BILL NUMBER: SB 1278INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Wyland FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to repeal Section 60200.7 of, and to repeal and add Section 60200.1 of, the Education Code, relating to instructional materials, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1278, as introduced, Wyland. Instructional materials: adoption. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards. Existing law sets forth a schedule for the submission of instructional materials to the board for adoption. Notwithstanding this schedule, existing law prohibits the state board from adopting instructional materials or following the procedures related to that adoption until the 2013-14 school year. This bill would repeal the delay of the adoption of instructional materials and replace the schedule for adoption by allowing instructional materials for specified subjects to be submitted in each year from 2012 to 2018, inclusive. The bill would require the state board to adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science and science in 2011. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 60200.1 of the Education Code is repealed.60200.1. (a) (1) The instructional materials described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 60200 shall be submitted to the state board for adoption in 2008. (2) The instructional materials for foreign languages shall be submitted to the state board for adoption in 2012. (3) The instructional materials for health shall be submitted to the state board for adoption in 2013. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the requirement in paragraph (6) of subdivision (c) of Section 60200 that other criteria be approved at least 30 months before the date that the materials are to be approved for adoption shall not apply if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The criteria adopted are consistent with the content standards adopted by the state board in each of the four core content areas for which standards are adopted. (2) The schedule for the adoption of instructional materials requires instructional materials for history-social science to be adopted in November 2011, and instructional materials for science to be adopted by November 2012. (3) The state board approves criteria for the adoption of instructional materials in history-social science at least 18 months before the state board adopts instructional materials in history-social science. (4) The state board approves the criteria for the adoption of instructional materials for science at least 24 months before the state board adopts instructional materials in science.SEC. 2. Section 60200.1 is added to the Education Code, to read: 60200.1. (a) Instructional materials for the following subjects shall be submitted for adoption by the state board as follows: (1) Mathematics in 2012. (2) English language arts in 2013. (3) History-social science in 2014. (4) Health in 2015. (5) Science in 2016. (6) World languages in 2017. (7) Visual and performing arts in 2018. (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the state board shall adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science and science in 2011. SEC. 3. Section 60200.7 of the Education Code is repealed.60200.7. Notwithstanding Sections 60200 and 60200.1, the state board shall not adopt instructional materials or follow the procedures adopted pursuant to Sections 60200 and 60200.1 until the 2013-14 school year.SEC. 4. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: In order to ensure that the instructional materials adoption process is revived as quickly as possible so that pupils and educators benefit from the revised curriculum frameworks and instructional materials, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.