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Compulsory Education and Truancy in Louisiana: 2019

2019

2019 ACT No. 21

AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:7(8), 46(G) (2) and (R), 81(X) (2) (b) (i), 221(A) (2), 1519.3(C), 1519.6(C) and (E)(1), 1519.14(A), 1976(B), 2048.51(0) (1) (c) (viii), (xi), and (xvii), 3046.2(B), 3128(B) (3), 3139.5(B)(2)(d)(i) and (e)(i), 3399.13(1), 3911(B)(4)(b)(iv) and (c) (introductory paragraph), 4011, 4012(6) and (7), 4013(introductory paragraph), (2) (c), (3), (5), and (6), 4015 (introductory paragraph), 4017(B), 4020, 4022(3), and 4025 and to repeal R.S. 17:8.3, 1519.17.1, 3137(D), 3138.1, 3399.12, and 3399.13(4) and R.S. 36:651(G) (1) and (3) and to provide for technical corrections in various education laws in Title 17 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950; and to provide for related matters.

2019 ACT No. 398

AN ACT To amend and reenact R.S. 17:236.3, relative to school attendance; to authorize city, parish, and other local public school boards and chartering authorities to adopt policies providing for student attendance at virtual schools for purposes related to habitual absence or tardiness; and to provide for related matters.