SF0046 • 2024

Compulsory school attendance-minimum age.

AN ACT relating to education; amending the minimum age when school attendance is required; repealing a related provision; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Children Education Parental Rights

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Senator Schuler
Last action: 2024-02-13
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2024

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and text do not provide specific details about what happens to children who turn six after September 15th, leaving this as an unknown.

Minimum Age for School Attendance

The bill changes the minimum age when children must attend school in Wyoming.

What This Bill Does

Changes the law to require children who turn six by September 15th to start attending school if they started kindergarten early with permission.
Removes an older part of the law about school attendance requirements.

Who It Names or Affects

Children who turn six by September 15th and their parents or guardians
School districts in Wyoming

Terms To Know

Compulsory school attendance: A rule that says children must go to school until a certain age.
Effective date: The day when new rules start working.

Limits and Unknowns

This bill did not pass and was not signed into law.
It does not specify what happens to children who turn six after September 15th.

Bill History

2024-02-13 Senate
S Failed Introduction 7-24-0-0-0
2024-01-24 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2024-01-12 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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24LSO-0283
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0283
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0046

Compulsory school attendance-minimum age.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Schuler, Cooper and Landen and Representative(s) Berger

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to education; amending the minimum age when school attendance is required; repealing a related provision; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 21
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4
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102(a)(intro) is amended to read:

21
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102.

When attendance required; exemptions; withdrawal.

(a)

Every parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child who is a resident of this state and whose
seventh
sixth
birthday falls on or before August 1, or September 15 if the child started kindergarten pursuant to an approved request under W.S. 21
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3
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110(a)(xxxviii), of any year and who has not yet attained his sixteenth birthday or completed the tenth grade shall be required to send such child to, and such child shall be required to attend, a public or private school each year, during the entire time that the public schools shall be in session in the district in which the pupil resides; provided, that the board of trustees of each school district may exempt any child from the operation of this article when:

Section 2.

W.S. 21
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4
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302(a) is repealed.

Section 3.

It is the intent of the legislature that this act shall be applicable to the 2024
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2025 school year and to each school year thereafter.

Section 4
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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(END)

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