Senator MALLOY proposed the following amendment (NBD\12254DG12):
    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 that has been a member of the committee for at least one year, 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.