BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
SB 330 (Padilla) - Health Framework: Mental Health Instruction
Amended: May 8, 2013 Policy Vote: Education 9-0
Urgency: No Mandate: No
Hearing Date: May 20, 2013 Consultant: Jacqueline
Wong-Hernandez
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: SB 330 requires the next revision of the Health
curriculum framework to include a distinct category on mental
health instruction. This bill also requires the CDE to convene
stakeholders in the mental health and educational fields, as
specified.
Fiscal Impact:
Mental Health inclusion in Health framework: Potential
costs of $140,000, depending on whether the bill intends to
update the framework based on current Health Standards for
mental health, or whether it intends to reopen the Health
standards to update or expand them further.
Stakeholder work group: Potentially significant costs. The
CDE estimates $80,000 in costs to convene the specified
stakeholders to provide input for the framework.
Background: Academic content standards define the knowledge,
concepts and skills that pupils should learn at each grade
level. Curricular frameworks serve as a blueprint for how to
implement the standards and provide guidance to publishers,
along with evaluation criteria, for the development of
instructional materials. The processes for the revision of
curricular frameworks and adoption of instructional materials
are suspended until the 2015-16 school year. (EC � 60200.7)
The role of the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) is to
recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education
(SBE), develop criteria for evaluating instructional materials,
study, evaluate and recommend to the SBE instructional materials
for adoption, and make recommendations to the SBE regarding the
use of frameworks and model curriculum and alignment with the
academic content standards. (EC � 60204)
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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.
Proposed Law: SB 330 requires, during the next revision of the
publication "Health Framework for California Public Schools,"
the IQC to develop, and recommend for adoption by the SBE, a
distinct category on mental health instruction, as described, to
educate pupils about all aspects of mental health. The bill also
requires the CDE to convene stakeholders in the mental health
and educational fields, as specified to provide input for the
development of the mental health instruction in the health
framework. Commencing with the 2013-14 school year, the bill
would authorize a school district to provide to pupils in any
grades mental health instruction.
Related Legislation: SB 300 (Hancock) requires the SBE to
consider the adoption of a revised curriculum framework and
evaluation criteria for instructional materials based on the
Next Generation of Science Standards, by November 30, 2015. That
bill is currently on the Suspense File in this Committee.
Staff Comments: The academic content standards for Health define
the knowledge, concepts and skills to be included in the Health
framework. This bill requires that, during the next revision of
the health framework, the IQC develop (and recommend for
adoption by the SBE) a distinct category on mental health
instruction "to educate pupils about all aspects of mental
health" and lists several topic areas as necessary for
inclusion. The requirement is for the next Health curriculum
framework to contain a comprehensive mental health category.
The cost of updating the Health framework to include a mental
health category hinges on whether the intention is to update the
framework using the existing mental health standards already in
the Health academic content standards adopted in 2008, or
whether the intention is to create more comprehensive content
standards to reflect in the Health framework. If the elements of
mental health are already expressed in the state-adopted Health
standards, the next framework will be based upon them; in that
case, this bill does not create additional costs for the
framework. If the author's intention is to reopen the Health
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standards to change or expand the mental health standards, the
CDE estimates that it would need an additional expert writer, at
a cost of $140,000.
This bill also requires the CDE to convene stakeholders in the
mental health and educational fields, including, but not limited
to, stakeholders from culturally, racially, and ethnically
diverse communities, representatives from all mental health
professions, teachers, parents, those involved in promoting
mental wellness, and those living with a mental health challenge
and their families, to provide input for the development of the
mental health instruction in the health framework. This
requirement is more extensive than a typical stakeholder working
group. The CDE estimates a cost of $80,000 for a series of 2-day
meetings involving more than 20 stakeholders.