BILL NUMBER: AB 1988	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 435 of the Education Code, relating to
pupils.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1988, as introduced, Davis. Pupils: English learners.
   The English Learner and Immigrant Pupil Federal Conformity Act
requires a local educational agency to provide instructional services
to limited-English-proficient pupils and immigrant pupils in
conformity with specified provisions of federal law. Existing law
defines the term "English learner" and other terms for purposes of
these provisions.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
definitions provision.
   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 435 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   435.  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (a) "English learner" or "pupil of limited English proficiency"
means a pupil who was not born in the United States  or
  ,  whose native language is a language other than
English  ,  or who comes from an environment where a
language other than English is  dominant;  
  dominant,  and whose difficulties in speaking,
reading, writing, or understanding the English language may be
sufficient to deny the individual the ability to meet the state's
proficient level of achievement on state assessments, the ability to
successfully achieve in classrooms where the language of instruction
is English, or the opportunity to participate fully in society. 
   (b) "Federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" means Public Law
107-110 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6801 et seq.).  
   (b) 
    (c)  "Immigrant pupil" means a pupil who was born in a
country other than the United States and who has attended a
kindergarten class or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in a school
in the United States for three or fewer years. 
   (c) "Federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" means Public Law
Number 107-110 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6801, et seq.).