Title EDC, California Educ. Code

The incorporation of, or reference to, any provision of California statutory law in this part includes all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. (Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 33, Sec. 31. Approved in Proposition 55 at the March 2, 2004, election.)

(a) Bonds in the total amount of twelve billion three hundred million dollars ($12,300,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Sections 100844 and 100955, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provide a fund to b…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006. (Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 35, Sec. 16. Approved in Proposition 1D at the November 7, 2006, election.)

The incorporation of, or reference to, any provision of California statutory law in this part includes all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. (Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 35, Sec. 16. Approved in Proposition 1D at the November 7, 2006, election.)

(a) Bonds in the total amount of ten billion four hundred sixteen million dollars ($10,416,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Sections 101030, 101039, and 101059, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provid…

This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2016. (Added November 8, 2016, by initiative Proposition 51, Sec. 3.)

Bonds in the total amount of nine billion dollars ($9,000,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Sections 101140 and 101149, or so much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold for the purposes set forth in Sections 101130 and 1…

This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools and Local Community College Public Education Facilities Modernization, Repair, and Safety Bond Act of 2024. (Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 81, Sec. 28. (AB 247) Approved in Proposition 2 at the N…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) A University of California, Berkeley report estimates that 85 percent of the classrooms in California are more than 25 years old, 30 percent of the classrooms are between 50 to 70 years old, and about 10 percent of the …

(a) The incorporation of, or reference to, any provision of state statutory law in this part includes all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. (b) For purposes of this part, “State General Obligation Bond Law” means the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (…

Bonds in the total amount of ten billion dollars ($10,000,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Sections 101430 and 101451, may be issued and sold for the purposes set forth in Sections 101420 and 101442. The bonds, when sold, issued,…

(a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the California Civil Liberties Public Education Act. The purpose of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Act is to sponsor public educational activities and the development of educational materials to ensure that the eve…

This part may be known and cited as the E. Richard Barnes Act and together with Part 14 (commencing with Section 26000) shall be known as the Teachers’ Retirement Law. (Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 939, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2000.)

In order to provide a financially sound plan for the retirement, with adequate retirement allowances, of teachers in the public schools of this state, teachers in schools supported by this state, and other persons employed in connection with the schools, the State Teachers’ Retir…

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that on July 1, 1996, the State Teachers’ Retirement System Cash Balance Plan was created and established to provide a retirement plan for persons employed by an employer offering the Cash Balance Plan, excluding community college distric…

The Legislature recognizes that the assets of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan with respect to the Defined Benefit Program are insufficient to meet the obligations of that program already accrued or to accrue in the future with respect to service credited to members of that pr…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The current and projected assets of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan administered by the State Teachers’ Retirement System with respect to the Defined Benefit Program are insufficient to meet the obligations of that …

The revision of the State Teachers’ Retirement Law, enacted at the 1971 and 1972 Regular Sessions of the Legislature, shall not be construed to affect benefits of persons retired prior to July 1, 1972, or their beneficiaries, except as specifically provided. (Repealed and added b…

If the provisions of this part are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further …

The right of a person to a pension, retirement allowance, return of contributions, any optional benefit, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under this part is exempt from taxation, including any inheritance tax, whether state, county, municipal, or district. (Re…

The right of a person to an annuity or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions, the annuity, or retirement allowance itself, any optional benefit, any other right or benefit accrued or accruing to any person under this part, and the moneys in the fund created under…

The obligations of any member, or the member’s beneficiaries, to this system and the Defined Benefit Program continue throughout membership, and thereafter until all of the obligations of this system and the Defined Benefit Program to or in respect to the member or the member’s b…

Except as excluded by subdivision (d) of Sections 22661 and 23812, subdivision (e) of Section 24300.1, subdivision (d) of Section 25011.1, subdivision (c) of Section 25018.1, subdivision (d) of Section 26807.5, and subdivision (c) of Section 26906.5, a person who is the registere…

For the purposes of payments into or out of the retirement fund for adjustments of errors or omissions with respect to the Defined Benefit Program or the Defined Benefit Supplement Program, the period of limitation of actions shall be applied, except as provided in Sections 23302…

If any provision of this part or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this part that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provis…

(a) It is unlawful for a person to do any of the following: (1) Make, or cause to be made, any knowingly false material statement or material representation, to knowingly fail to disclose a material fact, or to otherwise provide false information with the intent to use it, or all…

For an application or document requiring a signature, that signature shall be in a form prescribed by the system, including, but not limited to, on paper or made by electronic means. Notwithstanding any other law, an application or document made under this part, Part 13.5 (commen…

(a) All costs incurred by the system to develop health care benefit programs pursuant to this part shall be paid by allocations from the Teachers’ Retirement Fund as appropriated for that purpose. (b) Any health care benefits program developed by the system pursuant to this part …

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the State Teachers’ Retirement System Cash Balance Plan was created and established on July 1, 1996, to provide a retirement plan for persons employed by an employer offering the Cash Balance Plan, excluding a community college distr…

An employer whose governing board has elected to provide the benefits of this part for its employees pursuant to Section 26000 shall enter into an agreement with the State Teachers’ Retirement System. The agreement shall specify the terms and conditions of the employer’s formal a…

(a) An election by any employer to provide the benefits of the Cash Balance Plan for their employees prior to the merger described in Section 26000 shall be deemed to constitute an election to provide the Cash Balance Benefit Program under the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan. (b)…

The design and administration of the plan, including the Cash Balance Benefit Program, shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the Revenue and Taxation Code. The Teachers’ Retirement Board may amend the plan to comply with the applicable feder…

The Cash Balance Benefit Program shall be administered by the Teachers’ Retirement Board with all of the powers, responsibilities and duties for administration of the plan set forth in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 22200) through Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 22375) of …

Except as excluded in subdivision (d) of Section 26807.5 or subdivision (c) of Section 26906.5, a person who is the registered domestic partner of a member, as established pursuant to Section 297 or 299.2 of the Family Code, shall be treated in the same manner as a “spouse,” as d…

If any provision of this part or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this part that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provis…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) The benefits payable to any participant or beneficiary under this part shall be subject to the limitations imposed by Section 415 of Title 26 of the United States Code. (b) The amount of compensation that is taken into account in co…

(a) The governing board of a school district may establish a security department under the supervision of a chief of security as designated by, and under the direction of, the superintendent of the school district. In accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 45100) of P…

Persons employed and compensated as members of a police department of a school district, when appointed and duly sworn, are peace officers, for the purposes of carrying out their duties of employment pursuant to Section 830.32 of the Penal Code. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 277, Se…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure the safety of pupils, staff, and the public on or near California’s public schools, by providing school security officers with training that will enable them to deal with the increasingly diverse and dangerous situations they enco…

(a) Every school peace officer first employed by a K–12 public school district before July 1, 1999, shall, in order to retain his or her employment, fulfill both of the following conditions: (1) The employee shall submit to the school district one copy of his or her fingerprints …

Moneys transferred into the general fund of any school district pursuant to Section 1463.12 of the Penal Code may be made available for the following purposes: (a) The training of persons employed and compensated as members of a police department of a school district, pursuant to…

Persons employed and compensated as members of a security or police department of a school district shall be supplied with and authorized to wear a badge bearing the name of the school district. The employee shall carry a suitable identification card bearing his or her photograph…

The governing board of a school district which establishes a security or police department may provide and maintain motor vehicles for the use of the department. Any vehicle, when operated in the performance of his or her duties by any member of the police department, is an autho…

The governing board of a school district that establishes a school police department shall not permit the school police department to receive surplus military equipment pursuant to Section 2576a of Title 10 of the United States Code, unless the governing board of the school distr…

The governing board of any school district may contract with a private licensed security agency to insure the safety of school district personnel and pupils and the security of the real and personal property of the school district when the personnel normally required to provide s…

It is the intent of the Legislature that local educational agencies offer in-person instruction to the greatest extent possible during the 2020–21 school year, consistent with subdivision (b) of Section 43504, and, starting in the 2020–21 school year and continuing into the 2022–…