BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 1204| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 1204 Author: Chau (D) Amended: 9/2/15 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 8-0, 6/17/15 AYES: Liu, Runner, Block, Hancock, Leyva, Monning, Pan, Vidak NO VOTE RECORDED: Mendoza SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8 ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/22/15 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT: Instructional Quality Commission: membership: pupil members SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This bill encourages the State Board of Education (SBE) to consider appointing a student member to the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC), and if the SBE chooses to appoint a student member, requires the student to meet specified criteria. Senate Floor Amendments of 9/2/15 delete the requirement that the SBE appoint a student as one of the public members of the IQC; state legislative intent to encourage the SBE to consider appointing a student to the IQC; and require, if the SBE, elects to appoint a student to the IQC, the student to meet specified criteria. AB 1204 Page 2 ANALYSIS: Existing law: 1)Establishes the IQC for the purpose of recommending curriculum frameworks to the SBE, developing criteria for evaluating instructional materials, and evaluating and recommending instructional materials for adoption to the SBE. (Education Code § 33530 and § 60204) 2)Provides the membership of the IQC is as follows: a) A member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. b) A member of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. c) One public member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. d) One public member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules. e) One public member appointed by the Governor. f) Thirteen public members appointed by the SBE upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction or the members of the SBE. (EC § 33530) 3)Requires that at least seven of the 13 public members appointed by the SBE be recognized authorities or experienced practitioners in their fields. (EC § 33530) 4)Requires that at least seven of the public members be current K-12 classroom or mentor teachers. (EC § 33530) 5)Requires the Governor to appoint a student member to the SBE, with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senate, and establishes a process for selecting the student member. The term of office of the student member is set at one year, beginning on August 1, and is limited to one term. The student must be, at the time the student's term on the SBE begins, enrolled in good standing in grade 12 in a public high AB 1204 Page 3 school. (EC § 33000.5) 6)Authorizes the SBE, whenever it is authorized by law to appoint members to a board, commission, or other statutorily created body, to also appoint a nonvoting student member to that body. (EC § 33011) This bill: 1)States legislative intent to encourage the SBE to consider appointing a student to the IQC, using the current appointment process. 2)Requires, if the SBE elects to appoint a student to the IQC, the student to meet both of the following criteria: a) The student has been enrolled in a California high school for a minimum of two consecutive years. b) The student is in good standing. 3)Requires that the student member be a voting member with full rights and duties as other members of the IQC. 4)Requires that student members be appointed for a single, one-year term, and prohibits the student from being eligible to serve more than one full term. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified9/1/15) None received OPPOSITION: (Verified9/1/15) None received ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 74-0, 5/22/15 AB 1204 Page 4 AYES: Achadjian, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins NO VOTE RECORDED: Alejo, Jones, O'Donnell, Olsen, Waldron, Weber Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105 9/3/15 18:29:39 **** END ****