FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BAKER (123) (Sponsor), DIXON, JONES (117), THRELKELD, WALLACE, FLOOK, FISHER, ROBB, SANDER, DEEKEN, SPRENG, CHAPPELLE-NADAL, McGHEE, HARRIS (110), WILSON (119) AND STORCH (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 18, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 22, 2007 and referred to the Special Committee on Student Achievement February 5, 2007.
Reported from the Special Committee on Student Achievement February 26, 2007 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(21)(f).
Reported from the Committee on Rules March 6, 2007 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.
Perfected by Consent March 13, 2007.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 162.720, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to gifted education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 162.720, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 162.720, to read as follows:
162.720. 1. [Where a sufficient number of children are determined to be gifted and their development requires programs or services beyond the level of those ordinarily provided in regular public school programs, districts may establish special programs for such gifted children.
2.] Each school district shall identify which of the district's students are academically gifted as established under the rules prescribed by the department of elementary and secondary education. The department shall develop a list of identification criteria with emphasis on early identification.
2. Each school district may establish special programs or services for students who are identified as academically gifted under subsection 1 of this section and whose development requires programs or services beyond the level of programs ordinarily provided in regular public school programs.
3. The state board of education shall determine standards or services for such programs. Approval of such programs shall be made by the state department of elementary and secondary education based upon project applications submitted [by July fifteenth of each year] in a format and at a time established by the department. Each school district shall report annually to the department, by a date established by the department.
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