BILL NUMBER: AB 1681	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2012

   An act to amend Section 35700 of the Education Code, relating to
school districts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1681, as introduced, Smyth. School districts: reorganization.
   Existing law requires that an action to reorganize one or more
school districts be initiated upon the filing with the county
superintendent of schools of a petition to reorganize one or more
school districts if the petition is signed by any of 4 specified
groups.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 35700 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   35700.  An action to reorganize one or more  school 
districts is initiated upon the filing, with the county
superintendent of schools, of a petition to reorganize one or more
school districts signed by any of the following:
   (a) At least 25 percent of the registered voters residing in the
territory proposed to be reorganized if the territory is inhabited.
Where the petition is to reorganize territory in two or more school
districts, the petition shall be signed by at least 25 percent of the
registered voters in that territory in each of those  school
 districts.
   (b) A number of registered voters residing in the territory
proposed to be reorganized, equal to at least 8 percent of the votes
cast for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial
election in the territory proposed to be reorganized, where the
affected territory consists of a single school district with over
200,000 pupils in average daily attendance and the petition is to
reorganize the  school  district into two or more 
school  districts.
   (c) The owner of the property, provided that territory is
uninhabited and the owner thereof has filed either a tentative
subdivision map with the appropriate county or city agency or an
application for any project, as defined in Section 21065 of the
Public Resources Code, with one or more local agencies.
   (d) A majority of the members of the governing boards of each of
the  school  districts that would be affected by the
proposed reorganization.