BILL NUMBER: AB 1719	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2014
	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

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Weber and Buchanan
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonilla and Campos)
   (Coauthor: Senator Wolk)

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2014

   An act to add  Section 48003 to, and to add  and repeal
Section 46116 of  ,  the Education Code, relating to
kindergarten.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1719, as amended, Weber.  Full-day kindergarten:
feasibility study and implementation plan.  
Kindergarten: evaluation and annual reporting. 
   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  September 
 July  1,  2015,   2017,  with
 a feasibility study and implementation plan for providing a
  an evaluation of kindergarten program implementation
in the state, including part-day and  full-day kindergarten
 program in all public schools,   programs 
as specified.  The bill would make these provisions operative
only upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes.
 
   The bill would require a local educational agency, commencing with
the 2015-16 school year, to provide an annual report to the State
Department of Education that contains information on the type of
kindergarten program offered by the local educational agency, as
provided, in a manner determined by the department. By expanding the
duties of a local educational agency, the bill would create a
state-mandated local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  no   yes  .


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  September 1, 2015, 
 July 1, 2017,  the Superintendent shall provide the
Legislature with  a feasibility study and implementation plan
for providing a   an evaluation of ki  
ndergarten program implementation in the state, including part-day
and  full-day kindergarten  program in all public
schools.   programs.  The  feasibility
study and implementation plan   evaluation  shall
include  recommendations   recommended best
practices  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:   programs.  
   (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 and facility personnel, child development
professionals, and parents.  
   (b) The evaluation shall include a sample of local educational
agencies' full day and part-day kindergarten programs from across the
state. It is the intent of the Legislature that this sample be
representative of the diversity of the state, and shall include both
urban and rural and small and large local educational agencies within
school districts. 
   (c) The report required pursuant to this section shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

   (d) This section shall not become operative until the Legislature
makes an appropriation for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or
in any other statute.  
   (d) 
    (e)  This section shall become inoperative on 
September   July  1,  2015,  
2017,  and, as of January 1,  2016,   2018,
 is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes
operative on or before January 1,  2016,   2018,
 deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative
and is repealed.
   SEC. 2.    Section 48003 is added to the  
Education Code   , to read:  
   48003.  Commencing with the 2015-16 school year, a local
educational agency shall provide an annual report to the State
Department of Education that contains information on the type of
kindergarten program offered by the local educational agency,
including part-day, full-day, or both, in a manner determined by the
department. 
   SEC. 3.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.