BILL NUMBER: AB 570	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to amend Section 46170 of the Education Code, relating to
school attendance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 570, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Continuation schools: minutes
of attendance.
   Existing law requires the governing board of each school district
to fix the length of the schoolday for the several grades and classes
of the schools maintained by the district, subject to the provisions
as prescribed. Under existing law, in continuation high schools and
continuation education classes, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of
attendance, but no pupil is credited with more than 15 hours of
attendance per school week, proportionately reduced for those school
weeks having weekday holidays on which classes are not held.
   This bill would change the requirement of 180 minutes to 240
minutes for a day of attendance. Because this bill creates new duties
for local educational agencies, 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.
   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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 46170 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   46170.  In continuation high schools and continuation education
classes, a day of attendance is  180   240 
minutes of attendance  ,  but no pupil shall be credited
with more than 15 hours of attendance per school week,
proportionately reduced for those school weeks having weekday
holidays on which classes are not held.
  SEC. 2.  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.