CHAPTER NUMBER: 452 
File Code: Primary and Secondary Education
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 903/96 - JUD
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Dembrow, Genn, and Preis
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Truancy - Investigation and Reporting Requirements
 
Requiring specified individuals to initiate certain investigations
regarding truancy under specified circumstances; authorizing specified
individuals to provide specified counseling and to notify the
Department of Juvenile Justice that students have been habitually
truant; and requiring school officials to provide to local education
agencies information on habitually truant students.
House Action
- 1/29
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 2/3
 - Hearing 2/12 at 3:00 p.m.
 - 2/10
 - Hearing cancelled
 - 2/17
 - Re-referred Judiciary
 - 2/18
 - Hearing 2/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Judiciary
 - 2/28
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/4
 - Third Reading Passed (134-4)
 - 3/30
 - House Concur - Senate Amendments
 -      Third Reading Passed (135-2)
 -      Passed Enrolled
 - 5/8
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 452
 
Senate Action
- 3/5
 - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
 - 3/6
 - Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/31
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
 - 4/1
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 4/2
 - Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
 - Delegate Gilbert J. Genn, District 16
 - Delegate Mary Louise Preis, District 34
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - DISCIPLINE
 - EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
 - EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.
 - INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES
 - JUVENILE CAUSES
 - JUVENILE JUSTICE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - NOTICES
 - PRIVATE SCHOOLS
 - PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 - STUDENTS
 - TEACHERS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Education
 - (
 7-302 ,
 7-304 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF) 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- House 
 - Number: 421986/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 28, 1997  at: 12:17
 Status: Adopted         
 - Senate
 - Number: 634102/1 (PDF) Offered on: APRIL 1, 1997      at: 11:25
 Status: Adopted