BILL NUMBER: AB 1455	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Campos

                        JANUARY 9, 2014

   An act to add Section 48900.9 to the Education Code, relating to
pupils.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1455, as introduced, Campos. Pupils: bullying: counseling
services.
   Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or
recommended for expulsion unless the superintendent of the school
district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is
enrolled determines that the pupil has committed any of various acts,
including bullying, as defined. Existing law authorizes the
superintendent of the school district or the principal of a school,
for a pupil subject to discipline, to use alternatives to suspension
or expulsion that are age appropriate and designed to address and
correct the pupil's specific misbehavior, including, among others,
referrals to the school counselor, psychologist, social worker, child
welfare attendance personnel, or other school support service
personnel for case management and counseling.
   This bill would authorize the superintendent of a school district
or the principal of a school to also refer a victim of, witness to,
or other pupil affected by, an act of bullying committed on or after
January 1, 2015, to the school counselor, psychologist, social
worker, child welfare attendance personnel, or other school support
service personnel for case management and counseling, as appropriate.

   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 48900.9 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   48900.9.  The superintendent of a school district or the principal
of a school may refer a victim of, witness to, or other pupil
affected by, an act of bullying, as defined in paragraph (1) of
subdivision (r) of Section 48900, committed on or after January 1,
2015, to the school counselor, psychologist, social worker, child
welfare attendance personnel, or other school support service
personnel for case management and counseling, as appropriate.