BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2016
	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   Coauthors:   Senators  
Allen,  Block,   and Vidak  )

                        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 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 pupils  to   to, commencing July 1,
2017,  provide a written copy of  that document
  the code of conduct  to the parent or guardian of
each enrolled pupil at the beginning of each school year 
and to post it to a public page   and, commencing
January 1, 2017, to post the code of conduct, or provide a link to
it,  on each of its  school's   schools
 '  Internet Web  sites or,  
sites, or,  if a school  within the   of a
 local educational agency does not have its own Internet Web
site, on the local educational agency's Internet Web  site.
  site, in a publicly accessible manner.  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 at the elementary or high school level,
that maintains an employee code of conduct with pupils shall 
provide   do both of the following: 
    (1)     Commencing July 1, 2017, provide
 a written copy of  that document   the
code of conduct  to the parent or guardian of each enrolled
pupil at the beginning of each school  year and shall post it
  year. 
    (2)     Commencing January 1, 2017, post
the code of conduct   , or provide a link to it,  on
each of its  school's   schools   '
 Internet Web  sites   sites,  or, if
a school  within the   of a  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  of the code of conduct  to the
parent or guardian of each enrolled pupil by including the 
document   code of conduct  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.