BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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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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