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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 2081
Author: Assembly Education Committee
Amended: 6/9/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/16/10
AYES: Romero, Huff, Emmerson, Hancock, Liu, Price
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alquist, Simitian, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-0, 4/29/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Education
SOURCE : Superintendent of Public Instruction
DIGEST : This bill makes technical non-controversial
revisions to the Education Code to delete obsolete
references and language, correct technical errors and
oversights, and update references, as specified.
ANALYSIS :
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
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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.
This bill is one of the annual Education Code clean up
bills that makes various non-controversial revisions to
statute. This education omnibus bill corrects errors,
resolves conflicts, and deletes obsolete 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1.Deletes cross-references to various obsolete and outdated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 form a
unification of a high school district.
Comments
By tradition, objection to any provision by the agency
affected, the Department of Finance, or any of the four
legislative caucuses prevents that provision from being
included in this bill.
Prior Legislation
AB 174 (Carter), Chapter 314, Statutes 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 allows the county
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committee on school district organization to exclude
elementary districts from a unification of a high school
district when all affected districts support eh unification
and the county superintendent of schools has agreed to the
local approval process allowed by AB 174.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/17/10)
Superintendent of Public Instruction (source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon,
DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick,
Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill,
Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Ma,
Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello,
Nielsen, Norby, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin,
Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Tran, Villines,
Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bass, Caballero, Jones, Bonnie
Lowenthal, Torrico, Vacancy
CPM:cm 6/17/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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