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. 1 30 1 31 1 32 1 33 MAY of Dickinson 1 34 HF 259.703 83 1 35 kh/nh/21698 1 36 1 37 1 38 1 39 1 40 1 41 1 42 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 1 47 1 48 1 49 1 50 -1-