S.B. 220 Summary

• Requires the Department of Education to conduct a comprehensive study of interdistrict open enrollment policies, focusing on educational benefits to students and fiscal impacts on school districts, with special attention to effects on low-wealth districts.

• Study must examine alternative policy approaches including mandatory adjacent district or statewide open enrollment, different student counting methods for funding purposes, and whether only state share funding should transfer with open enrollment students.

• Terminates interdistrict open enrollment effective July 1, 2015, allowing the General Assembly to renew these policies only after reviewing the Department's study findings.

• Amends multiple education code sections to remove references to open enrollment policies and adjust student counting methodologies for school funding calculations after termination.

• Effectively puts interdistrict open enrollment on temporary hold pending legislative review of a comprehensive policy analysis.