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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (202 4)
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57	57	HOUSE BILL 3496 By: West (Tammy)
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to schools; amending 70 O.S. 2021,
66	66	Sections 8-101 and 8-101.2, as amended by Section 1,
67	67	Chapter 193, O.S.L. 2022 (7 0 O.S. Supp. 2023, Section
68	68	8-101.2), which relates to transfer students;
69	69	allowing certain students to transfer to adjacent
70	70	school district; directing automatic approval of
71	71	transfer; excepting certain capacity requirements for
72	72	transfer to adjacent school di strict; mandating
73	73	student comply with certain transfer requirements if
74	74	receiving district is not adjacent to district of
75	75	residence; deleting automatic transfer to any school
76	76	district for certain students; and providing an
77	77	effective date.
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83	83	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
84	84	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 8 -101, is
85	85	amended to read as follows:
86	86	Section 8-101. A. Any student residing in a school district
87	87	that does not offer the grade which th e student is entitled to
88	88	pursue shall be allowed to transfer to a school district inside or
89	89	outside of the transportation area in which is adjacent to the
90	90	school district where the student resides which and offers the grade
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142	142	the student is entitled to pursu e. The district to which the
143	143	student transfers shall be referred to as the receiving district.
144	144	B. A student shall be limited to one transfer pursuant to
145	145	subsection A of this section, which shall be aut omatically approved
146	146	and not subject to capacity requi rements provided in Section 8-101.2
147	147	of this title. Thereafter, a student may apply for any other kind
148	148	of transfer for which the student is eligible as provided for in the
149	149	Education Open Transfer Act.
150	150	C. Any student residing in a school district that does not
151	151	offer the grade which the student is enti tled to pursue and who
152	152	chooses not to attend a school district which is adjacent to the
153	153	school district where the student resides pursuant to subsection A
154	154	of this section, shall follow the requirements of subsection 8-101.2
155	155	of this title to request a transfer to another school district which
156	156	offers the grade the student is entitled to pursue.
157	157	SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 70 O.S. 2021, Section 8 -101.2, as
158	158	amended by Section 1, Cha pter 193, O.S.L. 2022 (70 O.S. Supp. 2023,
159	159	Section 8-101.2), is amended to read as follows:
160	160	Section 8-101.2 A. Except as provided in subsection B of this
161	161	section, on and after January 1, 2022, the transfer of a student
162	162	from the district in which the stud ent resides to another school
163	163	district furnishing instruction in the grade the student is entitled
164	164	to pursue shall be granted at any time in the year unless the n umber
165	165	of transfers exceeds the capacity of a grade level for each school
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217	217	site within a school district. If the capacity of a grade level for
218	218	each school site within a school district is insufficient to enrol l
219	219	all eligible students, the school district sha ll select transfer
220	220	students in the order in which the district received the student
221	221	transfer applications. The capacity of a school district shall be
222	222	determined by the school district board of education base d on its
223	223	policy adopted pursuant to subsection B of this section. A student
224	224	may be granted a one-year transfer and may automatically continue to
225	225	attend the school each school year to which the student transferred
226	226	with the approval of the receiving district . At the end of each
227	227	school year, a school dis trict may deny continued transfer of the
228	228	student for the reasons outlined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of subsection
229	229	B of this section. Any brother or sister of a student who transfers
230	230	may attend the school district to wh ich the student transferred, if
231	231	the school district policy gives preference to sibling transfers
232	232	regardless of capacity, and the brother or sister of the transferred
233	233	student does not meet a basis for denial as outl ined in paragraphs 1
234	234	and 2 of subsection B of this section. Any child in the custody of
235	235	the Department of Human Services in fos ter care who is living in the
236	236	home of a student who transfers may attend the school district to
237	237	which the student transferred . Except for a child in t he custody of
238	238	the Department of Human Services in foster care, a transfer s tudent
239	239	shall not transfer more than two (2) times per school year to one or
240	240	more school districts in which the student does not reside, provided
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292	292	that the student may always reenroll at any time in his or her
293	293	school district of residence. At the discretion of the receiving
294	294	district, a student who has attend ed a school district as a resident
295	295	student for at least three (3) years prior to becoming eligible to
296	296	apply as a transfer student may be allowed to transfer to the school
297	297	district regardless of capac ity.
298	298	If the grade a student is entitled to pursue is not offered in
299	299	the district where the student resides, the transfer shall be
300	300	automatically approved.
301	301	B. Each school district board of education shal l adopt a policy
302	302	to determine the number of transfer students the school dist rict has
303	303	the capacity to accept in each grade level for each school site
304	304	within a school district no later than January 1, 2022 . The policy
305	305	may include:
306	306	1. The acts and reasons outlined in Section 24-101.3 of this
307	307	title as a basis for denial of a transfe r; and
308	308	2. A history of absences as a basis fo r denial of a transfer.
309	309	For the purposes of this section, "history of absences" means ten or
310	310	more absences in one semester that are not excused for the reasons
311	311	provided for in subsection B of Section 10 -105 of this title or due
312	312	to illness.
313	313	The policy shall be publicly posted on the school district
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366	366	C. By the first day of January, Ap ril, July and October, the
367	367	school district board of education shall establish the number of
368	368	transfer students the school d istrict has the capacity to accept in
369	369	each grade level for each school site within a school district.
370	370	D. After establishing the numb er of transfer students the
371	371	school district has the capacity to accept in each grade level for
372	372	each school site within a sc hool district, the board of education
373	373	shall:
374	374	1. Publish in a prominent place on the school district website
375	375	the number of transfer students for each grade level for each school
376	376	site within a school district which the school district has the
377	377	capacity to accept; and
378	378	2. Report to the State Department o f Education the number of
379	379	transfer students for each grade level for each school site within a
380	380	school district which the school distr ict has the capacity to
381	381	accept.
382	382	E. If a transfer request is denied by the sc hool district, the
383	383	parent of the student may a ppeal the denial within ten (10) days of
384	384	notification of the denial to the receiving school district board of
385	385	education. The receiving school district board of education shall
386	386	consider the appeal at its next r egularly scheduled board meeting .
387	387	If the receiving school district board of education denies the
388	388	appeal, the parent of the studen t may appeal the denial within ten
389	389	(10) days of notification of the appeal denial to the State Board of
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441	441	Education. The parent shall submit to the State Board of Education
442	442	and the superintendent of the receiving school a notice of appeal on
443	443	a form prescribed by the State Board of Education . The appeal shall
444	444	be considered by the State Board of Education at its next regularly
445	445	scheduled meeting, where the parent and a represen tative from the
446	446	receiving school district may address the Board. The State Board of
447	447	Education shall promulgate rules to establish th e appeals process
448	448	authorized by this subsection.
449	449	F. Each school district boa rd of education shall submit to the
450	450	State Department of Education the number of student transfers
451	451	approved and denied and whether each denial was based on capacity,
452	452	acts and reasons outlined in Section 24-101.3 of this title or a
453	453	history of absences as pro vided for in paragraph 2 of subsection B
454	454	of this section. The State Department of Education shall publish
455	455	the data on its websit e and make the data available to the Office of
456	456	Educational Quality and Accountability.
457	457	G. Each year, the Office of Educational Quality and
458	458	Accountability shall randomly sel ect ten percent (10%) of the school
459	459	districts in the state and conduct an audit of each district's
460	460	approved and denied transfers base d on the provisions of the
461	461	policies adopted by the respective school district board of
462	462	education. If the Office finds inac curate reporting of capacity
463	463	levels by a school district, the Office shall set the capacity for
464	464	the school district.
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516	516	SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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