BILL NUMBER: SB 739	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add and repeal Section 47604.34 of the Education Code,
relating to charter schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 739, as introduced, Pavley. Charter schools: sited outside
boundaries: report.
   Existing law authorizes a charter school that is unable to locate
within the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering
school district to establish one site outside the boundaries of the
school district, but within the county in which that school district
is located, if the school district where the charter school proposes
to operate is notified in advance of the charter petition approval,
the county superintendent of schools and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction are notified of the location of the charter school
before it commences operations, and either the charter school has
attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire
program, but such a site or facility is unavailable in the area in
which the school chooses to locate or the site is needed for
temporary use during a construction or expansion project.
   This bill would authorize the Superintendent to study and report
to the Legislature by December 31, 2016, the number of charter
schools that are sited outside the boundaries of the chartering
school district. The bill would authorize the report to include
specified findings and recommendations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 47604.34 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   47604.34.  (a) The Superintendent may study and report to the
Legislature by December 31, 2016, the number of charter schools that
are sited outside the boundaries of the chartering school district
pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 47605.
   (1) The Superintendent's report may make findings, including, but
not necessarily limited to, all of the following:
   (A) The number and location of charter schools sited outside the
boundaries of the chartering school district.
   (B) The reason pursuant to subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph
(5) of subdivision (a) of Section 47605 that a charter school is
located outside the boundaries of the chartering school district.
   (C) Whether the superintendent of the school district where the
charter school is located was notified in advance of the charter
petition approval pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of
Section 47605.
   (2) The Superintendent's report may make recommendations,
including, but not necessarily limited to, the authority of state or
local entities to enforce charter law.
   (b) (1) A report submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section is repealed on December 31, 2020.