BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 2659
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Date of Hearing: May 4, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Patrick O'Donnell, Chair
AB 2659
(Committee on Education) - As Amended April 25, 2016
SUBJECT: Elementary and secondary education: omnibus revisions
SUMMARY: Makes technical and non-controversial revisions to the
Education Code. Specifically, this bill:
1)Repeals the following reports required of the California
Department of Education (CDE):
a) The number of site visits conducted of child development
programs. (Section 1)
b) Evaluation of the effectiveness of CDE's School Safety
and Security Resources Unit. (Section 2)
c) Summary of actions taken by the CDE to eliminate audit
exceptions and comply with management improvement
recommendations. (Section 38)
d) The status of school districts that have received
emergency apportionments. (Section 39)
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e) Review of a county office of education's fiscal
oversight of a school district requiring an emergency loan
and state receivership. (Section 40)
f) Summary of school average daily attendance and local
property tax revenues used in principal apportionment
calculations. (Section 42)
g) Summary of school districts that have not adopted
on-time budgets and steps being taken to address the
delays. (Section 44)
h) Evaluation of the California School Information
Services' oversight of the California Longitudinal Pupil
Achievement Data System (CALPADS) project. (Section 49)
i) Summary of educational programs and workshops on genetic
diseases and birth defects. (Section 50)
j) Agreements between state agencies regarding special
education services. (Section 57)
aa) Compilation of student physical fitness test results.
(Section 58)
bb) Evaluation of the CALPADS project. (Section 59)
cc) Update on implementation of the school standardized
account code structure. (Section 60)
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2)Requires the meetings of district and county parent advisory
committees established to provide advice on the development of
the local control and accountability plan to be open to the
public and to comply with specified notice of meetings.
Strikes obsolete code sections. (Section 3)
3)Changes "lapse" to "lapsation." (Section 4)
4)Corrects cross references and makes minor changes to the
sections relating to school district reorganizations.
(Sections 6-36)
5)Strikes "unexcused" absences to allow Saturday or Sunday
classes to receive apportionment credit for makeup classes for
any absences and not just unexcused absences. (Section 37)
6)Updates references to the federal Workforce Invest Act.
(Sections 45, 47, 51, 52)
7)Corrects a federal code section reference to the United States
military that was chaptered by AB 306 (Hadley), Chapter 771,
Statutes of 2015. (Section 48)
8)Aligns cross references in sections pertaining to students
with disabilities with changes in the California Code of
Regulations. (Sections 53-56)
9)Corrects code citations and cross references (Sections 5, 41,
43, 46)
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EXISTING LAW assigns various duties to state and local
educational agencies and governs the operation of public
schools.
FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown
COMMENTS: This bill is the annual K-12 education clean-up bill
that makes various non-controversial revisions to the Education
Code. By tradition, objection to any provision by the agency
affected, the Department of Finance, or any of the four
legislative caucuses prevents that provision from being included
in this bill.
The majority of the provisions in this bill were identified by
the CDE and make technical corrections to the statute, such as
correcting a section citation or striking obsolete language.
This bill also repeals a number of reports required to be
submitted by the CDE to the Legislature, some of which are
active and some of which were never implemented due to lack of
funds. The information generated by these reports can be
obtained from the CDE without requiring the CDE to complete and
submit reports on a regular basis.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
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None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Sophia Kwong Kim / ED. / (916) 319-2087