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          CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
          AB 2016 (Campos)
          As Amended  August 19, 2014
          Majority vote
           
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           Original Committee Reference:    ED.  

           SUMMARY  :  Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to  
          consider including age-appropriate content on sexual abuse and  
          sexual assault awareness and prevention in the next revision of  
          the health content standards.  Specifically,  this bill  :  


          1)Requires the SPI to recommend and the SBE to consider  
            including age-appropriate content for kindergarten and grades  
            1-12, inclusive, in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness  
            and prevention in the next revision of the adopted health  
            content standards.


          2)Requires the SBE, upon the recommendation of the Instructional  
            Quality Commission (IQC) to consider including information in  
            sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in  
            Health Framework for California Public Schools when next  
            revised.


          3)Permits school districts, county offices of education, and  
            charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction  
            pursuant to these adopted content standards, as specified.


          4)Requires a pupil, upon the written request of his or her  
            parent or legal guardian, to be excused from receiving  
            instruction in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and  
            prevention.


           The Senate amendments  : 









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          1)Make technical and non-substantive changes to this section.


          2)Delete the date by with the SPI and SBE must consider adopting  
            the specified content standards.


          3)Specify that the specified content shall be considered for  
            adoption in the next revision of the existing Health Content  
            Standards.


          4)Require the IQC rather than the SPI to recommend information  
            on sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in  
            the Health Framework for California.


          5)Delete the requirement that content standards be considered  
            for transitional kindergarten.


          6)Delete the requirement that the content include information on  
            available counseling and resources for children who are  
            sexually abused.


           EXISTING LAW  :
          1)Requires the course of study in grades 1-6, inclusive, to  
            include instruction in health, including instruction in the  
            principles and practices of individual, family, and community  
            health.  
          2)Requires, on or before March 1, 2008, the SBE to adopt content  
            standards in health education and specifies that school  
            districts are not required to follow the content standards.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  According to the Senate Appropriations  
          Committee, this bill will result in the following costs:

          1)Standards development/revision: Likely minor, but potentially  
            significant costs to the California Department of Education  
            (CDE) 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. 










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


           COMMENTS  :  California curriculum is based on academic content  
          standards that are developed by the IQC (also referenced in  
          statute as the "commission") and approved by the SBE.  The  
          frameworks, similarly developed by the IQC and approved by the  
          SBE, are guidelines for implementing these standards.  To date,  
          the SBE has adopted academic content standards in career  
          technical education, English language arts and English language  
          development, health education, history and social science,  
          mathematics, model school library, physical education, science,  
          visual and performing arts, and world languages.  These  
          standards define the knowledge, concepts, and skills that  
          students should acquire at each grade level within each subject  
          area.  Each of the adopted content standards spans kindergarten  
          through grade 12, inclusive, with the exception of visual and  
          performing arts, which also includes prekindergarten.  

          According to the CDE, the Health Framework for California Public  
          Schools is scheduled to be revised in either 2017 or 2018.   
          However, there is no existing statutory authority for the SBE,  
          the IQC, or the SPI to revise the health content standards, nor  
          does this bill contain such authority.  The language of this  
          bill says that the specified content shall be considered when  
          next revised, but does not provide the authority to revised the  
          health standards.


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jill Rice / ED. / (916) 319-2087 


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