Amended in Senate May 31, 2016

Amended in Assembly May 12, 2016

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 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 begin delete page. end delete begin insert site. end insert

This bill would require a local educational begin delete agency, end delete begin insert agency, as specified, end insert or a person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction begin delete on end delete begin insert at end insert the elementary or high school begin delete level, end delete begin insert level, as specified, end insert 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 begin delete site, end delete begin insert sites end insert 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 begin delete on end delete begin insert at end insert 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 begin delete site, end delete begin insert sites end insert 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
begin delete site, end delete begin insert site end insert 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.

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(e) This section does not apply to a private school composed of
parents or legal guardians working exclusively with their own
children.

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