Reference is to Printer's Date 5/4/16--H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered SECTION to read:
/ SECTION __. Section 59-65-10(A) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 163 of 2012, is further amended to read:
"(A) A parent or
guardian shall require his or her child to attend
regularly a public or private school or kindergarten of this
State which has been approved by the State Board of Education, a
member school of the South Carolina Independent Schools'
Association, a member school of the South Carolina Association
of Christian Schools, or some similar organization, or a
parochial, denominational, or church-related school, or other
programs which have been approved by the State Board of
Education from the school year in which the child is five years
of age before September first until the child attains his
seventeenth eighteenth birthday or
graduates from high school. A parent or guardian whose child is
not six years of age on or before the first day of September of
a particular school year may elect for their
his or her child or ward not to attend kindergarten. For
this purpose, the parent or guardian shall sign a written
document making the election with the governing body of the
school district in which the parent or guardian resides. The
form of this written document must be prescribed by regulation
of the Department of Education. Upon the written election being
executed, that child is not required to attend
kindergarten." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.