BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2081
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2081 (Education Committee)
As Amended June 9, 2010
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |74-0 |(April 29, |SENATE: |31-0 |(June 24, |
| | |2010) | | |2010) |
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SUMMARY : Makes technical non-controversial revisions to the
Education Code (EC) to delete obsolete references and language,
correct technical errors and oversights, and updates references.
The Senate amendments delete obsolete cross-references to
non-existent EC sections in the following EC Sections 1266, 1510,
15235, and 35331.
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 non-fiscal.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill was substantially similar to the
version passed by the Senate.
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 Finance, or any of the four
legislative caucuses prevents that provision from being included in
this bill.
This bill makes technical amendments to delete references to obsolete
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and outdated sections of the EC and to clean up provisions of a
previously enacted bill relative to school district organization.
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 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, Statutes of 2009.
Analysis Prepared by : Marisol Avina / ED. / (916) 319-2087 FN:
0005044