Bill Text: CA SB408 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 408 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: School employees: resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB408 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB408-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 408

Introduced by Senator Moorlach

February 20, 2019

An act relating to school employees.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 408, as introduced, Moorlach. School employees: resources.

Existing law authorizes to local educational agencies employ teachers and other personnel to provide instruction and other services to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law authorizes teachers to suspend a pupil from class for, among other things, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the authority of school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide appropriate resources for educators when a pupil disrupts school activities or otherwise willfully defies the authority of school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.

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

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

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide appropriate resources for educators when a pupil disrupts school activities or otherwise willfully defies the authority of school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.