BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2016| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 CONTINUED AB 2016 Page 2 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. CONTINUED AB 2016 Page 3 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, CONTINUED AB 2016 Page 4 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 **** END **** CONTINUED