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Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 509

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Relating to: funding for bilingual-bicultural education programs and making an appropriation. (FE)

Public instruction department of School — Curriculum

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides additional funding to the Department of Public Instruction

for bilingual-bicultural education programs in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 fiscal

years. A bilingual-bicultural education program is a program designed to improve

the ability of limited-English proficient pupils to speak, read, and write in the

English language, so that the pupils will be able to perform classwork in English.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Bowen (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Crowley (D) , Emerson (D) , Gruszynski (D) , Haywood (D) , Hebl (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Steffen (R) , Vining (D) , Zamarripa (D)

5 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 7, 2019 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Zamarripa, Anderson, Bowen, Crowley, Emerson, Haywood, Hebl, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Sargent, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Steffen, C. Taylor, Vining and Gruszynski; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Ringhand, Risser, L. Taylor and Larson

  2. Oct 7, 2019 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Oct 21, 2019 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1