Bill Text: CA SB273 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 273 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Domestic violence.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 546, Statutes of 2019. [SB273 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB273-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 273

Introduced by Senator Rubio

February 13, 2019

An act to add Section 51933.5 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 273, as introduced, Rubio. Pupil instruction: healthy relationships.

Existing law requires each school district to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, recieve comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education at least once in middle school or junior high school and at least one in high school. This instruction includes, among other things, instruction and materials to provide pupils with knowledge and skills they need to form healthy relationships, as specified.

This bill would additionally require each public middle school and each public junior high school, other than a charter school, to provide all of the pupils enrolled in that school with instruction on the importance of healthy relationships in accordance with specified criteria. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.

(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 51933.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:

51933.5.

In addition to the instruction and materials provided pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 51933, each public middle school and each public junior high school, other than a charter school, shall provide all of the pupils enrolled in that school with instruction on the importance of healthy relationships, in accordance with all of the following:

(a) The instruction shall include a component about how to recognize unhealthy or toxic relationships.

(b) The instruction shall be provided during each school year, except for a school year in which the instruction and materials are provided to the pupil pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 51933.

SEC. 2.

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.