Amended in Assembly April 7, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1204

Introduced by Assembly Member Chau

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Sections 33530 and 33532 of the Education Code, relating to the Instructional Quality Commission.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1204, as amended, Chau. Instructional Quality Commission: membership: pupil members.

Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission consisting of certain members, including 13 public members appointed by the State Board of Education. begin insert Existing law requires the state board to make its appointments to ensure that, at any one time, 7 of the public members are current classroom or mentor teachers, as specified. end insert Existing law provides that commission members are required to serve for 4-year terms and may not serve more than one full term.

This bill would expand the public membership of the commission appointed by the state board to begin delete 15 end delete begin insert 14 end insert members, and would begin delete encourage at least 2 end delete begin insert require one end insert of those members to be begin delete pupils members. end delete begin insert a pupil meeting specified requirements. end insert The bill would provide that a pupil member of the commission begin delete shall end delete begin insert is required to end insert serve begin insert for end insert a one-year begin delete term and shall end delete begin insert term, may end insert not begin delete be eligible to end delete serve more than one full begin delete term. end delete begin insert term, and is a voting member with the full rights and duties of the other commission members. The bill would require the state board to make its appointments to ensure that, at any one time, 8 of the public members are current classroom or mentor teachers, as specified. end insert The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 33530 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

33530.  

(a) There is in the state government the Instructional
Quality Commission consisting of a Member of the Assembly
appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, a Member of the Senate
appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, one public member
appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, one public member
appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, one public member
appointed by the Governor, and begin delete 15 end delete begin insert 14 end insert public members appointed
by the state board upon the recommendation of the Superintendent
or the members of the state board.

(b) So far as is practical and consistent with the duties assigned
to the commission by the state board, at least begin delete 7 end delete begin insert eight end insert of the begin delete 15 end delete begin insert 14 end insert
public members appointed by the state board shall be persons, who
because they have taught, written, or lectured on the subject matter
fields specified in Section 33533, in the course of public or private
employment, have become recognized authorities or experienced
practitioners in those fields. The state board shall make its
appointments to ensure that, at any one time, at least begin delete seven end delete begin insert eight end insert
of the public members shall be current classroom teachers, or
mentor teachers, or both assigned to teach kindergarten or any of
grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

(c) Notwithstanding the requirement that begin delete seven end delete begin insert eight end insert of the
public members shall be current classroom teachers or mentor
teachers, current members of the commission who were appointed
on or before December 31, begin delete 1989, end delete begin insert 2015, end insert shall be allowed to
complete their terms.

begin insert

(d) (1) So far as practical and consistent with the duties
assigned to the commission by the state board, one of the 14 public
members shall be a pupil.

end insert begin insert

(2) Notwithstanding Section 1020 of the Government Code, the
pupil member shall be, at the time the member’s one-year term
commences, a pupil enrolled in good standing in a public high
school.

end insert begin delete

(d)

end delete

begin insert (e) end insert  In making the remaining appointments to the commission,
and in establishing the commission’s advisory task forces or
committees, the state board is encouraged to consider the role of
other representatives of the educational community in the
development of curriculum and instructional materials, including,
but not limited to, administrators, governing school board members,
begin delete pupils, end delete and parents who are reflective of the various ethnic groups
and types of school districts in California.

begin delete

(e) The state board is encouraged to include two pupils among
the 15 public members appointed by the state board.

end delete

SEC. 2.  

Section 33532 of the Education Code is amended to
read:

33532.  

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), each
commission member shall serve for a four-year term and shall not
be eligible to serve more than one full term. Prior service on the
commission for a term of less than three years resulting from an
initial appointment or an appointment for the remainder of an
unexpired term shall not be counted as a full term.

(2) A pupil member of the commission shall serve begin insert for end insert a one-year
term and shall not be eligible to serve more than one full term. begin insert The
pupil member shall be a voting member with the full rights and
duties of the other members of the commission. end insert

(b) With respect to the appointment of 13 public members by
the state board to the first commission, four shall be appointed for
terms of two years, four shall be appointed for terms of three years,
and five shall be appointed for a term of four years.