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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Ahrens</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to repeal Section 270.1 of the Penal Code, relating to truancy.</ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Truancy.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>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.</html:p>
                        <html:p>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.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would repeal that criminal offense.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                This act shall be known and may be cited as the
                                <ns0:DocName>More Help Not Less Act of 2025</ns0:DocName>
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                                Section 270.1 of the
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                                 is repealed.
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