BILL NUMBER: AB 2621	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2016
	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)
   (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, 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, commencing July 1, 2017, provide a written
copy of the code of conduct to the parent or guardian of each
enrolled pupil at the beginning of each school year and, commencing
January 1, 2017, to post the code of conduct, or provide a link to
it, on each of its schools' Internet Web sites, or, if a school of a
local educational agency does not have its own Internet Web site, on
the local educational agency's Internet Web 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 code of conduct with other
specified notifications that are required at the beginning of the
first semester or quarter of the regular school term.


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 do both
of the following:
   (1) Commencing July 1, 2017, provide a written copy of the code of
conduct to the parent or guardian of each enrolled pupil at the
beginning of each school year.
   (2) Commencing January 1, 2017, post the code of conduct, or
provide a link to it, on each of its schools' Internet Web sites, or,
if a school of a 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 of the code of conduct to the parent or
guardian of each enrolled pupil by including the 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.