(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board or body of a local educational agency, and the department on behalf of state special schools, shall grant a diploma of graduation from high school to any pupil who completed grade 12 in the 2003–04 school year through the 2014–15 school year and met all applicable graduation requirements other than the passage of the high school exit examination required pursuant to former Section 60851, as that section read on January 1, 2017.
(b) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 641, Sec. 11. (AB 830) Effective January 1, 2018.)