BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    



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          Date of Hearing:   May 19, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                  AB 2685 (De La Torre) - As Amended:  May 10, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Education  
          Vote:7-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC)  
          to make available to each private school a listing of all  
          credential holders who have had final adverse action taken  
          against their credential.  This measure also requires this  
          information be identical to that made available to public  
          schools in the state.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          No additional GF cost to the CTC to make available to private  
          schools a listing of all credential holders who have had a final  
          adverse action take against their credential.  

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  .  Current law requires a private school employer to  
            submit two sets of fingerprints of an employee (if he or she  
            does not hold a valid teaching credential or is licensed by  
            another state agency) to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for  
            the purpose of obtaining a criminal history.  Statute also  
            prohibits the private school from employing the individual  
            until DOJ completes its check.  Also, a private school is  
            prohibited from employing a person who has been convicted of a  
            violent or serious felony or a person who would be prohibited  
            from employment by a public school, as specified

            Existing law further requires the CTC to send private schools,  
            on a monthly basis, a list of teachers who have had their  
            state teaching credential revoked or suspended.  The CTC  
            fulfills this requirement by sending an All Points Bulletin  
            (APB).  According to the author, [the bill] states the APB  







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            must now be 'made available.' This language would allow for  
            the CTC to provide the APB in an electronic format.  In  
            addition, it allows for CTC's anticipated move to a cumulative  
            database that will be updated in real time as opposed to just  
            after a commission meeting.  This will mean mandatory  
            revocations and denials are added on a continuing basis." 

            This bill requires the CTC to make available a listing of all  
            credential holders who have had a final adverse action taken  
            against their credential.  

           2)Existing law  defines "adverse action" as the denial of an  
            application for a credential, a private admonition, or public  
            reproval of a credential holder, or the suspension or  
            revocation of a credential. 

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Kimberly Rodriguez / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081