BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly 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 pupils to provide a
written copy of that document to the parent or guardian of each
enrolled pupil at the beginning of each school year and to post it to
a public page on each  of its  school's Internet Web 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.
   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 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 pupils shall provide
a written copy of that document to the parent or guardian of each
enrolled pupil at the beginning of each school year and shall post it
on each  of its  school's Internet Web 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.
   (c) For purposes of this section, a local educational agency
includes a school district, county office of education, or charter
school. 
   (d) This section shall not be construed to require a local
educational agency, a school within a local educational agency, or a
private school to create an Internet Web site if it does not have
one.