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SENATE SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS
SB 124 2022 Regular Session Abraham
KEYWORD AND SUMMARY AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
SCHOOLS. Requires the state Department of Education to provide student
attendance data of certain students to local school governing authorities. (gov sig)
SUMMARY OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE BILL
1. Removes provision that would have required DOE to record a home study
child as a dropout attributable to a public school if the child subsequently
enrolled in and attended the public school.
2. Removes requirement for a collection of data for any child who was
previously enrolled in an approved home study program.
DIGEST OF THE SENATE BILL AS RETURNED TO THE SENATE
SB 124 Reengrossed 2022 Regular Session Abraham
Proposed law requires the state Dept. of Education (DOE), within 30 days of initial approval
or denial of an application for an approved home school study program and the failure to
receive an annual renewal application for a previously approved home study program, to
notify the local public school system in which the child was most recently enrolled, and, if
different, the public school system in which the child resides.
Proposed law prohibits DOE from recording such a child as a dropout attributable to the
public school where he was most recently enrolled or the public school which he would
otherwise attend.
Proposed law provides that no local public school system shall be responsible for collecting
and maintaining school attendance data for any child who is enrolled in an approved home
study program unless and until the parent subsequently enrolls the child in a public school
under the authority of the school system.
Effective upon signature of the governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Amends R.S. 17:221(E))
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Christine Arbo Peck
Senate Counsel