BILL NUMBER: AB 1725	CHAPTERED  10/09/01

	CHAPTER  598
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 9, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 7, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 18, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 2, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 19, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Reyes

                        MARCH 19, 2001

   An act to add Section 35178.4 to the Education Code, relating to
school board members, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1725, Reyes.  School board members.
   Under existing law, the governing board of any school district is
authorized to initiate and carry on any program, activity, or
otherwise act in any manner that is not in conflict with, or
inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law, and that is not in
conflict with the purposes for which school districts are
established.
   This bill requires a school board to give official notice at a
school board meeting if a public school within the district that has
elected to be accredited by the Western Association of Schools and
Colleges or any other chartered accrediting agency loses its
accreditation status.  The bill would require the school district, if
it loses its accreditation status, to notify each parent or guardian
of the pupils in that school, in writing, that the school has lost
its accreditation status and would prescribe related matters, thereby
imposing a state-mandated local program.
  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, including the creation of a State Mandates Claims Fund
to pay the costs of mandates that do not exceed $1,000,000 statewide
and other procedures for claims whose statewide costs exceed
$1,000,000.
   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 these
statutory provisions.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 35178.4 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   35178.4.  A school board shall give official notice at a regularly
scheduled school board meeting if a public school within the
district that has elected to be accredited by the Western Association
of Schools and Colleges or any other chartered accrediting agency
loses its accreditation status.  If a  school loses its accreditation
status, the school district shall notify each parent or guardian of
the pupils in the school that the school has lost its accreditation
status, in writing, and this notice shall indicate the potential
consequences of the school's loss of accreditation status.
  SEC. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 17610 of the Government Code, if
the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains
costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and
school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7
(commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code.  If the statewide cost of the claim for
reimbursement does not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000),
reimbursement shall be made from the State Mandates Claims Fund.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   To ensure that parents are adequately notified of the
accreditation status of their schools, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately as an urgency statute.