H.B. 349
         OPEN ENROLLMENT REVISIONS

house committee Amendments

Amendment 1 February 12, 2008 12:39 pm



Representative Gregory H. Hughes proposes the following amendments:

1.    Page 5, Lines 132 through 145 :    

             132          (6) An enrolled nonresident student shall be permitted to remain enrolled in [the
             133      nonresident district's schools] a school, subject to the same rules and standards as resident
             134      students, without renewed applications in subsequent years unless one of the following occurs:
             135          (a) the student graduates;
             136          (b) the student is no longer a Utah resident;
             137          (c) the student is suspended or expelled from school; or
             138          (d) the district determines that enrollment within the school [in question] will exceed
             139      [90% of maximum capacity during the coming school year] the school's open enrollment
             140      threshold.
             141          (7) (a) Determination of which nonresident students will be excluded from continued
             142      enrollment in a [nonresident district] school during a subsequent year under Subsection (6)
{   (b)   }        (d)      

             143      is based upon time in the [district] school, with those most recently enrolled being excluded
             144      first and the use of a lottery system when multiple nonresident students have the same number
             145      of school days in the school.

2.    Page 6, Line 172 :    

             172      student transfer made for health or safety reasons.
 

    (11) Notwithstanding Subsections (2) and (6)(d), a student who is enrolled in a school that is not the student's school of residence, because school bus service is not provided between the student's neighborhood and school of residence for safety reasons:
    (a) shall be allowed to continue to attend the school until the student finishes the highest grade level offered; and
    (b) shall be allowed to attend the middle school, junior high school, or high school into which the school's students feed until the student graduates from high school.  


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