Bill Text: CA AB872 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: High school equivalency certificates: general educational development examination fee waiver.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB872 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB872-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 872	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 48900.6 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil discipline.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 872, as introduced, Brown. Pupil discipline: suspensions:
community service.
   Existing law authorizes a superintendent of schools or principal
of a school to suspend or recommend for expulsion a pupil who commits
one or more enumerated acts. Existing law authorizes the principal
of a school, the principal's designee, the superintendent of schools,
or the governing board of a school district to require a pupil to
perform community service, as defined, during the pupil's nonschool
hours as part of or instead of disciplinary action, subject to
specified exceptions.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision
authorizing community service.
   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 48900.6 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   48900.6.   (a)    As part of or instead of
disciplinary action prescribed by this article, the principal of a
school, the principal's designee, the superintendent of schools, or
the governing board  of a school district  may require a
pupil to perform community service on school grounds or, with written
permission of the parent or guardian of the pupil, off school
grounds, during the pupil's nonschool hours.  For the

    (b)     For  purposes of this section,
"community service" may include, but is not limited to, work
performed in the community or on school grounds in the areas of
outdoor beautification, community or campus betterment, and teacher,
peer, or youth assistance programs.  This 
    (c)    This  section does not apply if
a pupil has been suspended, pending expulsion, pursuant to Section
48915. However, this section applies if the recommended expulsion is
not implemented or is, itself, suspended by stipulation or other
administrative action.