BILL NUMBER: AB 2336	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Olsen
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Baker, Bonilla, and Lackey)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add and repeal Section 44300.5 of the Education Code,
relating to teacher credentialing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2336, as amended, Olsen. Teacher credentialing: emergency
substitute teaching  permits.   permits: special
education. 
   Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to
issue various types of teaching and services credentials, including
preliminary and clear multiple and single subject teaching
credentials. The commission is also authorized to issue emergency
teaching and specialist permits that correspond to specified
credential types. Statutory provisions specify the requirements with
which applicants for those credentials and permits are required to
comply.
   Existing regulations provide for procedures by which the
commission may issue a permit authorizing the holder to substitute
teach, limited each school year to up to  30 days for any one
teacher in a general education classroom or  20 days for
any one teacher in a special education  substitute 
classroom.
   This bill would, until January 1, 2022, require the commission to
issue Emergency  Special Education  Substitute Teaching
Permits authorizing the holder to substitute  teach,
  teach in any special education classsroom, 
limited each school year to  serve as a special education
substitute teacher for  up to  60 days for any one
teacher in a general education classroom or  40 days for any
one  teacher in a special education classroom. 
 teacher. 
   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 44300.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   44300.5.  (a) The commission shall issue Emergency  Special
Education  Substitute Teaching Permits authorizing the holder to
serve in any  special education  classroom,  whether in
 preschool, kindergarten,  and   or 
any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or in classes organized primarily
for adults within each county in which the permit is registered,
provided the employing agency has a completed Statement of Need on
file for the school year as provided for in Section 80025 of Title 5
of the California Code of Regulations or any successor regulation.
The permit shall authorize the holder to  serve as a
substitute teacher for up to 60 days for any one teacher during the
school year or  serve as a special education substitute
teacher for up to 40 days for any one teacher during the school year.

   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2022, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2022, deletes or extends
that date.