Senate Bill No. 657

Introduced by Senator Block

February 22, 2013

An act to amend Section 1001 of the Education Code, relating to education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 657, as introduced, Block. County board of education: elections.

Existing law provides, in counties where the county superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over a school district situated in 2 or more counties, a qualified elector residing in the part of the school district situated in a county whose county superintendent of schools does not have jurisdiction of that school district is eligible to vote for one or more members of the county board of education, as provided.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that law.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 1001 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

1001.  

(a) In begin delete those end delete counties where the county superintendent
of schools has jurisdiction over a school district situated in two or
more counties, begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert qualified elector residing in the part of the
school district situated in a county whose county superintendent
of schools does not have jurisdiction of that school district shall
be eligible to vote for one or more members of the county board
of education of the county whose county superintendent of schools
has jurisdiction over the school district. begin delete Each such end delete begin insert The end insert elector
shall be eligible to vote for the member of the county board of
education representing the trustee area of that county having
jurisdiction as designated by the county committee on school
district organization. The committee shall apportion the portion
of the school district territory not situated in the county having
jurisdiction to one or more trustee areas of the other county so that
begin delete that end delete begin insert the end insert territory shall, insofar as possible, be represented as if it
were situated in the county having jurisdiction. The territory so
apportioned shall not become a part of the trustee area to which
apportioned for any other purpose. As used in this subdivision,
“school district” means begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert joint union elementary school district,
joint union high school district, or joint unified school district, but
does not include begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert community college district.

(b)  begin delete Any end delete begin insert A end insert person who is a resident of a county and is made
eligible to vote for the county board of education of another county
pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not be eligible to vote for the
county board of education of the county begin delete of which he or she is a
resident end delete begin insert where the person resides end insert . Notwithstanding begin delete the foregoing
provisions of end delete this subdivision, a person shall be eligible to vote
for both county boards of education if he or she is a resident of an
elementary school district of any type that is included in a joint
union high school district and the elementary school district and
the joint union high school district are begin delete each end delete under the jurisdiction
of different county superintendents of schools.

(c) “County,” for purposes of this section, includes begin delete any end delete begin insert a end insert county
other than a charter county for which the charter specifies that this
section does not apply.