BILL NUMBER: AB 2616	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 48263.6 of the Education Code, relating to
truancy.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2616, as introduced, Carter. Truancy: chronic truant.
   Existing law defines a truant as any pupil subject to compulsory
full-time education or to compulsory continuation education who is
absent from school without a valid excuse 3 full days in one school
year, or tardy or absent for more than any 30-minute period during
the schoolday without a valid excuse on 3 occasions in one school
year, or any combination thereof. Existing law defines a chronic
truant as any pupil subject to compulsory full-time education or to
compulsory continuation education who is absent from school without a
valid excuse for 10% or more of the schooldays in one school year,
from the date of enrollment to the current date, provided that the
appropriate school district officer or employee has complied with
specified provisions of law.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that latter
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 48263.6 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   48263.6.  Any pupil subject to compulsory full-time education or
to compulsory continuation education who is absent from school
without a valid excuse for 10 percent or more of the schooldays in
one school year, from the date of enrollment to the current date, is
deemed a chronic truant,  provided that   if
 the appropriate school district officer or employee has
complied with Sections 48260, 48260.5, 48261, 48262, 48263, and
48291.