Ed. Code, § 48985 · Article 4. Notification of Parent or Guardian
Ed. Code, § 48985
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) If 15 percent or more of the pupils enrolled in a public school that provides instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, speak a single primary language other than English, as determined from the census data submitted to the department pursuant to Section 52164 in the preceding year, all notices, reports, statements, or records sent to the parent or guardian of any such pupil by the public school or school district shall, in addition to being written in English, be written in the primary language, and may be responded to either in English or the primary language.
(b) Pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 64001, the department shall monitor adherence to the requirements of subdivision (a) as part of its regular monitoring and review of public schools and school districts and shall determine the types of documents and languages a public school or school district translates to a primary language other than English, the availability of these documents to parents or guardians who speak a primary language other than English, and the gaps in translations of these documents.
(c) Based on census data submitted to the department pursuant to Section 52164 in the preceding fiscal year, the department shall notify a school district, by August 1 of each year, of the schools within the school district, and the primary language other than English, for which the translation of documents is required pursuant to subdivision (a). The department shall make that notification using electronic methods.
(d) The department shall use existing resources to comply with subdivisions (b) and (c).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 51, Sec. 35. (SB 75) Effective July 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=EDC§ionNum=48985.
- Text hash
- sha256 75ac8aa1da4dec0278e4d9ccd77b3515861c54253478b3fcbb886b0734268f01
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Cited by 21 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Ed. Code, § 48985. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Education Code
- Ed. Code, § 231.6Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 234.1Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 313.3Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 313.4Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 8212Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 32221.5Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 35186Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 41329Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 43522Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 46600.2Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 46602Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 48301Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 48851Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 48981Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 49428.5Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 51101.1Printed as Section 48985 | Sections 33126 and 48985
- Ed. Code, § 52062Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 52068Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 53008Printed as Section 48985
- Ed. Code, § 60612Printed as Section 48985
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.