RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 386 (HB 629) 2024 Regular Session Phelps
Existing law requires parents to send their children to school and provides certain penalties
for failure to comply. New law requires the parent of a truant student to ensure that the
student makes up missed school work by attending after-school tutoring sessions, weekend
make-up classes, or other remediation opportunities, as determined by the school board, until
the student has caught up with his school work. Requires the parent to attend meetings at the
school on at least a monthly basis and any assistance fair conducted by the district. Provides
that failure to comply with new law may subject a parent to existing law penalties for the
crime of improper supervision of a minor.
New law further requires each school principal to note any concerns that school personnel
have relative to a student's attendance on any Supplemental Security Income form the school
receives relative to that child.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 17:233(B)(1)(b))


Statutes affected:
HB629 Original: 17:233(B)(1)
HB629 Engrossed: 17:233(B)(1)
HB629 Enrolled: 17:233(B)(1)
HB629 Act : 17:233(B)(1)