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HB248 • 2026

CORRESPONDENCE STUDY PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

An Act relating to correspondence study program student assessment participation; and providing for an effective date.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
REPRESENTATIVE GALVIN
Last action
2026-01-20
Official status
(H) EDC
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effective date is January 1, 2027, but the bill status shows it was referred on a future date (2026-01-20) in the provided metadata which may indicate a simulation or error in source dates.

HB 248: Rules for Online School Test Participation

This law requires Alaska school districts running correspondence study programs to have student test participation rates that match or exceed the rest of their district, and it stops state funding if they do not meet this rule.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires a district's correspondence program to keep its student testing rate at least as high as the overall district rate.
  • Stops payments of state aid to any correspondence program that does not meet the required participation level until it complies again.

Who It Names or Affects

  • School districts that offer a statewide correspondence study program
  • Students enrolled in these programs

Terms To Know

Correspondence program student assessment participation rate
The percentage of students enrolled in the program who took required tests, divided by the number of eligible students on the first day testing began.
District correspondence program
A district that offers a statewide correspondence study program.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The law does not specify what happens if a district cannot meet the requirement due to reasons outside its control.
  • The text defines how rates are calculated but does not list specific penalties other than withholding state aid payments until compliance is reached.

Bill History

  1. 2026-01-20 1449

    (H) REFERRED TO EDUCATION

  2. 2026-01-20 1449

    (H) EDC, FIN

  3. 2026-01-20 1449

    (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS

  4. 2026-01-20 1449

    (H) PREFILE RELEASED 1/9/26

Official Summary Text

CORRESPONDENCE STUDY PROGRAM ASSESSMENT
An Act relating to correspondence study program student assessment participation; and providing for an effective date.

Current Bill Text

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HOUSE BILL NO. 248

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION

BY REPRESENTATIVE GALVIN

Introduced: 1/20/26
Referred: Education, Finance

A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to correspondence study program student assessment participation; 1
and providing for an effective date." 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 3
* Section 1. AS 14.03 is amended by adding a new section to article 3 to read: 4
Sec. 14.03.320. Correspondence study program student assessment 5
participation. (a) A district correspondence program must maintain a correspondence 6
program student assessment participation rate that meets or exceeds the district student 7
assessment participation rate. 8
(b) The commissioner shall withhold payments of state aid from a district 9
correspondence program that fails to meet the requirements under (a) of this section 10
until the district correspondence program complies with (a) of this section. 11
(c) In this section, 12
(1) "correspondence program student assessment participation rate" 13
means a quotient, expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing the number of 14
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students enrolled in a correspondence program who took a statewide student 1
assessment required by the department under AS 14.03.123(f) administered by the 2
correspondence program by the number of students enrolled in a grade in which the 3
correspondence program administers the assessment on the first day that the 4
correspondence program begins administering the assessment; 5
(2) "district correspondence program" includes a district that offers a 6
statewide correspondence study program; 7
(3) "district student assessment participation rate" means a quotient, 8
expressed as a percentage, obtained by dividing the number of students enrolled in a 9
district who took a statewide student assessment required by the department under 10
AS 14.03.123(f) administered by the district by the number of students enrolled in a 11
grade in which the district administers the assessment on the first day that the district 12
begins administering the assessment. 13
* Sec. 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2027. 14