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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2016
Author: Campos (D)
Amended: 8/19/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 4-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Correa, Hancock, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Wyland, Block, Huff
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 61-2, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and
prevention
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the State Board of Education
(SBE), based upon the recommendations of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction (SPI), to consider including age-appropriate
content for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in
sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention, in the
next revision of the health content standards, as specified.
ANALYSIS : Academic content standards define the knowledge,
concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade
level. Curricular frameworks are the blueprint for implementing
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the standards, and include criteria by which instructional
materials are evaluated.
The health framework was last adopted in 2003, and was in the
process of being revised when the statutory (and budgetary)
suspension of that process took effect in July 2009. Adoption
of the revised health framework was projected for March 2011.
The processes for reviewing frameworks and adopting
instructional materials have been suspended since July 28, 2009.
The SBE is specifically prohibited from reviewing frameworks
and adopting instructional materials until the 2015-16 school
year (other than as specifically authorized for common core
English language arts and mathematics, the revised science
standards and framework, and the revised history-social science
framework).
Existing law:
1.Requires school districts to ensure that all students in
grades 7-12 receive HIV/AIDS prevention education, as
specified, from instructors trained in the appropriate
courses. Each student must receive this instruction at least
once in junior high or middle school and at least once in high
school.
2.Authorizes school districts to provide comprehensive sexual
health education, as specified, consisting of age-appropriate
instruction, in any grade, using instructors trained in the
appropriate courses.
3.Provides that parents have the right to excuse their child
from all or part of comprehensive sexual health education,
HIV/AIDS prevention education, and assessment related to that
education. Requires school districts to notify the parent of
each student about instruction in sexual health and HIV/AIDS
prevention and research on student health behaviors and risks
planned for the coming year.
This bill:
1.Requires the SBE, based upon recommendations by the SPI, to
consider including age-appropriate content for kindergarten
and grades 1 to 12, in sexual abuse and sexual assault
awareness and prevention, in the next revision of the health
content standards.
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2.Requires the SBE, based upon recommendations by the
Instructional Quality Commission, to consider including
information in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and
prevention, in the Health Framework for California Public
Schools when next revised.
3.Authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and
charter schools to provide age-appropriate instruction,
pursuant to the content standards adopted by the SBE, as
specified, for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as
applicable, in sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and
prevention.
4.Requires a student to be excused from this instruction upon
written request of the parent.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Standards development/revision: Likely minor, but potentially
significant costs to the California Department of Education to
develop and include age-appropriate K-12 content in sexual
abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention in the
health content standards, during its next revision.
Frameworks: Cost pressure to update the health frameworks to
include the new content standards, as specified.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/19/14)
Brighter Beginnings
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
California Family Resource Association
California Police Chiefs Association
The Child Abuse Prevention Center
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 61-2, 5/28/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra,
Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon,
Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson,
Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez,
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Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Hagman, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina,
Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber,
Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NOES: Beth Gaines, Jones
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bigelow, Ch�vez, Conway, Dahle, Donnelly,
Grove, Harkey, Linder, Logue, Mansoor, Nestande, Olsen,
Patterson, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk, Vacancy
PQ:k 8/19/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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