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Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: June 12, 2008. Bill Text Provides that certain children of military personnel shall be temporarily excused from school under specified circumstances
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Deletes provision that certain disruptive students shall be considered delinquents
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Provides relative to alternative education programs for suspended and expelled students
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Effective date: August 15, 2008. Bill Text Provides relative to the conditions required for certain expelled students to be admitted or readmitted to public school
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Prohibits not promoting students in the fourth and eighth grades solely based on a student's performance on the LEAP tests
Latest Action: 03/31/2008 - Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Authorizes certain school officials to search the person or personal effects of certain suspended or expelled students who have been readmitted to school on a probationary basis or attend an alternative education program
Latest Action: 04/06/2005 - Withdrawn prior to introduction. Bill Text Provides, relative to initial eligibility for a TOPS award beginning with the 2005-06 award year, for minimum scores on specified standardized tests that are required of certain home study students
Latest Action: 07/11/2005 - HB103: Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 412. Bill Text Permits use of TOPS Opportunity, Performance, and Honors Awards at certain out-of-state nonpublic colleges and universities under specified conditions and provides for award amounts in such cases (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/29/2005 - Effective date 6/29/05. Bill Text Relative to initial eligibility for a TOPS award beginning with the 2005-2006 award year, provides through the 2007-2008 school year for minimum scores on specified standardized tests that are required of certain home study students (EN +$34,455 GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/30/2005 - Effective date 8/15/05. Bill Text Requires, with certain exceptions, a public school principal to recommend expulsion of a student age 11 or older in pre-kindergarten through grade five for carrying or possessing a knife of a specified size
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Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests BESE to study giving equal weight to science and social studies in administering the LEAP tests
Latest Action: 06/26/2008 - Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Provides relative to dates for administering LEAP tests and for the start of a school year by public elementary and secondary schools
Latest Action: 06/23/2008 - Enrolled, signed by the Speaker of the House and taken by the Clerk of the House to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House. Bill Text Requests the Bd. of Regents to study benefits, costs, and program implications of expanding TOPS to provide an additional two semesters of eligibility for certain students to pursue a post-baccalaureate academic degree
Latest Action: 06/25/2008 - Effective date: June 25, 2008. Bill Text Establishes the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program to provide funds for eligible students to attend participating public and nonpublic schools (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 06/03/2008 - Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Provides for the suspension of driver's licenses and revocation of employment certificates issued to certain truant students
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Prohibits not promoting or graduating a student who fails to attain a certain minimum achievement level on a portion of any LEAP test, including the graduation test, if the student meets certain criteria
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Requires BESE to establish a procedure for the state supt. of education to grant a waiver allowing the grade level promotion of certain students under certain circumstances
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Prohibits not promoting or graduating a student who fails to attain a certain minimum achievement level on a portion of any LEAP test, including the graduation test, if the student meets certain criteria
Latest Action: 07/06/2008 - HB1278: Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 754. Bill Text Permits use of a TOPS-Tech Award at certain schools having a certificate of registration issued by the Board of Cosmetology and proprietary schools licensed by the Board of Regents (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Latest Action: 04/23/2008 - Read by title, referred to the Committee on Education. Bill Text Allows pupils removed from class, suspended, or expelled to make up missed school work under certain circumstances and provides that certain students may be required to perform certain school service work
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