Bill Text: CA AB3076 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: School employees: exercise of control over pupils.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-24 - Referred to Com. on ED. [AB3076 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB3076-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3076
| Introduced by Assembly Member Blanca Rubio |
February 21, 2020 |
An act to amend Section 44807 of the Education Code, relating to school employees.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3076, as introduced, Blanca Rubio.
School employees: exercise of control over pupils.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, local educational agencies throughout the state provide instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at the schoolsites operated by these agencies. Existing law requires teachers in the public schools to hold pupils to a strict account for their conduct on the way to and from school, on the playgrounds, or during recess. Existing law provides that teachers, vice principals, principals, and other certificated employees of a school district are not subject to criminal prosecution or criminal penalties for the exercise, during the performance of their duties, of the same degree of physical control over a pupil that a parent would be legally privileged to exercise, as specified.
This bill, notwithstanding that provision, would
prohibit school employees from compelling pupils to sign documents that are intended to bind or otherwise affect the behavior, disciplinary status, or treatment of that pupil. The bill would also prohibit school employees from imposing any discipline or restriction on a pupil because of that pupil’s refusal to sign such a document.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 44807 of the Education Code is amended to read:44807.
(a) Every teacher in the public schools shall hold pupils to a strict account for their conduct on the way to and from school, on the playgrounds, or during recess.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), no school employee shall compel a pupil to sign a document that is intended to bind or otherwise affect the behavior, disciplinary status, or treatment of that pupil, and no school employee shall impose any discipline or restriction on a pupil because of that pupil’s refusal to sign such a document.
