BILL NUMBER: SB 544 CHAPTERED 07/22/99 CHAPTER 153 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 22, 1999 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR JULY 22, 1999 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY JULY 8, 1999 PASSED THE SENATE APRIL 29, 1999 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 27, 1999 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 5, 1999 INTRODUCED BY Senator Karnette FEBRUARY 19, 1999 An act to amend Section 1 of Chapter 868 of the Statutes of 1998, relating to school district reorganization, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 544, Karnette. School district reorganization: Palos Verdes Peninsula and Los Angeles Unified School Districts. 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. Existing law, commencing with the 1999-2000 school year, makes 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 clarify that those provisions are applicable to all pupils who reside in the area of Eastview in Los Angeles County regardless of whether the pupil previously attended a private school. It would revise the procedure for making an election as to which school district the pupil will attend. The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 868 of the Statutes of 1998 is amended to read: 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 March 1 of the school year in which the pupil first enters elementary school, and shall make a second election by March 1 of the school year in which the pupil enters middle school. Parents and legal guardians residing in the area of Eastview may elect, for each of their children, whether to attend schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District or the Los Angeles Unified School District twice during the time that their child attends school. This election may be made once during any time the child attends kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and be made once during the time the child attends any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive. 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. This section is applicable to all pupils who reside within the area of Eastview of Los Angeles County regardless of whether the pupil previously attended a private 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; thence easterly at right angles from said last mentioned centerline a distance of 50 feet to the northerly termimus 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, thence northerly along said last mentioned boundary to the point of beginning. SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: In order to clarify as soon as possible provisions of law relating to the area of Eastview in Los Angeles County and school district reorganization, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.