Bill Text: CA SB328 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Pupil attendance: school start time.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 868, Statutes of 2019. [SB328 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB328-Amended.html
middle schools and high schools, including middle schools and high schools operated as charter schools, shall begin no earlier than 8:30 a.m.
Bill Title: Pupil attendance: school start time.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 868, Statutes of 2019. [SB328 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB328-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill | No. 328 |
Introduced by Senator Portantino (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Calderon and Gloria) (Coauthors: Senators Pan and Wiener) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Boerner Horvath) |
February 15, 2019 |
An act to add Section 46148 to the Education Code, relating to pupil attendance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 328, as amended, Portantino.
Pupil attendance: school start time.
Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to fix the length of the schoolday for the several grades and classes of the schools maintained by the school district in accordance with specified provisions of law.
This bill would require the schoolday for middle schools and high schools, including those operated as charter schools, to begin no earlier than 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. a.m., respectively, by July 1, 2022, or the date on which a school district’s or charter school’s respective collective bargaining agreement that is
operative on January 1, 2020, expires, whichever is later, except for rural school districts. To the extent the bill imposes new duties on school districts and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would encourage the State Department of Education to post specified information on its internet website, including research on the impact of sleep deprivation on adolescents and the benefits of a later school start time, and to advise school districts and charter schools of this posting.
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.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 46148 is added to the Education Code, to read:46148.
(a) (1) The schoolday for(2) The schoolday for middle schools, including middle schools operated as charter schools, shall begin no earlier than 8:00 a.m.
(b) For purposes of this section, “schoolday” does not include a “zero period,” or an extra period offered before the start of the regular schoolday. has the same meaning as defined by the school district or charter school for purposes of calculating average daily attendance in order to compute any apportionments of state funding. This section does not prohibit a school district or charter school from offering classes or activities to a limited number of pupils before the start of the schoolday that do not generate average daily attendance for purposes of computing any apportionments of state funding.
(c) This section shall be implemented by middle schools
and high schools no later than July 1, 2022, or the date on which a school district’s or charter school’s respective collective bargaining agreement that is operative on January 1, 2020, expires, whichever is later.
(d) This section shall not apply to rural school districts.
(e) The department is encouraged to post on its internet website available research on the impact of sleep deprivation on adolescents and the benefits of a later school start time and examples of successful strategies for managing the change to a later school start time, and to advise school districts and charter schools of this posting.
(f) The Legislature encourages school districts, charter schools, and community organizations to inform
their communities, including parents, teenagers, educators, athletic coaches, and other stakeholders, about the health, safety, and academic impact of sleep deprivation on middle and high school pupils and the benefits of a later school start time, and to discuss local strategies to successfully implement the later school start time.