BILL NUMBER: AB 2467	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Coto, Hancock,  Jones,  and
Mullin)
    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Romero
  and Steinberg   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2008

   An act to amend Section 8282 of  , and to add Section 8283 to,
 the Education Code, relating to state preschool.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2467, as amended, Brownley. State preschool: information.
   The Child Care and Development Services Act establishes various
full- and part-time programs for a comprehensive, coordinated, and
cost-effective system of developmental services for children to 13
years of age and their parents. Existing law requires certain
information to be provided to a child's parent or guardian when a
child is transferred from a state-funded preschool or infant and
toddler program to a public school,  which   and
that information  may, with the permission of the parent or
guardian, be transferred to the pupil's elementary school.
   This bill would permit certain other information  , including,
but not limited to, information  that the Superintendent of
Public Instruction deems appropriate and helpful  ,  to be
included on the information transfer form.  The bill would
authorize the parent or guardian of a pupil to provide additional
specified information if information is transferred to the elementary
school pursuant to these provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8282 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   8282.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the state makes
a substantial, annual investment in preschool, infant and toddler,
and schoolage child development programs for eligible families. It is
in the best interests of children and their families, and the
taxpayers of California, to have information about the development
and learning abilities of children developed in these settings,
health and other information transferred to, or otherwise available
to, the pupil's elementary school.
   (b) When a child in a state-funded preschool or infant and toddler
program will be transferring to a local public school, the preschool
or infant and toddler program shall provide the parent or guardian
with information from the previous year deemed beneficial to the
pupil and the public schoolteacher, including, but not limited to,
development issues, social interaction abilities, health background,
and diagnostic assessments, if any. The preschool or infant and
toddler program, with the permission of the parent or guardian, may
transfer this information to the pupil's elementary school.  The
preschool or infant and toddler program may transfer the following
information to the pupil's elementary school, provided that the
program has obtained the consent of the parent or guardian: 

   (1) The eligibility for, or participation in, any public support
programs by the child or family.  
   (2) Whether the child has an individualized education plan or has
received a diagnosis for any type of special services.  
   (3) Whether the child is an English learner.  
   (4) Whether the child is in need of remedial assistance, an after
school program, special transportation, or full-day child care. 

   (c) A child who has participated in a state-subsidized preschool
that maintains results-based standards, including the desired results
accountability system, may have the performance information
transferred to any subsequent or concurrent public school setting.
The transferred information shall be in summary form and only
accomplished with the permission of the parent or guardian.
   (d) The information transfer form also may include information
that the Superintendent deems appropriate and helpful to the public
 schoolteacher, including the child's or family's eligibility
for or participation in other public support programs, whether the
child has an individualized education plan or has received a
diagnosis for any type of special services, or whether the child is
an English learner, in need of remedial assistance, an after school
program, special transportation, or full-day child care. 
 school teacher, subject to parent or guardian permission. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 8283 is added to the  
Education Code   , to read:  
   8283.  If preschool information is transferred pursuant to Section
8282, the parent or guardian also may provide the pupil's elementary
school with information relating to the strengths, weaknesses, and
unique needs of the pupil. This information may be included with the
preschool information being transferred, or submitted separately. If
a parent or guardian chooses to provide this information, the
information shall be presented in a summary format.