BILL NUMBER: AB 572	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 47604.1 to the Education Code, relating to
charter schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 572, as introduced, Brownley. Charter schools: governing
boards.
   (1) Existing law prohibits certain public officials, including,
but not limited to, members of governing boards of school districts
and citizens' oversight committees, from engaging in specified
activities that are inconsistent, incompatible, or inimical to their
duties as public officials, including, but not limited to, entering
into a contract in which the official or the official's family member
has a financial interest, as specified.
   The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment of
charter schools to operate independently from the existing school
district structure as a method of accomplishing, among other things,
improved pupil learning.
   This bill would require a charter school to adopt and comply with
a conflict-of-interest policy. By requiring charter schools to
perform additional duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.
   (2)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 47604.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   47604.1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a charter
school shall adopt and comply with a conflict-of-interest policy.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.