Bill > AB1025

Introduced Session

This bill changes the definition of habitual truant to mean a pupil who is absent without an acceptable excuse for at least one-third of a day for at least five school days during a semester. Under current law, the definition is a pupil who is absent without an acceptable excuse for part or all of a day for at least five school days during a semester. Current law requires the school attendance officer for a school district to notify a pupil's parent or guardian when a child initially becomes a habitual truant and include in the notice various information related to compulsory school attendance. Current law also authorizes counties, cities, villages, and towns to enact an ordinance that prohibits individuals who are younger than 18 years of age from being habitual truants. Such ordinances may provide for various dispositions listed in current law, including the suspension of the child's driver's license; an order for the child to participate in counseling, a supervised work program, or other community service work; an order for the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian to participate in counseling at their own expense or to attend school with the child; an order to attend school; and a forfeiture. The bill also changes the definition of truancy to mean an absence that is more than one-third of one or more days from school for which the school is not notified of a legal cause for the absence by the pupil's parent or legal guardian. Under current law, truancy means an absence of part or all of one or more days from school for which the school is not notified of a legal cause for the absence by the pupil's parent or legal guardian.

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Amy Binsfeld (R)*,  Barbara Dittrich (R)*,  Robert Donovan (R)*,  Dora Drake (D)*,  Scott Krug (R)*,  Dave Maxey (R)*,  Paul Melotik (R)*,  Dave Murphy (R)*,  Jeff Mursau (R)*,  LaKeshia Myers (D)*,  Amanda Nedweski (R)*,  Jerry O'Connor (R)*,  Peter Schmidt (R)*,  Christine Sinicki (D)*,  Pat Snyder (R)*,  Shelia Stubbs (D)*,  Lisa Subeck (D)*,  Dan Feyen (R), 

Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 (on 04/15/2024)

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