Bill Text: CA AB928 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Personal information: privacy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 851, Statutes of 2014. [AB928 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB928-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 928	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Olsen

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 60910) to Part
33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to
standardized tests.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 928, as introduced, Olsen. Standardized tests: sale to private
schools.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
provide for the development of an assessment instrument, to be called
the California Standards Tests, that measures the degree to which
pupils are achieving the academically rigorous content standards and
performance standards, to the extent standards have been adopted by
the State Board of Education. Existing law requires, in approving a
contract for the development or administration of the California
Standards Tests, the state board to consider certain things,
including the ability of the contractor to produce valid, reliable
individual pupil scores. Existing law requires test publishers to
agree in writing to meet certain requirements, including the
requirement that the tests be aligned to the academically rigorous
content and performance standards adopted by the state board.
Existing law authorizes the State Department of Education to develop
the contract through negotiations with the publisher.
   This bill would allow standardized tests created for use in
California public schools in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12,
inclusive, to be available for purchase by a private school from the
test publisher to the extent that the purchase would not violate the
terms of any contract entered into between the publisher and the
State of California. The bill would require a private school that
chooses to purchase a standardized test to be responsible for the
costs associated with the test, including administration costs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 60910) is added to
Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 11.  SALE OF STANDARDIZED TESTING MATERIALS


   60910.  (a) Standardized tests created for use in kindergarten and
grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in the state's public schools, including
tests required pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 60600),
shall be available for purchase from the publisher of the test by a
private school, to the extent that the purchase would not violate the
terms of any contract entered into between the publisher and the
State of California.
   (b) If a private school chooses to purchase a standardized test
pursuant to subdivision (a), the private school shall be responsible
for all costs associated with the test, including administering the
test, training, and security costs.