BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 16, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 1967 (John A. Perez) - As Amended: April 26, 2012
Policy Committee: Education
Vote:10-1
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill requires the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC)
and the State Board of Education (SBE) to ensure that the health
and science curriculum frameworks adopted in the course of the
next submission cycle following the date this measure becomes
effective to include the subject of organ procurement and tissue
donation, as appropriate.
FISCAL EFFECT
Potential GF administrative costs, likely between $175,000 and
$250,000, to the State Department of Education's (SDE) IQC to
complete the requirements of this measure. This assumes a
portion of the IQC's funding is restored to complete the
development of the health curriculum framework, as specified.
Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed all GF funding ($700,000) for the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission
(now the IQC) in 2009. To date, this funding has not been
restored.
COMMENTS
1)Background . The IQC, formerly the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission, is an 18-member advisory
board to SBE. Thirteeen members are appointed by the SBE. The
remaining members are one member each of the Assembly and
Senate, one public member appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly, one by the Senate Rules Committee, and one by the
governor. Commissioners tend to be recognized authorities in a
specific subject matter, professors, curriculum experts, K-12
teachers, or community members.
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The IQC advises SBE on the K-12 curriculum frameworks and K-8
instructional materials (IM). In doing so, it serves as an
intermediary between the field experts and SBE. The commission
holds a public hearing on a framework after the Subject Matter
Committee hearing and before the SBE hearing on the framework.
It also holds a public hearing on IM after content panel
members develop their evaluation report and before SBE holds a
hearing to adopt the materials.
2)Purpose . SB 112 (Spier), Chapter 405, Statutes of 2003,
established a centralized organ and tissue donation registry
for California. As a result of this legislation, the Donate
Life California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry (Donate Life
California), a private, nonprofit, state-authorized registry,
was established with the goal of providing every person
awaiting a transplant access to information that can provide a
match.
According to Donate Life America, there are currently more
than 113,000 people on the UNOS National Organ Transplant
Waiting List. Of these individuals, approximately 21,000 (19%)
live in California. As of May 2012, there are currently 9
million people registered with Donate Life California.
This bill requires the IQC and the SBE to ensure that the
health and science curriculum frameworks adopted in the course
of the next submission cycle include the subject of organ
procurement and tissue donation, as appropriate.
3)Limited duties of IQC until 2014-15 . AB 2 X4 (Evans), Chapter
2, Statutes of 2009, specified that local education agencies
(LEAs) are not required to purchase IM through the 2012-13 FY.
Consistent with the non-purchasing requirement, Chapter 2 also
suspended the requirement for SBE to adopt IM or conduct other
procedures associated with adoption (i.e., adopting curriculum
frameworks) until the 2013-14 school year. SB 70 (Committee on
Budget and Fiscal Review), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2011,
extended this suspension until the 2014-15 FY. As a result,
there is not any need for the IQC to conduct work related to
the adoption of IM.
AB 250 (Brownley), Chapter 608, Statues of 2011, renamed the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission
the IQC and lifted the moratorium on the development of
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curriculum frameworks only for the purposes of developing
frameworks for the Common Core Standards in English language
arts and mathematics. In light of this exemption, the SBE
decided to appoint members to complete this work. Prior to
2012, the SBE had not appointed IQC members to fill vacancies
due to the IM moratorium referenced above.
4)Previous related legislation . AB 1118 (J. Perez) contained the
same provision relating to the Health Curriculum Framework as
proposed in this measure and required a school district,
commencing with the 2012-13 school year, to provide pupils who
are enrolled in health classes in grades 9 and 10 at least 15
minutes of instruction in organ procurement and tissue
donation, as specified. This bill was held on this
committee's Suspense File in May 2011.
Analysis Prepared by : Kimberly Rodriguez / APPR. / (916)
319-2081