AB 246

Current law allows, but does not require, a school board to provide a human

growth and development instructional program in grades kindergarten to 12. Under

current law, if a school board elects to provide a human growth and development

instructional program, the school board must appoint an ad hoc advisory committee

to advise the school board on the design and implementation of the human growth

and development curriculum, as well as to review the curriculum.

Current law requires that the advisory committee be comprised of parents,

teachers, school administrators, pupils, health care professionals, members of the

clergy, and other school district residents. This bill eliminates school administrators

as a membership category that must be represented on the committee. Additionally,

current law limits the portion of the committee that may consist of any membership

category, except parents, to one-fifth of the committee and limits the portion of the

committee that may consist of school district employees or their spouses or school

board members or their spouses to one-fourth of the committee.

The bill specifies that each member of a human growth and development

curriculum advisory committee must be a resident of the school district, unless the

school board is unable to fill a membership position with a school district resident,

in which case the school board may appoint a nonresident to the advisory committee.

In addition, under the bill, no member of the advisory committee may be a relative

of another member of the committee. Finally, the bill requires a school board to

remove a committee member who is absent from two consecutive meetings without

prior written approval.