Legislative Update: Tracked Priority Bills of 2023-2024
This legislative season CAPSO tracked and engaged with multiple bills that posed potential impact on private schools in California. Below please find the status of a few of the priority pieces of legislation. For a full list please visit the CAPSO Legislation Tracker.
AB 1864. Status- Signed by Governor
This bill requires reporting of specified types of information on applications for permits for the use of restricted materials, notices of intent (NOIs), and pesticide use reporting (PUR) forms; requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to adopt changes to the Pesticide Use Near Schools regulations, to expand their application to private schools.
SB 483. Status- Signed by Governor
This bill prohibits the use of prone restraint by local educational agencies (LEAs), nonpublic schools and agencies (NPS/A), and the State Special Schools for the Blind and the Deaf. Assembly Amendments: (1) eliminate the authorization for the use of prone restraint by trained personnel, thereby fully prohibiting educational providers at LEAs, NPS/As, and the State Special Schools for the Blind and Deaf from using, authorizing, or paying for prone restraint or similar interventions; (2) expand the definition of prone restraint to include any behavioral restraint that places a student facedown, including prone containment; and (3) name the act “Max Benson's Law” and make conforming changes to align with these provisions.
AB 3262. Status- Signed by Governor
This bill requires that when an automated external defibrillator (AED) is placed in a public or private school serving grades 6-12, the principal notify pupils, in addition to school staff, of the location of all AED units on the campus at least annually.
SB 1378. Status- Dead
Would, commencing July 1, 2025, require a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, as applicable, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that issues pupil identification cards to additionally have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the Title IX Coordinator for the public school or, for a private school, the appropriate contact, and would authorize those public and private schools to have printed on the identification cards certain other telephone numbers of resources for Title IX assistance.
SCA 9. Status- Dead
Educational expenses: education flex accounts and special education flex accounts. (Introduced-2/15/2024) (Last location was RLS. on 2/15/2024) (failed deadline Rule 61(b)(17))
SB 1203. Status- Dead
Education expenses: Education Flex Account Act of 2024. (Introduced-2/15/2024)
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(17). (Last location was ED. on 2/29/2024) (failed deadline Rule 61(b)(17))
SB 1125. Status- Dead
Personal income tax: credit: virtual learning costs: dependent of the taxpayer. (Introduced-2/13/2024) (Last location was REV. & TAX on 2/21/2024) (failed deadline Rule 61(b)(17))
SB 292. Status- Dead
Education expenses: Education Savings Account Act of 2024. (Amended-3/30/2023)
(Last location was ED. on 3/15/2023) (failed deadline Rule 61(b)(17))
AB 2524. Status- Dead
Personal Income Tax Law: deferred compensation: exclusions: long-term qualified tuition program. (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024) (failed deadline Rule 61(b)(17))
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