BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2659| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONSENT Bill No: AB 2659 Author: Committee on Education Amended: 8/2/16 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 9-0, 6/15/16 AYES: Liu, Block, Hancock, Huff, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan, Vidak SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8 ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 67-0, 5/27/16 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT: Elementary and secondary education: omnibus revisions SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This bill, the education omnibus clean-up measure, makes technical, non-controversial revisions to numerous provisions of the Education Code. ANALYSIS: Each year, there is typically a K-12 education clean-up bill and a higher education clean-up bill that make various non-controversial revisions to the Education Code. A majority of the provisions for the K-12 education clean-up bill are identified by the State Department of Education and propose technical corrections to existing law, such as deleting an AB 2659 Page 2 obsolete reporting requirement for a program. This bill makes numerous revisions to the Education Code. Specifically, this bill 1) Eliminates various reporting requirements and program evaluations that are either outdated or the information can be provided upon request: a) The number of site visits conducted of child development programs. (Section 1) b) Evaluation of the effectiveness of California Department of Education's (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) 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 50) i) Summary of educational programs and workshops on genetic diseases and birth defects. (Section 51) j) Agreements between state agencies regarding special AB 2659 Page 3 education services. (Section 58) aa) Compilation of student physical fitness test results. (Section 59) bb) Evaluation of the CALPADS project. (Section 60) cc) Update on implementation of the school standardized account code structure. (Section 61) 2) Clarifies that the parent advisory committee established to provide advice in the development of local control and accountability plans subject to provisions in current law related to open and public meetings. (Section 3) 3) Makes clarifying changes in numerous terms and phrases, conforming state statutes to federal regulations and update cross-references to statutes and to state regulations. (Sections 54-57) 4) Corrects cross references and makes minor changes to the sections relation to school districts and reorganization. (Sections 6-36) 5) Updates federal workforce investment act references. (Sections 46, 48, 52 and 53) 6) Corrects references to the United States Military Code defining active duty military personnel. (Section 49) 7) Adds provisions regarding attendance alternative for children of military personnel found in Education Code Section 48300 and 48301 to EC Section 46600 relative interdistrict attendance thereby fixing a drafting oversight. (Section 46) 8) Clarifies the definition of "lapse" to mean dissolve a school district, as described and the term "lapsation," to mean an action to lapse. Makes a conforming change. (Section 36) 9) Deletes "unexcused," absences to allow Saturday and Sunday AB 2659 Page 4 classes to received apportionment credit for makeup classes for any absences rather than only for "unexcused," absences. (Section 37) 10)Removes obsolete references and makes other technical changes to the education code. Comments 1)Non-controversial amendments. This bill is the annual education omnibus clean-up bill and proposes technical, non-controversial amendments to existing law. By tradition, if any affected agency, the Department of Finance, or any of the four legislative caucuses objects to a provision in the bill or one that is being considered, that particular provision cannot be included. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified7/29/16) None received OPPOSITION: (Verified7/29/16) None received ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 67-0, 5/27/16 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bonilla, Bonta, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Harper, Roger AB 2659 Page 5 Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, Olsen, Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon NO VOTE RECORDED: Bloom, Brough, Brown, Chiu, Dodd, Eduardo Garcia, Grove, Hadley, Jones-Sawyer, Low, Melendez, O'Donnell, Ting Prepared by: Olgalilia Ramirez / ED. / (916) 651-4105 8/3/16 18:15:32 **** END ****