Bill Text: CA AB2794 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School safety: school climate: professional development: training materials.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2794 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2794-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2794
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 49007 to the Education Code, relating to school safety.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2794, as amended, Gipson.
School safety: school climate: professional development: training materials.
Existing law prohibits a person employed by, or engaged in, a public school from inflicting, or causing to be inflicted, corporal punishment upon a pupil. Existing law prohibits an educational provider, as defined, from using a behavioral restraint or seclusion in certain circumstances and prohibits the use of certain restraint and seclusion techniques.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, to allocate funding for professional development for staff in methods to improve school safety and school climate, including, but not limited to, deescalation training, as defined, and for the purchase of training materials in these subjects, at schools enrolling pupils in kindergarten
transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2019–20 fiscal year. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to expend allocated funds for either of the purposes described above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 49007 is added to the Education Code, to read:49007.
(a) Subject to an appropriation of one-time funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the Superintendent shall allocate funding for professional development for staff in methods to improve school safety and school climate, including, but not limited to, deescalation training, and for the purchase of training materials in these subjects, at schools enrolling pupils in(b) The Superintendent shall
allocate funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools on the basis of an equal amount per unit of regular average daily attendance, as those numbers were reported at the time of the first principal apportionment for the 2019–20 fiscal year.
(c) Funding appropriated pursuant to this section shall be available for encumbrance through the 2025–26 fiscal year.
(d) A school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school shall expend funds allocated pursuant to this section for either of the following purposes:
(1) Professional development for credentialed and paraprofessional staff involved in the
instruction of, or other support services for, pupils in methods to improve school safety and school climate, including, but not limited to, deescalation training. Deescalation trainings shall recognize and incorporate developmentally informed and age-appropriate practices for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(2) Training materials associated with the professional development described in paragraph (1).
(e) Funding allocated pursuant to this section is subject to the annual audits required by Section 41020.
(f) For purposes of this section, “deescalation training” means an evidence-based
program of training or certification that provides instruction in restorative justice, conflict resolution, community-based public safety, or other nonviolent conflict resolution or public safety training.
