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 site.
This bill would require a local educational agency, as specified, or a person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction at the elementary or high school level, as specified, that maintains an employee code of conduct with pupilsbegin delete toend deletebegin insert to, commencing July 1, 2017,end insert provide a written copy ofbegin delete that documentend deletebegin insert
the code of conductend insert to the parent or guardian of each enrolled pupil at the beginning of each school yearbegin delete and to post it to a public pageend deletebegin insert and, commencing January 1, 2017, to post the code of conduct, or provide a link to it,end insert on each of itsbegin delete school’send deletebegin insert schoolsend insertbegin insert’end insert Internet Webbegin delete sites or,end deletebegin insert sites, or,end insert if a schoolbegin delete within theend deletebegin insert
of aend insert local educational agency does not have its own Internet Web site, on the local educational agency’s Internet Webbegin delete site.end deletebegin insert site, in a publicly accessible manner.end insert 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 44050 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
(a) A local educational agency, or a person, firm,
4association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting
5private school instruction at the elementary or high school level,
6that maintains an employee code of conduct with pupils shall
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begin delete provideend deletebegin insert do both of the following:end insert
8begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertCommencing July 1, 2017, provideend insert a written copy ofbegin delete that begin insert
the code of conductend insert to the parent or guardian of each
9documentend delete
10enrolled pupil at the beginning of each schoolbegin delete year and shall post begin insert year.end insert
11itend delete
12begin insert(2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertCommencing January 1, 2017, post the code of conductend insertbegin insert, or
13provide a link to it,end insert on each of itsbegin delete school’send deletebegin insert schoolsend insertbegin insert’end insert
Internet Web
14begin delete sitesend deletebegin insert
sites,end insert or, if a schoolbegin delete within theend deletebegin insert of aend insert local educational agency
15does not have its own Internet Web site, on the local educational
16agency’s Internet Webbegin delete siteend deletebegin insert site,end insert in a manner that is accessible to
17the public without a password.
18(b) A local educational agency may satisfy the requirement to
19provide a written copybegin insert of the code of conductend insert to the parent or
20guardian of each
enrolled pupil by including thebegin delete documentend deletebegin insert
code
21of conductend insert in the notice required pursuant to Section 48980.
22(c) For purposes of this section, a local educational agency
23includes a school district, county office of education, or charter
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school.
P3 1(d) This section shall not be construed to require a local
2educational agency, a school within a local educational agency,
3or a private school to create an Internet Web site if it does not have
4one.
5(e) This section does not apply to a private school composed of
6parents or legal guardians working exclusively with their own
7children.
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