Text of CA AB 2311 (2006)

skip to content home accessibility FAQ feedback sitemap login x Quick Search: Bill Number Bill Keyword Home Bill Information California Law Publications Other Resources My Subscriptions My Favorites Bill Information >> Bill Search >> Text Bill Text PDF2 Add To My Favorites | Version: 05/01/06 - Amended Assembly 02/22/06 - Introduced AB-2311 Instruction: prohibition: homosexuality.(2005-2006) Text >> Votes >> History >> Bill Analysis >> Today's Law As Amended >> Compare Versions >> Status >> Comments To Author >> Add To My Favorites >> SHARE THIS: Bill Start Amended IN Assembly May 01, 2006 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2005–2006 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2311 Introduced by Assembly Member Mountjoy February 22, 2006 An act to add Section 51556 to amend Section 51530 of the Education Code, relating to education instruction. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2311, as amended, Mountjoy. Education. Instruction: prohibition: homosexuality. Existing law prohibits a teacher from advocating or teaching communism, as defined, in any school or on any property belonging to any agency included within the public school system. This bill would also prohibit the teaching or advocacy of socialism, humanism, or homosexuality, as defined. Existing law prohibits the administration, as specified, of a test, questionnaire, survey, or examination that contains any questions about a pupil’s personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion, or any questions about the pupil’s parents’ or guardians’ beliefs and practices in those areas unless the pupil’s parent or guardian gives written permission. This bill would prohibit the promotion of homosexuality in public education. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 51530 of the Education Code is amended to read: 51530. No teacher giving instruction in any school, or on any property belonging to any agencies included in within the public school system, shall advocate or teach communism, socialism, humanism, or homosexuality with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate or transform in the mind of any pupil or teacher a preference for communism, socialism, humanism, or homosexuality. In prohibiting the advocacy or teaching of communism, socialism, humanism, or homosexuality with the intent of indoctrinating or inculcating, or transforming a preference in the mind of any pupil for such doctrine, the Legislature does not intend to prevent the teaching of the facts about communism, socialism, humanism, or homosexuality. Rather, the Legislature intends to prevent the advocacy of, or inculcation and indoctrination into, communism, socialism, humanism, or homosexuality as is hereinafter defined in this section, for the purpose of undermining patriotism for, and the belief in, the government and the Constitution of the United States and of this state or undermining a belief in heterosexuality. For the purposes of this section, communism is a political theory that the presently existing form of government of the United States or of this state should be changed, by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means, to a totalitarian dictatorship which is based on the principles of communism as expounded by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. For the purposes of this section, socialism is a political theory that the presently existing form of government in the United States or of this state should be changed, by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means, to a global system of society that will replace capitalism, which is based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest, or common good, of the whole community. For purposes of this section, humanism is a political theory that the presently existing form of government in the United States or of this state should be changed, by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means, to a humanist society, that shares the same worldview in regards to world order, government, oppression and moral values which are based on a set of ideals set up to meet particular personal and social needs for the common good. For the purposes of this section, homosexuality is characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another individual of the same sex or to direct erotic activity with another individual of the same sex. SECTION 1.Section 51556 is added to the Education Code, to read: 51556. The promotion of homosexuality in public education is prohibited.