BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2016
	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.   site. 
   This bill would require a local educational  agency,
  agency, as specified,  or a person, firm,
association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting
private school instruction  on   at  the
elementary or high school  level,   level, as
specified,  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,   sites  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   at  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,   sites  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,
  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. 
   (e) This section does not apply to a private school composed of
parents or legal guardians working exclusively with their own
children.