Bill Text: CA AB2124 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water: testing and reports.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2124 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2124-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2124	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to  amend Section 44260 of   add
Section 38087 to  the Education Code, relating to 
teacher credentialing.   school facilities. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2124, as amended, Eduardo Garcia.  Teacher
credentialing: career technical education.   School
facilities: water filling stations: grant program.  
   Existing law requires a school district to provide access to free,
fresh drinking water during meal times in school food service areas
by July 1, 2011, unless the governing board of a school district
adopts a resolution stating that it is unable to comply with this
requirement and demonstrating the reasons why it is unable to comply
due to fiscal constraints or health and safety concerns.  
   This bill would require the State Department of Education to
establish, by regulation, a grant program for local educational
agencies to install new water filling stations on school campuses or
to replace existing water fountains on school campuses with new water
filling stations. The bill would provide that its provisions shall
not be implemented unless funding is provided for its purposes in the
annual Budget Act or another statute.  
   Existing law specifies the requirements for the 3-year preliminary
designated subjects career technical education teaching credential.
 
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 38087 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   38087.  (a) The department shall establish, by regulation, a grant
program for local educational agencies to install new water filler
stations on school campuses.
   (b) Grant recipients may use grant funds only to install new water
filling stations on school campuses or to replace existing water
fountains on school campuses with new water filling stations.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "local educational agencies"
include school districts, charter schools, and county offices of
education.
   (d) This section shall not be implemented unless funding is
provided for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or another
statute.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 44260 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
   44260.  The minimum requirements for the three-year preliminary
designated subjects career technical education teaching credential
shall be all of the following:
   (a) Three years or the equivalent of adequate, successful, and
recent experience in, or experience and education in, the subject
named on the credential.
   (b) Possession of a high school diploma or the passage of an
equivalency examination as designated by the commission.
   (c) Satisfaction of the requirements for teacher. fitness, as
specified in Sections 44339, 44340, and 44341.
   (d) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the holder of a credential
described in this section shall satisfy the minimum experience
requirements established by the local educational agency for each
course he or she is assigned to teach.