BILL NUMBER: SB 1681 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 868
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 28, 1998
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 26, 1998
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 28, 1998
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 27, 1998
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 24, 1998
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 21, 1998
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 16, 1998
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 22, 1998
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 29, 1998
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 1998
INTRODUCED BY Senator Karnette
(Coauthor: Assembly Members Kuykendall and Washington)
FEBRUARY 17, 1998
An act relating to school district reorganization.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1681, Karnette. Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School
District.
Existing law requires each person subject to compulsory full-time
education to attend the school in which the residency of either the
parent or legal guardian is located, subject to specified exceptions.
This bill would, commencing with the 1999-2000 school year, make
the area of Eastview in Los Angeles County, which is currently part
of the Los Angeles Unified School District, an optional attendance
area by authorizing parents and legal guardians who reside in that
area to make an election for each pupil when the pupil enters
elementary school and middle school as to whether that pupil will
attend schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District
or the Los Angeles Unified School District. The bill would make a
declaration of special circumstances in that regard. The new duties
imposed on the affected school districts by this bill would
constitute a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement, including the creation of a State Mandates Claims Fund
to pay the costs of mandates that do not exceed $1,000,000 statewide
and other procedures for claims whose statewide costs exceed
$1,000,000.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. (a) Commencing with the 1999-2000 school year, the area
of Eastview as delineated in subdivision (c) is an optional
attendance area. Parents and legal guardians residing in the area of
Eastview may make an election for each pupil as to whether that
pupil will attend schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified
School District or the Los Angeles Unified School District. For the
1999-2000 school year, the parents or legal guardians of all pupils
who reside in the area of Eastview may make an election by March 1,
1999, as to the school district their child or children will attend.
For the 2000-01 school year and each subsequent school year, the
parents or legal guardians residing in the area of Eastview shall
make their initial election as to the school district their child or
children will attend by May 1 of the school year in which the pupil
first enters elementary school, and shall make a second election by
May 1 of the school year in which the pupil enters middle school.
Parents or legal guardians who newly move into the area of Eastview
shall make their initial election as to the school district their
child or children will attend when the parents or legal guardians
first enroll their child or children in public school.
(b) Any school facility belonging to the Los Angeles Unified
School District that is located in the area delineated in subdivision
(c) shall remain the property of the Los Angeles Unified School
District. The status of an employee as an employee of the Los
Angeles Unified School District shall not be affected by this act.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the following are the
boundaries of the area in Eastview in Los Angeles County: begin at
the southeast corner of Tract #19028 as shown on map filed in book
587, pages 83 and 84, of maps in the office of the Recorder of the
County of Los Angeles, said corner being angle point in the boundary
of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes as same existed on November 1,
1978; thence northerly along the boundary of the City of Rolling
Hills Estates as same existed on said date to its first intersection
with the boundary of the City of Lomita as same existed on said date;
thence easterly along said less mentioned boundary and following the
same in all its various courses to the intersection of the northerly
line of Lot 1 of Tract #3192 as shown on map filed in book 44, pages
91 to 94, inclusive, of said maps and the centerline of Western
Avenue as shown on map filed in book 77, page 88, of record of
surveys, in the office of said recorder; thence southerly along said
centerline and continuing southerly along the centerline of Western
Avenue as shown on map of Tract #24436 filed in book 653, pages 96 to
100, inclusive, of said maps to the centerline of Westmont Drive as
shown on map of parcel map #5375 filed in book 63, pages 92 and 93,
of parcel maps in the office of said recorder; thence continuing
southerly along the centerline of Western Avenue as shown on said
last mentioned map a distance of 67 feet; hence easterly at right
angles from said last mentioned centerline a distance of 50 feet to
the northerly terminous of that certain course having a bearing and
length of N1343 feet 42 inches East along that certain 27 foot radius
curve in said last mentioned boundary of the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes, hence northerly along said last mentioned boundary to the
point of beginning.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that, for Section 1 of
this act, a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be
made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of
the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of
the area of Eastview. The facts constituting the special
circumstances are these:
The residents of the area of Eastview in Los Angeles County are
part of the community of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, as that
area was annexed to that city in 1983. Thus, the residents of that
area should be allowed to participate in the events and activities
that surround that community, including those that are sponsored by
the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District. The school
district boundaries were not changed in 1983 when the city boundaries
were changed which resulted in leaving the residents of the area of
Eastview within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Unified School
District and thereby with a different academic and recreational
schedule than the community in which they actually reside.
Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to grant to residents
of the area of Eastview the right to enroll their children in the
school district of the community that they belong to and identify
with.
SEC. 3. This act shall become operative on July 1, 1999.
SEC. 4. Notwithstanding Section 17610 of the Government Code, if
the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains
costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and
school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7
(commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code. If the statewide cost of the claim for
reimbursement does not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000),
reimbursement shall be made from the State Mandates Claims Fund.
Notwithstanding Section 17580 of the Government Code, unless
otherwise specified, the provisions of this act shall become
operative on the same date that the act takes effect pursuant to the
California Constitution.