Bill Text: CA AB1672 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Pupil attendance: truancy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2014-09-30 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1672 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1672-Enrolled.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1672 ENROLLED
BILL TEXT
PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 27, 2014
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 28, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 22, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 18, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 24, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 7, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Holden
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bocanegra, Bonta, Buchanan, and Hall)
(Coauthor: Senator Liu)
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 48273 of the Education
Code, relating to pupil attendance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1672, Holden. Pupil attendance: truancy.
Existing law authorizes the establishment of county and local
school attendance review boards, and authorizes a school district to
refer a pupil to a school attendance review board or the probation
department for, among other things, truancy. Existing law, under
specified circumstances, authorizes a school attendance review board
or probation officer to direct the county superintendent of schools
to request a petition on behalf of the pupil in the juvenile court of
the county. Existing law requires the governing board of a school
district to adopt rules and regulations to require appropriate
officers and employees of the school district to gather and transmit
to the county superintendent of schools the number and types of
referrals to school attendance review boards and of requests for
petitions to the juvenile court.
This bill would instead require the governing board of each school
district that has established a local school attendance review board
to adopt rules and regulations to require appropriate officers and
employees of the school district to gather that information for the
prior school year, and would expand the information required to be
gathered to include, among other things, the number of pupils
referred to a school attendance review board who improved their
attendance and the number of pupils and parents or guardians referred
to community services, as specified. The bill would require the
information to be disaggregated by specified subgroups, including
gender, ethnicity, and foster youth status. The bill would require
the governing board of each school district to make available on its
Internet Web site, if one is available, the contents of those school
attendance review board reports no later than September 15 of every
year. The bill would require the State Department of Education to
maintain current Internet Web site links to the Internet Web sites of
school attendance review board reports, and would require the
governing board of each school district that posts school attendance
review board reports to provide to the department current uniform
resource locators for those Internet Web sites. The bill would make
these provisions operative beginning June 1, 2015.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 48273 of the Education Code is amended to read:
48273. (a) The governing board of each school district shall
adopt rules and regulations to require the appropriate officers and
employees of the school district to gather and transmit to the county
superintendent of schools the number and types of referrals to
school attendance review boards and of requests for petitions to the
juvenile court pursuant to Section 48263.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on June 1, 2015, and, as
of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
SEC. 2. Section 48273 is added to the Education Code, to read:
48273. (a) The governing board of each school district that has
established a local school attendance review board shall adopt rules
and regulations to require the appropriate officers and employees of
the school district to gather all of the following information for
the prior school year:
(1) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
school-level meeting, such as a student attendance review team or a
student success team.
(2) The number of pupils in the school district referred, and the
reason for the referral, to a school attendance review board meeting.
(3) The number of pupils referred to a school attendance review
board who improved their attendance by at least 50 percent during the
following semester or trimester after attending the school
attendance review board meeting.
(4) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to the
district attorney, city prosecutor, or probation department for
mediation or prosecution following a school attendance review board
meeting.
(5) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to the
community services referenced in Section 48320 following a school
attendance review board meeting.
(6) The number of pupils referred to an alternative education
placement following a school attendance review board meeting.
(7) The number of petitions to the juvenile court requested
pursuant to Section 48263.
(b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be
disaggregated and submitted by the following subgroups:
(1) English learner status, as defined in subdivision (c) of
Section 42238.01.
(2) Foster youth status, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section
42238.01.
(3) Gender.
(4) Grade levels.
(5) Low-income status, as described in subdivision (a) of Section
42238.01.
(6) Race or ethnicity.
(7) Disability status.
(c) The governing board of each school district shall make
available on its Internet Web site, if one is available, the contents
of the school attendance review board reports described in
subdivision (a) no later than September 15 of every year. The
information shall be made available in an anonymized format that is
easy for the public to access and understand.
(d) (1) The department shall maintain current Internet Web site
links to the Internet Web sites of school attendance review board
reports required to be posted pursuant to subdivision (c). Those
Internet Web site links shall provide parents and the public with
easy access to the school attendance review board reports maintained
on the Internet.
(2) The governing board of each school district that posts school
attendance review board reports pursuant to subdivision (c) shall
provide a current uniform resource locator for their Internet Web
site to the department.
(e) This section shall become operative on June 1, 2015.
