PRINTER'S NO.  3301

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

2301

Session of

2010

  

  

INTRODUCED BY BROOKS, PAYTON, GEIST, HORNAMAN, KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, MARSICO, MILNE, MOUL, RAPP, SAYLOR, SONNEY, R. TAYLOR, WAGNER AND SWANGER, MARCH 9, 2010

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 9, 2010  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An

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act relating to the public school system, including certain

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provisions applicable as well to private and parochial

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schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the

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laws relating thereto," in pupils and attendance, further

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providing for definitions.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 1326 of the act of March 10, 1949

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(P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is

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amended to read:

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Section 1326.  Definitions.--The term "compulsory school

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age," as hereinafter used, shall mean the period of a child's

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life from the time the child's parents elect to have the child

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enter school, which shall be not later than at the age of eight

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(8) years, until the age of [seventeen (17)] eighteen (18) 

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years. The term shall not include any child who holds a

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certificate of graduation from a regularly accredited senior

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high school.

 


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The term "migratory child," wherever used in this subdivision

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of this article, shall include any child domiciled temporarily

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in any school district for the purpose of seasonal employment,

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but not acquiring residence therein, and any child accompanying

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his parent or guardian who is so domiciled.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2010, or

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immediately, whichever is later.

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