BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 440
Author: Brownley (D), et al.
Amended: 8/24/12 in Senate
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
SUBJECT : Environmental education
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires Department of Resources
Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to make the curriculum
available electronically and deletes the requirement with
regard to the assumption of those costs. This bill
requires CalRecycle to coordinate with specified state
agencies to facilitate use of the model environmental
curriculum and authorizes CalRecycle and those state
agencies to collaborate with other specified entities to
implement the program. This bill authorizes CalRecycle to
expend the funds in the account and repeals the
authorization for the agreement with an external fiscal
agent.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/24/12 delete the prior version
of the bill relating to charter schools and replace it with
the above language.
ANALYSIS : Existing law establishes the Office of
Education and the Environment in the CalRecycle to
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implement the statewide environmental educational program
and requires the office, in cooperation with the State
Department of Education and the State Board of Education,
to develop and implement a unified education strategy on
the environment for elementary and secondary schools in the
state.
Existing law requires the office to develop a model
environmental curriculum incorporating certain
environmental principles and to submit the model curriculum
for consideration and approval, as prescribed.
Existing law requires the Department of Education to make
the curriculum available electronically and requires the
CalEPA to assume the costs associated with the printing of
the approved model curriculum.
Existing law establishes the Environmental Education
Account in the State Treasury and authorizes the CalEPA to
expend the moneys in the account, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, for purposes of the program. Existing law
authorizes the CalEPA to enter into an agreement with an
external fiscal agent with regard to contributions received
for the purpose of the program, until January 1, 2013, and
requires an annual report to the Legislature in this
regard.
This bill expressly authorizes the office to revise the
model curriculum, as needed, and provides for the review of
and comment on a revision.
This bill requires CalRecycle to make the curriculum
available electronically and deletes the requirement with
regard to the assumption of those costs. This bill
requires CalRecycle to coordinate with specified state
agencies to facilitate use of the model environmental
curriculum and authorizes CalRecycle and those state
agencies to collaborate with other specified entities to
implement the program.
This bill authorizes CalRecycle to expend the funds in the
account and repeals the authorization for the agreement
with an external fiscal agent.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
PQ:kn 8/27/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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