Truancy.
AB 461
California Bills
20250AB__046194CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-06 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-03-24 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-08-29 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-09-05 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-09-10 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-09 ENROLLED 2025-09-12 CHAPTERED 2025-10-01 APPROVED 2025-10-01 FILED 2025-10-01 2025 AB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Assembly Member Ahrens (Coauthors: Assembly Members Calderon and Lee) (Coauthor: Senator Pérez) LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ahrens COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Calderon COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Lee COAUTHOR SENATE Pérez
An act to repeal
Section 270.1 of the Penal Code, relating to truancy. truancy Truancy. Existing law, the Compulsory Education Law, generally makes persons between the ages of and years of age subject to compulsory full-time education, unless exempted.
Existing law makes a parent or guardian of a pupil of years of age or more who is in kindergarten or any of grades to 8, inclusive, and subject to compulsory full-time or continuing education, whose child is a chronic truant, as defined, who has failed to reasonably supervise and encourage the pupil’s school attendance, and who has been offered support services to address the pupil’s truancy, guilty of a misdemeanor that is punishable by a fine of up to $2,000, or imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year, or both that fine and imprisonment. This bill would repeal that criminal offense.
MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the More Help Not Less Act of 2025 .
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