Bill Text: CA SB1195 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Assessments: advanced placement examinations: fall testing date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 885, Statutes of 2024. [SB1195 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1195-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  June 17, 2024

Amended  IN  Senate  March 19, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1195

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Introduced by Senator Limón

February 14, 2024

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An act to add Section 52243 to the Education Code, relating to assessments.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1195, as amended, Limón. Assessments: advanced placement examinations: fall testing date.

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually update the information on advanced placement available on the State Department of Education’s internet website to include current information on the various means available to school districts to offer or access advanced placement courses, including online courses, and to annually communicate with high schools that offer advanced placement courses in fewer than 5 subjects, and inform them of the various options for making advanced placement courses and other rigorous courses available to pupils who may benefit from them.

This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school that operates a block schedule the department, on or before February 1, 2025, to request the College Board to provide an alternative testing date at the end of the fall semester for all pupils in California whose advanced placement courses conclude in the fall semester, while maintaining the option for those pupils to take the advanced placement examination for those courses during the spring semester, at the discretion of the pupil.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 52243 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 52242, to read:

52243.

 (a)Each local educational agency that operates a block schedule On or before February 1, 2025, the department shall request the College Board to provide an alternative testing date at the end of the fall semester for pupils whose advanced placement courses conclude in the fall semester, while maintaining the option for those pupils to take the advanced placement examination for those courses during the spring semester, at the discretion of the pupil.

(b)For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.