Senator MARTIN proposed the following amendment (615R003.KMM.SRM):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, on page 2, line 24, by adding an appropriately numbered new SECTION to read:

/SECTION__. Section 59-63-540 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 50-63-540. (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the distribution of state funds provided on a per pupil basis in the State Annual General Appropriation Act, no pupil shall be counted as enrolled, or as having been enrolled, in any primary or secondary school who has not attended such school at least thirty-five days during the school year on which the allocation of such funds is based. A pupil shall be counted as enrolled only in the first school district, or operating unit, such pupil legally attended.

(B) Notwithstanding subsection (A), a high school student who attends a private school but participates in a high school league sport offered at a public high school pursuant to Section 59-63-100, for the purposes of the distribution of state funds provided on a per-pupil basis, shall be counted as enrolled in the public high school at which he is participating in a high school league sport." /