BILL NUMBER: AB 1204	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2015

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.  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.  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  15   14 
members, and would  encourage at least 2  
require one  of those members to be  pupils members.
  a pupil meeting specified requirements.  The bill
would provide that a pupil member of the commission  shall
  is required to  serve  for a one-year
 term and shall   term, may  not 
be eligible to  serve more than one full  term.
  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.  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
 15   14  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  7 
 eight  of the  15   14  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  seven
  eight  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  seven 
 eight  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,  1989, 
 2015,  shall be allowed to complete their terms. 
   (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.  
   (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. 

   (d) 
    (e)  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,
 pupils,  and parents who are reflective of the
various ethnic groups and types of school districts in California.

   (e) The state board is encouraged to include two pupils among the
15 public members appointed by the state board. 
  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  for  a
one-year term and shall not be eligible to serve more than one full
term.  The pupil member shall be a voting member with the full
rights and duties of the other members of the commission. 
   (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.