Yesterday, the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees acted on over 500 bills, including a large number of education measures. All of the bills acted upon contained significant costs to the state, so their passage signals strong institutional support. The bills that passed out of committee now head to the Senate and Assembly floors for consideration by the full legislative body. The Legislature has until Friday, September 11 to send bills to the Governor.

This year is remarkable to us in the sense that it feels quiet compared to prior years. Normally, at this point in the legislative session we expect the Appropriations Committees to act on a number of high profile education bills. This year, however, there are relatively few. Nearly all of the major education-related issues this year played out either in the budget process (additional LCFF/one-time funding, CTE and Adult Ed grants, etc.), in legislation that has already been signed by the Governor (the vaccination bill, 2015 CAHSEE exemption, etc.), or in bills that have stalled or are waiting for additional consideration outside of the normal process (teacher evaluation, budget reserve cap, school bond, etc.). Additionally, while the state continues to wrestle with turning on a new accountability system, that action is taking place at the State Board of Education – outside of the legislative process.

With that said, a number of notable bills advanced. Of particular interest, the Assembly Appropriations Committee passed legislation that would retain the high school exit exam for three years, but not require its passage as a condition of graduation. The Appropriations Committees also passed bills to ban “Redskins” as a mascot in schools, provide additional slots for preschool, require schools to cover the cost of teacher induction programs, subject charter schools to open meeting requirements, and stop costly lawsuits related to PE minutes, among others.

Bills that failed to pass out of the Appropriations Committees are now considered two-year bills, meaning they can be taken up again when the Legislature reconvenes in January (though not likely in their current form). Some of the key bills that did not pass out of committee are listed at the end of this summary.

Following is a full summary of education-related measures that advanced yesterday, sorted by category. The bill titles are linked to bill text (be aware: bills that were amended in committee will probably not be updated online until early next week).

SB 172 – Liu (D): Pupil Testing: High School Exit Examination: Suspension

Suspends the requirement to pass the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) as a condition of receiving a high school diploma and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to make recommendations regarding the continuation of the CAHSEE and alternative pathways to satisfying high school graduation requirements. Amendments specify that local educational agencies shall grant high school diplomas to students who satisfy all other graduation requirements through July 31, 2018.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 359 – Mitchell (D): California Mathematics Placement Act of 2015

Creates the California Mathematics Placement Act of 2015 to require school boards or governing bodies of local education agencies serving pupils in grades 8 or 9, or both, that do not have a mathematics placement policy in place as of January 1, 2016, to develop one. Amendments taken require the policy to be developed before the 2016–2017 school year.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 369 – Block (D): California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Date System: Pupils of Military Families

Requires the SPI, on or before July 1, 2016, to add a reporting process within the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) requiring local educational agencies to report the enrollment of pupils of military families.
Action: Passed

AB 30 – Alejo (D): Schools or Athletic Team Names: Racist Mascots Act

Prohibits public schools from using the term “Redskins” for school or athletic team names, mascots, or nicknames beginning January 1, 2017. Amendment taken will clarify the phase in for a new mascot or school name.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 288 – Holden (D): Public Schools: College and Career Access Pathways

Authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district in its immediate service area to offer or expand dual enrollment opportunities for students who may not be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education and outlines the conditions that must be met prior to the adoption of such an agreement.
Action: Passed

AB 709 – Gipson (D): Charter Schools

States a charter school is subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act, unless it is operated by an entity governed by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, in which case the charter school would be subject to the Act. States that a charter school is subject to the State Public Records Act (PRA). Provides that a charter school employee is not disqualified from serving as a member of the school’s governing body because of his or her employment status. States such school is subject to the Political Reform Act of 1974. Amendments taken will require the charter authorizer to execute PRA requests made to a charter if certain criteria are met.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 334 – Leyva (D): Pupil Health: Drinking Water

Requires the State Department of Public Health (DPH) to test drinking water sources at a sample of schoolsites for lead in the drinking water, and deletes the authority of a governing board of a school district to adopt a resolution stating that it is unable to comply with the requirement to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in the food service areas. This bill further prohibits drinking water that does not meet the United States Environmental Protection Agency standards for lead from being provided at a school facility. Amendments taken delete the sample testing requirement, delete the requirement for schools to develop a mitigation plan, and strike an appropriation from the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 101 – Alejo (D): Pupil Instruction: Ethnic Studies

Requires the SPI to oversee, and the State Board of Education to adopt, an ethnic studies model curriculum framework and other support systems. This bill also requires an Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee to advise, assist, and make recommendations to the Board on ethnic studies issues. Amendment taken will eliminate ongoing costs relating to the CDE.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 146 – Garcia (D): Public Instruction: Social Sciences: Deportations to Mexico

Requires the State Board of Education to consider including in the history-social science curriculum framework, instruction on the unconstitutional deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression. This bill also provides encouragement from the Legislature for the CDE to incorporate this topic into curriculum resources for teachers. Amendment taken ill eliminate cost pressure related to teacher curriculum.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 329 – Weber (D): Pupil Instruction: Sexual health Education

Requires all students to receive comprehensive sexual health education twice between grades 7 through 12. Modifies and expands the existing HIV prevention education. Amendments taken will reduce mandated costs related to in-service training.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 1012 – Jones-Sawyer: Pupil Instruction: Course Periods without Educational Content

Prohibits a school district serving any of grades 9 through 12 from assigning students to any course without educational content for more than one week in any semester, and prohibits the assignment of any student to a course that the student previously completed and received a satisfactory grade, unless specific conditions are met.
Action: Passed

AB 1391 – Gomez (D): Pupil Instruction: Course of Study: Physical Education

Expands the Uniform Complaint Procedures (UCP) to include complaints of non-compliance with the required minimum instructional minutes for physical education.
Action: Passed

SB 695 – De Leon (D): School Health Education: Sexual Harassment Training

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) to consider adding content to the health curriculum framework for grades 9-12 on sexual harassment and violence, including the affirmative consent standard, and requires school districts which require a health course for graduation to include this content. Amendments are technical in nature.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 219 – Daly (D): Public Works: Concrete Delivery

Expands the definition of public works to include the hauling and delivery of ready-mixed concrete to carry out a public works contract. Amendments taken will:

1. Specify that haulers and ready-mix concrete providers shall be considered subcontractors
2. Applies to contracts entered into after July 1, 2016

Action: Passed as Amended

AB 852 – Burke (D): Public Works: Prevailing Wages

Defines “public work” for purposes of prevailing wage law to also mean any construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under private contract on a general acute care hospital when the project is paid for in whole or in part with the proceeds of conduit revenue bonds issued by a public agency. A project for a rural general acute care hospital with a maximum of 76 beds would be exempt from this requirement.
Action: Passed

SB 111 – Fuller (R): School Facilities: Military Installations

Requires the Department of Finance to explore options on how best to assist school districts in meeting the matching share requirement of a federal school construction grant made by the Office of Economic Adjustment of the federal Department of Defense to construct, renovate, repair, or expand elementary and secondary public schools located on military installations.
Action: Passed

AB 1301 – Jones-Sawyer (D): Voting Rights: Preclearance

Establishes a state “preclearance” system under which certain political subdivisions are required to get approval from the Secretary of State before implementing specified policy changes related to elections.
Action: Passed

SB 42 – Liu (D): Postsecondary Education: Office of Higher Education Performance and Accountability

Establishes , until January 1, 2021, the Office of Higher Education Performance and Accountability (OHEPA), within the Governor’s office, as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency, and advisor to the Legislature and the Governor. Amendments taken will add one seat on the advisory board for the Assembly and one seat for the Senate, make the advisory board unpaid, except for travel expenses, and add annual reporting requirements.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 320 – Lara (D): Pupil Fees: Complaint of Noncompliance: Regulations

Prohibits a public school from establishing a local policy or procedure that authorizes the public school to resolve a complaint regarding assessment of pupil fees, whether formally or informally, by providing a remedy to the complainant without also providing a remedy to all affected pupils, parents, and guardians.
Action: Passed

AB 224 – Jones-Sawyer (D): Pupils: Educational Liaison for Foster Children

Requires the CDE to develop a standardized notice of educational rights of foster youth, post the notice on its website, and provide the notice to foster youth liaisons, foster youth, parents or educational rights holders. Amendments taken will remove mandated costs, streamline administrative workload, and make other technical changes.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 379 – Gordon (D): Foster Youth: Complaint of Noncompliance

Expands the Uniform Complaint Procedures to include complaints of noncompliance with certain rights and responsibilities regarding the education of students who are in foster care or who are homeless, including school placement decisions, responsibilities of foster youth liaisons, provisions regarding school transfers, exemption from locally-imposed graduation requirements, and the awarding of partial credit for completed coursework.
Action: Passed

AB 801 – Bloom (D): Success for Homeless Youth in Higher Education Act

Requires the extension of priority enrollment to homeless youth or former homeless youth at the California Community Colleges and the California State University and requests that the University of California make this same extension. Requires designation of a Homeless and Foster Student Liaison. Requires the waiver of per unit fees for this population at the community colleges. Establishes residency status for this population. Amendment taken will remove mandated costs.
Action: Passed

AB 854 – Weber (D): Educational Services: Pupils in Foster Care

Restructures the existing Foster Youth Services program by shifting the primary function from direct services provided by the county offices of education and six school districts, to a program of coordination to assist school districts in meeting their statutory obligation to improve the educational outcomes of foster youth pursuant to the Local Control Funding Formula. Amendments taken will (1) hold harmless LEAs currently operating these programs, (2) establish an allocation formula, and (3) make technical changes.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 141 – Bonilla (D): Teacher Credentialing: Beginning Teacher Induction

Requires LEAs that hire new teachers to provide them with a beginning teacher induction program and prohibits them from charging a fee to participate in the program as well as alternative beginning teacher induction programs.
Action: Passed

AB 305 – Gonzalez (D): Workers’ Compensation: Permanent Disability Apportionment

For injuries occurring after January 1, 2016, prohibits apportionment if pregnancy, menopause, or menopause-caused osteoporosis is contemporaneous with the injured worker’s claimed injury, prohibits apportionment in cases of psychiatric injury in specified instances, and requires that breast cancer not be less than the comparable impairment rating for prostate cancer.
Action: Passed

AB 375 – Campos (D): School Employees: Sick Leave: Paternity/Maternity Leave

Requires that a certificated school employee on maternity or paternity leave receive differential pay for up to 12 weeks. Provides that the 12-week period be reduced by any period of sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, taken during a period of maternity or paternity leave.
Action: Passed

AB 580 – O’Donnell (D): Pupil Mental Health: Model Referral Protocols

Requires, upon funding provided for this purpose, the CDE to develop model referral protocols for schools to use to address student mental health concerns.
Action: Passed

AB 676 – Calderon (D): Employment: Discrimination: Status as Unemployed

Prohibits an employer from discriminating against prospective job applicants on the basis of employment status. This bill would provide that an employer, employment agency, or person operating an Internet job posting Web site who discriminates against unemployed job applicants would be subject to a civil penalty, enforceable by the Labor Commissioner. Amendments taken will make narrowing and clarifying changes.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 908 – Gomez (D): Disability Compensation: Family Disability Insurance

Increases the level and duration of benefits provided in the Paid Family Leave insurance program. Amendments taken will:

1. Delay implementation
2. Reduce the number of weeks of leave
3. Limit amount of benefits to be no more than the employee’s weekly wages

Action: Passed as Amended

SB 406 – Jackson (D): Employment: Leave

This bill expands unpaid family and medical leave provided under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). Amendment taken is technical in nature.

AB 80 – Campos (D): Interagency Task Force on the Status of Boys and Men of Color

Establishes a 20-member Interagency Task Force on the Status of Men and Boys of Color (BMoC Task Force) in state government to support departments and agencies in coordinating actions to improve outcomes for boys and men of color. The BMoC Task Force will sunset on January 1, 2026.
Action: Passed

AB 706 – Bonilla (D): California Volunteers

Establishes the California AmeriCorps – STEM, administered by California Volunteers, to bring more science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs into schools, expanded learning and after school programs, and neighborhood and regional centers to prepare youth for jobs in STEM fields. Amendments taken will:

1. Limit the use of General Fund money
2. Limit initial size of the program
3. Limit the annual money for foundation expenses

Action: Passed as Amended

AB 47 – McCarty (D): State Preschool Program

Requires that by January 1, 2017, all children eligible for state subsidized child development services that do not have access to transitional kindergarten or the federal Head Start program, have access to the state preschool program the year before they enter kindergarten, contingent upon funding in the annual Budget Act. This bill also provides Legislative intent that funds be allocated to expand the state preschool program to provide full day, full year preschool for all eligible low-income children.
Action: Passed

AB 1207 – Lopez (D): Mandated Child Abuse Reporting: Child Day Care Personnel: Training

Requires all providers, administrators, and employees of licensed child day care facilities to complete training in the identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect under the child abuse reporting laws, as specified. Amendments taken are technical and clarifying in nature.
Action: Passed

SB 524 – Lara (D): Private or Public Residential Care Facilities for Youth

Would establish the new community care licensure category of “private or public residential care facility for youth,” to be licensed and regulated by the Department of Social Services (DSS), to regulate the operation of residential facilities and programs focused on serving youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health issues, as specified.
Action: Passed

SB 548 – De Leon (D): Child Care: Family Child Care Providers: Bargaining

This bill authorizes family child care providers to form, join and participate in “provider organizations” for purposes of negotiating with state agencies.
Action: Passed

SB 276 – Wolk (D): Medi-Cal: Local Educational Agencies

This bill updates code relating to the LEA Medi-Cal billing program to conform to recent federal guidance that expands the services for which LEAs can bill Medi- Cal.
Action: Passed

AB 1185 – Ridley-Thomas (D): Los Angeles Unified School District: Procurement

Authorizes a pilot program for the Los Angeles Unified School District to use best value procurement for projects over $1 million. Amendments taken will remove the requirement for a report by the Legislative Analysts Office and make technical changes.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 25 – Roth (D): Local Government Finance: Property Tax Revenue

This bill establishes a motor vehicle license fee adjustment amount for cities that incorporated after January 1, 2004, and on or before January 1, 2012. Amendments taken were technical and clarifying.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 150 – Nguyen (R): Personal Income Tax Law: Exclusion: Student Loan Debt Forgiveness

Excludes from gross income loan amounts discharged from a for-profit college when the borrower is unable to complete a program of study.
Action: Passed

AB 1056 – Atkins (D): Second Chance Program

Enacts the Second Chance Program, which would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to administer a competitive grant program using savings resulting from the implementation of Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act of 2014, and other fund sources. Amendments taken will:

1. Revise committee members
2. Extending the sunset date by 2 years

Action: Passed as Amended

AB 1058 – Baker (R): Pupil Safety: Child Abuse Prevention: Training

Requires the CDE, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to establish guidelines and best practices for child abuse prevention, and post links to existing training resources on the CDE’s website. This bill also encourages public schools, as specified, to participate in child abuse prevention training and to provide all school employees with this training at least once every three years.
Action: Passed

SB 707 – Wolk (D): Firearms: Gun-Free School Zone

This bill amends the Gun-Free School Zone Act (Act) and specifies further exceptions to the prohibition on carrying ammunition on school grounds.
Action: Passed

AB 1369 – Frazier (D): Special Education: Dyslexia

Requires the State Board of Education to include “phonological processing” in the description of basic psychological processes in the state’s regulations. The SPI is required to develop program guidelines for dyslexia, post them on the CDE website, and provide technical assistance regarding their use.
Action: Passed

SB 210 – Galgiani (D): Special Education: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: Language Development Milestones

Requires the CDE to select benchmarks for tracking the progress of deaf and hard of hearing students in language and literacy development, establishes an advisory committee to recommend benchmarks, and requires CDE to annually produce a report on language and literacy development for deaf and hard of hearing students, starting July 31, 2017. Amendments taken will align implementation dates, and clarify educator tool requirements.
Action: Passed as Amended

AB 302 – Garcia (D): Pupil Services: Lactation Accommodations

Requires schools to provide reasonable accommodations and a reasonable amount of time to a lactating student to express breast milk, breast-feed an infant child, or address other needs related to breast-feeding on a campus. This bill also allows a complaint of noncompliance with these requirements to be filed with the LEA under the Uniform Complaint Procedures.
Action: Passed

AB 1014 – Thurmond (D): Pupils: Truancy: Our Children’s Success—The Early Intervention Attendance Pilot Grant Program.

Establishes the Our Children’s Success – The Early Intervention Attendance Pilot Grant Program for the purpose of helping public schools resolve attendance problems of pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 to 3. Amendments taken specify that (1) implementation is contingent upon an appropriation and (2) funds generated by Proposition 47 will not be used.
Action: Passed as Amended

SB 252 – Leno (D): Pupils: Diploma Alternatives: Fees

Prohibits the CDE from charging homeless youth a fee to take the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) and prohibits any contractor or testing center from charging homeless youth a fee to take any high school equivalency test (also known as the GED). Amendments taken will sunset use of the special deposit account on January 1, 2020.
Action: Passed as Amended

Following are bills that were held in committee, effectively making them two-year bills (eligible to move again in January, 2016 when the Legislature reconvenes – though not likely in most cases):

AB 58 – Rodriguez (D): School Safety Plans

Requires charter school petitions to include the development of a school safety plan, and makes other changes to the development, reporting, and other compliance requirements related to the plan.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 252 – Holden (D): Advanced Placement Program: STEM Access Grants

Establishes the Advanced Placement (AP) STEM Access Grant Program to be administered by the CDE to help high schools establish or expand their AP STEM curriculum. STEM curriculum consists of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 292 – Santiago (D): Pupil Nutrition: Free or Reduced-Price Meals

Requires school districts to ensure that each of their schools provide students adequate time to eat after being served a meal, and requires schools that do not provide students with adequate time to eat to develop a plan to increase students’ time to eat lunch.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 427 – Weber (D): Early Primary Programs: Child Care Services: Military

Excludes the military housing allowance from being calculated as income when determining eligibility for child care and development services specified under the Child Care and Development Services Act.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 542 – Wilk (R): Community Colleges: Early and Middle College High Schools

Exempts Early College High School students from the requirement that a community college district governing board assign a low enrollment priority to special part-time or full-time students. Prohibits a student enrolled in a community college physical education course required for the student’s middle college or early college high school program from being considered a special part-time or full-time student, thereby excluding these students from the cap on PE courses for which the community college can claim full-time equivalent students and receive associated state apportionments.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 608 – Gordon (D): CalFresh: School Meals

Require county human services agencies to add additional information to the list of food providers to be made available to families applying for CalFresh benefits. This bill additionally requires counties to inform applicants that, if the household is approved for CalFresh benefits, young children are income eligible for the WIC Program and that all children in the household are directly certified for free and reduced school meals. This bill also requires the Department of Social Services (DSS) to inform all CalFresh households annually about the summer meal program, as specified.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 713 – Weber (D): Elementary Education: Kindergarten

Requires that beginning with the 2017-18 school year, children complete one year of kindergarten before being admitted to the first grade.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 766 – Ridley-Thomas (D): Public School Health Center Support Program

Require the Department of Public Health to give grant funding preference to schools with a high percentage of students enrolled in Medi-Cal, under the Public School Health Center Support Program.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 988 – Stone (D): Outdoor Environmental Education and Recreations

Creates a new grant program to increase the ability of underserved and at-risk populations to participate in outdoor recreation and educational experiences.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1018 – Cooper (D): Medi-Cal: Early and Periodic Screening and Diagnosis

Requires the Department of Health Care Services and the CDE to convene a joint taskforce to examine the delivery of mental health services to children.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1025 – Thurmond (D): Pupil Health: Multitiered and Integrated Interventions Pilot Program

Requires the CDE to establish a three-year pilot program in school districts to encourage inclusive practices that integrate mental health, special education, and school climate interventions following a multi-tiered framework.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1099 – Olsen (R): School Accountability: Teacher Evaluations

Requires each school district and county office of education to post information on its website, if it has one, on its procedures for evaluating teachers and principals.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1126 – Rendon (D): School Facilities: Heating, Ventilation< and Air Conditioning: Inspection Reports

Requires the following information to be posted on public school websites: (1) the most recent date of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system inspection report, and (2) information on how the report may be obtained.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1153 – Calderon (D): School Accountability: Local Control and Accountability Plans: Posting: Evaluation Rubrics

Requires the State Board of Education to consider revising the local control and accountability plan (LCAP) template to include a section or appendix sufficient to monitor a school district’s or county office of education’s progress on outcomes related to the evaluation rubric adopted by the Board. If the Board does not make this revision, this bill requires the populated evaluation rubric of a school district or county office of education to be posted on their respective websites, if it is available.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1161 – Olsen (R): Preschool: Privately Funded Pilot Program: Tax Credits

Establishes an income tax credit equal to 40 percent of the amount contributed by a taxpayer to the newly established California Preschool Investment Fund, and requires the CDE to select five counties to participate in the funded preschool pilot program.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1198 – Dababneh (D): School Facilities: California School Finance Authority: California Credit Enhancement Program

Establishes the California Credit Enhancement Program within the California School Finance Authority to provide lower cost alternatives for public school facilities financing.
Action: Held in Committee

AB 1258 – Chau (D): Elementary and Secondary Education: Computer Science Education Grant Pilot Program

Requires the SPI to establish a computer science education grant pilot program for LEA to establish, expand and maintain computer science courses and provide professional development in computer science.
Action: Held in Committee

SB 118 – Liu (D): School-Based Health and Education Partnership Program

Modifies an existing unfunded grant program administered by the California Department of Public Health to provide grants to schools. Adds substance abuse as an allowable service, updates terms, and modifies grant amounts. Changes the purposes of “sustainability grants” from operating expenses to development of sustainable funding models. and creates a new “population health grant” category to fund obesity prevention, asthma programs, and similar public health topics.
Action: Held in Committee

SB 311 – Beall (D): Child Care and Development Services Act: Preschool: Alum Rock Union Elementary School District: Pilot Project

Authorizes the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District to develop and implement an individualized plan to provide preschool services within a transitional kindergarten classroom on a five year pilot basis through June 30, 2021.
Action: Held in Committee

SB 460 – Allen (D): Pupils Redesignated as Fluent English: Local Funding

This bill requires, until July 1, 2019, or whenever the state adopts statewide English learner redesignation standards, LEAs continue to receive a percentage of supplemental and concentration grant funding under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) for two additional years after an English Learner (EL) student has been reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (RFEP).
Action: Held in Committee

SB 573 – Pan (D): Statewide Open Data Portal

This bill requires the Governor to appoint a Chief Data Officer (CDO) who will create an inventory of all available data in the state and create a statewide open data portal that is accessible to the public by January 1, 2017. This bill also requires state agencies identified by the CDO to appoint a data coordinator, identify any data sets within the agency, transmit the inventory to the CDO by October 1, 2016, and publish it on the statewide open data portal.
Action: Held in Committee

SB 645 – Hancock (D): After Schools Programs

Authorizes an After School Education and Safety Program to suspend operation for up to five days in a fiscal year beginning January 1, 2016. Specifies a grant shall not be adjusted as a result of the program suspending its operation. Requires any cost savings associated with the program suspension to be used solely by the entity that is providing direct services to pupils. Sunsets the authorization to suspend operation for up to five days as of July 1, 2017.
Action: Held in Committee

SB 786 – Allen (D): Adult Education: Adult Education Block Grant Program: Joint Powers Authorities

Requires the California Community College Chancellor’s Office and the SPI to certify, upon request from a Joint Powers Authority, the amount of state funds expended by the JPA for adult career technical education in the 2012-13 fiscal year, for purposes of determining Adult Education Block Grant Program funding.
Action: Held in Committee

Contributors to this Summary:
Barrett Snider
Lee Angela Reid
Erin Evans-Fudem
Derick Lennox
Caitlin Jung
Nick Romley