Bill Text: CA AB197 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Full-day kindergarten.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2020-01-21 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB197 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB197-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 17, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 20, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 197 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Weber (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gonzalez) |
January 10, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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 these statutory provisions.
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.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 8973 of the Education Code is amended to read:8973.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the kindergarten schoolday in an early primary program conducted pursuant to Section 8972 may exceed four hours, exclusive of recesses, if both of the following conditions are met:SEC. 3.
Section 37202 of the Education Code is amended to read:37202.
(a) Except if a school has been closed by order of a city or a county board of health, or of the State Department of Public Health, on account of contagious disease, or if the school has been closed on account of fire, flood, or other public disaster, the governing board of a school district shall maintain all of the elementary day schools established by it for an equal length of time during the school year and all of the day high schools established by it for an equal length of time during the school year.SEC. 4.
Section 46111 of the Education Code is amended to read:46111.
(a) (1) A pupil in a kindergarten shall not be kept in school in any day more than four hours exclusive of recesses, except for pupils in Early Primary Programs, as set forth in Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8970) of Part 6 of Division 1 of Title 1.SEC. 5.
Section 46112 of the Education Code is amended to read:46112.
(a) The minimum schoolday in grades 1, 2, and 3 in elementary schools, except in opportunity schools, classes, or programs, is 230 minutes, except if the governing board of a school district has prescribed a shorter length for the schoolday because of a lack of school facilities that requires double sessions, in which case the minimum schoolday in those grades shall be 200 minutes.SEC. 6.
Section 46112 is added to the Education Code, to read:46112.
(a) The minimum schoolday in grades 1, 2, and 3 in elementary schools, except in opportunity schools, classes, or programs, is 230 minutes, except if the governing board of a school district has prescribed a shorter length for the schoolday because of a lack of school facilities that requires double sessions, in which case the minimum schoolday in those grades is 200 minutes.SEC. 7.
Section 46114 of the Education Code is amended to read:46114.
(a) The minimum schoolday in a kindergarten implementing the full-day kindergarten program required by subdivision (c) of Section 37202, and in grades 1, 2, and 3 in elementary schools may be computed by determining the number of minutes of attendance in any 10 consecutive schooldays and dividing that number by 10. If the resulting quotient is 230 or more, the pupils shall be deemed to have complied with Section 46112, even if the number of minutes attended in any one schoolday is less than 230, but not less than 170.(e)This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2022, and as of January 1, 2023, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2023, deletes or extends the
dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
(a)The minimum schoolday in kindergarten and grades 1, 2, and 3 in elementary schools may be computed by determining the number of minutes of attendance in any 10 consecutive schooldays and dividing that number by 10. If the resulting quotient is 230 or more, the pupils shall be deemed to have complied with Section 46112, even if the number of minutes attended in any one schoolday is less than 230, but not less than 170.
(b)The minimum schoolday in grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in elementary schools may be computed by determining the number of minutes of attendance in any 10 consecutive schooldays and dividing that number by 10. If the resulting quotient is 240 or more, the
pupils shall be deemed to have complied with Section 46113, even if the number of minutes attended in any one schoolday is less than 240, but not less than 180.
(c)The computation authorized by this section shall not result in any increase in state apportionments.
(d)This section shall become operative on July 1, 2022.
SEC. 9.SEC. 8.
Section 46117 of the Education Code is amended to read:46117.
(b)This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2022, and as of January 1,
2023, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2023, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 10.SEC. 9.
Section 46118 of the Education Code is amended to read:46118.
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(b)This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2022, and as of January 1, 2023, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2023,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.