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1998 SESSION

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HB 1183 Single-sex education.

Introduced by: James K. O'Brien, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Single-sex education. Requires the Board of Education, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to develop guidelines on constitutional rights and restrictions relating to single-sex classes, single-sex grades and single-sex schools, with particular emphasis on issues relating to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and recent case law relating to single-sex education and separate and substantively comparable opportunities. In accordance with the Board's guidelines, a school board may establish single-sex classes, single-sex grades, and single-sex schools in the public schools of the school division.

FULL TEXT

• 01/26/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 988677386  pdf
• 02/16/98  House: Printed as engrossed 988677386-E  pdf

AMENDMENTS

• House amendments

HISTORY

• 01/26/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 988677386
• 01/26/98  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 01/28/98  House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 2
• 02/13/98  House: Reported from Education with amendment (21-Y 3-N)
• 02/14/98  House: Read first time
• 02/15/98  House: Passed by for the day
• 02/16/98  House: Read second time
• 02/16/98  House: Committee amendment agreed to
• 02/16/98  House: Engrossed by House as amended
• 02/16/98  House: Printed as engrossed 988677386-E
• 02/17/98  House: Read third time and passed House (96-Y 3-N)
• 02/17/98  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (96-Y 3-N)
• 02/17/98  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/19/98  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/19/98  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 03/09/98  Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Ed. & Health (7-Y 8-N)