BILL NUMBER: AB 484	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

   An act to add Section 60640.3 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil assessments, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 484, as introduced, Bonilla. Pupil assessments: temporary
suspension.
   (1) Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of
Academic Achievement Act (hereafter the act), requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to design and implement a
statewide pupil assessment program, and requires school districts,
charter schools, and county offices of education to administer to
each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement
tests, including a standards-based achievement test pursuant to the
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. Existing law makes
the act inoperative on July 1, 2014, and repeals it on January 1,
2015.
   Existing federal law, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,
contains provisions generally requiring states to adopt performance
goals for their public elementary and secondary schools, and to
demonstrate that these public schools are making adequate yearly
progress, as measured by pupil performance on standardized tests as
well as other measures, to satisfy those goals.
   Existing law, the Early Assessment Program, establishes a
collaborative effort, headed by the California State University, to
enable pupils to learn about their readiness for college-level
English and mathematics before their senior year of high school.
   This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other laws,
commencing with the 2013-14 school year, the administration of
assessments required as part of the STAR Program would be suspended,
except for those assessments in the core subjects necessary to
satisfy the adequate yearly progress requirements of the federal No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in grades 3 to 8, inclusive, and grade
10 and those assessments augmented for use as part of the Early
Assessment Program in grade 11, until new assessments addressing the
common core state standards are developed and implemented.
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 60640.3 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   60640.3.  Notwithstanding any other law, commencing with the
2013-14 school year, the administration of assessments required as
part of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program shall be
suspended, except for those assessments in the core subjects
necessary to satisfy the Adequate Yearly Progress requirements of the
federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110; 20
U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) in grades 3 to 8, inclusive, and grade 10
and those assessments augmented for use as part of the Early
Assessment Program established by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section
99300) of Part 65 of Division 14 of Title 3 in grade 11, until new
assessments addressing the common core state standards are developed
and implemented.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the suspension of assessments required by this act to
be in effect in time for the beginning of the 2013-14 school year,
it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.