BILL NUMBER: AB 1819 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 29, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Ammiano
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
An act to amend Section 49557 47611
of the Education Code, relating to school meals
charter schools .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1819, as amended, Ammiano. School meals: free or
reduced-priced meals. Charter schools: State Teachers'
Retirement Plan.
Existing law provides that all employees of a charter school who
perform creditable service are entitled to have that service covered
under the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers' Retirement
Plan, if the charter school elects to make that plan available.
Existing law further requires a charter school that elects to make
that or another plan available to inform all applicants for
employment of the retirement options for employees of the charter
school, as specified.
This bill would require charter schools to make the State Teachers'
Retirement Plan and the Public Employees' Retirement Plan available
to its employees, as specified, and makes corresponding changes to
the information charter schools are required to provide regarding
retirement options.
Existing law requires each school district and county
superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1
to 12, inclusive, to provide for each needy pupil one nutritionally
adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday. Existing
law requires the governing board of a school district and the county
superintendent of schools to make applications for free or
reduced-price meals available to students at all times during each
regular schoolday. Existing law also requires the governing board of
each school district and county superintendent of schools to
formulate a plan that, among other things, will ensure that children
eligible to receive free or reduced-priced meals and milk shall not
be treated differently than other children.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these 2 latter
provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 47611 of the
Education Code is amended to read:
47611. (a) If a A charter school
chooses to shall make the State
Teacher's Teachers '
Retirement Plan available, and all employees of the
charter school who perform creditable service shall be entitled to
have that service covered under the plan's Defined Benefit Program or
Cash Balance Benefit Program , and all . All
provisions of Part 13 (commencing with Section 22000) and Part
14 (commencing with Section 26000) of Division 1 of Title 1
shall apply in the same manner as the provisions apply to other
public schools in the school district that granted the charter.
(b) (1) If a
A charter school offers
shall offer its employees coverage by
the State Teachers' Retirement System or the Public
Employees' Retirement System, or both, the charter school
and shall inform all applicants for positions
within that charter school of the retirement system options for
employees of the charter school.
(2) The information shall specifically include whether the charter
school makes available to employees coverage under the State
Teachers' Retirement System, the Public Employees' Retirement System,
or both systems, and that accepting employment in the charter school
may exclude the applicant from further coverage in the applicant's
current retirement system, depending on the retirement options
offered by the charter of the charter school.
SECTION 1. Section 49557 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
49557. (a) (1) The governing board of a school district and the
county superintendent of schools shall make applications for free or
reduced-price meals available to pupils at all times during each
regular schoolday. The application shall contain, in at least 8-point
boldface type, each of the following statements:
(A) Applications for free and reduced-price meals may be submitted
at any time during a schoolday.
(B) Children participating in the National School Lunch Program
will not be overtly identified by the use of special tokens, special
tickets, special serving lines, separate entrances, separate dining
areas, or by any other means.
(2) A school district and the county superintendent of schools
shall use all other applications it has for free or reduced-price
meals before utilizing the applications pursuant to this subdivision.
(b) The governing board of each school district and each county
superintendent of schools shall formulate a plan, which shall be
mailed to the department for its approval, that will ensure that
children eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals and milk
shall not be treated differently from other children. These plans
shall ensure each of the following:
(1) Unless otherwise specified, the names of the children shall
not be published, posted, or announced in any manner, or used for any
other purpose other than the National School Lunch Program.
(2) There shall be no overt identification of any of the children
by the use of special tokens or tickets or by any other means.
(3) The children shall not be required to work for their meals or
milk.
(4) The children shall not be required to use a separate dining
area, go through a separate serving line, enter the dining area
through a separate entrance, or consume their meals or milk at a
different time.
(c) When more than one lunch or breakfast or type of milk is
offered pursuant to this article, the children shall have the same
choice of meals or milk that is available to those children who pay
the full price for their meal or milk.