BILL NUMBER: AB 1033INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Feuer FEBRUARY 18, 2011 An act relating to academic content standards. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1033, as introduced, Feuer. Academic content standards. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide content and performance standards in the core curriculum areas of reading, writing, mathematics, history/social science, and science, as specified. Existing law authorizes the state board to modify any proposed content standards or performance standards prior to adoption, and to adopt content and performance standards in individual core curriculum areas as those standards are submitted to the state board. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to permit the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recommend to the state board a process for the ongoing update of content standards in the areas of science, history/social science, and other subjects. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to permit the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recommend to the State Board of Education a process for the ongoing update of content standards in the areas of science, history/social science, and other subjects.