Bill Text: CA AB461 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Truancy.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Passed) 2025-10-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 154, Statutes of 2025. [AB461 Detail]
Download: California-2025-AB461-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill
No. 461
CHAPTER 154
An act to repeal Section 270.1 of the Penal Code, relating to truancy.
[
Approved by
Governor
October 01, 2025.
Filed with
Secretary of State
October 01, 2025.
]
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 461, Ahrens.
Truancy.
Existing law, the Compulsory Education Law, generally makes persons
between the ages of 6 and 18 years of age subject to compulsory full-time education, unless exempted.
Existing
law makes a parent or guardian of a pupil of 6 years of age or more who is in kindergarten or any of grades 1 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.
