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HB0027 • 2011

School year-required contact hours.

AN ACT relating to education; modifying the minimum school year as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Education
Inactive

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Sponsor
Representative Gingery
Last action
2011-03-02
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

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Amendments

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HB0027HW001

Committee of the Whole • BURKHART

Withdrawn

Plain English: Withdrawn Committee of the Whole by BURKHART

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HB0027HW002

Committee of the Whole • BURKHART

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Committee of the Whole by BURKHART

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Bill History

  1. 2011-03-02 Senate

    S Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 7-3(c)

  2. 2011-01-31 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S04; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2011-01-27 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  4. 2011-01-25 House

    H Passed 3rd Reading

  5. 2011-01-24 House

    H Passed 2nd Reading

  6. 2011-01-21 House

    H Passed CoW

  7. 2011-01-21 House

    H Amendments Adopted

  8. 2011-01-21 House

    Amendment Adopted

  9. 2011-01-19 House

    H Rereferred to HGF

  10. 2011-01-18 House

    H Rereferred to H02

  11. 2011-01-17 House

    H Placed on General File

  12. 2011-01-17 House

    H04 Recommended Do Pass

  13. 2011-01-12 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H04

  14. 2011-01-11 House

    H Received for Introduction

  15. 2010-12-14 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0175.E1

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0027

School year-required contact hours.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Gingery, McOmie and Steward and Senator(s) Coe

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
education;
modifying
the minimum school year
contact hours
as specified;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.
W.S. 21
‑
2
‑
304(b)(viii) and 21
‑
4
‑
301 are amended to read:

21
‑
2
‑
304.

Duties of the state board of education.

(b)

In addition to subsection (a) of this section and any other duties assigned to it by law, the state board shall:

(viii)

Approve or disapprove alternative scheduling for school districts requesting to operate for fewer than
one hundred seventy
‑
five (175
)
days in school year, but no schedule shall be approved which reduces the pupil
-
teacher contact time defined by the state board

below the minimum specified by W.S. 21
‑
4
‑
301
;

21
‑
4
‑
301.

Schools to be free and accessible to all children; minimum school year.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the public schools of each school district in the state shall at all times be equally free and accessible to all children resident therein of five (5) years of age as of September 15 of the applicable school year and under the age of twenty
‑
one (21), subject to regulations of the board of trustees.
Unless an alternative schedule has been approved by the state board, e
ach

school district shall operate its schools and its classes for a minimum of
one hundred seventy
‑
five (175
)
days

with minimum number of contact hours of one thousand one hundred thirty-one (1,131) total hours for high school students, one thousand eighty (1,080) total hours for middle and junior high school students and nine hundred twenty-six (926) total hours for elementary students,
each school year
.

unless an alternative schedule has been approved by the state board.
Prior to submission of a proposed alternative schedule to the state board, the board of trustees shall hold at least two (2) advertised public meetings within the district, at which the board shall present the proposed alternative schedule and respond to public questions and comments. Any school district operating under an alternative schedule shall annually evaluate the effectiveness of that schedule in meeting the educational goals and purposes for which the schedule was adopted.

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2011.

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