Missouri SB 743: Modifies provisions relating to elementary and secondary education

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 743
99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2018
4496S.05T
AN ACT
To repeal sections 160.011, 160.041, 160.410, 161.072, 161.106, 161.217, 162.401,
162.720, 163.018, 163.021, 163.073, 164.011, 167.225, 171.029, 171.031,
171.033, 178.930, and 304.060, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof twenty-four
new sections relating to elementary and secondary education, with an effective
date for a certain section.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 160.011, 160.041, 160.410, 161.072, 161.106, 161.217,
2 162.401, 162.720, 163.018, 163.021, 163.073, 164.011, 167.225, 171.029, 171.031,
3 171.033, 178.930, and 304.060, RSMo, are repealed and twenty-four new sections
4 enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 160.011, 160.041, 160.410,
5 160.572, 161.026, 161.072, 161.106, 161.217, 162.401, 162.720, 162.722, 163.018,
6 163.021, 163.073, 164.011, 167.128, 167.225, 167.902, 168.024, 168.770, 171.031,
7 171.033, 178.931, and 304.060, to read as follows:
160.011. As used in chapters 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 170,
2 171, 177 and 178, the following terms mean:
3 (1) "District" or "school district", when used alone, may include seven-
4 director, urban, and metropolitan school districts;
5 (2) "Elementary school", a public school giving instruction in a grade or
6 grades not higher than the eighth grade;
7 (3) "Family literacy programs", services of sufficient intensity in terms of
8 hours, and of sufficient duration, to make sustainable changes in families that
9 include:
10 (a) Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children;
EXPLANATION--Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted and is
intended to be omitted in the law.

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11 (b) Training of parents regarding how to be the primary teacher of their
12 children and full partners in the education of their children;
13 (c) Parent literacy training that leads to high school completion and
14 economic self sufficiency; and
15 (d) An age-appropriate education to prepare children of all ages for
16 success in school;
17 (4) "Graduation rate", the quotient of the number of graduates in the
18 current year as of June thirtieth divided by the sum of the number of graduates
19 in the current year as of June thirtieth plus the number of twelfth graders who
20 dropped out in the current year plus the number of eleventh graders who dropped
21 out in the preceding year plus the number of tenth graders who dropped out in
22 the second preceding year plus the number of ninth graders who dropped out in
23 the third preceding year;
24 (5) "High school", a public school giving instruction in a grade or grades
25 not lower than the ninth nor higher than the twelfth grade;
26 (6) "Metropolitan school district", any school district the boundaries of
27 which are coterminous with the limits of any city which is not within a county;
28 (7) "Public school" includes all elementary and high schools operated at
29 public expense;
30 (8) "School board", the board of education having general control of the
31 property and affairs of any school district;
32 (9) "School term", a minimum of one hundred seventy-four school days, as
33 that term is defined in section 160.041, for schools with a five-day school week or
34 a minimum of one hundred forty-two school days, as that term is defined in
35 section 160.041, for schools with a four-day school week, and one thousand forty-
36 four hours of actual pupil attendance as scheduled by the board pursuant to
37 section 171.031 during a twelve-month period in which the academic instruction
38 of pupils is actually and regularly carried on for a group of students in the public
39 schools of any school district. In school year 2019-20 and subsequent years,
40 one thousand forty-four hours of actual pupil attendance shall be
41 required with no minimum number of school days required. A school
42 term may be within a school year or may consist of parts of two consecutive school
43 years, but does not include summer school. A district may choose to operate two
44 or more terms for different groups of children. A school term for students
45 participating in a school flex program as established in section 160.539 may
46 consist of a combination of actual pupil attendance and attendance at college or

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47 technical career education or approved employment aligned with the student's
48 career academic plan for a total of [one thousand forty-four] the required
49 number of hours as provided in this subdivision;
50 (10) "Secretary", the secretary of the board of a school district;
51 (11) "Seven-director district", any school district which has seven directors
52 and includes urban districts regardless of the number of directors an urban
53 district may have unless otherwise provided by law;
54 (