BILL NUMBER: AB 2633	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Swanson

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 200 of the Education Code, relating to
public education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2633, as introduced, Swanson. Public education: equal rights
and opportunities.
   Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and
secondary schools in this state. Existing law states the policy of
the State of California to afford all persons in public schools,
regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender
expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual
orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and
opportunities in the educational institutions of the state and states
that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that
are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
statement of the state policy and purpose of the related existing
law.
   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 200 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   200.  It is the policy of the State of California to afford all
persons in  the  public schools, regardless of their
disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality,
race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other
characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set
forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code, equal rights and
opportunities in  all of  the educational institutions of
the state. The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit acts that are
contrary to that policy and to provide remedies  therefor
  for the commission of those prohibited acts  .