California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1209

Introduced by Assembly Member Bonilla

February 22, 2013

An act to amend Section 44300.1 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1209, as introduced, Bonilla. Teacher credentialing: visiting faculty permits.

Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue various types of teaching and services credentials. Existing law authorizes the commission to issue a visiting faculty permit until July 1, 2013, and to renew a visiting faculty permit until July 1, 2015, authorizing instruction in departmentalized classes to an individual who satisfies specified requirements. Under existing law, before issuing a visiting faculty permit, the commission is required to review and approve the justification for the permit submitted by the employing school district.

This bill would instead make these provisions relating to issuing or renewing a visiting faculty permit inoperative on July 1, 2018, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2019.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 44300.1 of the Education Code is
amended to read:

44300.1.  

(a) The commission may issue or renew a visiting
faculty permit authorizing instruction in departmentalized classes
to an individual who satisfies all of the following requirements:

(1) Has a minimum of three years of full-time teaching
experience or the full-time equivalent of that experience at an
accredited California community college, a campus of the
California State University or the University of California, or a
regionally accredited private, nonprofit postsecondary institution.
The three years of teaching experience shall be within five years
of the date of application for a visiting faculty permit.

(2) Possesses a master’s degree or higher from a regionally
accredited institution of postsecondary education in a subject area
closely related, as determined by the commission, to the subject
he or she proposes to teach.

(3) Submits evidence of two years of the most recent
performance evaluations, student evaluations, or other evaluations
that indicate teacher effectiveness while teaching in an accredited
California community college, a campus of the California State
University or the University of California, or a regionally
accredited private, nonprofit postsecondary institution in which
the applicant received ratings of satisfactory or higher based on
criteria determined by the commission. An applicant for the
renewal of a visiting faculty permit shall submit evidence of
satisfactory or higher performance evaluations while serving on a
current, valid visiting faculty permit.

(4) Satisfies the requirements for teacher fitness pursuant to
Sections 44339 to 44341, inclusive.

(5) Completes, within the first year of serving on the visiting
faculty permit, a three-semester unit course or a four-quarter unit
course in methodology directly related to teaching in a
departmentalized setting offered by a teacher preparation program
that is accredited by the commission.

(b) To the extent that a school district chooses to employ an
individual who possesses a visiting faculty permit, prior to issuing
a visiting faculty permit, the commission shall review and approve
the justification for the permit submitted by the employing school
district. The justification shall include both of the following:

(1) Annual documentation that the school district has
implemented a process for conducting a diligent search that
includes, but is not limited to, distributing job announcements,
contacting college and university placement centers, advertising
in local newspapers, and participating in job fairs in this state, but
has been unable to recruit a sufficient number of certificated
teachers to teach the subject matter that the visiting faculty member
proposes to teach.

(2) A declaration of need for fully qualified certificated teachers
based on the documentation set forth in paragraph (1) and made
in the form of a motion adopted by the governing board of the
school district or the county board of education at a regularly
scheduled meeting of the governing board or county board. The
motion shall not be part of the consent agenda and shall be entered
in the minutes of the meeting.

(c) The commission may deny a request for a visiting faculty
permit that does not include a justification as set forth in
subdivision (b).

(d) A visiting faculty permit is valid for one year. The
commission shall not renew the visiting faculty permit of an
individual more than two times.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commission
shall not issue a visiting faculty permit pursuant to this section on
or after July 1, begin delete 2013 end delete begin insert 2018 end insert .

(f) The commission shall incorporate data on visiting faculty
permits into the report required pursuant to Section 44225.6. It is
the intent of the Legislature that this data be used to determine if
participation rates warrant extending the authority of the
commission to issue visiting faculty permits.

(g) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, begin delete 2015 end delete begin insert 2018 end insert ,
and, as of January 1, begin delete 2016 end delete begin insert 2019 end insert , is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, begin delete 2016 end delete begin insert 2019 end insert ,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and
is repealed.