Senator MALLOY proposed the following amendment ( 3241MW2):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking Section 59-40-50(8), beginning on page 8, line 38, and ending on page 9, line 7, and inserting:

/ (8) not limit or deny admission or show preference in admission decisions to any individual or group of individuals, except in the case of an application to create a single gender charter school, in which case gender may be the only reason to show preference or deny admission to the school; however, a charter school may give enrollment priority to a sibling of a pupil already currently enrolled or previously enrolled, and attending, or who, within the last six years, attended the school for at least one complete academic year. A charter school also may give priority to children of a charter school employee that has been employed at the school for at least one year, and children of the a charter committee member, if such priority enrollment for children of employees and of the charter committee does not constitute more than twenty percent of the enrollment of the charter school;                     /

    Renumber sections to conform.
    Amend title to conform.