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.

Statutes affected:
AB 461: 16001.7 WIC
02/06/25 - Introduced: 16001.7 WIC
03/24/25 - Amended Assembly: 270.1 PEN, 270.1 PEN, 11253.5 WIC, 11253.5 WIC, 16001.7 WIC
08/29/25 - Amended Senate: 270.1 PEN, 11253.5 WIC
09/05/25 - Amended Senate: 270.1 PEN, 11253.5 WIC
09/12/25 - Enrolled: 270.1 PEN