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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

SB 250

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Relating to: the pupil participation limit in the statewide parental choice program. (FE)

Parochial and private schools School — Attendance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the limit on the total number of pupils residing in a school

district who may participate in the statewide parental choice program (pupil

participation limit) in the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years is 1 percent of the school

district's membership in the previous school year. Beginning with the 2017-18

school year, the pupil participation limit increases one percentage point each school

year until the limit reaches 10 percent in the 2025-26 school year, after which there

is no pupil participation limit in the statewide parental choice program.

This bill creates an exception to the pupil participation limit. The exception

allows a pupil who attended a private school under the statewide parental choice

program in the previous year to attend a private school under the statewide parental

choice program if the pupil's application to attend a private school under the

statewide parental choice program is not accepted because the pupil's resident school

district has exceeded its pupil participation limit.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Stroebel (R)

1 cosponsors

Sanfelippo (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 5, Noes 2

Passed 5–2 Oct 1, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Sep 4, 2015 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Stroebel; cosponsored by Representative Sanfelippo

  2. Sep 4, 2015 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Sep 8, 2015 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Sep 17, 2015 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Sep 17, 2015 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Sep 29, 2015 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Oct 1, 2015 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 5, Noes 2

  8. Oct 1, 2015 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Apr 13, 2016 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1