Bill Text: CA SB237 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: High school diplomas: retroactive high school diplomas: veterans.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-06-19 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB237 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB237-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 237	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 4, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 15, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 1, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Calderon
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Brown)

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2013

   An act to amend Sections 51430 and 51442 of the Education Code,
relating to retroactive high school diplomas.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 237, as amended, Calderon. High school diplomas: retroactive
high school diplomas: veterans.
   Existing law authorizes a high school district, unified school
district, or county office of education to retroactively grant a high
school diploma to veterans of World War II, the Korean War, or the
Vietnam War, under specified conditions. Existing law also defines
"veteran" for the purpose of retroactive high school diplomas.
   This bill would make those provisions applicable to all veterans,
and would revise the definition of veteran for purposes of those
provisions to include, among other things, service in humanitarian
missions.
   Existing law also requires each pupil completing grade 12, unless
he or she is granted a waiver for specified reasons, to successfully
pass the high school exit examination as a condition of receiving a
diploma of graduation or a condition of graduation from high school.
   This bill would require the governing board of a high school
district, unified school district, or county office of education,
before granting a retroactive high school diploma, as specified, to
require a person eligible to receive a retroactive high school
diploma  who began service after May 1, 1973,  to pass the
high school exit examination  or verify that   ,
unless  the person has satisfactorily completed at least 1/2 of
the coursework required for grade 12.
   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 51430 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   51430.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as provided
in subdivision (c), a high school district, unified school district,
or county office of education may retroactively grant a high school
diploma to a person who has not received a high school diploma if he
or she meets either of the following conditions:
   (1) The person was interned by order of the federal government
during World War II and was enrolled in a high school operated by the
school district or under the jurisdiction of the county office of
education immediately preceding his or her internment and did not
receive a high school diploma because his or her education was
interrupted due to his or her internment during World War II.
   (2) The person is a veteran, as defined in Section 51442, was
honorably discharged from his or her military service, was enrolled
in a high school operated by the school district or under the
jurisdiction of the county office of education immediately preceding
his or her military service, and did not receive a high school
diploma because his or her education was interrupted due to his or
her military service.
   (b) A high school district, unified school district, or county
office of education may retroactively grant a high school diploma to
a deceased person who meets the conditions of paragraph (1) or (2) of
subdivision (a), to be received by the next of kin of the deceased
person.
   (c) The governing board of a high school district, unified school
district, or county office of education shall, before granting a
retroactive high school diploma pursuant to subdivision (a)  to a
person who began service after May 1, 1973  , require 
a   the  person who is eligible to receive a
retroactive high school diploma to pass the high school exit
examination required for high school graduation pursuant to Chapter 9
(commencing with Section 60850) of Part 33  or verify that
  , unless  the person has satisfactorily completed
at least one-half of the coursework required for grade 12.
  SEC. 2.  Section 51442 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   51442.  For purposes of this article, "veteran" means a person who
has served 90 days or more in the military service of the United
States during a war with a foreign power, as defined in Section
22804, a humanitarian mission, or any national emergency declared by
the President of the United States and who has received an honorable
discharge from that service.