BILL NUMBER: AB 1756	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2012

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   amend
Section 51204.5 of  the Education Code, relating to pupil
instruction.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1756, as amended, Knight. Pupil  instruction. 
 instruction: social sciences: California history.  
   Existing law requires instruction in social sciences to include
the early history of California and a study of the role and
contributions of specified groups of people to the economic,
political, and social development of California and the United States
of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these
groups in contemporary society.  
   This bill would instead authorize instruction in social sciences
to include the early history of California and a study of the role
and contributions of specified groups of people to the economic,
political, and social development of California and the United States
of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these
groups in contemporary society.  
   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 51204.5 of the   
 Education Code   is amended to read: 
   51204.5.  Instruction in social sciences  shall 
 may  include the early history of California and a study of
the role and contributions of both men and women, Native Americans,
African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific
Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of
other ethnic and cultural groups, to the economic, political, and
social development of California and the United States of America,
with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in
contemporary society. 
  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.