BILL NUMBER: SB 597	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 15, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend  Section   Sections 
48315  and 48316  of the Education Code, relating to pupil
attendance.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 597, as amended, Huff. Pupil attendance: interdistrict
transfers. 
   Existing 
    (1)     Existing  law authorizes the
governing board of any school district to accept interdistrict
transfers of pupils in accordance with a policy adopted by
resolution, and sets forth various requirements in that regard,
including, among other things, requirements relating to attendance
priorities, applications for transfer, and the calculation of average
daily attendance. Existing law imposes certain reporting
requirements in connection with interdistrict transfers to certain
school districts and county offices of education, the Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and the Department of Finance, and requires
the Department of Finance to report specified information to the
Legislative Analyst, upon request. Existing law makes those
provisions inoperative on July 1, 2016, and repeals them on January
1, 2017.
   This bill would extend those inoperative and repeal dates to July
1, 2017, and January 1, 2018, respectively. 
   (2) Existing law requires the Legislative Analyst to conduct,
after consulting with appropriate legislative staff, a comprehensive
evaluation of the interdistrict transfer program, and recommendations
regarding the extension of the program. Existing law requires the
evaluation to be completed and submitted, as specified, by November
1, 2014.  
   This bill would instead require the evaluation to be completed and
submitted, as specified, by November 1, 2016. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 48315 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   48315.  This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017,
and, as of January 1, 2018, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, which becomes effective on or before January 1, 2018,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is
repealed.
   SEC. 2.    Section 48316 of the   Education
Code   is amended to read: 
   48316.  The Legislative Analyst shall conduct, after consulting
with appropriate legislative staff, a comprehensive evaluation of the
interdistrict transfer program established pursuant to this article
and recommendations regarding the extension of the program. The
evaluation shall incorporate the data described in Section 48313 and
shall be completed and submitted, along with the recommendations
regarding extension, to the appropriate education policy committees
of the Legislature and the Governor by November 1,  2014.
  2016.