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An act to repeal Section 270.1 of the Penal Code, relating to truancy. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST 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. 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 Section 270.1 of the Penal Code is repealed.
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