Amended in Senate April 30, 2013

Senate Bill No. 576

Introduced by Senator Block

February 22, 2013

An act to amend Section 44212 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 576, as amended, Block. Teacher credentialing: Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing in state government and requires the commission to consist of 15 voting members. Existing law requires the appointment of 4 nonvoting ex officio members, one each by the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities.

This bill would begin delete require end delete begin insert authorize end insert the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to appoint an begin delete ex officio member to the commission instead end delete begin insert alternate representative to serve as an ex officio member in the absence end insert of the California Postsecondary Education begin delete Commission. end delete begin insert Commission’s representative. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 44212 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

44212.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert (1) end insert begin insert   end insert The Regents of the University of California,
the Trustees of the California State University, the begin delete Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges, end delete begin insert California
Postsecondary Education Commission, end insert and the Association of
Independent California Colleges and Universities shall each appoint
a representative to serve as member ex officio without vote in
proceedings of the commission.

begin insert

(2) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges may appoint an alternate representative to serve as an
ex officio member in the absence of the California Postsecondary
Education Commission’s representative.

end insert begin delete

The

end delete

begin insert (b) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The end insert ex officio members shall not vote in the proceedings of
the commission nor in any of its committees or subcommittees,
except, by a majority vote of the commission, ex officio members
may be permitted to vote in committees or subcommittees in order
to establish a quorum or as otherwise determined by majority vote
of the commission.