Bill Text: CA AB81 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Interscholastic athletics: pupils in foster care.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2009-08-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 76, Statutes of 2009. [AB81 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB81-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 81	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Audra Strickland

                        DECEMBER 22, 2008

   An act to add Section 49069.7 to the Education Code, relating to
interscholastic athletics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 81, as introduced, Audra Strickland. Interscholastic athletics:
pupils in foster care.
   Existing law recognizes that the California Interscholastic
Federation is a voluntary organization that consists of school and
school-related personnel with responsibility for administering
interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools.
   Existing law requires that, with respect to a pupil in foster
care, as soon as a county placing agency becomes aware of the need to
transfer that pupil out of his or her current school, the county
placing agency contact the appropriate person at the local
educational agency of the pupil and notify the local educational
agency of the date that the pupil will be leaving the school and
request that the pupil be transferred out. Existing law further
requires that, upon receiving a transfer request from a county
placing agency, the local educational agency of the pupil transfer
the pupil out of the school and deliver the educational information
and records of the pupil to the next educational placement within 2
business days.
   This bill would require the California Interscholastic Federation
to amend its constitution and bylaws to require that, no later than
January 15, 2010, the receipt of the educational information and
records of a pupil in foster care who has been transferred pursuant
to a court order at that pupil's next educational placement pursuant
to existing law be deemed to be presumptive evidence that the pupil
has had a valid change of residence for the purposes of eligibility
for interscholastic athletic activities.
   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 49069.7 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   49069.7.  The California Interscholastic Federation shall amend
its constitution and bylaws to require that, no later than January
15, 2010, the receipt of the educational information and records of a
pupil in foster care who has been transferred pursuant to a court
order at that pupil's next educational placement pursuant to Section
49069.5 shall be deemed to be presumptive evidence that the pupil has
had a valid change of residence for the purposes of eligibility for
interscholastic athletic activities.
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