(1)ExistingExisting law requires every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation offering or conducting private school instruction on the elementary or high school level to annually file with the Superintendent of Public Instruction an affidavit or statement, under penalty of perjury, by the owner or other head setting forth specified information relating to the school. Existing law requires the
Superintendent to prepare and publish a list of private elementary and high schools that includes the names and addresses of the schools and the names of the school owners or administrators.
This bill would provide that a person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation includes, but is not limited to, conventional or traditional private schools, private school satellite programs, private online or virtual schools, parents, guardians, or other individuals who operate a private home school, and certified nonpublic nonpublic, nonsectarian schools. The bill would also require information on the nature, or a description of the nature, of the private school to be
included in the affidavit or statement. statement, and would require this information or description to be included on the list of private schools prepared and published by the Superintendent. The bill would specify that the list of private schools prepared and published by the Superintendent is required to include every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation that is required to file an affidavit or statement with the Superintendent.
Existing law requires the Superintendent to prepare and publish a list of private elementary and high schools that includes the names and addresses of the schools and the names of the school owners or administrators.This bill would require that list to include private schools with 6 or more pupils that includes every person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation that is required to file with the Superintendent. The bill would require the Superintendent to annually provide that list to the State Fire Marshal. The bill would require the Superintendent to prepare a list of private schools with 5 or fewer pupils and to provide the list directly to the State Fire Marshal, the chief of a city or county fire department or district providing fire protection services to the area in which the school is located, and the chiefs authorized representatives to fulfill
a specified annual inspection.(2)Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal, with the advice of the State Board of Fire Services, to prepare, adopt, and submit building standards for approval, as provided, and to prepare and adopt other regulations establishing minimum requirements for the prevention of fire, and for the protection of life and property against fire and panic, in any building or structure used or intended for, among other things, a school.This bill would also require the State Fire Marshal to prepare and adopt regulations establishing minimum requirements for any school subject to the filing requirements discussed in paragraph (1).Existing law requires the chief of any city or county fire department or district providing fire protection services and his or her authorized representatives to inspect every building used as a public or private school within his or her jurisdiction, for the purpose of enforcing the above regulations, not less than once each year. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal and his or her authorized representatives to make these inspections not less than once each year in areas outside of corporate cities and districts providing fire protection services.This bill would require these inspections to occur for any school subject to the filing requirements discussed in paragraph (1). To the extent this bill would expand the responsibility of a local agency, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.(3)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide
that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. 