HB243 Summary

• Increases the maximum age for admission to public high schools from 19 years to 21 years for city and county boards of education.

• Allows students older than mandatory school attendance age (6-17 years) to be admitted or readmitted to public high school to complete 12th grade if they are under 21 on the school year start date and have sufficient course credits to graduate that year.

• Changes city board eligibility requirements from "less than 19 years" to "less than 21 years of age" on the school opening date for admission to elementary, junior, and senior high schools.

• Exempts the bill from constitutional restrictions on local expenditures (Amendment 621) because expenditures are required only by school boards.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval or otherwise becoming law.