Bill Text: CA AB1719 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Kindergarten: evaluation and annual reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 723, Statutes of 2014. [AB1719 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1719-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1719	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Weber and Buchanan
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Bonilla   Coauthors:   Assembly
Members   Bonilla   and Campos  )
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Wolk
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2014

   An act to add and repeal Section 46116 of the Education Code,
relating to kindergarten.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1719, as amended, Weber. Full-day  kindergarten.
  kindergarten: feasibility study and implementation
plan. 
   Existing law provides that school districts offering kindergarten
may maintain kindergarten classes at different schoolsites for
different lengths of time.
   This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to provide the Legislature no later than  March 
September  1, 2015, with a feasibility study and implementation
plan for providing a full-day kindergarten program in all public
schools, as specified.
   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 46116 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   46116.  (a) No later than  March   September
 1, 2015, the Superintendent shall provide the Legislature with
a feasibility study and implementation plan for providing a full-day
kindergarten program in all public schools. The feasibility study and
implementation plan shall include recommendations for statutory
changes and budgetary requirements to ensure a seamless transition to
providing a full-day kindergarten program in all public schools. The
Superintendent, at a minimum, shall consider all of the following:
   (1) The instructional, social, emotional, and developmental needs
of children.
   (2) Teacher and other school staffing issues.
   (3) Classroom capacity issues.
   (b) The Superintendent may convene a task force to advise the
Superintendent on feasibility and implementation issues for the
purposes of preparing the report required pursuant to subdivision
(a). The task force shall include representatives of school district
superintendents, principals, kindergarten teachers, related pupil
support services  and facility  personnel,  child
development   professionals,  and parents.
   (c) The report required pursuant to this section shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (d) This section shall become inoperative on  March
  September  1, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016,
is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative
on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends the dates on which
it becomes inoperative and is repealed.