BILL NUMBER: SB 293	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Runner

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to amend Sections 48000 and 48010 of the Education Code,
relating to pupil admission.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 293, as introduced, Runner. Pupil admission: kindergarten and
1st grade.
   Existing law requires that a child be admitted to kindergarten at
the beginning of a school year, or at any time later in the same
year, if the child will have his or her 5th birthday on or before
December 2 of that school year. An elementary school is required to
admit a child to the 1st grade during the first month of a school
year if the child will have his or her 6th birthday on or before
December 2 of that school year.
   This bill would change the required birthday for kindergarten and
1st grade admission to November 1 for the 2010-11 school year,
October 1 for the 2011-12 school year, and September 1 for the
2012-13 school year and each school year thereafter. An elementary
school would be required, until and including the 2012-13 school
year, to admit a child to the 1st grade if the child has completed
one school year of kindergarten.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 48000 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   48000.  (a) A child shall be admitted to a kindergarten at the
beginning of a school year, or at  any   a 
later time in the same year if the child will have his or her fifth
birthday on or before  December 2 of that school year.
  one of the following dates:  
   (1) December 2 of the 2009-10 school year.  
   (2) November 1 of the 2010-11 school year.  
   (3) October 1 of the 2011-12 school year.  
   (4) September 1 of the 2012-13 school year and each school year
thereafter. 
    (b)    A child who will have his or her fifth
birthday on or before  December 2   one of the
dates described in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision
(a)  may be admitted to the prekindergarten summer program
maintained by the school district for pupils who will be enrolling in
kindergarten in September. 
   (b) 
    (c)  The governing board of  any  
a  school district maintaining one or more kindergartens may, on
a case-by-case basis, admit to a kindergarten a child having
attained the age of five years at any time during the school year
with the approval of the parent or guardian, subject to the following
conditions:
   (1) The governing board determines that the admittance is in the
best interests of the child.
   (2) The parent or guardian is given information regarding the
advantages and disadvantages and any other explanatory information
about the effect of this early admittance.
  SEC. 2.  Section 48010 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   48010.   (a)    A child shall be admitted to the
first grade of an elementary school during the first month of a
school year if the child will have his or her sixth birthday on or
before  December 2nd of that school year. For  
one of the following dates:  
   (1) December 2 of the 2009-10 school year.  
   (2) November 1 of the 2010-11 school year.  
   (3) October 1 of the 2011-12 school year.  
   (4) September 1 of the 2012-13 school year and each school year
thereafter. 
    (b)     For  good cause, the governing
board of a school district may permit a child of proper age to be
admitted to a class after the first school month of the school term.

   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a child shall be admitted to
the first grade of an elementary school in a school year up to and
including the 2012-13 school year if the child has completed one
school year of kindergarten.