This amendment expands the bill to address virtual and online education, creates provisions for competency-based equivalency examinations affecting school district funding, requires rulemaking, and adjusts the effective date timeline.
- Adds language to allow schools to be accessible to students attending 'virtually or' on a part-time basis, and adds provisions requiring modification of average daily membership calculations for students completing competency-based equivalency examinations. (Page 1, lines 4-7)
- Changes 'an' to indefinite article handling and modifies 'date' to 'dates' to accommodate plural references. (Page 1, line 5)
- Adds explicit reference to virtual, online, and long-distance education programs as methods of school attendance. (Page 2, line 1)
- Creates new Section 2 establishing that students completing competency-based equivalency examinations or enrolled in virtual, online, or long-distance education shall be counted in average daily membership (ADM) for the remainder of the semester in which they were enrolled or examined, and authorizes the state superintendent to promulgate necessary rules for the education resource block grant model. (Page 3, after line 5)
- Renumbers the original Section 2 to Section 3. (Page 3, line 7)
- Adds new Section 4 requiring all agency rules authorized or required under the act to be promulgated or repromulgated to comply by July 1, 2026. (Page 3, after line 9)
- Replaces the original effective date provision with a new Section 5 that makes the act effective July 1, 2026, except that Section 2 and Section 4 become effective immediately upon completion of all constitutional requirements for a bill to become law. (Page 3, line 11)
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