CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 806Introduced by Senator GlazerFebruary 17, 2017 An act relating to charter schools. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 806, as introduced, Glazer. Charter school governance.Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools, and exempts charter schools from the laws governing school districts, except as specified. Existing law separately establishes various open meeting and conflict-of-interest laws for local agencies and state bodies, including, but not limited to, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that charter school governance is transparent, that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest, and that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do all of the following:(a) Ensure that charter school governance is transparent.(b) Ensure that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest.(c) Ensure that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 806Introduced by Senator GlazerFebruary 17, 2017 An act relating to charter schools. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 806, as introduced, Glazer. Charter school governance.Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools, and exempts charter schools from the laws governing school districts, except as specified. Existing law separately establishes various open meeting and conflict-of-interest laws for local agencies and state bodies, including, but not limited to, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that charter school governance is transparent, that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest, and that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill No. 806
Introduced by Senator GlazerFebruary 17, 2017
Introduced by Senator Glazer
February 17, 2017
An act relating to charter schools.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 806, as introduced, Glazer. Charter school governance.
Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools, and exempts charter schools from the laws governing school districts, except as specified. Existing law separately establishes various open meeting and conflict-of-interest laws for local agencies and state bodies, including, but not limited to, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that charter school governance is transparent, that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest, and that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.
Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools, and exempts charter schools from the laws governing school districts, except as specified. Existing law separately establishes various open meeting and conflict-of-interest laws for local agencies and state bodies, including, but not limited to, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure that charter school governance is transparent, that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest, and that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do all of the following:(a) Ensure that charter school governance is transparent.(b) Ensure that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest.(c) Ensure that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do all of the following:(a) Ensure that charter school governance is transparent.(b) Ensure that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest.(c) Ensure that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do all of the following:(a) Ensure that charter school governance is transparent.(b) Ensure that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest.(c) Ensure that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would do all of the following:
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(a) Ensure that charter school governance is transparent.
(b) Ensure that monitoring and oversight of charter schools is conducted to protect the public interest.
(c) Ensure that state law would occupy the field of open meeting, public records, and conflict-of-interest laws as they relate to the governing bodies of charter schools and preempts the application of additional requirements by chartering authorities.