PRINTER'S NO. 1791
No. 1281 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY PIPPY, RHOADES, ERICKSON, ORIE, BROWNE, DINNIMAN, WONDERLING, GREENLEAF, PICCOLA, RAFFERTY, KITCHEN, WAUGH AND REGOLA, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
REFERRED TO EDUCATION, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
AN ACT 1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An 2 act relating to the public school system, including certain 3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial 4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the 5 laws relating thereto," in pupils and attendance, further 6 providing for residence and right to free school privileges. 7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 8 hereby enacts as follows: 9 Section 1. Section 1302(a) of the act of March 10, 1949 10 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, 11 amended December 23, 2003 (P.L.304, No.48), is amended to read: 12 Section 1302. Residence and Right to Free School 13 Privileges.--(a) [A] (1) Subject to the provisions of 14 paragraph (2), a child shall be considered a resident of the 15 school district in which his parents or the guardian of his 16 person resides. Federal installations are considered a part of 17 the school district or districts in which they are situate and 18 the children residing on such installations shall be counted as 19 resident pupils of the school district.
1 (2) A child whose parents have been called or ordered to 2 active military duty, other than training, and whose parents own 3 a residence in the school district shall be considered a 4 resident of the school district where the residence is located. 5 (a.1) When a resident of any school district keeps in his 6 home a child of school age, not his own, supporting the child 7 gratis as if it were his own, such child shall be entitled to 8 all free school privileges accorded to resident school children 9 of the district, including the right to attend the public high 10 school maintained in such district or in other districts in the 11 same manner as though such child were in fact a resident school 12 child of the district, and shall be subject to all the 13 requirements placed upon resident school children of the 14 district. Before such child may be accepted as a pupil, such 15 resident shall file with the secretary of the board: 16 (1) appropriate legal documentation to show dependency or 17 guardianship; or 18 (2) a sworn statement that he is a resident of the district, 19 that he is supporting the child gratis, that he will assume all 20 personal obligations for the child relative to school 21 requirements, and that he intends to so keep and support the 22 child continuously and not merely through the school term. The 23 school board, pursuant to guidelines issued by the Department of 24 Education, may require other reasonable information to be 25 submitted by the resident to substantiate the sworn statement. 26 The form containing the sworn statement shall include notice in 27 large print of the penalty for providing false information in 28 the sworn statement. 29 * * * 30 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. A10L24DMS/20080S1281B1791 - 2 -