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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  AB 1599
          Author:   Assembly Education Committee  
          Amended:  7/2/14 in Senate
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE  :  6-0, 6/25/14
          AYES:  Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Block

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  Senate Rule 28.8
           
          ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  78-0, 5/15/14 (Consent) - See last page for  
            vote


           SUBJECT  :    School finance:  categorical programs

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill, the education omnibus clean-up bill, makes  
          technical, non-controversial revisions to numerous provisions of  
          the Education Code (ED).

           ANALYSIS  :    Each year there typically is a K-12 education  
          clean-up bill that makes various non-controversial revisions to  
          the ED.  A majority of the provisions are identified by the  
          California Department of Education (CDE) and propose technical  
          corrections to existing law, such as deleting an obsolete  
          reporting requirement for a program.  
            
          This bill makes numerous revisions to the ED.  Specifically,  
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          this bill:

           1. Corrects an obsolete citation regarding school district  
             reorganization.  

           2. Replaces the term "mentally retarded" with "intellectually  
             disabled."   

           3. Adds language from AB 137 (Buchanan, Chapter 225, Statutes  
             of 2013) and AB 700 (Gomez, Chapter 483, Statutes of 2013)  
             regarding the history-social science framework that was  
             chaptered out by AB 424 (Donnelly, Chapter 484 Statutes of  
             2013).  

           4. Changes the references from "building and equipment" and  
             "school lots or buildings" to "real property" in the section  
             regarding transfer of property from one district to another.   


           5. Corrects a reference to when an election is to be conducted  
             in the provision requiring a county superintendent of schools  
             to call an election for the reorganization of a school  
             district.  

           6. Revises, for the purposes of initiating lapsation  
             proceedings, the dates and time period a county committee on  
             district organization must conduct public hearings, order a  
             territory annexed to one or more adjoining districts, and the  
             date the annexation takes effect.  

           7. Makes technical cross reference changes.  

           8. Authorizes school districts, charter schools, and county  
             offices of education to release the name of and eligibility  
             status of a pupil participating in the free or reduced-price  
             meal program to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for  
             the purposes of determining funding allocations under the  
             local control funding formula.  Requires the information to  
             be released to comply with specified pupil record and pupil  
             confidentiality requirements, and upon request, to another  
             school district, charter school, or county office of  
             education that is serving a pupil living in the same  
             household as an enrolled pupil for purposes related to free  
             or reduced-price meal program eligibility and for data used  

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             in local control funding formula calculations. 

           9. Repeals an obsolete provision requiring an individualized  
             education program to include a provision for a review, at  
             least every six months, by the full individualized education  
             program team, pursuant to Government Code Section  
             7572.5(c)(2), when an individualized education program calls  
             for a residential placement.  

           10.Repeals a provision authorizing local educational agencies  
             to seek, either directly or through a pupil's parents or  
             guardians, reimbursement from insurance companies to cover  
             the costs of related services in accordance with federal  
             regulations.  

           11.Specifies that if an individual with exceptional needs is  
             covered by public benefits or insurance, a public agency may  
             use Medicaid, other public benefits, or insurance programs in  
             which a pupil participates, to provide or pay for required  
             services, if the public agency provides written notification  
             and obtains written parental consent.  

           12.Deletes the requirement for a nonpublic, nonsectarian school  
             or agency seeking certification to submit a form and requires  
             the CDE to provide electronic notification of the  
             availability of renewal application materials.  

           13.Strikes obsolete dates and requirements in the provisions  
             regarding special education local plan areas and the  
             provision of services to individuals with exceptional needs.   


           14.Requires the early literacy assessment of pupils whose  
             primary language is a language other than English to be  
             administered for a period of four years beginning after the  
             initial administration of the assessment or until July 1,  
             2017, whichever occurs last.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  Yes

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  78-0, 5/15/14
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,  
            Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian  

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            Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,  
            Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,  
            Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,  
            Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández,  
            Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,  
            Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,  
            Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.  
            Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,  
            Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,  
            Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Mansoor, Vacancy


          PQ:kd  8/7/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  NONE RECEIVED

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