BILL NUMBER: AB 1362	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nestande
   (Coauthor: Senator Padilla)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 46001 to the Education Code, relating to
pupil attendance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1362, as introduced, Nestande. Pupil attendance: electronic
attendance accounting systems.
   Existing law requires that pupil attendance and absence be
recorded for certain purposes, including meeting requirements
relating to the minimum required school day and calculation of
average daily attendance. Existing law requires that records of pupil
attendance be kept according to specified provisions of law.
   This bill would authorize a local educational agency to use
electronic attendance accounting systems that meet certain
requirements, and that are approved by the State Department of
Education, for purposes of demonstrating that pupils have satisfied
the minimum instructional time requirements and for purposes of
computing average daily attendance. The bill also would authorize
pupil attendance records to be combined from more than one system,
including manual and electronic attendance accounting systems.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 46001 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   46001.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, records of
cumulative minutes of instruction for an individual pupil may be
combined from more than one system, including manual and electronic
attendance accounting systems, to satisfy the requirements of Section
44809, to satisfy accounting for the minimum school day requirements
pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 46100), and to be
used for computing average daily attendance pursuant to Chapter 3
(commencing with Section 46300).
   (b) (1) Local educational agencies may use electronic attendance
accounting systems approved by the department for purposes of
demonstrating that pupils have satisfied the minimum instructional
time requirements and for purposes of computing average daily
attendance.
   (2) For purposes of this section, electronic attendance accounting
systems, at a minimum, shall track the original date and time that
data is entered for each pupil and identify by password or other
acceptable mechanism the identity of the data recorder.