Amended in Senate June 30, 2014

Amended in Assembly May 23, 2014

Amended in Assembly May 1, 2014

Amended in Assembly April 22, 2014

Amended in Assembly March 28, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1719

Introduced by Assembly Members Weber and Buchanan

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(Coauthor: Senator Wolk)

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February 13, 2014

An act to add and repeal Section 46116 of the Education Code, relating to kindergarten.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1719, as amended, Weber. Full-day begin delete kindergarten. end delete begin insert kindergarten: feasibility study and implementation plan. end insert

Existing law provides that school districts offering kindergarten may maintain kindergarten classes at different schoolsites for different lengths of time.

This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide the Legislature no later than begin delete March end delete begin insert September end insert 1, 2015, with a feasibility study and implementation plan for providing a full-day kindergarten program in all public schools, as specified.

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 46116 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

46116.  

(a) No later than begin delete March end delete begin insert September end insert 1, 2015, the
Superintendent shall provide the Legislature with a feasibility
study and implementation plan for providing a full-day
kindergarten program in all public schools. The feasibility study
and implementation plan shall include recommendations for
statutory changes and budgetary requirements to ensure a seamless
transition to providing a full-day kindergarten program in all public
schools. The Superintendent, at a minimum, shall consider all of
the following:

(1) The instructional, social, emotional, and developmental
needs of children.

(2) Teacher and other school staffing issues.

(3) Classroom capacity issues.

(b) The Superintendent may convene a task force to advise the
Superintendent on feasibility and implementation issues for the
purposes of preparing the report required pursuant to subdivision
(a). The task force shall include representatives of school district
superintendents, principals, kindergarten teachers, related pupil
support services begin insert and facility end insert personnel, begin insert child development
professionals, end insert and parents.

(c) The report required pursuant to this section shall be submitted
in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

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