Legislative Update
This table summarizes legislation impacting California charter schools. Last updated October 2021.| Legislative Session | House | Number | Description | Link | Category |
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| 2017-2018 | AB | 10 | This bill requires a public school maintaining any combination of classes from grade 6 to grade 12, inclusive, that meets a 40% pupil poverty threshold specified in federal law to stock 50% of the school’s restrooms with feminine hygiene products. The bill also prohibits a public school from charging for any menstrual products, including feminine hygiene products, provided to pupils. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 48 | Legislation that would place a K-14 facilities bond on the ballot for the 2022 election. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 63 | Provides an additional 12 weeks leave to bond with new child (birth, adoption or foster placement). An employer must must maintain health care coverage for the employee during the leave. Eligibility requirements include more than 12 months service and at least 1,250 hours of service, and the employer must have more than 20 employees within 75 miles. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 75 | Adds a variety of additional requirements for charter schools to the Education Code. A complete briefing is including in the link. | Briefing | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 126 | Applies the Brown Act, the Public Records Act, Govt. Code 1090 and the Political Reform Act to charter schools. The law also requires meetings to be held within the physical boundaries of the county in which the charter school is located, or If the charter manages schools not located within the same county, requires meeting to be held within the physical boundaries of the county in which the greatest number of pupils enrolled in those charter schools managed by that entity reside (separate requirements apply to independent study schools). Finally, the law requires two-way tele- or video-conferencing of meetings at each school site or resource center and requires posting of audio or video recording to each charter school’s website. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 168 | Prohibits an employer from relying on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer an applicant employment or what salary to offer an applicant. The law also prohibits an employer from seeking salary history information about an applicant for employment and requires an employer (upon reasonable request) to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant for employment. This law does not prohibit employee from voluntarily providing salary history information and does not prohibit an employer from considering or relying on that voluntarily disclosed salary history information in determining salary, as specified. A violation of this law is a misdemeanor offense. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 218 | AB 218 is new legislation that extends the liability timeline during which sexual abuse or molestation (SAM) claims can be filed and opens a “lookback” window that allows adults to file claims regardless of their current age. The legislation went into effect on January 1, 2020, opening a three-year window for retroactive claims to be filed. AB 218 increases the statute of limitations for SAM claims by 22 years after the individual turns 18 years old or within five years of discovering that their current psychological injury or illness was caused by a childhood sexual assault. This means that for all intents and purposes, there is no statute of limitations. Schools may be presented with claims from a time with no living witnesses or records, making them difficult and expensive to defend. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 265 | The Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017, among other things, requires certain local educational agencies, as defined, that provide school meals through the federal National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently, or served a meal that differs from what a pupil whose parent or guardian does not have unpaid school meal fees would receive under that local educational agency’s policy. This bill instead would require those local educational agencies to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not denied a reimbursable meal of the pupil’s choice because of the fact that the pupil’s parent or guardian has unpaid meal fees and ensure that the pupil is not shamed or treated differently from other pupils. To the extent the bill would impose a higher level of service on school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 272 | Adds Section 48901.7 to the Education Code. Allows a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees. Carves out four exceptions to any such limitations for: 1) In the case of an emergency, or in response to a perceived threat of danger; 2) When a teacher or administrator grants permission; 3) When a licensed physician or surgeon determines that the possession or use of a smartphone is necessary for the health or well-being of the pupil; 4) When the possession or use of a smartphone is required in a pupil’s individualized education program. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 316 | Existing law requires a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that issues pupil identification cards, and a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards, to have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and authorizes those schools to have printed on the identification cards certain other suicide-prevention and emergency-response telephone numbers. This bill would, commencing October 1, 2020, additionally require a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The bill would, commencing October 1, 2020, require a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline or a local domestic violence hotline. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 328 | 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., 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. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 396 | Annual sexual harassment training for supervisors must include gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 406 | Prohibits “for profit” charter school operation. The law defines what "for profit" operation means, and it includes but is not limited to a for profit entity nominating, appointing, or removing board members or officers of the charter school. This bill also requires that any contract for services with a for-profit entity must be reviewed and approved by the Board of the charter school before services begin. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 419 | Legislation that would prohibit suspensions for willful defiance in grades 4-8 permanently, and for grades 9-12 until 2025. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 419 | Existing law prohibits the suspension of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 3, inclusive, and recommending the expulsion of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of those school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. This bill, commencing July 1, 2020, would apply those provisions to charter schools. Commencing July 1, 2020, the bill would additionally prohibit the suspension of a pupil enrolled in a school district or charter school in grades 4 and 5 for disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of those school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. The bill, from July 1, 2020, until July 1, 2025, would prohibit the suspension of a pupil enrolled in a school district or charter school in any of grades 6 to 8, inclusive, for those acts. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 493 | Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. This bill would encourage each school operated by a school district or county office of education and each charter school to use resources developed by the State Department of Education to provide training at least once every 2 years to teachers and other certificated employees at that school that serve pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and to other certificated employees at that school, on schoolsite and community resources for the support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) pupils, and strategies to increase support for LGBTQ pupils and thereby improve overall school climate, as specified. The bill, no later than July 1, 2021, would require the State Department of Education to develop resources or, as appropriate, update existing resources for in-service training on schoolsite and community resources for the support of LGBTQ pupils, and strategies to increase support for LGBTQ pupils, as specified. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 500 | Charter schools must develop and provide a written employee code of conduct concerning employee-pupil interaction to parents/guardians starting July 1, 2018. Schools must also post the code on the school's web site. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 541 | Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires, except as provided for a small school district, the schoolsite council of a school to write and develop the comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school. Existing law requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include certain things, including the development of certain school safety policies and procedures, including procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents. This bill would require the State Department of Education to collect, and local educational agencies to provide, data pertaining to lockdown or multioption response drills conducted at schoolsites within school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as provided. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 543 | Existing law requires each educational institution in the state to have a written policy on sexual harassment and to display that policy in a prominent location, as defined, in the main administrative building or other area of the educational institution’s campus or schoolsite. Existing law requires a copy of that policy, as it pertains to students, to be provided as part of any orientation program conducted for new students at the beginning of each quarter, semester, or summer session, as applicable. This bill would require a copy of that policy to also be provided as part of an orientation program conducted for continuing pupils, as specified. This bill would require each schoolsite in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, serving pupils in any of grades 9 through 12, inclusive, to create a poster that notifies pupils of that policy and to prominently and conspicuously display the poster in each bathroom and locker room at the schoolsite. The bill would authorize the poster to be prominently and conspicuously displayed in public areas at the schoolsite, as specified. The bill would require the poster to be age appropriate and culturally relevant, be displayed in English and any primary language spoken by 15% or more of the pupils enrolled at the schoolsite, be no smaller than 8.5 by 11 inches, use at least 12-point type, and display certain information pertaining to that policy, including the rules and procedures for reporting a charge of sexual harassment. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 820 | Prohibits a provision in a settlement agreement that prevents the disclosure of factual information relating to certain claims of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or harassment or discrimination based on sex, that are filed in a civil or administrative action. Such a provision after January 1, 2019 are void as a matter of law and against public policy. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 841 | Existing law prohibits the sale of foods at school with trans fats and limits the sale of competitive snack foods to fruit, vegetable, dairy, protein, or whole grain-rich food items. This law also prohibits advertising food or beverages during the school day or participating in a corporate incentive program that rewards pupils with free or discounted foods or beverages that do not comply with State nutritional standards. The law also requires schools to review the policy prohibiting such actions annually. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 972 | This law requires charter schools that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issue pupil identification cards to have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The charter school may also have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the Crisis Text Line and a local suicide prevention hotline telephone number. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 982 | Requires a teacher, upon the request of a parent or pupil, to provide homework that would otherwise have been assigned, to a pupil who has been suspended for two or more schooldays. States it is not the intent of the Legislature to require a teacher to correct classroom assignments or homework missed while the pupil is suspended, or to add an additional burden to a teacher’s workload. If a homework assignment that is requested and turned into a teacher, within the prescribed timeframe, is not graded before the end of the academic term, requires that the assignment not be included in the calculation of the student’s overall grade in the class. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1008 | This law prohibits use of criminal history as a factor in decision to employ unless a written explanation of the decision is provided to the employee. We include this law to clarify that it does NOT apply to public agencies required to perform background checks, such as charter schools. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 1036 | This law grants pupils and parents/guardians the right to have their personal information and directory information excluded from governing board minutes except as required by judicial order or federal law. | Bill Text | Governance |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 1104 | Requires a charter school's governing board to work with their schools that maintain any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to identify the most appropriate methods of informing parents and guardians of pupils in those grades of human trafficking prevention resources and implement these methods by January 1, 2020. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1219 | Legislation that would create a statewide teacher credential mis-assignment monitoring system. This legislation has the added effect of including charter schools within its mis-assignment monitoring system, which will create problems as charter schools have significant flexibility when it comes to teacher credentialing. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1248 | Allows students to wear traditional tribal regalia or items of religious, cultural and tribal significance to school graduation ceremonies. Still allows school to limit items that would create a substantial disruption of, or material interference with, the school ceremony. Charter schools should develop an appropriate policy aligned with this law. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1319 | This bill would require local educational agencies, as defined, to allow a pupil who is a migratory child, as defined, to continue attending their school of origin, as defined, or a school within the school district of origin, as provided, regardless of any change of residence of the pupil, as specified. By requiring local educational agencies to allow pupils who are migratory children who no longer satisfy the residency requirement to attend their schools of origin or a school within the school district of origin, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill also would require a local educational agency to inform a pupil who is a migratory child and that pupil’s parent or guardian of the impact of remaining in the school of origin on the eligibility of that pupil to receive migrant education services, as specified. By adding to the duties of local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 1343 | Effective January 1, 2019, California employers with 5 or more employees (located anywhere) are required to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all employees before January 1, 2020. Minimum count of "5" employees includes seasonal and temporary hires as well as independent contractors. The law requires two hours of sexual harassment prevention training to supervisors (and to out-of-state supervisors of California employees), and one hour of such training to nonsupervisory employees. Training must take place within 6 months of hire or promotion and every 2 years thereafter. To comply with the January 1, 2020 deadline, all employees must be trained during the 2019 calendar year. Finally, the law limits qualified harassment trainings to three types of individuals: (1) Attorneys who have been members of any state bar for at least two years and whose practice includes employment law under the Fair Employment and Housing Act or Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; (2) Human resource professionals or harassment prevention consultants with at least two years of practical experience in: designing or discrimination training on discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment prevention and/or investigating, responding to, or advising regarding sexual harassment, discrimination or retaliation; or (3) law school, college, or university instructors with a post-graduate degree or California teaching credential and either 20 hours of instruction about employment law under the FEHA or Title VII. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1360 | This law fundamentally rewrites suspension and expulsion requirements for charter schools, as well as clarifying requirements for admission to a charter school. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | SB | 1428 | Prohibits denial of student work permits on the basis of a pupil’s grades, grade point average, or school attendance if the pupil is applying for the work permit in order to participate in a government-administered employment and training program that will occur during the regular summer recess or vacation of the school that the pupil attends. | Bill Text | Educationa Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1505 | This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing a county board of education or the state board to approve a petition to establish a charter school, except that petitions for charter schools that would serve pupils for whom county offices of education would otherwise be responsible for providing direct education and related services could still be submitted to county boards of education. The bill would specify that, on and after January 1, 2020, that a petition to establish a charter school may be submitted only to the school district or county office of education the boundaries within which the charter school would be located. The bill would provide that charter schools operating under a charter approved by a county board of education or the state board may continue to operate under those charters only until the date on which the charter is up for renewal. On April 1, 2019, this bill was amended to include the language from former AB 1508 as follows: This bill would add to the list of reasons justifying denial of a charter petition that the governing board of the school district finds that the petition does not contain a clear explanation of why the proposed model cannot be accomplished within the school district structure of neighborhood public schools and that the charter school would have a negative financial, academic, or facilities impact on neighborhood public schools or the school district. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1507 | This bill would delete the authority of a charter school to locate outside the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district because the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the charter school chooses to locate, or the site is needed for temporary use during a construction or expansion project. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2013-2014 | AB | 1584 | This bill authorizes a charter school to adopt a board policy allowing it to enter into a contract with a 3rd party to provide services for the digital storage, management, and retrieval of pupil records or to provide digital educational software, or both. The law requires the contract to include specified provisions, including a statement that the pupil records continue to be the property of and under the control of the charter school, a description of the actions the 3rd party will take to ensure the security and confidentiality of pupil records, and a description of how the charter school and the 3rd party will jointly ensure compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. A contract that fails to comply with the requirements of this bill be rendered void if certain conditions are satisfied. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2015-2016 | AB | 1639 | The Eric Paredes Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act requires a charter school that elects to conduct athletic activities to have the participating student's parent or guardian, sign and return an acknowledgment of receipt for an information sheet on sudden cardiac arrest each school year before the student participates in an athletic activity. The law also requires an athletic director, coach, athletic trainer or authorized person, as defined under the law, to remove from participation a student who passes out or faints while participating in or immediately following an athletic activity, and requires a coach of an athletic activity to complete a sudden cardiac arrest training course every other school year. The law also imposes penalties after July 1, 2019 for a violation of the provision requiring a coach to complete a sudden cardiac arrest training course. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2015-2016 | AB | 1719 | Commencing with the 2018–19 school year, this law requires a charter school that requires a course in health education for graduation from high school to include instruction in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The bill encourages charter schools to provide pupils general information on the use and importance of an automated external defibrillator. The bill requires the State Department of Education to provide guidance on how to implement these provisions, including, but not limited to, who may provide instruction. The law also states that no charter school that sponsors, authorizes, supports, finances, or supervises the training of citizens in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall be liable for any civil damages alleged to result from such training programs. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1747 | Requires charter schools to create a comprehensive school safety plan pursuant to the requirements of Ed. Code. Also requires school safety plans to be reviewed and updated annually by March 1. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1808 | An omnibus trailer bill that requires the CDE to establish a standard English language teacher observation protocol for use by teachers in evaluating a pupil’s level of English language acquisition. Also requires the CDE to develop and make available to schools professional development tools to train teachers on the new protocol. Amends Ed. Code section 52064.1 to require the State Superintendent to develop a template to be used by charter schools to provide a local control funding formula budget overview for parents.. This form must be developed by 12/31/2018 and all charter schools must complete the LCFF overview using the new form by 7/1/2019 and each year thereafter. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1861 | Requires charter schools to provide information to students about how social media and mobile device applications are used for human trafficking. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1871 | Commencing with 2019–20 school year, requires a charter school to provide each “needy pupil” with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each school day. This law applies to independent study programs when a student is on site for more than 2 hours in a day. For charters opening after July 1, 2019, the program must be implemented no later than July 1 of the school year after opening and the school must provide written notice to parents disclosing the period of time for which the charter school will not offer the program. The law also requires chartering authority to, upon request by a charter school and to the extent feasible within existing resources, provide technical assistance to the charter school in implementing the law. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1962 | This law mandates that no later than the 2020-21 fiscal year the definition of “foster youth” for purposes of LCFF unduplicated count includes a dependent child of a court of an Indian tribe, consortium of tribes or tribal organization. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 1974 | The Public School Fair Debt Collection Act mandates that a pupil can never owe or be billed for a debt owed to a charter school. The law also prohibits a charter school from taking any negative actions against a pupil because of a debt, prohibits a debt collector from making a negative credit report for such a debt and prohibits a charter school from selling debt to debt collector. The law also requires a charter school to provide an itemized invoice and a receipt for any such debt. Finally, the law prohibits waiver of any of the bill’s provisions. We would note that debt owed as a result of vandalism or the replacement cost of books, supplies, or property loaned to a pupil that the pupil fails to return or that is willfully cut, defaced, or otherwise injured is excepted from this law unless the pupil is a current or former homeless child or youth. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2009 | Requires a charter school offering any interscholastic athletic program to purchase at least one Automated External Defibrillator by July 1, 2019. The charter school must also ensure that it is maintained and regularly tested and that there is a written emergency plan in place and posted relating to sudden cardiac arrest and other medical emergencies related to the athletic program’s activities or events. Finally, the law provides certain limitations on liability for charter schools related to use or nonuse of the AED as long as the school complies with the law. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2015 | Commencing with the 2020-21 academic year, all charter schools must provide pupils with information on how to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or California Dream Act financial aid application at least once before the student enters grade 12. A paper copy of the application must be provided to pupils/parents/guardians upon request. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2022 | A charter school needs to notify parents and pupils at least two times per school year about how to access pupil mental health services on campus or in the community or both. A charter school must also notify both parents and pupils in at least two ways, and slightly different options exist in statute for parents versus students. Finally, charter schools can apply to their respective county for a grant to implement these provisions. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2109 | The Governor signed Assembly Bill (“AB”) 2109 on August 20, 2018, which makes various changes in law regarding general education students with a temporary disability receiving individual instruction in the home or hospital. The changes in law are effective on January 1, 2019. AB 2109 allows, but does not require, a school district or charter school to continue to allow the student to be enrolled in the school even though the student has been placed for the entire school week in a hospital or other residential health facility and is receiving individual instruction from the district in which the hospital or other residential health facility is located.2 The purpose of the change in law is to facilitate the student’s timely reentry from the hospital or other residential health facility back in the school the student was attending prior to the health issue. AB 2109 also allows, but does not require, the student to attend a partial school week at the school the student attended prior to the health issue and to also receive individual instruction at the hospital or other residential health facility. For example, a student receiving medical treatment in a hospital on Monday and Tuesday may receive individual instruction from the district in which the hospital is located and on Wednesday through Friday the student could receive instruction from the school the student attended prior to the health issue. Also, a student who attends a school operated by a school district or a charter school, who is subsequently enrolled in individual instruction in a hospital or other residential health facility for a partial week, shall be entitled to attend school in his or her school district of residence, or receive individual instruction provided by the school district of residence in the student’s home, on days in which he or she is not receiving individual instruction in a hospital or other residential health facility, if he or she is well enough to do so. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2239 | This bill requires CDE to encourage the governing board of every charter school to submit world language courses designed to serve native speakers to the University of California for purposes of receiving A-G course approval. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2289 | This law amended a number of sections of the Education Code to provide additional protections for pregnant and parenting students. Charter schools must provide an annual notice to students about their rights in school year welcome packets and independent study packets. Students are entitled under the law to excused absences to care for their sick child, and students get eight weeks leave (or more if medically necessary). Complaints regarding compliance should be handled by the school's Uniform Complaint Procedures. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2291 | Requires charter schools to adopt, on or before December 31, 2019, procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. Also requires charter schools to make available to certificated schoolsite employees and all other schoolsite employees who have regular interaction with pupils an online training module developed by the California Department of Education regarding bullying and bullying prevention. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2601 | Requires charter schools to provide “age appropriate” comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education in grades 7 to 12 (at least once in middle school and once in high school). Parents/guardians may opt out via a passive consent process. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 2639 | A charter school that serves pupils in grades 7 to 12 must adopt at a regularly scheduled meeting a policy on pupil suicide prevention in grades 7 to 12, inclusive. The policy must be developed in consultation with school and community stakeholders, school-employed mental health professionals, and suicide prevention experts and shall, at a minimum, address procedures relating to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2017-2018 | AB | 3022 | This bill allows the governing board of a charter school to grant a diploma to a pupil who has departed California against his/her will, who could not complete their education as a result of this departure, and who was in good academic standing at the time of his/her departure. Coursework completed outside of the United States or through online or virtual classes shall be considered in determining whether to award a diploma. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 5 | This bill codifies the Dynamex ruling by providing that for purposes of the provisions of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration shall be considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. | Bill Text | Employment Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1595 | Education omnibus bill that made several changes to the Charter Schools Act as well as created new requirements for the use of AED equipment, among other items. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 276 | This bill would require a parent or guardian, by January 1, 2021, to submit to the department a copy of a medical exemption granted prior to that date for inclusion in a state database in order for the medical exemption to remain valid. The bill would require a clinically trained department staff member who is a physician and surgeon or a registered nurse to review all medical exemption forms submitted meeting those conditions. The bill would authorize the medical exemptions determined by that staff member to be inappropriate or otherwise invalid to be reviewed by the State Public Health Officer or a physician and surgeon designated by the State Public Health Officer, and revoked by the State Public Health Officer or physician and surgeon designee, under prescribed circumstances. The bill would authorize a parent or guardian to appeal a medical exemption denial or revocation to the Secretary of California Health and Human Services. The bill would allow a child whose medical exemption revocation is appealed to continue in attendance at the school or institution without being required to commence the immunization schedule required for conditional admittance, provided that the appeal is filed within 30 calendar days of revocation of the medical exemption. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | SB | 223 | A charter school board may adopt (at a regularly scheduled meeting) a policy that allows a parent or guardian of a pupil to possess and administer to the pupil medicinal cannabis at a schoolsite The parent or guardian shall not administer the medicinal cannabis in a manner that creates a disruption to the educational environment or causes exposure to other pupils. After the parent or guardian administers the medicinal cannabis, the parent or guardian shall remove any remaining medicinal cannabis from the schoolsite. The parent or guardian shall sign in at the schoolsite before administering the medicinal cannabis. Before administering the medicinal cannabis, the parent or guardian shall provide to an employee of the school a valid written medical recommendation for medicinal cannabis for the pupil to be kept on file at the school. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1595 | Commencing July 1, 2019, if a charter school elects to offer any interscholastic athletic program, the charter school shall acquire at least one AED for each school that participates in the program within the jurisdiction of the charter school. The charter school is encouraged to ensure that the AED or AEDs are available for the purpose of rendering emergency care or treatment within a recommended three to five minutes of sudden cardiac arrest to pupils, spectators, and any other individuals in attendance at the athletic program’s on-campus activities or events, and shall ensure that the AED or AEDs are available to athletic trainers and coaches and authorized persons at these activities or events. | Assembly Bill 1595 | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 967 | The law requires charter schools, on or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, to adopt a local control and accountability plan to update the goals and annual actions to achieve those goals identified in the charter petition. Pursuant to Assembly Bill 967 [2019-2020], charter school must develop, adopt and meet the transparency requirements for local control and accountability plans and the updates to those plans in the same manner as governing boards of school districts, superintendents of school districts, and county superintendents of schools. | Assembly Bill 967 | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1214 | Pursuant to Assembly Bill 1214 [2019-2020], charter schools must offer a course in CPR for purposes of allowing school staff and teachers to participate in CPR training that includes certain instruction, including, but not limited to, an individual program of professional growth that includes a basic course in CPR that includes certain instruction. If the charter school elects to offer any interscholastic athletic program, the charter school is required to ensure that certain personnel with a valid certification of CPR training are present at the athletic program’s on-campus activities or events at all times. | Assembly Bill 1214 | Education Law |
| 2019-2020 | AB | 1613 | This bill expands the definition of “public works,” for the purposes of provisions relating to the prevailing rate of per diem wages, to also include any construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under private contract on a project for a charter school, as defined, when the project is paid for, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of conduit revenue bonds, as defined, that were issued on or after January 1, 2020. | Bill Text | Construction Law |
| 2013-2014 | AB | 1266 | Amended Education Code section 221.5 to require that a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2011-2012 | AB | 9 | Amended Sections 234, 234.1, 234.2, and 234.3 of the Education Code and added Section 234.5 to the Education Code. Requires the policy adopted by a charter school to prohibit discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived characteristics, including disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. | Bill Text | Education Law |
| 2021-2022 | SB | 331 | Existing law prohibits a settlement agreement from preventing the disclosure of factual information regarding specified acts related to a claim filed in a civil action or a complaint filed in an administrative action. These acts include sexual assault, sexual harassment, an act of workplace harassment or discrimination based on sex, failure to prevent such an act, or retaliation against a person for reporting such an act and an act of harassment or discrimination based on sex by the owner of a housing accommodation or retaliation against a person for reporting such an act. SB 331 states that for agreements entered into on or after January 1, 2022, this prohibition includes acts of workplace harassment or discrimination not based on sex and acts of harassment or discrimination not based on sex by the owner of a housing accommodation. | Bill Text | Employment Law |