HOUSE BILL 1385

File Code: Primary and Secondary Education

Sponsored By:

Delegate Rzepkowski

Entitled:

Education - Lawful and Excused Absences

Synopsis:

Requiring a principal to excuse the absence of a student from the day or days that a certain test is administered if, before the first day of examination, a parent or legal guardian of the student presents the principal or the principal's designee with a signed, written authorization for the student's absence; and establishing that an absence authorized by the Act is a lawful and excused absence.

Legislative History

House Action

2/21

First Reading Ways and Means

2/26

Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.

3/19

Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means

Senate Action

No Action

Bill indexed under the following Subjects:

EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.

EXAMINATIONS

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

STUDENTS

TEACHERS

Bill affects the following Statute:

Education

( 7-204 )

Documents:

Bill Text:

First Reading (PDF), Third Reading, Enrolled

Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)