BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member   Gomez
  Members   Gomez   and Bloom 
    (   Coauthors:  Assembly Members  
Maienschein   and McCarty   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator  Allen
  ) 

                        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  students
  pupils  to provide a written copy of that
document to  every pupil enrolled in a school of the local
educational agency or provider of private school instruction and
 the parent or guardian of each  of those pupils
  enrolled pupil  at the beginning of each school
year and to post it to a public page on each school's Internet Web
 site.   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. 

   By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.  
   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.  
   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. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program:  yes
  no  .


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  students
  pupils  shall provide a written copy of that
document to  every pupil enrolled in a school of the local
educational agency or provider of private school instruction and
 the parent or guardian of each  of those pupils
  enrolled pupil  at the beginning of each school
year and shall post it on each school's Internet Web  site
  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,  in a manner that is
accessible to the public without a password. 
   (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.  
   (b) 
    (c)  For purposes of this section, a local educational
agency includes a school district, county office of education, or
charter school. 
  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.