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2006 SESSION
SB 33 General Educational Development program; allows participation by court order.
Introduced by: H. Russell Potts, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
General Educational Development Program. Allows participation in a general educational development program to be by court order and excludes from the compulsory school attendance requirements any child who has obtained a general educational development (GED) certificate. The bill also adds to the list of those persons who may participate in the GED testing program, the testing program through which persons may earn a high school equivalency certificate, (i) persons 16 years of age or older who have been expelled from school and (ii) persons required by court order to participate in the testing program.
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HISTORY
- 12/20/05 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/06 064334788
- 12/20/05 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/12/06 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/13/06 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/13/06 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/16/06 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/17/06 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/06 Senate: VOTE: (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/06 Senate: Communicated to House
- 01/19/06 House: Placed on Calendar
- 01/19/06 House: Read first time
- 01/19/06 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/13/06 House: Reported from Education (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/06 House: Read second time
- 02/14/06 House: Motion to refer to committee agreed to
- 02/14/06 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/06 House: Assigned Courts sub: Civil Law
- 03/03/06 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/06 House: Read second time
- 03/08/06 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/09/06 House: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (49-Y 43-N)
- 03/09/06 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (49-Y 43-N)
- 03/09/06 House: Rereferred to Education
- 03/11/06 House: Left in Education