BILL NUMBER: AB 81	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Audra Strickland
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Adams,   DeVore,   Gilmore,  
Jeffries,   Nestande,   Price,   and Smyth
  ) 
    (  Coauthors:   Senators   Cox
  and Runner   ) 

                        DECEMBER 22, 2008

   An act to add Section 49069.7 to the Education Code, relating to
interscholastic athletics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 81, as amended, Audra Strickland. Interscholastic athletics:
pupils in foster care.
   Existing law recognizes that the California Interscholastic
Federation is a voluntary organization that consists of school and
school-related personnel with responsibility for administering
interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools.
   Existing law requires that, with respect to a pupil in foster
care, as soon as a county placing agency becomes aware of the need to
transfer that pupil out of his or her current school, the county
placing agency contact the appropriate person at the local
educational agency of the pupil and notify the local educational
agency of the date that the pupil will be leaving the school and
request that the pupil be transferred out. Existing law further
requires that, upon receiving a transfer request from a county
placing agency, the local educational agency of the pupil transfer
the pupil out of the school and deliver the educational information
and records of the pupil to the next educational placement within 2
business days.
   This bill would require the California Interscholastic Federation
to amend its constitution and bylaws to require that, no later than
January 15, 2010, the  receipt of the educational information
and records   transfer  of a pupil in foster care
 who has been transferred  pursuant to a court order
 at that pupil's next educational placement pursuant to
existing law be deemed to be presumptive evidence that the pupil has
had a   or the transfer of a pupil in foster care
pursuant to the   determination of a social worker that
changes are needed in that pupil's home setting are  valid
 change   changes  of residence for the
purposes of eligibility for interscholastic athletic activities.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 49069.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   49069.7.  The California Interscholastic Federation shall amend
its constitution and bylaws to require that, no later than January
15, 2010,  the receipt of the educational information and
records of a pupil in foster care who has been transferred pursuant
to a court order at that pupil's next educational placement pursuant
to Section 49069.5 shall be deemed to be presumptive evidence that
the pupil has had   either of the following is  a
valid change of residence for the purposes of eligibility for
interscholastic athletic  activities.  
activities:  
   (a) A pupil in foster care has been transferred pursuant to a
court order.  
   (b) A pupil in foster care has been transferred pursuant to the
determination of a social worker that changes are needed in that
pupil's home setting.