BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2081
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Date of Hearing: April 21, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Julia Brownley, Chair
AB 2081 (Education Committee) - As Amended: April 8, 2010
SUBJECT : Education
SUMMARY : Makes technical non-controversial revisions to the
Education Code to delete obsolete references and language,
correct technical errors and oversights, and updates references.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Deletes cross-references to various obsolete and outdated
sections of the Education Code and corrects a cross reference.
2)Corrects an oversight that was not included in AB 174
(Carter), Chapter 314, Statutes of 2009 relative to the
ability to exclude elementary school districts from a
unification of a high school district.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Assigns various duties to state and local educational agencies
and governs the operation of public schools.
2)Authorizes an elementary school district that has boundaries
within a high school district to be excluded from an action to
unify those districts if the governing board receives approval
from the State Board of Education (SBE).
3)Provides that any action to reorganize a school district shall
be effective for all purposes on July 1 of the calendar year
following the calendar year in which the action is completed,
except as specified.
FISCAL EFFECT : This bill is keyed nonfiscal.
COMMENTS : This bill is the annual Education Code clean up
legislation, sponsored by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction (SPI) to make various non-controversial revisions to
statute. This education omnibus bill corrects errors, resolves
conflicts, and deletes obsolete references. By tradition,
objection to any provision by the CDE, the Department of
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Finance, or any of the four legislative caucuses prevents that
provision from being included in this bill.
This bill makes technical amendments to deletes references to
obsolete and outdated sections of the Education Code and to
clean up provisions of a previously enacted bill relative to
school district organization.
AB 174 (Carter) Chapter 314, Statues of 2009, provides that
county committees on school district organization can locally
approve unification proposals, without going to the SBE if all
affected districts support the unification and the county
superintendent of schools has agreed to the local approval
process. However, the ability to exclude elementary school
districts from a unification of a high school district was
unintentionally left out of the legislation. Thus, the ability
to determine one component of some unification proposals remains
an authority of the SBE. The clean up amendment in this bill
would allow the county committee on school district organization
to exclude elementary districts from a unification of a high
school district when all affected districts support the
unification and the county superintendent of schools has agreed
to the local approval process allowed by AB 174 (Carter) Chapter
314, Statues of 2009.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Superintendent of Public Instruction (Sponsor)
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Marisol Avi?a / ED. / (916) 319-2087