer-R) Tolerance in public schools

Seeks to ensure that all students can express varying opinions on issues without fear of harassment or being labeled "intolerant."

(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 2240 (Oropeza-D) Equity in Athletics Bill of Rights

Establishes the Athletic Bill of Rights to make high school students and parents aware of their rights under Title IX in regard to athletic programs at public high schools and specifies that a poster be printed and posted in school athletic facilities to make students aware of these rights.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2295 (Hancock-D) Academic and career exploration plan

Authorizes a school district to provide an individualized academic and career exploration plan for students prior to completion of grade 9 and provides for the development of the plan and its contents.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2323 (Jackson-D) Gender equity: athletics

Requires the State Department of Education to develop a Gender Equity Compliance Survey for high schools, as specified.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2344 (Corbett-D) Career Technical Education Campaign

Declares legislative intent that the State Department of Education establish the Career Technical Education Campaign for the purpose of encouraging businesses to make gifts of in-kind donations for career technical education in the state, in return for a tax credit, to be established by future legislation.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2367 (Chan-D) Pupil health: asthma

Requires a school district that receives an asthma action plan, as specified, to maintain it on file and provide annual training to all school staff.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2407 (Bermudez-D) Kindergarten

Authorizes a school district implementing an Early Primary Program to maintain kindergarten classes for different lengths of time at its school sites without seeking a waiver from the State Board of Education.

Chapter 946, Statutes of 2004

AB 2415 (Benoit-R) School and community college districts: contracting

Repeals provisions of SB 1419 (Alarcon-D), Chapter 894, Statutes of 2002, and sets new contracting provisions.

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

AB 2455 (Canciamilla-D) Instructional materials

Revises procedures for the adoption and pricing of instructional materials.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2485 (Chan-D) Schools: environmental and endangerment assessments

Requires any person, corporation, public utility, or governmental agency to provide a written response within 30 days, to a request for information by a school board related to the safety of a proposed school site.

Chapter 578, Statutes of 2004

AB 2504 (Maldonado-R) Nutrition

Requires the State Department of Health Services to administer a two-year pilot program to make available free fresh and dried fruits and vegetables to pupils in 25 eligible elementary and secondary schools throughout the state.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2525* (Assembly Education Committee) Education: planning

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

Chapter 896, Statutes of 2004

AB 2614 (Levine-D) Public contracts: school districts

Requires that prequalification papers submitted by those who bid for a contract must be submitted 15 days, rather than two days, prior to opening the bids. Provides that the invitation to bid may be posted on a web site as well as advertised in a newspaper of general circulation.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2644 (Oropeza-D) Air pollution: school bus idling and idling at schools

Prohibits excessive engine idling by school buses during their operation and by other vehicles at school sites.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2686 (Jackson-D) Schools: National School Lunch Program

Encourages the governing board of a school district participating in the National School Lunch Program to disseminate information regarding the nutritional content of lunches served as part of the program.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2751 (Yee-D) Schools: nutrition

Requires the State Department of Education (SDE) to develop nutritional guidelines regarding the sugar content of foods served on public school campuses. Authorizes the SDE to solicit recommendations from pupils when developing guidelines. Renames the Child Nutrition Advisory Council as the Child Nutrition and Physical Activity Advisory Council.

(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2800 (Mountjoy-R) Preparation, sale, or distribution of academic work

Establishes, in the General Education Code, provisions in the Donahoe Higher Education Act that prohibit the advertisement, preparation, sale or distribution of academic work to be submitted for academic credit at a postsecondary educational institution, making these provisions applicable to postsecondary, elementary, and secondary education. Also expands applicability of these provisions to specifically include public or private secondary schools and materials submitted for admissions purposes.

(Refused passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2824* (Runner-R) Categorical funding

Requires the governing board of each school district, commencing on May 15, 2005, to disclose to the local news media and the public the process it will use to seek input from the community, school site leaders, parents, and teachers regarding its annual budget. Requires the public hearing to be held not less than 10 working days following distribution of the proposed budget to the local news media and the public, along with a summary of the budget and makes numerous related changes.

(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2841 (Salinas-D) School districts: reorganizations

Recasts and changes various requirements related to school district reorganizations and unifications.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2855 (Laird-D) Education: policies

Revises, reduces, or repeals various state mandated program requirements on local school districts and county offices of education.

Chapter 895, Statutes of 2004

AB 2860 (Pavley-D) Age of admission to kindergarten

Allows school districts to require children to be age five by September 1 for admission to kindergarten at district specified schools.

(Died in Senate Education Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10)

AB 2970 (Pavley-D) Kindergarten

Authorizes a school district to maintain kindergarten classes at different school sites within the district for different lengths of time and authorizes a school district to change the age at which a child is admitted to kindergarten.

(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2992 (McCarthy-R) School and community college districts: contracting

Repeals provisions of SB 1419 (Alarcon-D), Chapter 894, Statutes of 2002, which requires that before a school district contracts for non-instructional services, the school district must follow specific guidelines.

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

ACR 80 (Dymally-D) Compton Unified School District: Board of Trustees

Declares that the Compton Unified School District has successfully fulfilled the requirements that were imposed on it as a condition of the return of the legal rights, duties, and powers of governance to the Board of Trustees of the Compton Unified School District. Requests the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to notify, on or before August 15, 2003, the trustee with temporary oversight authority over the school district of the termination of that position.

(Died in Senate Education Committee)

ACR 84 (Houston-R) Mathematics Education Month

Proclaims April 2003 as Mathematics Education Month.

(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

ACR 140 (Wesson-D) Brown v. Board of Education and Equality in Education Day

Commemorates the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 347 U.S. 483 decision and observes May 17, 2004, as "Brown v. Board of Education and Equality in Education Day." Urges the State Department of Education to provide model instructional materials to schools that encourages schools to observe the Brown v. Board of Education decision with appropriate educational activities that help pupils understand the importance of tolerance, humanity, and equality of opportunity.

Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2004

ACR 174 (Kehoe-D) Arts Education Month

Proclaims the month of March 2004 as Arts Education Month and encourages all educational communities to celebrate the arts with meaningful pupil activities and programs that demonstrate learning and understanding in the visual and performing arts.

Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2004

ACR 195 (Yee-D) Literacy instruction: braille

Encourages school districts, the State Department of Education, the California State University, and the U.S. Department of Education to generate greater efforts to fund literacy instruction for blind and visually impaired pupils.

Resolution Chapter 134, Statutes of 2004

ACR 202 (Levine-D) Library Week

Proclaims April 18 through April 24, 2004, as Library Week.

Resolution Chapter 49, Statutes of 2004

ACR 207 (Chan-D) School health

Proclaims May 12, 2004, as School Nurse Day.

Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2004

ACR 221 (Bermudez-D) Student volunteer programs

Designates May 1 as Student Volunteer Day.

Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2004

ACR 235 (Vargas-D) Clean school buses

Acknowledges that California is last among all 50 states in the percentage of children that ride in school buses. Urges that state apportionment of funds for home-to-school transportation be used in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.

Resolution Chapter 196, Statutes of 2004

AJR 68 (Parra-D) Federal child nutrition programs

Supports the reauthorization of the federal Child Nutrition Improvement and Integrity Act and urges the President and Congress to eliminate the reduced-price school meals category and expands the free school meals program to include all children from families with income below 185 percent of the federal poverty level

Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2004

Index (in Bill Order)