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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1599
Author: Assembly Education Committee
Amended: 8/22/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : School finance: categorical programs
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill, the education omnibus clean-up bill, makes
technical, non-controversial revisions to numerous provisions of
the Education Code (ED).
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/22/14 add double-jointing language
to prevent chaptering out issues with AB 2512 (Bonilla) and SB
897 (Steinberg), and correct drafting errors.
ANALYSIS : Each year there typically is a K-12 education
clean-up bill that makes various non-controversial revisions to
the ED. A majority of the provisions are identified by the
California Department of Education (CDE) and propose technical
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corrections to existing law, such as deleting an obsolete
reporting requirement for a program.
This bill makes numerous revisions to the ED. Specifically,
this bill:
1. Corrects an obsolete citation regarding school district
reorganization.
2. Replaces the term "mentally retarded" with "intellectually
disabled."
3. Adds language from AB 137 (Buchanan, Chapter 225, Statutes
of 2013) and AB 700 (Gomez, Chapter 483, Statutes of 2013)
regarding the history-social science framework that was
chaptered out by AB 424 (Donnelly, Chapter 484 Statutes of
2013).
4. Changes the references from "building and equipment" and
"school lots or buildings" to "real property" in the section
regarding transfer of property from one district to another.
5. Corrects a reference to when an election is to be conducted
in the provision requiring a county superintendent of schools
to call an election for the reorganization of a school
district.
6. Revises, for the purposes of initiating lapsation
proceedings, the dates and time period a county committee on
district organization must conduct public hearings, order a
territory annexed to one or more adjoining districts, and the
date the annexation takes effect.
7. Makes technical cross reference changes.
8. Authorizes school districts, charter schools, and county
offices of education to release the name of and eligibility
status of a pupil participating in the free or reduced-price
meal program to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for
the purposes of determining funding allocations under the
local control funding formula. Requires the information to
be released to comply with specified pupil record and pupil
confidentiality requirements, and upon request, to another
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school district, charter school, or county office of
education that is serving a pupil living in the same
household as an enrolled pupil for purposes related to free
or reduced-price meal program eligibility and for data used
in local control funding formula calculations.
9. Repeals an obsolete provision requiring an individualized
education program to include a provision for a review, at
least every six months, by the full individualized education
program team, pursuant to Government Code Section
7572.5(c)(2), when an individualized education program calls
for a residential placement.
10.Repeals a provision authorizing local educational agencies
to seek, either directly or through a pupil's parents or
guardians, reimbursement from insurance companies to cover
the costs of related services in accordance with federal
regulations.
11.Specifies that if an individual with exceptional needs is
covered by public benefits or insurance, a public agency may
use Medicaid, other public benefits, or insurance programs in
which a pupil participates, to provide or pay for required
services, if the public agency provides written notification
and obtains written parental consent.
12.Deletes the requirement for a nonpublic, nonsectarian school
or agency seeking certification to submit a form and requires
the CDE to provide electronic notification of the
availability of renewal application materials.
13.Strikes obsolete dates and requirements in the provisions
regarding special education local plan areas and the
provision of services to individuals with exceptional needs.
14.Requires the early literacy assessment of pupils whose
primary language is a language other than English to be
administered for a period of four years beginning after the
initial administration of the assessment or until July 1,
2017, whichever occurs last.
15.Contains double-jointing language to prevent chaptering out
issues with
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AB 2512 (Bonilla) and SB 897 (Steinberg).
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 5/15/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.
Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Mansoor, Vacancy
PQ:k 8/25/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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