BILL NUMBER: SB 680	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Romero and Huff

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to repeal Sections 48314.5 and 48315 of the Education Code,
relating to school attendance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 680, as introduced, Romero. School attendance: interdistrict
transfers.
   (1) Existing law requires each person between the ages of 6 and 18
years, 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. Existing law authorizes the governing board
of a school district to accept interdistrict transfers by adopting a
resolution to become a school district of choice, as defined.
Commencing August 24, 2007, existing law prohibits the governing
board of a school district from electing to become a school district
of choice. Existing law makes the provisions governing interdistrict
transfers inoperative on July 1, 2009, and repeals these provisions
on January 1, 2010.
   This bill would delete the prohibition on becoming a school
district of choice. The bill also would delete the inoperative and
repeal dates of these provisions, thereby extending their operation
indefinitely.
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 48314.5 of the Education Code is repealed.

   48314.5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article,
commencing on the effective date of the act adding this section, the
governing board of a school district that has not previously elected
to participate in interdistrict transfers pursuant to this article
shall not elect to become a school district of choice. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 48315 of the Education Code is repealed. 
   48315.  This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2009,
and, as of January 1, 2010, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, which becomes effective on or before January 1, 2010,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is
repealed. 
  SEC. 3.  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.