BILL NUMBER: SB 150	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Florez

                        JANUARY 29, 2007

   An act to add Section 39843 to the Education Code, relating to
schoolbuses.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 150, as introduced, Florez. Schoolbus stops: location: sex
offenders.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district
to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school
whenever in the judgment of the board the transportation is advisable
and good reasons exist therefor. Existing law requires pupils who
are transported in schoolbuses to receive instruction in schoolbus
emergency procedures and passenger safety, including the provision of
schoolbus safety information to certain pupils with regards to
walking to and from schoolbus stops. Existing law provides that a
felony conviction of certain sex offenses within a safe school zone,
defined to include areas within 100 feet of a marked schoolbus stop,
shall be considered a circumstance in aggravation in imposing a term
of imprisonment.
   This bill would require a school district that provides
transportation to and from school to pupils in kindergarten or grades
1 to 12, inclusive, to relocate a schoolbus stop if the district
knows or discovers that certain sex offenders reside within 2,000
feet of the schoolbus stop. The bill would require a school district
to review its schoolbus stop routes every year to find out if any
registered sex offender resides along those routes and would require
a school district to form a task force with local law enforcement
agencies to discuss child safety in relation to schoolbus stops and
their routes. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation would
be required to notify a school district of the placement within that
district of certain sex offenders. To the extent this bill would
impose additional duties on local agencies and school districts, this
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Predator-Free Safe Schoolbus Route Act of 2007.
  SEC. 2.  Section 39843 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   39843.  (a) A school district that provides transportation to and
from school to any pupil in kindergarten or in any of grades 1 to 12,
inclusive, shall relocate a schoolbus stop designated or used for
those pupils if the district knows or discovers that a sexually
violent predator, as defined by Section 6600 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, or any person for whom registration is required
pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code, resides within 2,000 feet
of the schoolbus stop.
   (b) A school district as described in subdivision (a) shall review
its schoolbus stop routes every year to find out if any person for
whom registration is required pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal
Code resides along those routes.
   (c) In order for a school district to make the necessary change to
a schoolbus stop, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
shall notify a school district of the placement within that district
of a person for whom registration is required pursuant to Section 290
of the Penal Code.
   (d) A school district as described in subdivision (a) shall form a
task force with local law enforcement agencies to discuss child
safety in relation to schoolbus stops and their routes and suggest
safe alternative schoolbus stop sites.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.