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          CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS


          AB  
          1166 (Bloom)


          As Amended  June 29, 2015


          Majority vote


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          Original Committee Reference:  ED.


          SUMMARY:  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.  


          The Senate amendments clarify that if a school district fails to  
          provide timely notice to a foster care student or homeless  
          student, only those students who qualify are exempted from local  
          graduation requirements.  


          EXISTING LAW:  


          1)Requires school districts to exempt students in foster care  








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            and those who are homeless who transfer between schools after  
            their second year in high school from local graduation  
            requirements.


          2)Requires school districts to notify specified individuals,  
            including 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.


          3)Requires that the exemption from local graduation requirements  
            continue to apply to students in foster care even if their  
            court jurisdiction is terminated, or if students transfer to  
            another school or district.


          FISCAL EFFECT:  According to the Senate Appropriations  
          Committee, potential, likely minor, reimbursable mandate costs  
          to the extent the Commission on State Mandates determines this  
          bill constitutes a higher level of service.


          COMMENTS:  


          Need for the bill.  According to the author, "AB 1166 is a  
          clean-up measure for last year's AB 1806 [(Bloom), Chapter 767,  
          Statutes of 2014], which gave students identified as homeless  
          education-related rights similar to those of their foster youth  
          peers? AB 1166 will close several loopholes by clarifying the  
          students who have been homeless but no longer are should still  
          receive the same education-related rights as currently homeless  
          students."


          Analysis Prepared by:                                             
                          Tanya Lieberman / ED. / (916) 319-2087  FN:  
          0001171










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