BILL NUMBER: SB 464	CHAPTERED  09/17/03

	CHAPTER  413
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 17, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 16, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 16, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 12, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Murray

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to add Section 56341.2 to the Education Code, relating to
special education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 464, Murray.  Special education:  individualized education
program meetings:  group home representative.
   Existing law requires a school district, special education local
plan area, or county office of education to conduct meetings, through
an individualized education program team, as specified, for the
purposes of developing, reviewing, and revising the individualized
education program of an individual with exceptional needs.  Existing
law also provides for the placement in foster care of minors who are
declared dependent children of the court or wards of the court by a
juvenile court.
   This bill would require a school district, special education local
plan area, or county office of education to invite to the
individualized education program team meetings a representative of
the group home in those cases in which a pupil with exceptional needs
has been placed in a group home by a juvenile court, as specified.
To the extent local educational agencies would be required to perform
additional duties, this bill would impose 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 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 56341.2 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   56341.2.  (a) In the case of a pupil with exceptional needs who
has been placed in a group home, as defined in subdivision (g) of
Section 80001 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, by
the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300, 601, or 602 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code, the district, special education local
plan area, or county office shall invite to the individualized
education program team meetings a representative of the group home.
   (b) This section shall not be construed to delay the
individualized education program process or to change the
individualized education program team requirements of subdivision (b)
of Section 56341.
  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.