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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 66
BY SENATOR MORRELL
SCHOOLS. Creates a charter school enrollment preference for neighborhood students. (gov
sig)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3991(B)(4) and to enact R.S. 17:3991(C)(1)(d), relative to2
charter schools; to require each charter school to establish an enrollment preference3
for students residing in the immediate neighborhood surrounding the school; to4
provide relative to the determination of the geographic boundaries of each such5
neighborhood; to require that the enrollment of each charter school be composed of6
a certain percentage of students residing in the immediate neighborhood of the7
school; to provide for effectiveness; and to provide for related matters.8
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:9
Section 1. 17:3991(B)(4) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S.10
17:3991(C)(1)(d) is hereby enacted to read as follows:11
ยง3991. Charter schools; requirements; limitations; renewal; amendment; revocation12
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B. Each proposed charter shall contain or make provision for the following:14
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(4)(a) A description of the jurisdiction within which a pupil shall reside or16
otherwise be eligible to attend a public school in order to be eligible for admission.17 SB NO. 66
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(b) A description of the geographic boundaries circumscribing the1
neighborhood immediately surrounding the charter school from which students2
residing within will be given preference for enrollment as provided in3
Subsection C of this Section.4
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C. A charter school shall:6
(1) 7
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(d)(i) Each charter school shall give preference in its enrollment9
procedures to students residing within the neighborhood immediately10
surrounding the school, the geographic boundaries of which shall be determined11
by the school's chartering authority.12
(ii) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning with the13
2010-2011 school year, at least thirty percent of the total enrollment of each14
charter school shall be composed of students who reside in the neighborhood15
immediately surrounding the school. This requirement may be phased in over16
time, but shall be accomplished as quickly as practicable and as the continuing17
enrollment characteristics of the school and the pool of applicants from the18
surrounding neighborhood allow.19
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Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not21
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature22
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If23
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become24
effective on the day following such approval.25
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jeanne C. Johnston.
DIGEST
Proposed law requires each proposed charter to include a description of the geographic
boundaries circumscribing the neighborhood immediately surrounding the charter school SB NO. 66
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from which students residing within will be given preference for enrollment.
Proposed law requires each charter school to give preference in its enrollment procedures
to students residing within the neighborhood immediately surrounding the school, the
geographic boundaries of which shall be determined by the school's chartering authority.
Proposed law provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning with the
2010-2011 school year, at least 30% of the total enrollment of each charter school shall be
composed of students who reside in the neighborhood immediately surrounding the school.
Further provides that this requirement may be phased in over time, but shall be accomplished
as quickly as practicable and as the continuing enrollment characteristics of the school and
the pool of applicants from the surrounding neighborhood allow.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 17:3991(B)(4); adds R.S. 17:3991(C)(1)(d))