California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1311

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooper

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Section 49380 of the Education Code, relating to pupil safety.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1311, as introduced, Cooper. Pupil safety: sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education.

Existing law authorizes a school district to provide sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education, as defined, encourages school districts to collaborate with outside consultants, including law enforcement, with expertise in sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education in order to create school safety plans to address those threats, and authorizes in-service training to be conducted periodically, as provided.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

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

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

SECTION 1.  

Section 49380 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

49380.  

(a) A school district is encouraged to collaborate with
outside consultants, including law enforcement, with expertise in
sexual abuse and sex trafficking prevention education in order to
create a school safety plan to address the begin delete threat end delete begin insert threats end insert of sexual
abuse and sex trafficking.

(b) A school district is encouraged to collaborate with law
enforcement on a referral protocol for high-risk pupils and minors.

(c) In-service training may be conducted periodically begin insert in order end insert
to enable school district personnel to learn about new developments
in the understanding of sexual abuse and sex trafficking, and to
receive instruction on current prevention efforts and methods. A
school district is encouraged to include training on early
identification of sexual abuse and sex trafficking of pupils and
minors.