Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children: task force: State Council.

Existing law ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to, among other things, facilitate the enrollment, placement, advancement, and transfer of the academic records of the children of military families for the purpose of removing barriers to their educational success due to the frequent moves and deployment of their parents. The compact establishes the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children ("Interstate Commission") to, among other things, provide for dispute resolution among member states, promulgate rules, and take other actions necessary for the administration of the compact. The compact requires each member state to establish a State Council or to use an existing body or board to provide for the coordination among its agencies of government, local educational agencies, and military installations concerning the state's participation in, and compliance with, the compact and activities of the Interstate Commission. Existing law authorizes the establishment, and specifies the membership, of the State Council in California. Existing law, until January 1, 2013, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to reconvene a task force initially convened pursuant to a provision of existing law to review and make recommendations regarding the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Existing law requires this task force to be reconvened on or after July 1, 2012, and on or before September 1, 2012, and to issue a final report of findings and conclusions on prescribed topics to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature no later than December 1, 2012. This bill would authorize the Superintendent to convene the State Council to complete the work of the task force if the Superintendent finds it infeasible or impractical to reconvene the task force with its original membership. The bill also would require the final report to be submitted no later than December 1, 2013, and would extend the effective date of provisions regarding the task force and the State Council and their duties to January 1, 2014.