Compulsory school attendance-2.

WORKING DRAFT
2010
STATE OF
WYOMING
10LSO-0263

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0045

Compulsory school attendance-2.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Hammons, Craft, Jaggi, Lubnau, McKim and McOmie and Senator(s) Coe, Landen, Massie and Von Flatern

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
compulsory school attendance;
providing for
parental consent
as a means to allow
children
subject to mandatory attendance age to
withdraw from school
;
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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102
(a)(intro), (ii), (iii) and by creating a new paragraph (iv)
is amended to read:

21
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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 birthday or completed the tenth grade shall
except as otherwise required 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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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
attendance.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2010.

(END)

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