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IN SB0428
Bill
Status
1/12/2017
Primary Sponsor
Greg Taylor
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AI Summary
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Lowers the compulsory school enrollment age from seven years old to five years old, effective July 1, 2017.
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Requires students to enroll in kindergarten no later than the fall term if they are five years of age on August 1 of that school year.
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Allows school corporation governing bodies to adopt procedures permitting parents to appeal to the superintendent for earlier kindergarten enrollment if their child does not meet the minimum age requirement.
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Permits exemptions from compulsory attendance requirements for parents enrolling children in nonaccredited nonpublic schools or providing equivalent homeschool instruction, with the same age threshold applied.
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Updates choice scholarship and eligible student definitions to reference the new August 1 age requirement for five-year-olds rather than the previous seven-year-old standard.
Legislative Description
Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student shall enroll in a kindergarten program not later than the fall term of the school year if the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law requires that a student enroll in a kindergarten class not later than the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
1/12/2017