Bill Text: CA AB1756 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: social sciences: California history.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-21 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB1756 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1756-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1756	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Knight
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Conway, Cook, Donnelly, Grove,
Hagman, Halderman, Harkey, Jones, Logue, Morrell, Norby, Olsen,
Silva, Valadao, and Wagner)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2012

   An act to add Section 51204.7 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1756, as introduced, Knight. Pupil instruction.
   Existing law, commencing January 1, 2012, requires that
instruction in social sciences include a study of the role and
contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans to
the economic, political, and social development of California and
the United States.
   This bill would authorize a school district to elect not to
provide this instruction.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 51204.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   51204.7.  Notwithstanding Section 51204.5, as amended by Chapter
81 of the Statutes of 2011, a school district may elect not to
provide instruction relating to the role and contributions of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans to the economic,
political, and social development of California and the United
States.