BILL NUMBER: AB 1463	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 15, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 6, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section  51413   35183.3 
to the Education Code, relating to high school graduation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1463, as amended, Smyth. High school graduation: military
uniforms.
   Existing law prescribes the requirements for a pupil to earn a
diploma of graduation from high school, including the completion of a
specified course of study and passage of the high school exit
examination.
   This bill would provide that a pupil who has fulfilled all of the
requirements to receive a diploma of graduation from high school
pursuant to state law  , is otherwise eligible to participate in
the high school graduation ceremony,  and has completed the
basic training  required  for  ,  and is an
active member of  any armed   ,   a
 branch of the United States  military  
Armed Forces,  has the right to wear the dress uniform issued to
him or her by that  military  branch while
participating in the graduation ceremony for his or her high school.

   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  51413   35183.3  is
added to the Education Code, to read: 
   51413.  A high school pupil who has fulfilled all of the
requirements to receive a diploma of graduation from high school
pursuant to this code and has completed the basic training required
for and is an active member of any armed branch of the United States
military shall have the right to wear the dress uniform issued to him
or her by that military branch while participating in the graduation
ceremony for his or her high school. 
    35183.3.   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a
person shall have the right to wear a dress uniform issued to him or
her by a branch of the United States Armed Forces while
participating in the graduation ceremony for his or her high school
if that person meets both of the following requirements:
   (a) He or she has fulfilled all of the requirements of this code
for receiving a diploma of graduation from high school, and is
otherwise eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony.
   (b) He or she has completed basic training for, and is an active
member of, a branch of the United States Armed Forces.