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DUAL LANGUAGE IMMERSION AMENDMENTS

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2019 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Jacob L. Anderegg

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House Sponsor: A. Cory Maloy

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill requires the State Board of Education to establish a pilot program related to
10     dual language immersion.
11     Highlighted Provisions:
12          This bill:
13          ▸     defines terms;
14          ▸     requires the State Board of Education to:
15               •     establish a pilot program that provides for a local education agency (LEA) to
16     offer an online language course to certain students who intend to enroll in dual
17     language immersion; and
18               •     select schools to participate in the pilot program;
19          ▸     requires an LEA that participates in the pilot program to offer an online language
20     course;
21          ▸     under certain conditions, allows a student to enroll in dual language immersion in a
22     higher grade than the student's LEA typically allows a student to initially enroll in
23     dual language immersion; and
24          ▸     provides a repeal date.
25     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
26          None
27     Other Special Clauses:

28          None
29     Utah Code Sections Affected:
30     AMENDS:
31          63I-1-253, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2018, Chapters 107, 117, 385, 415, and
32     453
33     ENACTS:
34          53F-5-212, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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36     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
37          Section 1. Section 53F-5-212 is enacted to read:
38          53F-5-212. Pilot program for late enrollment in dual language immersion.
39          (1) As used in this section:
40          (a) "Dual language immersion" means the same as that term is defined in Section
41     53F-2-502.
42          (b) "Eligible LEA" means an LEA that receives funding under Section 53F-2-502.
43          (c) "Late entrant to dual language immersion" or "late entrant" means a student who
44     enters dual language immersion in a higher grade than the student's LEA generally permits
45     initial enrollment in dual language immersion.
46          (d) "Local education agency" or "LEA" means a school district or a charter school.
47          (e) "Online language course" means a course described in Subsection (2).
48          (f) "Partner language" means the same as that term is defined in Section 53F-2-502.
49          (g) "Program" means the pilot program described in this section.
50          (2) The state board shall:
51          (a) establish a program to provide an eligible LEA with a grant to offer an online
52     language course to a student in the LEA to develop proficiency in a partner language so that the
53     student may participate in dual language immersion as a late entrant;
54          (b) solicit eligible LEAs to participate in the program; and
55          (c) based on the applications described in Subsection (3), provide grants to LEAs for
56     up to 10 total schools to participate in the program.
57          (3) To participate in the program, an eligible LEA shall submit an application to the
58     board describing:

59          (a) the schools in the eligible LEA that offer dual language immersion for which the
60     eligible LEA intends to allow late entrants;
61          (b) the anticipated space available for late entrants in the schools described in
62     Subsection (3)(a); and
63          (c) the partner languages for which the LEA intends to offer an online language course.
64          (4) An LEA that participates in the program shall:
65          (a) use a grant to offer an online language course to a student who intends to be a late
66     entrant;
67          (b) allow a student who completes an online language course to enroll in dual language
68     immersion as a late entrant at a school in the LEA if:
69          (i) the student demonstrates proficiency in the partner language on an assessment
70     described in Section 53F-2-502; and
71          (ii) the school has space available in dual language immersion; and
72          (c) report to the state board on:
73          (i) the online language course offered by the LEA;
74          (ii) the number of students in the LEA who participate in an online language course;
75     and
76          (iii) the number of students in the LEA who enroll as a late entrant.
77          Section 2. Section 63I-1-253 is amended to read:
78          63I-1-253. Repeal dates, Titles 53 through 53G.
79          The following provisions are repealed on the following dates:
80          (1) Subsection 53-10-202(18) is repealed July 1, 2018.
81          (2) Section 53-10-202.1 is repealed July 1, 2018.
82          (3) Title 53B, Chapter 17, Part 11, USTAR Researchers, is repealed July 1, 2028.
83          (4) Section 53B-18-1501 is repealed July 1, 2021.
84          (5) Title 53B, Chapter 18, Part 16, USTAR Researchers, is repealed July 1, 2028.
85          (6) Section 53B-24-402, Rural residency training program, is repealed July 1, 2020.
86          (7) Subsection 53C-3-203(4)(b)(vii), which provides for the distribution of money
87     from the Land Exchange Distribution Account to the Geological Survey for test wells, other
88     hydrologic studies, and air quality monitoring in the West Desert, is repealed July 1, 2020.
89          (8) Section 53E-3-515 is repealed January 1, 2023.

90          (9) Section 53F-2-514 is repealed July 1, 2020.
91          (10) Section 53F-5-203 is repealed July 1, 2019.
92          (11) Section 53F-5-212 is repealed July 1, 2023.
93          [(11)] (12) Title 53F, Chapter 5, Part 6, American Indian and Alaskan Native
94     Education State Plan Pilot Program, is repealed July 1, 2022.
95          [(12)] (13) Section 53F-6-201 is repealed July 1, 2019.
96          [(13)] (14) Section 53F-9-501 is repealed January 1, 2023.
97          [(14)] (15) Subsection 53G-8-211(4) is repealed July 1, 2020.