FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Reported from the Special Committee on Tourism February 14, 2007 with recommendation that House Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 678 Do Pass. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f).
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 171, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to school attendance in inclement weather, with an emergency clause.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 171, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 171.035, to read as follows:
171.035. Except a school district with an assessed valuation of three hundred million dollars or more and with territory in a county of the second classification, no school district with any territory contained in a county declared to be a federal disaster area on January 16, 2007, that cancelled classes or dismissed classes early for weather-related reasons for any of its schools for any days from January fifteenth to January 22, 2007, shall be required to make up the days or hours lost during such time. School districts in counties not included in the federal disaster area that have missed eight or more days due to inclement weather during the 2006-2007 school year shall not be required to make up the days or hours for six of those days. The requirement for scheduling two-thirds of the missed days into the next year's calendar under subsection 1 of section 171.033 shall be waived for the 2007-2008 school year.
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.
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