Bill Text: CA AB2063 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Work-based learning opportunities: work experience education and job shadowing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 72, Statutes of 2016. [AB2063 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2063-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2063 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 72
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 22, 2016
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR JULY 22, 2016
PASSED THE SENATE JUNE 30, 2016
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY MAY 5, 2016
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 13, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gallagher
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
An act to amend Sections 51760.3 and 51769 of the Education Code,
relating to pupil instruction.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2063, Gallagher. Work-based learning opportunities: work
experience education and job shadowing.
Existing law authorizes a school district to offer work experience
education and requires a pupil to be at least 16 years of age to
receive credit for completing a work experience education program,
except under specified circumstances. Existing law specifies that a
pupil may participate in a job shadowing experience for a maximum of
25 hours in a specified period.
This bill would authorize work experience education credit to be
granted to a pupil who is at least 14 years of age if the principal
of the school in which the pupil is enrolled certifies that it is
necessary for the pupil's participation in a career technical
education program and would also authorize a pupil to participate in
a job shadowing experience for up to 40 hours in a specified period
if the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled
certifies that it is necessary for the pupil's participation in a
career technical education program.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 51760.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
51760.3. The governing board of any school district offering work
experience education pursuant to the authority of Section 51760
shall grant credit to pupils satisfactorily completing a work
experience education program, in an amount not to exceed a total of
40 semester credits, of which no more than 10 credits may be
conferred in any one semester, provided the pupil meets all of the
following requirements:
(a) At the time of enrollment, the pupil is at least 16 years of
age. Pupils under the age of 16 years may receive credit for work
experience education under the following conditions:
(1) The pupil is enrolled in grade 11 or a higher grade.
(2) The principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled
certifies that the pupil is in need of immediate work experience
education in order to pursue employment opportunities.
(3) The principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled
certifies that there is a probability that the pupil will no longer
be enrolled as a full-time pupil without being provided the
opportunity to enroll in a work experience education program.
(4) The pupil is at least 14 years of age and the principal in the
school in which the pupil is enrolled certifies that it is necessary
for the pupil's participation in a career technical education
program.
(5) The pupil's individualized education program, adopted pursuant
to the requirements of Part 30 (commencing with Section 56000),
prescribes the type of training for which participation in a work
experience program is deemed appropriate.
(b) During the course of the pupil's enrollment in the program,
the pupil receives as a minimum the equivalent of one instructional
period per week of classroom instruction or counseling by a
certificated employee. The instruction or counseling shall be offered
in sessions scheduled intermittently throughout the semester.
(c) The work experience education program meets all of the
requirements of law governing these programs.
SEC. 2. Section 51769 of the Education Code is amended to read:
51769. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code or the
Labor Code to the contrary, the school district, county
superintendent of schools, or any school administered by the State
Department of Education, under whose supervision work experience
education, cooperative vocational education, or community classrooms,
as defined by regulations adopted by the Superintendent, or a job
shadowing experience, as defined in subdivision (b), or student
apprenticeship programs registered by the Division of Apprenticeship
Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations for registered
student apprentices, are provided, shall be considered the employer
under Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200) of the Labor Code of
persons receiving this training unless the persons during the
training are being paid a cash wage or salary by a private employer,
except in the case of registered student apprentices, when the school
district, county superintendent of schools, or any school
administered by the State Department of Education elects to provide
workers' compensation insurance, or unless the person or firm under
whom the persons are receiving work experience or occupational
training elects to provide workers' compensation insurance. A
registered student apprentice is a registered apprentice who is (1)
at least 16 years of age, (2) a full-time high school pupil in the
10th, 11th, or 12th grade, and (3) in an apprenticeship program for
registered student apprentices registered with the Division of
Apprenticeship Standards. An apprentice, while attending related and
supplemental instruction classes, shall be considered to be in the
employ of the apprentice's employer and not subject to this section,
unless the apprentice is unemployed. Whenever this work experience
education, cooperative vocational education, community classroom
education, or job shadowing, or student apprenticeship program
registered by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for registered
student apprentices, is under the supervision of a regional
occupational center or program operated by two or more school
districts pursuant to Section 52301, the district of residence of the
persons receiving the training shall be deemed the employer for the
purposes of this section.
(b) For purposes of this section, "job shadowing experience" means
a visit to a workplace for the purpose of career exploration for no
less than three hours and no more than 25 hours in one semester,
intersession, or summer school session.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a pupil may participate in a
job shadowing experience for up to 40 hours in one semester,
intersession, or summer school session if the principal of the school
in which the pupil is enrolled certifies that it is necessary for
the pupil's participation in a career technical education program.
