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HB 38 - Schools; students enrolled in certain programs; program counts

Porter, DuBose (143rd)	Jamieson, Mary Jeanette (22nd)

Status Summary	HC:	Ed	SC:	Ed	FR:	01/12/99	LA:	01/10/00	S - Read 3rd Time

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A BILL to amend Code Section 20-2-160 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student program counts, so as to change the provisions regarding program counts for students in the program established in Code Section 20-2-161.1; and for other purposes.

HB 38                                              LC 27 0665 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 
                               AN ACT 
 
 
  1- 1  To amend Code Section 20-2-160 of the Official Code of 
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to student program counts, so as 
  1- 3  to change the provisions regarding program counts for 
  1- 4  students in the program established in Code Section 
  1- 5  20-2-161.1; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other 
  1- 6  purposes. 
 
  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: 
 
  1- 8                           SECTION 1. 
 
  1- 9  Code Section 20-2-160 of the Official Code of Georgia 
  1-10  Annotated, relating to student program counts, is amended by 
  1-11  striking subsection (a) and inserting in its place the 
  1-12  following: 
 
  1-13    "(a) The State Board of Education shall designate the 
  1-14    specific dates upon which two counts of students enrolled 
  1-15    in each instructional program authorized under this 
  1-16    article shall be made each school year and by which the 
  1-17    counts shall be reported to the Department of Education. 
  1-18    The initial enrollment count shall be made after October 1 
  1-19    but prior to November 17 and the final enrollment count 
  1-20    after March 1 but prior to May 1.  The report shall 
  1-21    indicate the student's specific assigned program for each 
  1-22    one-sixth segment of the school day on the designated 
  1-23    reporting date.  No program shall be indicated for a 
  1-24    student for any one-sixth segment of the school day that 
  1-25    the student is assigned to a study hall; a noncredit 
  1-26    course; a course recognized under this article or by state 
  1-27    board policy as an enrichment course, except a driver 
  1-28    education course; a course which requires participation in 
  1-29    an extracurricular activity for which enrollment is on a 
  1-30    competitive basis; a course in which the student serves as 
  1-31    a student assistant to a teacher, in a school office, or 
  1-32    in the media center, except when such placement is an 
  1-33    approved work site of a recognized career or vocational 
  1-34    program; an individual study course for which no outline 
  1-35    of course objectives is prepared in writing prior to the 
 
 
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  2- 1    beginning of the course; or any other course or activity 
  2- 2    so designated by the state board.  For the purpose of this 
  2- 3    Code section, the term 'enrichment course' means a course 
  2- 4    which does not dedicate a major portion of the class time 
  2- 5    toward the development and enhancement of one or more 
  2- 6    student competencies as adopted by the state board under 
  2- 7    Code Section 20-2-140.  A program shall not be indicated 
  2- 8    for a student for any one-sixth segment of the school day 
  2- 9    for which the student is not enrolled in an instructional 
  2-10    program or has not attended a class or classes within the 
  2-11    preceding ten days; nor shall a program be indicated for a 
  2-12    student for any one-sixth segment of the school day for 
  2-13    which the student is charged tuition or fees or is 
  2-14    required to provide materials or equipment beyond those 
  2-15    authorized pursuant to Code Section 20-2-133.  A student 
  2-16    who is enrolled in an eligible institution under the 
  2-17    program established in Code Section 20-2-161.1 may shall 
  2-18    be counted for the high school program for only that 
  2-19    portion of the day that the student is attending the high 
  2-20    school for those segments that are eligible to be counted 
  2-21    under this subsection and for that portion of the day that 
  2-22    the student is attending such eligible institution for 
  2-23    those segments that would be eligible to be counted under 
  2-24    this subsection if they were offered in that high school. 
  2-25    The state board shall adopt such regulations and criteria 
  2-26    as necessary to ensure objective and true counts of 
  2-27    students in state approved instructional programs.  The 
  2-28    state board shall also establish criteria by which 
  2-29    students shall be counted as resident or nonresident 
  2-30    students, including specific circumstances which may 
  2-31    include, but not be limited to, students attending another 
  2-32    local school system under court order or under the terms 
  2-33    of a contract between two local school systems.  If a 
  2-34    local school system has a justifiable reason, it may seek 
  2-35    authority from the state board to shift full-time 
  2-36    equivalent program counts from the designated date to a 
  2-37    requested alternate date." 
 
  2-38                           SECTION 2. 
 
  2-39  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are 
  2-40  repealed. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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