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2014 SESSION
HB 610 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and determining opening day.
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 also prohibits local school boards from requiring students to attend school from either (i) the Thursday immediately preceding Labor Day through Labor Day or (ii) the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day through the Tuesday immediately following Labor Day.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/14 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101025D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/14 House: Committee substitute printed 14103944D-H1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/07/14 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101025D
- 01/07/14 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/23/14 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Reform
- 01/30/14 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/14 House: Reported from Education with substitute (15-Y 7-N)
- 02/03/14 House: Committee substitute printed 14103944D-H1
- 02/04/14 House: Read first time
- 02/05/14 House: Passed by until Monday, February 10, 2014
- 02/10/14 House: Read second time
- 02/10/14 House: Committee substitute agreed to 14103944D-H1
- 02/10/14 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB610H1
- 02/11/14 House: Read third time and passed House (74-Y 25-N)
- 02/11/14 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (74-Y 25-N)
- 02/11/14 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/11/14 House: Passed House (75-Y 24-N)
- 02/11/14 House: VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (75-Y 24-N)
- 02/12/14 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/12/14 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/18/14 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 03/04/14 Senate: Left in Education and Health