South Carolina General Assembly
118th Session, 2009-2010

Download This Bill in Microsoft Word format

A34, R78, S696

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Matthews
Document Path: l:\s-resmin\drafting\jm\004news.tcm.jm.docx

Introduced in the Senate on April 14, 2009
Introduced in the House on April 30, 2009
Passed by the General Assembly on May 14, 2009
Governor's Action: June 2, 2009, Signed

Summary: School report cards

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   4/14/2009  Senate  Introduced and read first time SJ-9
   4/14/2009  Senate  Referred to Committee on Education SJ-9
   4/29/2009  Senate  Recalled from Committee on Education SJ-2
   4/29/2009  Senate  Read second time SJ-2
   4/30/2009  Senate  Read third time and sent to House SJ-30
   4/30/2009  House   Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without 
                        reference HJ-159
   5/13/2009  House   Read second time HJ-8
   5/14/2009  House   Read third time and enrolled HJ-28
   5/27/2009          Ratified R 78
    6/2/2009          Signed By Governor
   6/11/2009          Effective date 06/02/09
   6/12/2009          Act No. 34

View the latest legislative information at the LPITS web site

VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

4/14/2009
4/29/2009
4/30/2009


(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

(A34, R78, S696)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 59-18-930, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE REQUIRED ADVERTISEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF A SCHOOL'S REPORT CARD IN A LOCAL NEWSPAPER, SO AS TO ALLOW THE REQUIRED ADVERTISEMENT TO BE WAIVED IF AN AUDITED NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT'S GEOGRAPHIC AREA HAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED THE ENTIRE SCHOOL REPORT CARD RESULTS AS A NEWS ITEM.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Advertisement of school district report card results; waiver

SECTION    1.    Section 59-18-930 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 353 of 2008, is further amended to read:

"Section 59-18-930.    (A)    The State Department of Education must issue the executive summary of the report card annually to all schools and districts of the State no later than November first. The executive summary shall be printed in black and white, be no more than two pages, use graphical displays whenever possible, and contain National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores as well as national scores. The report card summary must be made available to all parents of the school and the school district.

(B)    The school, in conjunction with the district board, also must inform the community of the school's report card by advertising the results in at least one South Carolina daily newspaper of general circulation in the area. This notice must be published within forty-five days of receipt of the report cards issued by the State Department of Education and must be a minimum of two columns by ten inches (four and one-half by ten inches) with at least a twenty-four point bold headline.

(C)    If an audited newspaper of general circulation in a school district's geographic area has previously published the entire school report card results as a news item, the requirement of subsection (B) may be waived."

Time effective

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Ratified the 27th day of May, 2009.

Approved the 2nd day of June, 2009.

__________


This web page was last updated on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 2:12 P.M.