FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 274
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SHIELDS.
Read 1st time January 4, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 171.033, RSMo 2000, relating to inclement weather exceptions for mandatory days of school attendance, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject, with an emergency clause.
Section A. Section 171.033, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 171.033, to read as follows:
171.033. 1. Except as provided in [subsection 4] subsections 3 and 4 of this section, no school district shall be exempt from any requirement to make up any days of school lost or canceled due to inclement weather, unless that school district schedules at least two-thirds as many make-up days for a school year as were lost in the previous school year, which days shall be in addition to the school calendar days required for a school term by section 171.031.
2. If, after using the make-up days referred to in subsection 1, a district does not meet the requirement for a term of one hundred seventy-four days of actual pupil attendance, it shall be required to make up no more than eight additional days of school lost or canceled due to inclement weather and half the number of days lost or canceled in excess of eight days.
3. In [1993-1994 school year, or the 1994-1995 school year if the school board in such school districts determines it is necessary] the 2000-2001 school year, a school district may be exempt from the requirement to make up days of school lost or canceled due to [flooding] inclement weather in the school district, but such reduction of the minimum number of school days shall not exceed [eleven] five days [per year].
4. The commissioner of education may provide, for any school district in which schools are in session for twelve months of each calendar year that cannot meet the minimum school calendar requirement of at least one hundred seventy-four days and one thousand forty-four hours of actual pupil attendance, upon request, a waiver to be excused from such requirement. This waiver shall be requested from the commissioner of education and may be granted if the school was closed due to circumstances beyond school district control, including inclement weather, flooding or fire.
Section B. Because immediate action is necessary to clarify potential school scheduling and funding problems, section A of
this act is deemed necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, welfare, peace and safety, and is hereby
declared to be an emergency act within the meaning of the constitution, and section A of this act shall be in full force and
effect upon its passage and approval.