BILL NUMBER: AB 913	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chau

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 47604.1 to the Education Code, relating to
charter schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 913, as introduced, Chau. Charter schools: open meetings.
   The Ralph M. Brown Act requires that all meetings of a legislative
body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and all
persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized.
The Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act requires, with specified
exceptions, that all meetings of a state body be open and public and
all persons be permitted to attend.
   This bill would expressly state that a charter school is subject
to the Ralph M. Brown Act, unless it is operated by an entity
governed by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, in which case the
charter school would be subject to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.
The bill would also expressly state that councils and schoolsite
advisory committees of charter schools are subject to specified open
meeting requirements.
   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 47604.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   47604.1.  (a) A charter school is subject to the Ralph M. Brown
Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division
2 of Title 5 of the Government Code), except that a charter school
operated by an entity governed by the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act
(Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of
Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code) is subject to the
Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act regardless of the authorizing entity.
   (b) A council or schoolsite advisory committee, as referenced in
subdivision (b) of Section 35147, of a charter school is subject to
the requirements of subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 35147.