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1999 SESSION
HB 1817 Truancy and compulsory school attendance; penalty.
Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Truancy and compulsory school attendance; penalty. Makes a number of revisions to the truancy and compulsory school attendance statutes. The measure (i) allows intake officers to proceed informally on a complaint alleging a child is in need of services, in need of supervision, or delinquent in certain instances involving violations of certain school attendance requirements; (ii) requires attendance officers, in addition to making a reasonable effort to notify the parent of the pupil’s absence, to obtain an explanation for the absence; (iii) requires principals or their designees, after a pupil has been absent for five days for the school year without indication of the parent’s awareness and support of such absence, to make a reasonable effort to ensure that direct contact is made with the parent by the attendance officer to obtain an explanation and explain to the parent the consequences of continued nonattendance; (iv) requires the attendance officer, the pupil, and the pupil’s parent to jointly develop a plan to resolve the pupil’s nonattendance; (v) requires a conference to be scheduled, after an additional unexcused absence, to resolve issues related to the pupil’s nonattendance; (vi) empowers attendance officers to enforce these new provisions by making a complaint alleging the student is a child in need of supervision or instituting proceedings against the parent relating to violations of the compulsory school attendance law; (vii) directs school principals to report annually the number of pupils by grade level for whom a conference between the pupil, his parent, and school personnel has been scheduled because of no indication that the pupil’s parent is aware of and supports the pupil’s sixth unexplained absence; and (viii) makes initial violations of the various nonattendance trigger days, plan, and conference requirements a Class 3 misdemeanor and subsequent or knowing and willful violations a Class 2 misdemeanor. The punishment for a Class 3 misdemeanor is a fine of not more than $500 and the punishment for a Class 2 misdemeanor is confinement in jail for not more than six months and a fine of not more than $1,000, either or both.
FULL TEXT
- 01/13/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 992720836 pdf
- 02/07/99 House: Printed as engrossed 992720836-E pdf
- 03/08/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1817ER) pdf
- 04/02/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/13/99 House: Presented & ordered printed 992720836
- 01/13/99 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/18/99 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 2
- 02/01/99 House: Reported from Education with amendments (24-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/99 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/05/99 House: Reported from Appropriations with amds. (30-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/99 House: Read first time
- 02/07/99 House: Read second time
- 02/07/99 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/07/99 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/07/99 House: Printed as engrossed 992720836-E
- 02/08/99 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/10/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/18/99 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Reconsideration of passed by for the day (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Reconsider constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: Const. reading disp., passed by for the day (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/99 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/99 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/22/99 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/22/99 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/22/99 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/99 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/24/99 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/25/99 House: Senate amds agreed to by House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/99 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE-ADOPTION (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/99 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1817ER)
- 03/12/99 House: Enrolled
- 03/12/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/27/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 526 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/02/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0526)