BILL NUMBER: SB 614	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 14, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 14, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 12, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 1, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 26, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe
   (Coauthors: Senators Calderon and Padilla)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 120335.1 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to immunization, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 614, Kehoe. Childhood immunization.
   Existing law, commencing July 1, 2011, until June 30, 2012,
prohibits a defined governing authority, which includes the authority
of a private institution, from unconditionally admitting or
advancing any pupil to the 7th through 12th grade levels of any
private or public elementary or secondary school unless the pupil has
been fully immunized against pertussis, including all pertussis
boosters appropriate for the pupil's age.
   This bill would, until June 30, 2012, authorize the county office
of education, the governing board of a school district, or the
governing body of a charter school to allow a pupil, advancing to or
enrolled in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to conditionally attend
school for up to 30 calendar days, as specified, if that pupil has
not been fully immunized with all pertussis boosters appropriate for
the pupil's age if specified conditions are met.
   This 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 120335.1 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   120335.1.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 120335, the county office
of education, the governing board of a school district of attendance,
or the governing body of a charter school may allow a pupil,
advancing to or enrolled in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to
conditionally attend school for up to 30 calendar days, commencing
with the pupil's first day of attendance in the 2011-12 school year
for that county office of education or school district, if that pupil
has not been fully immunized with all pertussis boosters appropriate
for the pupil's age and if all of the following conditions are met:
   (1) The pupil was enrolled in the county office of education or
school district in the prior year, and is continuing in the same or
advancing to the next grade level.
   (2) The pupil's first day of attendance in the 2011-12 school year
for that county office of education or school district occurs on or
before the sixth Friday following the first day on which classes are
offered at the school in which the pupil is enrolled.
   (3) The county office of education or school district work with
the pupil's parent or legal guardian so that the pupil receives all
immunizations or boosters necessary for continued attendance.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that any pupil allowed to
conditionally attend pursuant to subdivision (a) be fully immunized
pursuant to this chapter on or before the 30th day of conditional
attendance allowed.
   (c) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2012, and as
of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that
is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends the dates on
which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  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:
   In order to prevent significant educational disadvantages to
students and significant fiscal hardships to schools related to
absenteeism due to the lack of student verification of pertussis
immunization at the start of the 2011-12 school year, it is necessary
that this act take effect immediately.