BILL NUMBER: AB 794	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Blumenfield,   DeVore,   and Nestande 
 ) 

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to add Section 44235.5 to the Education Code, relating to
teacher credentialing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 794, as amended, Hagman. Teacher credentialing: fees.
   Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing
to review and approve applications for and issue teaching and
services credentials, and authorizes the commission to levy fees for
the issuance and renewal of teaching and services credentials, to be
deposited into the Teacher Credentials Fund in the State Treasury.
   This bill would require the commission to waive all application
and processing fees for  the initial issuance of a teaching
credential to an  out-of-state  applicants for teaching
credentials   applicant  who  relocate
  relocates  to California due to orders received
from a branch of the United States Armed Forces that require the
applicant's spouse to relocate to California.
   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 44235.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   44235.5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
commission shall waive all application and processing fees for
 out-of-state applicants for teaching credentials who
relocate to   the initial issuance of a teaching
credential to an out-of-state prepared applicant who relocates to
 California due to orders received from a branch of the United
States Armed Forces that require the applicant's spouse to relocate
to California.