BILL NUMBER: AB 137	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan

                        JANUARY 16, 2013

   An act to amend Section 51212 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 137, as introduced, Buchanan. Pupil instruction: foreign
language.
   Existing law sets forth the intent and purpose of the Legislature
to encourage the establishment of programs of instruction in foreign
language, with instruction beginning as early as feasible for each
school district.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
   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 51212 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   51212.  It is the intent and purpose of the Legislature to
encourage the establishment of programs  of instruction
 in foreign  language,   language
instruction,  with instruction beginning as early as feasible
for each school district.