HOUSE BILL NO. 3310 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS.
4932H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal section 171.031 as enacted by senate bill no. 727, one hundred second general assembly, second regular session, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to public schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 171.031 as enacted by senate bill no. 727, one hundred second 2 general assembly, second regular session, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu 3 thereof, to be known as section 171.031, to read as follows: 171.031. 1. Each school board shall prepare annually a calendar for the school term, 2 specifying the opening date, days of planned attendance, and providing a minimum term of at 3 least one thousand forty-four hours of actual pupil attendance, and, for a school district that is 4 located wholly or partially in a county with a charter form of government or a school district 5 that is located wholly or partially in a city with more than thirty thousand inhabitants, a 6 minimum of one hundred and sixty-nine school days, unless the district has adopted a four- 7 day school week as provided in section 171.028, in which case the district school term shall 8 have a minimum of one hundred forty-two school days. In addition, such calendar shall 9 include six make-up days for possible loss of attendance due to inclement weather as defined 10 in subsection 1 of section 171.033. In school year 2019-20 and subsequent years, such 11 calendar shall include thirty-six make-up hours for possible loss of attendance due to 12 inclement weather, as defined in subsection 1 of section 171.033, with no minimum number 13 of make-up days. 14 2. Each local school district may set its opening date each year, which date shall be no 15 earlier than fourteen calendar days prior to the first Monday in September. No public school
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. HB 3310 2
16 district shall select an earlier start date unless, for calendars for school years before school 17 year 2020-21, the district follows the procedure set forth in subsection 3 of this section. The 18 procedure set forth in subsection 3 of this section shall be unavailable to school districts in 19 preparing their calendars for school year 2020-21 and for subsequent years. 20 3. For calendars for school years before school year 2020-21, a district may set an 21 opening date that is more than fourteen calendar days prior to the first Monday in September 22 only if the local school board first gives public notice of a public meeting to discuss the 23 proposal of opening school on a date more than fourteen days prior to the first Monday in 24 September, and the local school board holds said meeting and, at the same public meeting, a 25 majority of the board votes to allow an earlier opening date. If all of the previous conditions 26 are met, the district may set its opening date more than fourteen calendar days prior to the first 27 Monday in September. The condition provided in this subsection must be satisfied by the 28 local school board each year that the board proposes an opening date more than fourteen days 29 before the first Monday in September. 30 4. If any local district violates the provisions of this section, the department of 31 elementary and secondary education shall withhold an amount equal to one quarter of the 32 state funding the district generated under section 163.031 for each date the district was in 33 violation of this section. 34 5. The provisions of subsections 2 to 4 of this section shall not apply to any school 35 district in which one or more charter schools are operated under the provisions of 36 sections 160.400 to 160.425 or to school districts in which school is in session for twelve 37 months of each calendar year. 38 6. The state board of education may grant an exemption from this section to a school 39 district that demonstrates highly unusual and extenuating circumstances justifying exemption 40 from the provisions of subsections 2 to 4 of this section. Any exemption granted by the state 41 board of education shall be valid for one academic year only. ✔
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