BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 2016 Page 1 CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS AB 2016 (Campos) As Amended August 19, 2014 Majority vote ----------------------------------------------------------------- |ASSEMBLY: |61-2 |(May 28, 2014) |SENATE: |28-0 |(August 21, | | | | | | |2014) | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 : AB 2016 Page 2 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. AB 2016 Page 3 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 FN: 0005060