Amended in Assembly April 21, 2016

Amended in Assembly March 18, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2621

Introduced by Assembly begin delete Member Gomez end delete begin insert Members Gomez and Bloom end insert

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(Coauthors: Assembly Members Maienschein and McCarty)

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(Coauthor: Senator Allen)

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February 19, 2016

An act to add Section 44050 to the Education Code, relating to school employees.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2621, as amended, Gomez. Employee Codes of Conduct.

Existing law requires local educational agencies to provide certain documents to parents and post certain documents on an Internet Web page.

This bill would require a local educational agency, or a person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or high school level, that maintains an employee code of conduct with begin delete students end delete begin insert pupils end insert to provide a written copy of that document to begin delete every pupil enrolled in a school of the local educational agency or provider of private school instruction and end delete the parent or guardian of each begin delete of those pupils end delete begin insert enrolled pupil end insert at the beginning of each school year and to post it to a public page on each school’s Internet Web begin delete site. end delete begin insert site, or, if a school within the local educational agency does not have its own Internet Web site, on the local educational agency’s Internet Web site. The bill would also provide that a local educational agency may satisfy the individual parent notification requirement by including a copy of the document with other specified notifications that are required at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term. end insert

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By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

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This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete yes end delete begin insert no end insert . State-mandated local program:  begin delete yes end delete begin insert no end insert .

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

SECTION 1.  

Section 44050 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

44050.  

(a) A local educational agency, or a person, firm,
association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting
private school instruction on the elementary or high school level,
that maintains an employee code of conduct with begin delete students end delete begin insert pupils end insert
shall provide a written copy of that document to begin delete every pupil
enrolled in a school of the local educational agency or provider of
private school instruction and end delete the parent or guardian of each begin delete of
those pupils end delete begin insert enrolled pupil end insert at the beginning of each school year
and shall post it on each school’s Internet Web begin delete site end delete begin insert site, or, if a
school within the local educational agency does not have its own
Internet Web site, on the local educational agency’s Internet Web
site, end insert in a manner that is accessible to the public without a password.

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(b) A local educational agency may satisfy the requirement to
provide a written copy to the parent or guardian of each enrolled
pupil by including the document in the notice required pursuant
to Section 48980.

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(b)

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begin insert (c) end insert  For purposes of this section, a local educational agency
includes a school district, county office of education, or charter
school.

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SEC. 2.  

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

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