BILL NUMBER: AB 2310	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 241 of the Education Code, relating to
instructional materials.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2310, as introduced, Hayashi. Instructional materials:
California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000.
   Existing law, known as the California Student Safety and Violence
Prevention Act of 2000, provides, among other things, that it is the
policy of the state to afford all persons in public school and
postsecondary institutions equal rights and opportunities in those
institutions. The act further prohibits persons in designated
categories from being subjected to discrimination, on the basis of
their status as part of that category, in any program or activity
conducted by those institutions. The act also provides that nothing
in its provisions requires the inclusion of any curriculum, textbook,
presentation, or other material in any program or activity conducted
by an educational institution or postsecondary educational
institution.
   This bill would additionally declare that nothing in the
California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000
requires the exclusion of any curriculum, textbook, presentation, or
other material in any program or activity conducted by an educational
institution or postsecondary educational institution.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 241 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   241.  Nothing in the California Student Safety and Violence
Prevention Act of 2000  (Chapter 587 of the   Statutes
of 1999)  requires the inclusion  or exclusion  of any
curriculum, textbook, presentation, or other material in any program
or activity conducted by an educational institution or postsecondary
educational institution  ; the   . The 
California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 shall
not be deemed to be violated by the omission of any curriculum,
textbook, presentation, or other material in any program or activity
conducted by an educational institution or postsecondary educational
institution.