Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to student chronic absenteeism in open enrollment and including applicability provisions
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 15, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 22, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If a student moves to a new school district through open enrollment but misses too many days of school, the new district can send them back to their home district. Before this happens, the school must notify the parents and try to work out a plan to fix the attendance problem. Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing a certain amount of school for two or more grading periods in a row.1
Read the official explanation
18 relating to student open enrollment. Under the bill, if a pupil participating in open enrollment exhibits chronic absenteeism in the receiving school district, the receiving school district may, following written notice to the pupil’s parent or guardian and an attempt to remedy the chronic absences through agreement with the parent or guardian, revoke the pupil’s open enrollment in the school district and direct the pupil to enroll in the school district of residence. The bill defines “chronic absenteeism” to mean missing all or a portion of at least percent of school days for two or more consecutive grading periods, each grading period consisting of not less than nine weeks. 18(13) provides that the director of the department of education shall recommend rules to the state board of education for the orderly implementation of the open enrollment law and requires the state board to adopt rules as needed for the implementation of the open enrollment law.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 22, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.
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