Schools-compulsory attendance.

WORKING DRAFT
2008
STATE OF
WYOMING
08LSO-0219

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0040

Schools-compulsory attendance.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hammons, Illoway and McOmie and Senator(s) Anderson, J. and Von Flatern

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
compulsory school attendance; modifying compulsory attendance requirements;
expanding exemptions;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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4
‑
102(a)(i
ntro
)
, (ii), (iii)
and by creating a new
paragraph (iv) is
amended to read:

21
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4
‑
102.

When attendance required; exemptions.

(a)

Every parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child who is a resident of this state and whose seventh birthday falls on or before September 15 of any year and who has not yet attained his
sixteenth

seventeenth
birthday or completed the tenth grade shall

except as
otherwise
provided by
this
subsection,
be required to send
such

the
child to, and
such

the
child shall be required to attend, a public or private school each year
,
during the entire time that the public schools
shall be

are
in session in the district in which the pupil resides
.
; provided, that

T
he board of trustees of each school district may exempt any child from
the operation of

this article when:

(ii)

The board feels that compulsory school attendance might work undue hardship. The board may conduct a hearing on issues pursuant to this paragraph by executive session;
or

(iii)

The child has been legally excluded from the regular schools pursuant to the provisions of W.S. 21
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4
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306
;
.

or

(iv)

The parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of the child, following a documented meeting with a school district counselor or administrator, provides written consent to the district board for withdrawal of the child from public or private school at
tendance and
certification that the child has attended public or private school for a period of not less than three (3) years
.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2008.

(END)

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