California Senate Bill SB1301 Latest Draft

 BILL NUMBER: SB 1301INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Simitian FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 49062 of the Education Code, relating to pupil records. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1301, as introduced, Simitian. Pupil records. Existing law requires school districts to establish, maintain, and destroy pupil records according to regulations adopted by the State Board of Education. The regulations are required to establish state policy as to what items of information shall be placed into pupil records and what information is appropriate to be compiled by individual school officers or employees, as specified. This bill would require the state board to ensure that permanent pupil records include a unique pupil identifier to improve the quality of statewide longitudinal data, enable local educational agencies to readily determine the unique history of pupils when they enroll, and to better enable the linking of cross-segmental data in a preschool through higher education (P-20) data warehouse. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 49062 of the Education Code is amended to read: 49062.  (a)    School districts shall establish, maintain, and destroy pupil records according to regulations adopted by the  State Board of Education   state board  . Pupil records shall include a pupil's health record.  Such   The regulations shall establish state policy as to what items of information shall be placed into pupil records and what information is appropriate to be compiled by individual school officers or employees under the exception to pupil records provided in subdivision (b) of Section 49061.  No pupil   Pupil  records shall  not  be destroyed except pursuant to such regulations or as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 49070.  (b) The state board shall ensure that permanent pupil records include a unique pupil identifier to improve the quality of statewide longitudinal data, enable local educational agencies to readily determine the unique identity of pupils when they enroll, and to better enable the linking of cross-segmental data in a preschool through higher education (P-20) data warehouse.