FIRST REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PARKINSON.
2010L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 167.275, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the state literacy hotline office.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 167.275, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 167.275, to read as follows:
167.275. 1. Effective January 1, 1991, all public and nonpublic secondary schools shall report to the state literacy hot line office in Jefferson City the name, mailing address and telephone number of all students sixteen years of age or older who drop out of school for any reason other than to attend another school, college or university, or enlist in the armed services. Such reports shall be made either by using the telephone hot line number or on forms developed by the department of elementary and secondary education. Upon such notification, the state literacy hot line office shall contact the student who has been reported and refer that student to the nearest location that provides adult basic education instruction leading to the completion of a general educational development certificate.
2. All record and reports from or based upon the reports required under this section shall be made available by free electronic record on the department's web site or otherwise on the first business day of each month. The names of students who drop out and any other information which might identify such students shall not be included in the records and reports made available by free electronic media.
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