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 09/12/25 - Enrolled
 09/05/25 - Amended Senate
 08/29/25 - Amended Senate
 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/06/25 - Introduced

 AB-461 Truancy.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/02/2025 02:00 PM

AB461:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 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.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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. 

SEC. 2.

 Section 270.1 of the Penal Code is repealed.