BILL NUMBER: AB 387	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

    An act to amend Section 12305 of the Education Code,
relating to education finance.   An act to amend Section
48205 of the Education Code, relating to pupils. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 387, as amended, Bonilla.  Education finance: State
Allocation Board.   Pupils: excused absences: military
deployment activities.  
   Existing law requires a pupil to be excused from school for
specified types of absences and prohibits those excused absences from
generating state apportionment payments by deeming them as absences
in computing average daily attendance.  
   This bill would include spending time with a parent or legal
guardian participating in specified military deployment activities as
another type of excused absence.  
   Existing law requires that, whenever an act of Congress provides
funds as federal aid to education to states for apportionment or
allocation to school districts or community college districts, and
that act of Congress does not require that the funds be administered
in this state by a state officer or agency other than the State
Allocation Board, the act shall be administered and the funds
apportioned by the State Allocation Board under a prescribed state
statute. Existing law also requires the apportionment of money among
the school districts and community college districts in which potash
leases or deposits are situated in the proportion that the total
amount of rents, royalties, and other payments bears to the total
amount paid to the United States from leases or deposits in all
school districts and community college districts.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in the
provision related to the apportionment of funds derived from potash
leases or deposits. 
   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 48205 of the  
Education Code   is amended to read: 
   48205.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 48200, a pupil shall be
excused from school when the absence is:
   (1) Due to his or her illness.
   (2) Due to quarantine under the direction of a county or city
health officer.
   (3) For the purpose of having medical, dental, optometrical, or
chiropractic services rendered.
   (4) For the purpose of attending the funeral services of a member
of his or her immediate family, so long as the absence is not more
than one day if the service is conducted in California and not more
than three days if the service is conducted outside California.
   (5) For the purpose of jury duty in the manner provided for by
law.
   (6) Due to the illness or medical appointment during school hours
of a child of whom the pupil is the custodial parent.
   (7) For justifiable personal reasons, including, but not limited
to, an appearance in court, attendance at a funeral service,
observance of a holiday or ceremony of his or her religion,
attendance at religious retreats, attendance at an employment
conference, or attendance at an educational conference on the
legislative or judicial process offered by a nonprofit organization
when the pupil's absence is requested in writing by the parent or
guardian and approved by the principal or a designated representative
pursuant to uniform standards established by the governing board.
   (8) For the purpose of serving as a member of a precinct board for
an election pursuant to Section 12302 of the Elections Code. 
   (9) For the purpose of spending time with a parent or legal
guardian participating in military deployment activities, as provided
for in Section (E) of Article V of the Interstate Compact on
Educational Opportunity for Military Children, specified in Section
49701. 
   (b) A pupil absent from school under this section shall be allowed
to complete all assignments and tests missed during the absence that
can be reasonably provided and, upon satisfactory completion within
a reasonable period of time, shall be given full credit therefor. The
teacher of the class from which a pupil is absent shall determine
which tests and assignments shall be reasonably equivalent to, but
not necessarily identical to, the tests and assignments that the
pupil missed during the absence.
   (c) For purposes of this section, attendance at religious retreats
shall not exceed four hours per semester.
   (d) Absences pursuant to this section are deemed to be absences in
computing average daily attendance and shall not generate state
apportionment payments.
   (e) "Immediate family," as used in this section, has the same
meaning as  that  set forth in Section 45194, except
that references therein to "employee" shall be deemed to be
references to "pupil." 
  SECTION 1.    Section 12305 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
   12305.  The money shall be apportioned among the school districts
and community college districts in which potash leases or deposits
are situated in the proportion that the total amount of rents,
royalties, and other payments made to the United States from potash
leases or deposits in each district bears to the total amount paid to
the United States from leases or deposits in all school districts
and community college districts.