BILL NUMBER: AB 2266	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 35254 of the Education Code, relating to
school district records.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2266, as introduced, Bradford. School district records.
   Existing law requires the Secretary of State, in consultation with
the Department of General Services, to approve and adopt appropriate
standards for the purpose of storing and recording documents in
electronic media and requires the standards to include a requirement
that a trusted system, as defined, be used.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to make photographic, microfilm, or electronic copies of records of
the district and to destroy the original after the copy is made if
provision is made for permanently maintaining the copy in the files
of the district, except that an original record that is basic to a
required audit is prohibited from being destroyed before the second
July 1st after the completion of the audit.
   This bill would authorize copies when provisions are made for
permanently maintaining the copies in a trusted system, as defined,
and the reproductions are made in compliance with specified minimum
standards or guidelines, or both.
   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 35254 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   35254.  The governing board of any school district may make
photographic, microfilm, or electronic copies of any records of the
district. The original of any records of which a photographic,
microfilm, or electronic copy has been made may be destroyed when
 provision is   provisions are  made for
permanently maintaining the photographic, microfilm  ,  or
electronic copies in  the files of the district, except that
no original record that is basic to any required audit shall be
destroyed prior to the second July 1st succeeding the completion of
the audit   a trusted system, as defined in Section
12168.7 of the Government Code   ,   and the
reproductions are made in compliance with the minimum standards or
guidelines, or both, as recommended by the American National
Standards Institute or the Association for Information and Image
Management for   the   recording of permanent
records or nonpermanent records  .