Pupils: excused absences: military deployment activities.

Existing law requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences and prohibits those excused absences from generating state apportionment payments by deeming them as absences in computing average daily attendance. This bill would include spending time with an immediate family member, who is an active duty member of the uniformed services, as defined, and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from, deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as another type of excused absence. The bill would require that absences granted pursuant to these provisions be granted for a period of time to be determined at the discretion of the superintendent of the school district.