This document includes Senate 3rd Reading Floor Amendments incorporated into the bill on Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:16 PM by lpoole.
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8 LONG TITLE
9 General Description:
10 This bill amends provisions related to local school board rules governing acceptance or
11 rejection of an enrollment request.
12 Highlighted Provisions:
13 This bill:
14 ▸ enacts language related to local school board standards for accepting or rejecting an
15 application for enrollment; and
16 ▸ makes technical and conforming changes.
17 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
18 None
19 Other Special Clauses:
20 None
21 Utah Code Sections Affected:
22 AMENDS:
23 53G-6-403, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2018, Chapter 3
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25 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
26 Section 1. Section 53G-6-403 is amended to read:
27 53G-6-403. Rules for acceptance and rejection of applications.
28 (1) (a) A local school board shall adopt rules governing acceptance and rejection of
29 applications required under Section 53G-6-402.
30 (b) The rules adopted under Subsection (1)(a) shall include policies and procedures to
31 assure that decisions regarding enrollment requests are administered fairly without prejudice to
32 any student or class of student, except as provided in Subsection (2).
33 (2) Standards for accepting or rejecting an application for enrollment may include:
34 (a) for an elementary school, the capacity of the grade level;
35 (b) for a secondary school, Ŝ→ [
36 allocation of resources;
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38 violation of constitutional or statutory rights of students;
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40 education or other special program the student requires;
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42 (i) in a Title I school that uses federal, state, and local money to reduce class sizes for
43 the purpose of improving student achievement; or
44 (ii) in a school that uses school trust money to reduce class size;
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47 (3) (a) Standards for accepting or rejecting applications for enrollment may not
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49 (i) previous academic achievement;
50 (ii) athletic or other extracurricular ability;
51 (iii) the fact that the student requires special education services for which space is
52 available;
53 (iv) proficiency in the English language; or
54 (v) previous disciplinary proceedings, except as provided in Subsection (3)(b).
55 (b) A board may provide for the denial of applications from students who:
56 (i) have committed serious infractions of the law or school rules, including rules of the
57 district in which enrollment is sought; or
58 (ii) have been guilty of chronic misbehavior which would, if it were to continue after
59 the student was admitted:
60 (A) endanger persons or property;
61 (B) cause serious disruptions in the school; or
62 (C) place unreasonable burdens on school staff.
63 (c) A board may also provide for provisional enrollment of students with prior
64 behavior problems, establishing conditions under which enrollment of a nonresident student
65 would be permitted or continued.
66 (4) (a) The State Board of Education, in consultation with the Utah High School
67 Activities Association, shall establish policies regarding nonresident student participation in
68 interscholastic competition.
69 (b) Nonresident students shall be eligible for extracurricular activities at a public
70 school consistent with eligibility standards as applied to students that reside within the school
71 attendance area, except as provided by policies established under Subsection (4)(a).
72 (5) For each school in the district, the local school board shall post on the school
73 district's website:
74 (a) the school's maximum capacity;
75 (b) the school's adjusted capacity;
76 (c) the school's projected enrollment used in the calculation of the open enrollment
77 threshold;
78 (d) actual enrollment on October 1, January 2, and April 1;
79 (e) the number of nonresident student enrollment requests;
80 (f) the number of nonresident student enrollment requests accepted; and
81 (g) the number of resident students transferring to another school.
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