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2016 SESSION
HB 571 School calendar; local school boards responsible for setting and determining opening day of school.
Introduced by: Roxann L. Robinson | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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 2015-2016 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 succeeding Labor Day.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16101659D
- 01/11/16 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/15/16 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation
- 01/26/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 2-N)
- 01/27/16 House: Reported from Education (16-Y 6-N)
- 01/28/16 House: Read first time
- 01/29/16 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/01/16 House: Read third time and passed House (76-Y 21-N)
- 02/01/16 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (76-Y 21-N)
- 02/02/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/18/16 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)