BILL NUMBER: AB 2932	CHAPTERED  07/18/08

	CHAPTER  149
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 18, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 18, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 3, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Karnette

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2008

   An act to amend Section 60200.1 of the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2932, Karnette. Instructional materials: submissions: criteria.

   (1) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt
basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to
8, inclusive, for governing boards of school districts. The state
board is required to adopt at least 5 basic instructional materials
for all applicable grade levels in language arts, mathematics,
science, social science, bilingual or bicultural subjects, and other
subjects, disciplines, or interdisciplinary areas for which the state
board determines instructional materials are necessary or desirable.

   Existing law requires that instructional materials for language
arts be submitted to the state board for adoption in 2008.
   This bill would require instructional materials for foreign
languages to be submitted to the state board for adoption in 2012,
and instructional materials for health to be submitted to the state
board for adoption in 2013.
   (2) Existing law requires the state board to ensure that the
instructional materials it adopts meet specified criteria, including,
among others, the criteria the state board establishes as being
necessary, as specified, and requires those criteria to be approved
by resolution at the time the resolution adopting the framework for
the current adoption is approved, or at least 30 months before the
date that the materials are to be approved for adoption.
   This bill would specify that the approval of criteria by those
deadlines does not apply if specified conditions are met.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 60200.1 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   60200.1.  (a) (1) The instructional materials described in
paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 60200 shall be submitted
to the state board for adoption in 2008.
   (2) The instructional materials for foreign language shall be
submitted to the state board for adoption in 2012.
   (3) The instructional materials for health shall be submitted to
the state board for adoption in 2013.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the requirement in paragraph
(6) of subdivision (c) of Section 60200 that other criteria be
approved at least 30 months before the date that the materials are to
be approved for adoption shall not apply if all of the following
conditions are met:
   (1) The criteria adopted are consistent with the content standards
adopted by the state board in each of the four core content areas
for which standards are adopted.
   (2) The schedule for the adoption of instructional materials
requires instructional materials for history-social science to be
adopted in November 2011, and instructional materials for science to
be adopted by November 2012.
   (3) The state board approves criteria for the adoption of
instructional materials in history-social science at least 18 months
before the state board adopts instructional materials in
history-social science.
   (4) The state board approves the criteria for the adoption of
instructional materials for science at least 24 months before the
state board adopts instructional materials in science.