FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 95

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WILSON (42), BROOKS, LOWE, JOHNSON (61),

WALTON, CARNAHAN, HAYWOOD (Co-sponsors), CURLS AND COLEMAN.

Pre-filed December 6, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 171.031, RSMo 2000, relating to school-term calendars, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.




Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 171.031, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 171.031, to read as follows: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, specifying the opening date and providing a minimum term of at least one hundred seventy-four days and one thousand forty-four hours of actual pupil attendance. The opening date shall not be earlier than the first day of September, except:

(1) If the first day of September falls on Labor Day or a Saturday or Sunday, the school board in any school district may move the starting day for that term to a subsequent school day;

(2) In school districts in which schools are in session for twelve months of each calendar year; [and]

(3) In school districts in which the school board determines students are needed for agricultural production purposes; and

(4) In urban school districts.

2. No school day shall be longer than seven hours except for vocational schools which may adopt an eight-hour day in a metropolitan school district and a school district in a first class county adjacent to a city not within a county.



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