BILL NUMBER: AB 1407	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huffman

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 48315 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil attendance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1407, as introduced, Huffman. Pupil attendance: interdistrict
transfers.
   Existing law requires each person between the ages of 6 and 18
years of age, who is not otherwise exempt, to attend the public
full-time day school in the school district in which his or her
parent or guardian is a resident. The governing board of a school
district is authorized to accept interdistrict transfers by admitting
pupils residing in other school districts to attend its schools,
subject to specified conditions. A school district that elects to
accept interdistrict transfers is required to keep an accounting of
all requests made for alternative attendance and records of all
dispositions of those requests and to report this information to the
Superintendent of Public Instruction who is required to make this
information available to the Governor, the Legislature, and the
public on an annual basis. Existing law makes those provisions
authorizing a school district to accept interdistrict transfers
inoperative on July 1, 2009, and repeals those provisions on January
1, 2010.
   This bill would extend the inoperative and repeal dates of those
provisions to July 1, 2014, and January 1, 2015, respectively.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. 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, 
2009   2014  , and, as of January 1,  2010
  2015  , is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, which becomes effective on or before January 1, 
2010   2014  , deletes or extends the dates on
which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  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 ensure that pupils continue to have the opportunity to
apply for interdistrict transfers, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately.