BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 1599| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 1599 Author: Assembly Education Committee Amended: 8/22/14 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). Senate Floor Amendments of 8/22/14 add double-jointing language to prevent chaptering out issues with AB 2512 (Bonilla) and SB 897 (Steinberg), and correct drafting errors. 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 CONTINUED AB 1599 Page 2 corrections to existing law, such as deleting an obsolete reporting requirement for a program. This bill makes numerous revisions to the ED. Specifically, 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 CONTINUED AB 1599 Page 3 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 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. 15.Contains double-jointing language to prevent chaptering out issues with CONTINUED AB 1599 Page 4 AB 2512 (Bonilla) and SB 897 (Steinberg). 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 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:k 8/25/14 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED **** END **** CONTINUED