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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  AB 2016
          Author:   Campos (D)
          Amended:  8/19/14 in Senate
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE  :  4-0, 6/25/14
          AYES:  Liu, Correa, Hancock, Monning
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Wyland, Block, Huff
           
          SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  5-0, 8/14/14
          AYES:  De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Walters, Gaines
           
          ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  61-2, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and  
          prevention 

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill requires the State Board of Education  
          (SBE), based upon the recommendations of the Superintendent of  
          Public Instruction (SPI), to consider including age-appropriate  
          content for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in  
          sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention, in the  
          next revision of the health content standards, as specified.

           ANALYSIS  :    Academic content standards define the knowledge,  
          concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade  
          level.  Curricular frameworks are the blueprint for implementing  
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          the standards, and include criteria by which instructional  
          materials are evaluated.

          The health framework was last adopted in 2003, and was in the  
          process of being revised when the statutory (and budgetary)  
          suspension of that process took effect in July 2009.  Adoption  
          of the revised health framework was projected for March 2011.   
          The processes for reviewing frameworks and adopting  
          instructional materials have been suspended since July 28, 2009.  
           The SBE is specifically prohibited from reviewing frameworks  
          and adopting instructional materials until the 2015-16 school  
          year (other than as specifically authorized for common core  
          English language arts and mathematics, the revised science  
          standards and framework, and the revised history-social science  
          framework).  
          Existing law:

          1.Requires school districts to ensure that all students in  
            grades 7-12 receive HIV/AIDS prevention education, as  
            specified, from instructors trained in the appropriate  
            courses.  Each student must receive this instruction at least  
            once in junior high or middle school and at least once in high  
            school.  

          2.Authorizes school districts to provide comprehensive sexual  
            health education, as specified, consisting of age-appropriate  
            instruction, in any grade, using instructors trained in the  
            appropriate courses.  

          3.Provides that parents have the right to excuse their child  
            from all or part of comprehensive sexual health education,  
            HIV/AIDS prevention education, and assessment related to that  
            education.  Requires school districts to notify the parent of  
            each student about instruction in sexual health and HIV/AIDS  
            prevention and research on student health behaviors and risks  
            planned for the coming year.  

          This bill:

          1.Requires the SBE, based upon recommendations by the SPI, to  
            consider including age-appropriate content for kindergarten  
            and grades 1 to 12, in sexual abuse and sexual assault  
            awareness and prevention, in the next revision of the health  
            content standards.

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          2.Requires the SBE, based upon recommendations by the  
            Instructional Quality Commission, to consider including  
            information in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and  
            prevention, in the Health Framework for California Public  
            Schools when next revised.

          3.Authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and  
            charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction,  
            pursuant to the content standards adopted by the SBE, as  
            specified, for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as  
            applicable, in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and  
            prevention.

          4.Requires a student to be excused from this instruction upon  
            written request of the parent.

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

          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:

           Standards development/revision:  Likely minor, but potentially  
            significant costs to the California Department of Education to  
            develop and include age-appropriate K-12 content in sexual  
            abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in the  
            health content standards, during its next revision. 

           Frameworks:  Cost pressure to update the health frameworks to  
            include the new content standards, as specified.

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  8/19/14)

          Brighter Beginnings
          California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
          California Family Resource Association
          California Police Chiefs Association
          The Child Abuse Prevention Center

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  61-2, 5/28/14
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra,  
            Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon,  
            Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson,  
            Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez,  

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            Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Hagman, Hall, Roger Hernández, Holden,  
            Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina,  
            Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, John A.  
            Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,  
            Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber,  
            Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
          NOES:  Beth Gaines, Jones



          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Bigelow, Chávez, Conway, Dahle, Donnelly,  
            Grove, Harkey, Linder, Logue, Mansoor, Nestande, Olsen,  
            Patterson, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk, Vacancy


          PQ:k  8/19/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                           SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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