Bill Text: GA HB1292 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Student scholarship organizations; testing requirements for qualified schools and programs which enroll eligible students; provide

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-21 - House Second Readers [HB1292 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB1292-Introduced.html

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12 LC 33 4738

House Bill 1292

By: Representatives Benfield of the 85th, Oliver of the 83rd, Ashe of the 56th, Thomas of the 100th, and Holcomb of the 82nd

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To amend Chapter 2A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student scholarship organizations, so as to provide for testing requirements for qualified schools and programs which enroll eligible students; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

Chapter 2A of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to student scholarship organizations, is amended by adding a new Code section to read as follows:

"20-2A-8.

(a) Each qualified school or program shall administer all state-wide standardized assessments to its students which are required to be administered by public schools in this state pursuant to Code Section 20-2-281 and applicable rules and regulations of the State Board of Education.

(b) This Code section shall only apply to a qualified school or program which enrolls one or more eligible students who are utilizing a scholarship or tuition grant from a student scholarship organization pursuant to this chapter for purposes of attending such qualified school or program."

SECTION 2.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.