House Amendment 1084


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend House File 259 as follows:
     1  2 #1.  Page 1, line 4, by striking the words
     1  3 <paragraph "b"> and inserting the following:
     1  4 <paragraphs "b" and "c">.
     1  5 #2.  Page 1, by inserting after line 19 the
     1  6 following:
     1  7    <c.  The board of directors of a school district
     1  8 that wishes to reduce the compulsory attendance age
     1  9 established in paragraph "a" from seventeen to sixteen
     1 10 years of age by September 15 shall set forth its
     1 11 proposal to reduce the compulsory attendance age in a
     1 12 resolution and shall publish the notice of the time
     1 13 and place of a public hearing on the resolution.
     1 14 Notice of the time and place of the public hearing
     1 15 shall be published not less than ten nor more than
     1 16 twenty days before the public hearing in a newspaper
     1 17 which is a newspaper of general circulation in the
     1 18 school district.  At the hearing, or no later than
     1 19 thirty days after the date of the hearing, the board
     1 20 may take action by majority vote to adopt the
     1 21 resolution to reduce the compulsory attendance age to
     1 22 sixteen.  Notwithstanding subsection 2, if the board
     1 23 takes action to reduce the compulsory attendance age
     1 24 to sixteen in accordance with this paragraph,
     1 25 "individual" for purposes of subsection 2, includes an
     1 26 individual who reaches the age of seventeen on or
     1 27 after September 15 during the school year and intends
     1 28 to terminate school enrollment prior to graduation.>
     1 29 #3.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     1 33 MAY of Dickinson
     1 34 HF 259.703 83
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