BILL NUMBER: SB 1266	CHAPTERED  07/26/99

	CHAPTER   189
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 26, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 26, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 15, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JULY 12, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 7, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 21, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 10, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 28, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 19, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Knight
   (Coauthors:  Senators Costa and Figueroa)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist, Briggs, Cunneen, and Robert
Pacheco)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 35041.3 to the Education Code, relating to
the selective service.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1266, Knight.  Selective Service Act:  registration:  high
school.
   Existing law authorizes school districts to appoint prescribed
staff, including, but not limited to, police reserve officers,
administrative advisors, and legal counsel.
   This bill would provide that a governing board of a school
district should, but is not required to, make every reasonable effort
to appoint a selective services registrar for each high school, who
may be a school employee or a school volunteer who is 18 years of age
or older, to help pupils subject to the federal Military Selective
Service Act enrolled in the high school register in accordance with
that act.


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


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Under federal law, a young man is required to register with
the Selective Service pursuant to the federal Military Selective
Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.) within 30 days of his 18th
birthday.
   (b) Under federal law, failure to register is a felony punishable
by a fine of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000),
imprisonment for up to five years, or both the fine and imprisonment.

   (c) Under federal law, registration with the Selective Service is
a condition of eligibility for federal student loans and federal job
training.
   (d) Under California law, registration is required for a student
to be eligible for state student financial aid and for appointment to
many state and local government jobs.
   (e) Every effort must be made to ensure that young men are aware
of, and fulfill, their obligation to register for the Selective
Service.
  SEC. 2.  Section 35041.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   35041.3.  (a) A governing board of a school district should, but
is not required to, make every reasonable effort to appoint a
selective service registrar for each high school.  The selective
service registrar may be an employee of the high school where he or
she is appointed or a school volunteer who is 18 years of age or
older.  The duty of the selective service registrar is to help pupils
subject to the federal Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C.
App.  451 et seq.) enrolled in the high school register in accordance
with that act.
   (b) A school district should, but is not required to, make every
reasonable effort to inform pupils enrolled with the district who are
subject to the federal Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C.
App. 451 et seq.) of all of the following:
   (1) The importance of meeting one's Selective Service obligations.

   (2) The consequences of not registering as required under the
federal Military Selective Service Act.
   (3) How to register with the Selective Service.