Bill History for House File 740 - Status: Passed House

Floor Managers: Wood, Kaufmann

LSB 2925YCHSB243

A bill for an act relating to the duties and responsibilities of school districts, area education agencies, and the department of education by expanding school district audit requirements, requiring the department to submit an achievement gap report, changing deadlines and adding reporting requirements related to dropout and dropout prevention programs, changing testing requirements for the issuance of high school equivalency diplomas, eliminating certain requirements for school district payments and settlements, authorizing school site sale revenues to be used for physical plant and equipment levy fund expenditures, allowing school districts to establish nonprofit entities or organizations, eliminating Code provisions related to extended school programs and evening and part-time schools, providing for changes to open enrollment requirements, deadlines, and authorizations, repealing a school district lawful fence requirement, providing for the confidentiality of records regarding a child receiving competent private instruction, eliminating a requirement that school bus drivers submit a certificate of physical fitness annually, expanding the penalties for school bus drivers in violation of Code requirements, and revising requirements for prior authorization and a certificate of need for local option and services tax for school infrastructure fund use, and including a retroactive applicability provision.