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SENATE BILL NO. 1046 – School age, revised, 1st grade

SENATE BILL NO. 1046

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S1046..........................................................by EDUCATION
EDUCATION - Amends existing law relating to education to revise provisions
relating to school age for purposes of enrollment in first grade.
                                                                        
01/25    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/26    Rpt prt - to Educ

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   First Regular Session - 2007
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1046
                                                                        
                                   BY EDUCATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO EDUCATION; AMENDING SECTION 33-201, IDAHO CODE, TO  REVISE  PROVI-
  3        SIONS RELATING TO SCHOOL AGE FOR PURPOSES OF ENROLLMENT IN FIRST GRADE AND
  4        TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION.
                                                                        
  5    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  6        SECTION  1.  That  Section  33-201, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  7    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  8        33-201.  SCHOOL AGE. The services of the public schools of this state  are
  9    extended  to  any  acceptable person of school age. "School age" is defined as
 10    including all persons resident of the state, between the ages of five (5)  and
 11    twenty-one  (21)  years. For the purposes of this section, the age of five (5)
 12    years shall be attained when the fifth  anniversary  of  birth  occurs  on  or
 13    before  the first day of September of the school year in which the child is to
 14    enroll in kindergarten. For a child enrolling in the first grade, the  age  of
 15    six  (6)  years must be reached on or before the first day of September of the
 16    school year in which the child is to enroll. Any child of the age of five  (5)
 17    years  who has completed a private kindergarten in this state or another state
 18    or a public out-of-state kindergarten for  the  required  four  hundred  fifty
 19    (450) hours but has not reached the "school age" requirement in Idaho shall be
 20    allowed to enter the first grade.
 21        For  resident children with disabilities who qualify for special education
 22    and related services under the federal individuals with disabilities education
 23    act (IDEA) and subsequent amendments thereto, and applicable state and federal
 24    regulations, "school age" shall begin at the attainment of age three (3) years
 25    and shall continue through the semester of school in which the student attains
 26    the age of twenty-one (21) years.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                      STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                            RS 16648

 In current Idaho Code a child who has not reached six years of
age by September 1, but who has attended 450 hours of private
kindergarten in Idaho is not allowed to attend first grade in
Idaho's public school system.  A child under the mandatory age
limit who has attended a private kindergarten in another state is
eligible to attend public first grade.  This legislation would
correct this inequity so that Idaho residents are not
discriminated against.   

     
                         FISCAL IMPACT

The net fiscal impact would be slightly positive.  Any cost
increase associated with having a small proportion of 5 year olds
attend full-day 1st grade, rather than half-day kindergarten, as
their first year of public school, would be more than made up
for, over the long-term, by the fact that such children would
attend public schools for 12 years instead of 13.



Contact
Name: Senator Joyce Broadsword 
Phone: 208-332-1338
Rep. Mary Lou Shepherd


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                          S 1046