BILL NUMBER: SB 911	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 30, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 17, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hertzberg
   (Coauthors: Senators Block, Glazer, and McGuire)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bigelow, Cristina Garcia, and
Waldron)

                        JANUARY 26, 2016

   An act to amend Section 33384 of, and to repeal Section 33385 of,
the Education Code, relating to American Indian education programs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 911, as amended, Hertzberg. California American Indian
education centers.
   Existing law, to be repealed on January 1, 2017, provides for the
establishment of a California American Indian education center by any
tribal group or incorporated American Indian association to meet
specified objectives, and further provides for the administration of
grants, upon application, by the State Department of Education for
those purposes in accordance with specified provisions. Existing law
requires  each center to annually submit specified data to the
department that reflects each center's ability to meet its stated
objectives, and requires  the department, on or before January
1, 2011, and again on or before January 1, 2016, to report
consolidated results for all California American Indian education
centers, provide information required to evaluate the results, and
make recommendations for program improvement.
   This bill would instead require  each center to submit data
that reflects the center's progress toward meeting its stated
objectives and any other objectives chosen by the center. The bill
would require  the department to report the information on or
before January 1, 2021, and every 5 years thereafter, and would
specify that the information shall be reported to the appropriate
fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would also
delete the January 1, 2017, repeal date.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 33384 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   33384.  (a) (1) Each center shall annually submit a report to the
department that includes appropriate data, presented in a format
developed jointly with the department, that reflects each center's
 ability to meet   progress toward meeting 
its stated objectives,  measure   including
 pupil academic performance,  and meets  
meeting  the continued educational and cultural needs of the
community that the center  serves.   serves, and
any other objectives chosen by the center. 
   (2) On or before January 1, 2021, and every five years thereafter,
the department shall report all of the following information to the
appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature:
   (A) Consolidated results for all  centers.  
centers, consistent with federal law regarding the privacy of 
 pupil information. 
   (B) Information required to evaluate the consolidated results.
   (C) Recommendations for program improvement.
   (b) The centers shall maintain sound fiscal policies. The
department shall provide technical assistance and training to the
centers in order to assist the centers to maintain sound fiscal
policies. The department may require an annual program audit,
however, if the department deems it fiscally unsound for the centers
to provide an annual audit, a fiscal review shall suffice.
   (c) The department shall provide technical assistance and
professional development to the directors of the California American
Indian education centers throughout the year that shall include
timely documented responses and professional guidance meant to
improve center programs.
  SEC. 2.  Section 33385 of the Education Code is repealed.