BILL NUMBER: SB 312	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Knight

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2013

   An act to amend Section 46010.1 of the Education Code, relating to
school attendance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 312, as introduced, Knight. Absences: confidential medical
services: parent or guardian consent.
   Existing law requires the governing board of each school district,
each academic year, to notify pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive,
and the parents or guardians of all pupils enrolled in the district,
that the school authorities may excuse a pupil from the school for
confidential medical services without the consent of the pupil's
parent or guardian.
   This bill would instead require the governing board to notify
pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, and the parents or guardians of
all pupils enrolled in the district, that school authorities may
excuse, for these purposes, a pupil 16 years or age or order from
school without parental or guardian consent. To the extent this bill
would require a school district to change its notification policy and
procedure, 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 46010.1 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   46010.1.   Commencing in the fall of the 1986-87 academic
year, the   (a)     The 
governing board of each school district shall, each academic year,
notify pupils in grades  7   9  to 12,
inclusive, and the parents or guardians of all pupils enrolled in the
district, that school authorities may excuse  any 
 a  pupil  16 years of age or older  from the
school for the purpose of obtaining confidential medical services
without the consent of the pupil's parent or guardian. 
   The 
    (b)     The  notice required pursuant
to this section may be included with any other notice given pursuant
to this code.
  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.