BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 22, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
AB
1166 (Bloom) - As Introduced February 27, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
Yes
SUMMARY: This bill allows students in foster care and those who
are homeless to be eligible for the exemption from local
graduation requirements even if they are not notified of this
right within 30 days of enrollment, and allows homeless students
to be exempt even if they are no longer homeless or if they
transfer to another school or district.
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FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown, likely minor, Proposition 98/GF state
reimbursable mandated costs to local education agencies. This
bill makes minor adjustments to policies and procedures already
in place for foster youth and homeless youth.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. Current law requires school districts to exempt
students in foster care and those who are homeless who transfer
between schools after their second year in high school from
local graduation requirements. Current law continues these
provisions for foster youth even if their court jurisdiction is
terminated, or if students transfer to another school or
district. This bill provides a similar exemption for homeless
youth.
Current law requires school districts to notify students in
foster care and those who are homeless, within 30 days of the
date that they transfer into a school, that they are exempt from
local graduation requirements, and whether individual students
qualify for the exemption. This bill clarifies that homeless and
foster youth are exempt from the local graduation requirements
even if the notification is provided after the 30 day
requirement.
Related legislation. AB 1806 (Bloom), Chapter 767, Statutes of
2014, required notification of homeless liaisons when homeless
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youth with special needs are at risk of expulsion, exempted
these homeless students in their last two years of high school
from district-specific [graduation] requirements, and clarified
that homeless youth have the same rights as foster children when
it comes to receiving partial credit for work they completed at
other schools.
Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)
319-2081