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          Date of Hearing:   May 7, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                     AB 2016 (Campos) - As Amended:  May 1, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              EducationVote:5-0

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

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the State Board of Education (SBE), on or  
          before March 1, 2017 upon recommendation from the Superintendent  
          of Public Instruction (SPI), to consider adopting  
          age-appropriate content standards for transitional kindergarten,  
          kindergarten, and grades 1 - 12, inclusive, in sexual abuse and  
          sexual assault awareness and prevention, including information  
          on available counseling and resources for children who are  
          sexually abused. Specifically, this bill:  


          1)Requires the SBE, based on recommendations from the SPI, to  
            consider including information on sexual abuse and sexual  
            assault awareness as specified, in the next revision of the  
            Health framework.


          2)Permits school districts, county offices of education, and  
            charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction  
            pursuant to these adopted content standards.


          3)Requires a pupil, upon the written request of his or her  
            parent or legal guardian, to be excused from receiving  
            instruction in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and  
            prevention.


           FISCAL EFFECT  


          1)General Fund administrative costs to CDE in the range of  








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            $200,000 to $300,000 for the Instructional Quality Commission  
            (IQC) to develop content standards for consideration by the  
            SBE.  



          2)General Fund/Proposition 98 cost pressure, potentially in the  
            millions of dollars, to purchase materials aligned to the  
            standards. 

           COMMENTS  

           Background.  California curriculum is based on academic content  
          standards that are developed by the Instructional Quality  
          Commission (IQC) (also referenced in statute as the  
          "commission") and approved by the SBE.  The frameworks,  
          similarly developed by the IQC and approved by the SBE, are  
          guidelines for implementing these standards.  To date, the SBE  
          has adopted academic content standards in career technical  
          education, English language arts/English language development,  
          health education, history/social science, mathematics, model  
          school library, physical education, science, visual and  
          performing arts, and world languages.  

          The current Health Framework already includes grade-level  
          content and concepts that address the issue of child abuse and  
          sexual exploitation.  



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081