BILL NUMBER: AB 534	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 52499.67 to the Education Code, relating to
pupils.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 534, as introduced, Duvall. Pupils: career fairs.
   Existing law states that the Legislature recognizes that all
pupils need to be provided with opportunities to explore and make
career choices and to seek appropriate instruction and training to
support those choices. Existing law also states that the Legislature
finds that fairs as community resource and youth leadership
activities are integral to assisting and guiding pupils in making
choices and therefore encourage the further expansion of cooperative
activities between schools, youth leadership activities, and
community resources. The State Department of Education is required to
annually encourage school districts to plan programs and activities
that use the resources of fairs and youth leadership activities as an
integral part of the vocational instructional program and career
decisionmaking.
   Existing law authorizes career technical training to be a part of
a program of national defense of the federal government or any agency
of the federal government.
   This bill would require a school that offers a career fair to its
pupils to allow military recruiters access to that career fair to the
same extent that it allows other persons and entities access to the
fair.
   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 52499.67 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   52499.67.  If a school offers a career fair to its pupils, the
school shall allow military recruiters access to that career fair to
the same extent that the school allows other persons and entities
access to the fair.