RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 677 (SB 124) 2022 Regular Session Abraham
Prior law required a parent or legal guardian of a student enrolled in an approved home study
program or a nonpublic school to report such enrollment to the state Department of
Education (DOE).
New law retains prior law and further requires the state Dept. of Education (DOE), within
30 days of initial approval or denial of an application for an approved home 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.
New 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.
New 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 June 18, 2022.
(Amends R.S. 17:221(E))