Bill Text: CA AB757 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 757 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Teacher credentialing: out-of-state prepared teachers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB757 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB757-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly March 02, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 757

Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes

February 13, 2023

~~An act to amend Section 1002 of the Education Code, relating to county boards of education.~~ An act to amend Section 44343.5 of the Education Code, relating to teacher credentialing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 757, as amended, Cervantes. ~~County boards of education: jurisdiction.~~ Teacher credentialing: spouses of active duty members of the Armed Forces: expedited application process.

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to grant or deny a completed application for a credential within 7 days of the date that the commission received the application if the applicant supplies the commission with evidence that the applicant is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in this state under official active duty military orders and holds a valid teaching credential in another state, district, or territory of the United States.
This bill would require the commission to post information regarding the latter requirement on its internet website.
Existing law authorizes the county committee on school district organization, upon the request of the county board of education and by a 23 vote of the county committee members, to either change the boundaries of any or all of the trustee areas of the county, propose to increase or decrease the number of members of the county board of education, or both.
~~This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.~~

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 44343.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:

44343.5.

(a) (1) The commission shall grant or deny a completed application for a credential within seven days of the date that the commission received the application if the applicant does both of the following:

~~(1)~~

(A) Supplies the commission with evidence that the applicant is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in this state under official active duty military orders.

~~(2)~~

(B) Holds a valid teaching credential in another state, district, or territory of the United States.

(2) The commission shall post on its internet website information regarding the requirement described in paragraph (1).

(b) The seven-day processing time set forth in this section shall not apply to an application subject to a fitness review by the commission pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 44240).

SECTION 1.Section 1002 of the Education Code is amended to read:
1002.
(a)(1)Upon being so requested by the county board of education, the county committee on school district organization, by a two-thirds vote of the members, may either change the boundaries of any or all of the trustee areas of the county, propose to increase or decrease the number of members of the county board of education, or both. The trustee areas shall be as nearly equal in population as may be, except that in establishing or changing the boundaries of the trustee areas the county committee may give consideration to the following factors:
~~(A)Topography.~~
~~(B)Geography.~~
~~(C)Cohesiveness, contiguity, integrity, and compactness of territory.~~
~~(D)Community of interests of the trustee areas.~~
~~(2)In any event, the county committee shall ensure that trustee areas are as nearly equal in population as practicable.~~
(b)Following each decennial federal census, and using population figures validated by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance as a basis, the county committee shall adjust the boundaries of any or all of the trustee areas of the county board of education as necessary to meet the population criteria set forth in subdivision (a).
(c)Changes in trustee area boundaries or a proposed reduction in the number of county board of education members shall be made in writing and filed with the county board of supervisors not later than the first day of March of any school year.
(d)In those counties in which the election of members of county boards of education are required to be held on the same date as prescribed for the election of members of governing boards of school districts, as provided in Section 1007, the county committees on school district organization shall fix the boundaries of trustee areas, insofar as possible, to coincide with the boundaries of school districts.
(e)Whenever the boundaries of trustee areas are changed so as to be coterminous with those of supervisorial districts of the county, the election for members of the county board of education shall be consolidated with the countywide election.