BILL NUMBER: SB 680INTRODUCED 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 Section 48314.5 of the Education Code is repealed.48314.5.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 Section 48315 of the Education Code is repealed.48315. This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2009, and, as of January 1, 2010, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which becomes effective on or before January 1, 2010, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.SEC. 3.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.