Legislative Watch Archive: 2009
Updated: December 3, 2009
ConnectEd seeks to inform state policy by conducting research studies, distributing reports, sharing expertise, and convening stakeholders. The bills listed below have potential to impact the expansion of Linked Learning in California high schools. Since ConnectEd is not a lobbying organization, we do not formally support or oppose pending legislation.
Senate and Assembly Bills
| Bill # | Bill Summary | Fiscal | Author | Sponsor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for Multiple Pathway/Linked Learning Development | |||||
| AB 35 | Workforce Preparation – States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop a strategic plan on the education system for workforce preparation. Also requires the Post-Secondary commission, in conjunction with the State Department of Education and the California Workforce Investment Board, to conduct stakeholder meetings to develop recommendations for a strategic plan for workforce development and career technical education in the public education system. | Yes | Assembly- member Furutani | Author |
Assembly Higher Education Two-Year Bill |
| AB 122 | Small Schools – Authorizes a school district to establish a small school, subject to specified conditions including, among others, a requirement to develop a school plan, as specified, and a requirement to adopt regulations that include the small school as part of an academic reform. | No | Assembly- member Coto | Author |
Senate Education Two-Year Bill |
| SB 253 | CTE Certificates – Authorizes a school district or county office of education to offer a pupil a career technical education certificate if the pupil meets specified requirements, including completion of 4 technical education courses, a structured work-based learning experience, and a related culminating project. The bill would prohibit the award of a career technical education certificate awarded under the bill from being construed as equivalent to the award of a high school diploma or as a change to the statutory curriculum or compulsory education requirements. | No | Senator Wyland | Author |
Assembly Floor Inactive File |
| AB 253 | CTE Pilot Programs – States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a pilot program in which the Superintendent of Public Instruction would invite school districts with high dropout rates to participate in a career technical education development plan. | No | Assembly- member Fuller | Author |
Assembly Rules Two-Year Bill |
| SB 675 | Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Act of 2010 – Authorizes an unspecified amount in bonds for the purposes of the construction of new facilities or the reconfiguration of existing facilities to enhance the educational opportunities for program participants, as defined, to provide them with the skills and knowledge necessary for careers directly related to clean technology, renewable energy, or energy efficiency that may also contribute to California's goal in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Creates the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Council comprised of 9 members to issue guidelines to implement the purposes of this act. | Yes | Senate Pro-Temp Steinberg | Author |
HELD Senate Approps |
| Curriculum and Instruction | |||||
| AB 97 | Content Standards – Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an Academic Content and Performance Standards Review Panel for the reading math and language curriculum area content standards adopted by the state board. Teachers appointed to the panels would be required to meet specified requirements, and in choosing members for the panels, the specified appointing authorities would be required to consult with each other to ensure that each review panel consists of members who meet prescribed requirements. The bill would require each review panel to review the content and performance standards in its particular curriculum area, and recommend changes to the state board as the review panel may deem necessary. | Yes | Assembly- member Torlakson | Author |
HELD Senate Approps. |
| SB 236 | Career Technical Education Curriculum – Make a technical, non-substantive change to provisions related to career technical education courses. | No | Senator Huff | Author |
Senate Rules Two-Year Bill |
| AB 380 | California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative – Requires the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, in collaboration with the major stakeholders, including appropriate state agencies, building trades unions, education, and the clean energy industry, to create by July 1, 2010, standardized curriculum for use at schools and provide outreach, assistance, and guidance to schools on creating clean energy training programs. The initiative would be implemented when the Legislature makes an appropriation of moneys for that purpose. | Yes | Assembly- member De La Torre | Latino Issues Forum |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| SB 515 | Career Technical Education Courses – Requires, as a condition of receiving federal funds provided under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1998, and to the extent permitted under federal law, that school districts, regional occupational centers or programs, and community college districts demonstrate on or before July 1, 2013, that at least one-half of the course sequences offered for students are linked to high priority workforce needs in the career sectors identified by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency for the State of California or for the economic region where the regional occupational center or program, community college district, or school district is located. | No | Senator Hancock | Author |
Senate Floor Inactive File |
| SB 747 | Pilot Pre-Apprenticeship Aerospace Machining Program – Creates the pre-apprentice aerospace machining program, administered by the California Labor Agency and implemented by the California Community Colleges system, to provide career technical education to high school pupils in the form of machining and related curriculum that can be applied to various manufacturing industries in California, including, but not limited to, aerospace manufacturing , as specified. The program would be funded by a combination of federal and private funds that would be deposited into the Machinist Investment Fund, which would be created by this bill. Grants would be competitively awarded to community colleges based upon specified criteria, including their ability to address the existing local and regional industry manufacturing needs, while providing meaningful career technical education opportunities for at-risk youth. This bill would require the California Community Colleges system to develop pre-apprenticeship curriculum in aerospace technology, and machining technology generally. This bill would provide that its provisions would remain in effect until January 1, 2015. | No | Senator Romero | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| Work Based Learning | |||||
| AB 66 | Pupil Work Permits – Authorizes the principal of a public or private school, subject to specified requirements and conditions, to issue, or designate another administrator in the school to issue, work permits to pupils who attend the school. The bill would require that the hour limitations that apply to a work permit issued by any of the officials or employees authorized to issue work permits be based on the school calendar of the school the pupil attends. | Yes | Assembly- member Anderson | Author | CHAPTERED October 11 |
| AB 332 | Work-Based Learning – Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs as defined, and to purchase liability insurance for pupils enrolled in programs of study involving work-based learning, off school grounds. Work-based learning opportunities include work experience education, community classrooms, cooperative career technical education programs, and job shadowing experience, as specified. | No | Assembly- member Fuentes | LA Chamber | VETOED |
| SB 569 | School to Career Program – Makes technical, non-substantive changes to provisions related to school to career programs. (spot bill) | No | Senate Pro-Temp Steinberg | Author |
Senate Rules Two-Year Bill |
| SB 640 | Regional Occupation Programs – Require an employer advisory board to recommend measures, criteria, and methods to evaluate pupils' skills and knowledge. In addition to creating college scholarships, requires an employer advisory board to assist a regional occupational center or program in identifying scholarships. | No | Senator Hancock | Author | CHAPTERED Aug. 6 |
| SB 725 | Regional Occupation Programs – Enacts the California Apprenticeship Preparation Program Act of 2009 authorizing an ROC/P to offer a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program. The Superintendent would be required to approve and certify an ROC/P as a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program if the ROC/P completed specified requirements. The bill would require the State Department of Education, in collaboration with representatives from building trades and construction apprenticeship training organizations, ROC/P faculty members, and ROC/P curriculum coordinators, to develop curriculum covering all aspects of the building trades and construction industry. | No | Senator Hancock | Author |
HELD Senate Approps. |
| AB 1508 | Corporate Tax Credit – Allows a credit under income tax and corporate tax laws in an amount equal to an unspecified amount of qualified expenses paid or incurred in connection with lending a qualified employee to a Title I public school, as defined, for the purpose of assisting in the teaching of mathematics or science. | Yes | Assembly- member Torrico | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| Support Services | |||||
| AB 296 | Supplemental Education Services – Requires local educational agencies and supplemental service providers to comply with specified requirements relating to these supplemental educational services, including requirements relating to providing information to parents and guardians and enrollment. | Yes | Assembly- member Solorio | Author |
HELD Senate Approps. |
| Teacher and Counselor Credentialing and Preparation | |||||
| SB 199 | California Subject Matter Projects – Provides that the University of California's subject matter project areas that offer support to teachers to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement State Board of Education standards, including assistance to CTE teachers. | Yes | Senator Ducheny | Author |
HELD Senate Approps. |
| SB 272 | Educational Counseling – States legislative intent relating to the role of school counselors. Requires the academic counseling component of educational counseling to also include an individualized review of pupil's academic and deportment records and of his or her career goals, and the opportunity for a counselor to meet with each pupil and his or her parents or legal guardian to explain the academic progress needed to complete middle or high school, pass the high school exit examination, and be eligible for admission to a 4-year institution of postsecondary education and the availability of career technical education, among other things. | Yes | Senator Wiggins | Author | VETOED |
| AB 1223 | Teacher Training – Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to convene an advisory committee to determine the preparation and professional development needs of both academic and career technical teachers. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to present the findings of the advisory committee to the Legislature by January 10, 2010. | No | Assembly- member Block | Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce |
Assembly Education Committee Two-Year Bill |
| Strong Leadership | |||||
| AB 148 | Transformative Leadership – Requires the commission on teacher credentialing to conduct a one-year study to recommend more effective paths to transformational leadership, as defined, through the administrative credential process on the part of school principals and leaders. The bill would require the commission to conduct the study between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2011, and to report its findings to the Legislature by no later than December 31, 2011. | Yes | Assembly- member Coto | Author |
HELD Senate Rules |
| Scheduling and Instructional Time | |||||
| AB 78 | Concurrent Enrollment – Extends and modifies the current process of concurrent enrollment including extending the percentage of students from a high school that may enroll in summer college courses. | Yes | Assembly- member Portantino | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| SB 147 | CSU CTE Course Recognition – Requires the trustees on or before January 1, 2014, would to develop and implement a procedure for allowing a student to satisfy the completion of a general elective course requirement for the purposes of admission to the university by completing a high school career technical education course that meets either (1) specified criteria that the bill would require the trustees to establish, or (2) model academic standards for high school courses adopted by the California State University pursuant to existing law. | Yes | Senator DeSaulnier | Get Real | CHAPTERED October 11 |
| AB 345 | ROP – Exempts former dependents or wards of the juvenile court who reached the age of majority while in foster care who are not enrolled in grades 9 to 12 and are participating in a regional occupational program or center from the 10% cap imposed on ROP/C to use state-funded average daily attendance. | Yes | Assembly- member Torlakson | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| SB 381 | High School Graduation Requirements – Prohibits a school district from adopting a graduation requirement that requires the completion of additional coursework to meet or exceed the requirements and prerequisites for admission to the California public institutions of postsecondary education unless the district also requires the completion of an equal amount of coursework to attain entry-level employment skills in business or industry upon graduation from high school. | No | Senator Wright | Author |
Assembly Approps. Two-Year Bill |
| AB 554 | High School Graduation Requirements – Requires that a pupil take at least 2 courses from the subject areas of visual or performing arts, foreign language, or career technical education, as defined, provided that at least one course is in visual or performing arts or foreign language. The bill would require schools, to the extent practicable, to offer courses within their existing school calendars. | Yes | Assembly- member Furutani | Building Trades |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| AB 555 | Accelerated Learning – Authorizes Los Angeles, Kern, Long Beach, Los Rios and San Jose-Evergreen community college districts to enter into partnerships with school districts to provide secondary school pupils with the opportunity to benefit from advanced scholastic, career-technical, or vocational coursework. | Yes | Assembly- member Furutani | Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| SB 692 | Career Technical Education – Makes technical, non-substantive changes to provisions related to career technical education Saturday programs. (spot bill) | No | Senate Pro-Temp Steinberg | Author |
Senate Rules Two-Year Bill |
| AB 705 | Career Technical Education – Makes technical, non-substantive changes to provisions related to regional occupation programs. (spot bill) | No | Assembly- member Berryhill | Author |
Assembly Rules Two-Year Bill |
| AB 1025 | Career Technical Education – Makes technical, non-substantive changes to provisions related to regional occupation programs. (spot bill) | No | Assembly- member Conway | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Alignment with Post-Secondary Education | |||||
| AB 36 | Basic Skills Training – Require the Post Secondary Commission, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to submit a report to the Legislature providing recommendations for basic skills training and contextualized learning programs in the public education system. | Yes | Assembly- member Furutani | Author |
HELD Assembly Higher Ed. |
| SB 123 | Career Resource Network – Reassigns the existing California Career Resource Network, whose purpose is to provide career development information and resources to the people of California in order to enable them to attain their career goals, to a program in the State Department of Education, establishes the State Agency Partners Committee to be composed of the members of the program, and requires the State Agency Partners Committee to coordinate the use of network information and resources in its programs. These provisions would become operative on July 1, 2010. | Yes | Senator Liu | Author | CHAPTERED Aug. 6 |
| AB 218 | Education and Economic Goals for California Higher Education – Repeals duties of the California Postsecondary Education Commission and the existing higher education accountability program and requires the state to establish a new accountability framework for achieving prescribed educational and economic goals. The bill requires this framework to measure the collective performance of the state's system of higher education in successfully serving students by answering 6 statewide policy questions. The bill requires that the data collected in response to these policy questions be reported to the Legislature and the Governor and made available to the public. | Yes | Assembly- member Portantino | Author |
Assembly Rules Two-year Bill |
| AB 552 | Commission on Adequate Funding for Career Technical and Vocational Education at California Community Colleges – Establishes the Commission on Adequate Funding for Career Technical and Vocational Education at the California Community Colleges, which would be required to conduct a study and make recommendations regarding financing alternatives for career technical education, vocational education, and high-cost laboratory programs at the California Community Colleges. | Yes | Assemlby- member Furutani | Author |
Passed Assembly Senate Rules |
| AB 723 | Community College Career Technical Coursework – Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop and adopt uniform, objective, high-quality criteria and standards for evaluating programs of instruction in career technical education within the California Community Colleges. | Yes | Assembly- member Conway | Author |
Assembly Rules Two-year Bill |
| Assessment, Accountability and Evaluation | |||||
| SB 19 | Education Data System – Authorizes the state's Chief Information Officer use of federal grant funds received pursuant the American Recovery Act of 2009 to convene a working group representing specified entities to create a strategic plan to link education data systems and to accomplish specified objectives relating to the accessibility of education data. | No | Senator Simitian | Author | CHAPTERED October 11 |
| AB 429 | Public Accountability Advisory Committee – Requires the Superintendent's Public Accountability Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Superintendent for the establishment of a methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance using unique pupil identifiers and for developing a longitudinally valid assessment system in which annual academic growth can provide a more accurate and valid measure of a school's academic achievement. | Yes | Assembly- member Brownley | Author | VETOED |
| Funding | |||||
| AB 60 | Weighted Formula – Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, no later than March 1, 2010, to select a nonprofit entity or institution of higher education to complete a study related to weighted pupil funding formulas. The bill requires the study to be submitted to the Superintendent for distribution to the Legislature no later than December 31, 2010. | Yes | Assembly- member Coto | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| AB 71 | Categorical Block Granting – Requires the Superintendent to suspend categorical funding grants and block grants for public schools, including charter schools, and create new categorical block grants. | Yes | Assembly- member Duvall | Author |
Assembly Rules Two-year Bill |
| AB 8 | Education Finance – Requires the Director of Finance and the Legislative Analyst to convene a working group to make findings and recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor on or before December 1, 2010, regarding restructuring California's school finance system. The bill would require those findings and recommendations to include, among other things, alternative structures for funding public schools, the policy and fiscal implications of the alternative funding structure or structures, and an evaluation mechanism to facilitate continuous improvement, maximum transparency, and accountability of the funding structures. | Yes | Assembly- member Brownley | Author | VETOED |
| AB 220 | Education Facilities Bond – States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act, to become operative only if approved by the voters at the next statewide general election. The bond, if approved by the voters at that election, would provide for the issuance of an unspecified amount of state general obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts, county superintendents of schools, county boards of education, the California Community Colleges, the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State University to construct and modernize education facilities. | No | Assembly- member Brownley | Author |
Assembly Education Two-year Bill |
| AB 553 | Regional Occupational Program Funding – Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate a rate per unit of average daily attendance that would be apportioned to each regional occupational center or program and to determine the statewide median of total state funding received per unit of average daily attendance by each regional occupational center or program. | Yes | Assembly- member Furutani | Author |
Assembly Education Two-year Bill |
