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 02/03/26 - Introduced

 SB-959 Average daily attendance: emergencies: major safety hazard.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/09/2026 09:00 PM

SB959:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 09, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 959

Introduced by Senator Grayson
(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Archuleta, Arreguín, Ashby, Blakespear, Cabaldon, Caballero, Cortese, Gonzalez, McNerney, Menjivar, Reyes, Wahab, and Weber Pierson)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Wicks)(Coauthors: Assembly Members Schultz and Wicks)

February 03, 2026

 An act to amend Section 46392 of the Education Code, relating to education finance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 959, as amended, Grayson.
 Average daily attendance: emergencies: major safety hazard.

For purposes of state apportionments based on average daily attendance, as provided, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified emergency, including, among others, the imminence of a major safety hazard as determined by a local law enforcement agency, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school approximately the total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school had the emergency not occurred.

This bill, for the above-described purposes, would additionally allow a local fire agency to
 make a determination of the imminence of a major safety hazard.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 2/3 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 46392 of the Education Code is amended to read:

46392.

 (a) If the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school during a fiscal year has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of any of the following, the fact shall be established to the satisfaction of the Superintendent by affidavits of the members of the governing board or body of the school district, county office of education, or charter school and the county superintendent of schools:

(1) Fire.

(2) Flood.

(3) Impassable roads.

(4) Epidemic.

(5) Earthquake.

(6) The imminence of a major safety hazard as determined by the local law enforcement or fire agency.

(7) A strike involving transportation services to pupils provided by a nonschool entity.

(8) An order provided for in Section 41422.

(9) Snowstorm.

(b) (1) In the event a state of emergency is declared by the Governor in a county, a decrease in average daily attendance in the county below the approximate total average daily attendance that would have been credited to a school
 district, county office of education, or charter school had the state of emergency not occurred shall be deemed material. The Superintendent shall determine the length of the period during which average daily attendance has been reduced by the state of emergency.

(2) The period determined by the Superintendent shall not extend into the next fiscal year following the declaration of the state of emergency by the Governor, except upon a showing by a school district, county office of education, or charter school, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent, that extending the period into the next fiscal year is essential to alleviate continued reductions in average daily attendance attributable to the state of emergency.

(3) Notwithstanding any other law, the Superintendent shall extend
 through the 2018–19 fiscal year the period during which it is essential to alleviate continued reductions in average daily attendance attributable to a state of emergency declared by the Governor in October 2017, for a school district where no less than 5 percent of the residences within the school district or school district facilities were destroy