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AB 12 (Beall) California Fostering Connections to Success Act.
This bill extends transitional foster care benefits to youths between 18 and 21 years of age, and it also paves the way for California to take advantage of federal funds for kinship guardians.
AB 354 (Arambula) Health: immunizations
This bill deletes certain age limits for specified childhood immunizations required for admission to schools or child care centers, and requires the Department of Public Health to consider the immunization recommendations of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
AB 1048 (Torrico) Child protection: safe surrender
This bill expands the California Safely Surrendered Baby Law by designating certain locations, such as local fire agencies as safe-surrender sites.
AB 1742 (Coto) Education: special education
This bill encourages special education teams at nonpublic, nonsectarian (NPS) schools to incorporate technology-based materials into special education plans if appropriate. NPS schools are contracted by public schools to serve students when public schools lack resources to support these students directly.
AB1844 (Fletcher) Sex Offenders: punishment: parole
Enacts "Chelsea's Law," which increases penalties for forcible sex acts against minors, creates a penalty of life without the possibility of parole for specified sex act s against minors, creates safe zones around parks, and mandates lifetime parole for specified sex offenses.
AB1901 (Ruskin) Postsecondary education: Master Plan for Higher Education
This bill authorizes the continuation of the work of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education, which began work in early 2010. The Master Plan sets policy on issues of access, affordability, accountability, articulation and financing in higher education.
AB1933 (Brownley) Foster children: education
This bill extends the right of foster youth to remain in their school of origin, after changing residential placement.
AB 1937 (Fletcher) Pupil health: immunizations
This bill expands the health care practitioners who are authorized to administer immunizations to students with a written parental consent.
AB 1999 (Portantino) Alcohol: medical emergencies
This bill encourages teens to call "911" for help by providing limited immunity during alcohol poisoning emergencies.
AB 2084 (Brownley) Child day care facilities: nutrition
This bill requires licensed child care facilities to provide healthy beverages by offering water at every meal and throughout the day, providing only 1 percent milk or nonfat milk to children ages 2 and older, and by limiting fruit juice to 100 percent juice once a day.
AB 2211 (Fuentes) Instruction
This bill provides an opportunity for students to learn through real-world experience, including job shadowing, mentorships, intensive internships, real or virtual apprenticeships, and school-based enterprises.
AB 2486 (Feuer) Social host liability: furnishing alcohol to underage persons
This bill imposes potential "social host" liability on adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors who are subsequently injured or killed as a result of this lack of parental care. Note: Our support of this legislation derived directly from the 2009 California State PTA Convention Resolution on Social Hosting - a clear demonstration of the impact of resolutions.
AB 2650 (Buchanan) Medical marijuana
This bill requires medical marijuana dispensaries to be located at least 600 feet from schools.
AB 2685 (De La Torre) Charter schools: criminal background of employees/volunteers
This bill requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make available to private schools a listing of all credential holders who have had final adverse action taken against their credential.
ACR 82 (Hall) Discrimination-free zones
Encourages public education institutions to designate each campus as a "discrimination-free zone."
ACR 88 (Torlakson) STEM Taskforce
Resolves that the California Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) be established to promote the improvement of STEM education across the state.
ACR 99 (Buchanan) Day of the Special Educator
This resolution proclaims December 10, 2010, as the Day of the Special Educator, and urges Californians to recognize special educators in teaching students with special needs. We encourage PTAs around the state to plan appreciation activities for this day.
ACR 100 (Jones) Teen dating violence.
This resolution recognizes the month of February 2010 as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month and encourages all Californians to observe the month with appropriate programs and activities that promote awareness and prevention.
ACR 125 (Villines) Health facilities: youth athlete heart screenings
More than 450,000 Americans collapse and die of sudden cardiac arrest, including many young athletes. This resolution encourages hospitals and health facilites to partner with local schools to offer young athletes free echocardiograms, the best way to detect heart abnormalities.
ACR 128 (Emmerson) School Recycling Programs
This resolution encourages school districts to engage in recycling programs and to promote awareness of available state resources that schools may utilize for such programs.
ACR 162 (Beall) Disability History Week
ACR 162 establishes the second week of October of each year as Disability History Week and encourages all-inclusive activities to allow students and the general public to learn more about the disability community and to celebrate its role in society. PTAs may wish to take a leadership role in this effort at school sites.
AJR 31 (Buchanan) Special Education Funding
This resolution recognizes the current shortfall in funding available from the federal government for special education purposes. It also urges enactment of one of the bills pending before Congress that would fully fund the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
AJR 39 (Torlakson) Common Core Standards
This resolution calls upon the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to develop common state standards in core academic disciplines.
SB 438 (Yee) Student Rights to Free Speech
This bill clarifies that provisions regarding freedom of speech and expressive activities in schools also apply to the state's charter schools.
SB 654 (Leno) Independent Living Program
This bill expands the eligibility requirements for the Independent Living Program administered by the Department of Social Services, allowing foster youth to continue receiving services after placement with a non-related legal guardian.
SB 847 (Steinberg) Federal Education Funding
SB 847, an urgency measure, authorized the California Department of Education to disburse more than $1.2 billion in federal funds available to the state under the recently enacted federal Education and Medicaid Assistance Jobs Act. The legislation disallows these funds to be used for general administrative expenses. Note: Our PTA advocates worked hard to ensure that these funds were disbursed to all districts in an equitable manner.
SB 945 (Liu) Juvenile court jurisdiction: services and benefits
Requires probation and parole officers to provide wards of the court formerly in foster care with information about services and benefits that can help the youth become successful independent adults.
SB 1317 (Leno) Combating Chronic Truancy
Chronically truant children are at extremely high risk of falling into our juvenile justice system later in life. This bill places greater responsibility on parents and strengthens local jurisdictions' ability to combat chronic elementary school truancy by making it a misdemeanor for parents to allow their children to miss 10 percent or more of the school year. Courts may defer judgement and connect families with appropriate support services to assist with school attendance.
SB 1353 (Wright) Education: foster youth
Requires consideration be given to specified factors in making educational and school placement decisions for children and youth in foster care.
SB 1357 (Steinberg) Chronic Absenteeism
Requires the California Department of Education to include pupil attendance data on chronic absentees in the Annual Report on Dropouts in California and in the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS), and to provide related reports to local educational agencies on demand.
SB 1381 (Simitian) Kindergarten: age of admission.
This bill would require that students starting kindergarten must turn 5 by September 1 of the school year. The new age requirement would be phased in over three years beginning in 2012. The bill creates a transitional kindergarten program for those whose kindergarten entry is delayed.
SB 1413 (Leno) Schools: pupil nutrition: availability of tap water
In order to improve the number of healthy beverage options available to school children, this bill would require a school district to provide access to free, fresh drinking water in food service areas by July 1, 2011.
SBX5 2 (Simitian) Student Performance Data
This bill establishes a process, commencing July 1, 2010, for reviewing and responding to requests for individual pupil data records in the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) and expresses the intent to create a statewide longitudinal educational data system to inform the development of education policy and improve instruction.
SCR 77 (Correa) Childhood Obesity Prevention and Fitness week
Proclaims the last full week in September in each year as Childhood Obesity Prevention and Fitness Week in California, and supports programs that work to increase exercise among children and educate children about healthy eating habits.
SCR 91 (Steinberg) Autism Awareness Month
This resolution designates April 2010 as Autism Awareness Month. Recognizes parents and relatives of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and expresses support for the work of various State and regional autism committees, task forces and programs.
SJR 31 (Pavley and Alquist) Individuals with disabilities: tax exempt accounts
This resolution urges the President and Congress to enact the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2009, which allows families with children with disabilities to have a tax-exempt savings plan for their care and future needs.
SR 34 (Lowenthal) Relative to Teen Driving Safety Week
The week of March 21, 2010, is to be declared "Teen Driving Safety Week" and Californians are urgedto observe this week with help from law enforcement organizations, teachers, parents, students, and the IMPACT Teen Driver's Campaign.
HR 24 (Galgiani) Relative to Teen Driving Safety Week
Declares the week of March 21, 2010 to be "Teen Driving Safety Week" and urges Californians, with the help of law enforcement organizations, teachers, parents, students, and the IMPACT Teen Driver's Campaign, to observe the week with activities that promote safe driving among teenage drivers.
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