BILL NUMBER: AB 1672 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 18, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 24, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 7, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Holden
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bocanegra, Bonta, Buchanan, and Hall)
(Coauthor: Senator Liu)
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
An act to amend amend, repeal, and add
Section 48273 of the Education Code, relating to pupil
attendance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1672, as amended, Holden. Pupil attendance: truancy.
Existing law authorizes the establishment of county and local
school attendance review boards, and authorizes a school district to
refer a pupil to a school attendance review board or the probation
department for, among other things, truancy. Existing law, under
specified circumstances, authorizes a school attendance review board
or probation officer to direct the county superintendent of schools
to request a petition on behalf of the pupil in the juvenile court of
the county. Existing law requires the governing board of a school
district to adopt rules and regulations to require appropriate
officers and employees of the school district to gather and transmit
to the county superintendent of schools the number and types of
referrals to school attendance review boards and of requests for
petitions to the juvenile court.
This bill would instead require the governing board of each school
district that has established a local school attendance review board
to adopt rules and regulations to require appropriate officers and
employees of the school district to gather and transmit
that information for the prior school year to the
county superintendent of schools and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, by September 15 of every year, and would
expand the information required to be gathered and submitted
to include, among other things, the number and
percentage of chronic absentees in the school district, the
number of pupils referred to a school attendance review board who
improved their attendance, attendance
and the number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to
community services, as specified. The bill would require the
information to be disaggregated by specified subgroups, including
gender, ethnicity, and foster youth status. The bill would require
a county office of education the governing
board of each school district to make available on its Internet
Web site, if one is available, certain reports and
information received from school attendance review boards. By
imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, the
bill would impose a state-mandated local program. the
contents of those school attendance review board reports no later
than September 15 of every year. The bill would require the State
Department of Education to maintain current Internet Web site links
to the Internet Web sites of school attendance review board reports
and would require the governing board of each school district that
posts school attendance review board reports to provide to the
department current uniform resource locators for those Internet Web
sites. The bill would make these provisions operative beginning June
1, 2015.
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 no .
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 48273 of the
Education Code is amended to read:
48273. (a) The governing board of each
school district shall adopt rules and regulations to require the
appropriate officers and employees of the school district
to gather and transmit to the county superintendent of schools the
number and types of referrals to school attendance review boards and
of requests for petitions to the juvenile court pursuant to Section
48263.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on June 1, 2015, and, as
of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 2. Section 48273 is added to the
Education Code , to read:
48273. (a) The governing board of each school district that has
established a local school attendance review board shall adopt rules
and regulations to require the appropriate officers and employees of
the school district to gather all of the following information for
the prior school year:
(1) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
school-level meeting, such as a student attendance review team or a
student success team.
(2) The number of pupils in the school district referred, and the
reason for the referral, to a school attendance review board meeting.
(3) The number of pupils referred to a school attendance review
board who improved their attendance by at least 50 percent during the
following semester or trimester after attending the school
attendance review board meeting.
(4) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to the
district attorney, city prosecutor, or probation department for
mediation or prosecution following a school attendance review board
meeting.
(5) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to the
community services referenced in Section 48320 following a school
attendance review board meeting.
(6) The number of pupils referred to an alternative education
placement following a school attendance review board meeting.
(7) The number of petitions to the juvenile court requested
pursuant to Section 48263.
(b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be
disaggregated and submitted by the following subgroups:
(1) English learner status.
(2) Foster youth status.
(3) Gender.
(4) Grade levels.
(5) Low-income status.
(6) Race or ethnicity.
(7) Disability status.
(c) The governing board of each school district shall make
available on its Internet Web site, if one is available, the contents
of the school attendance review board reports described in
subdivision (a) no later than September 15 of every year. The
information shall be made available in an anonymized format that is
easy for the public to access and understand.
(d) (1) The department shall maintain current Internet Web site
links to the Internet Web sites of school attendance review board
reports required to be posted pursuant to subdivision (c). Those
Internet Web site links shall provide parents and the public with
easy access to the school attendance review board reports maintained
on the Internet.
(2) The governing board of each school district that posts school
attendance review board reports pursuant to subdivision (c) shall
provide a current uniform resource locator for their Internet Web
site to the department.
(e) This section shall become operative on June 1, 2015.
SECTION 1. Section 48273 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
48273. (a) The governing board of each school district that has
established a local school attendance review board shall adopt rules
and regulations to require the appropriate officers and employees of
the school district to gather and transmit to the county
superintendent of schools and the Superintendent, by September 15 of
every year, all of the following information for the prior school
year:
(1) The number of pupils enrolled in the school district.
(2) The number of chronic absentees, as defined in Section 60901,
in the school district.
(3) The percentage of chronic absentees, as defined in Section
60901, in the school district.
(4) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
school-level meeting, such as a student attendance review team or a
student success team.
(5) The number of pupils in the school district referred, and the
reason for the referral, to a school attendance review board meeting.
(6) The number of pupils referred to a school attendance review
board who improved their attendance by at least 50 percent during the
following semester or trimester after attending the school
attendance review board meeting.
(7) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to the
district attorney, city prosecutor, or probation department for
mediation or prosecution following a school attendance review board
meeting.
(8) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to the
community services referenced in Section 48320 following a school
attendance review board meeting.
(9) The number of pupils referred to alternative education
placement following a school attendance review board meeting.
(10) The number of petitions to the juvenile court requested
pursuant to Section 48263.
(b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be
disaggregated and submitted by the following subgroups:
(1) English learner status.
(2) Foster youth status.
(3) Gender.
(4) Grade levels.
(5) Low income status.
(6) Race or ethnicity.
(7) Disability status.
(c) The county office of education shall make available on its
Internet Web site, if one is available, the contents of the school
attendance review board reports it receives from local school
attendance review boards, or that summarize the results of those
reports, or that the county office of education creates, if the
county school attendance review board accepts referrals. The
information shall be made available in an anonymized format that is
easy for the public to access and understand.
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.