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2015 SESSION
HB 1838 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting.
Introduced by: Roxann L. Robinson | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
School calendar. Makes local school boards responsible for setting the school calendar and determining the opening date of the school year and eliminates the post-Labor Day opening requirement and "good cause" scenarios for which the Board of Education may grant waivers of this requirement. The bill requires local school boards that set the school calendar with a pre-Labor Day opening date, except those schools that were granted a "good cause" waiver for the 2014-2015 school year, to close all schools in the division (i) from the Thursday immediately preceding Labor Day through Labor Day or (ii) from the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day through the Tuesday immediately following Labor Day.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100831D pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/15 House: Printed as engrossed 15100831D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100831D
- 01/13/15 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/23/15 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Reform
- 02/03/15 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 3-N)
- 02/04/15 House: Failed to report (defeated) in Education (11-Y 11-N)
- 02/05/15 House: Reconsidered by Education
- 02/05/15 House: Reported from Education with amendment (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/07/15 House: Read first time
- 02/09/15 House: Read second time
- 02/09/15 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/09/15 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1838E
- 02/09/15 House: Printed as engrossed 15100831D-E
- 02/10/15 House: Read third time and passed House (72-Y 28-N)
- 02/10/15 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (72-Y 28-N)
- 02/11/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/11/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/15 Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (5-Y 9-N)