BILL NUMBER: SB 1530	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

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



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1530, as introduced, Padilla. 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" for purposes of these provisions.
   This bill would additionally define the terms "long-term English
learner" and "reclassified English proficient" and would declare the
intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the
State Department of Education to provide information regarding
long-term English learners and reclassified-English-proficient
pupils.
   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; 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.).  
   (d) "Long-term English learner" means a pupil in any of grades 7
to 12, inclusive, who has been an English learner for six years or
more.  
   (e) "Reclassified English proficient" means an English learner who
has been redesignated as English proficient pursuant to Section 313.

  SEC. 2.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would require the State Department of Education to provide
information regarding long-term English learners and
reclassified-English-proficient pupils.