Bill 4178

                    Current Status

Introducing Body:               House
Bill Number:                    4178
Primary Sponsor:                Whipper
Committee Number:               21
Type of Legislation:            GB
Subject:                        Students, school age
                                attendance
Residing Body:                  House
Current Committee:              Education and Public Works
Computer Document Number:       BR1/1968.AC
Introduced Date:                Jan 15, 1992
Last History Body:              House
Last History Date:              Jan 15, 1992
Last History Type:              Introduced, read first time,
                                referred to Committee
Scope of Legislation:           Statewide
All Sponsors:                   Whipper
                                Barber
                                Cork
                                Manly
                                Holt
                                White
                                D. Martin
                                Baxley
                                Inabinett
                                Wells
                                Glover
                                Lanford
Type of Legislation:            General Bill

 Bill  Body    Date          Action Description              CMN
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 4178  House   Jan 15, 1992  Introduced, read first time,    21
                             referred to Committee

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 59-63-20, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE AGE OF ATTENDANCE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT A CHILD MUST BE FIVE YEARS OLD FOR CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS TO APPLY TO ATTEND FIRST GRADE AND TO ADD THE EXCEPTION THAT A CHILD MAY ATTEND IF THE CHILD ATTENDED A CERTIFIED PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM AND WILL BE SIX YEARS OLD ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST OF THE APLICABLE SCHOOL YEAR.

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

SECTION 1. Section 59-63-20(4) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"(4) Students may not enter the first grade in the public schools of this State unless:

(a) they will attain the age of six on or before November first of the applicable school year; or

(b) are five years of age and have substantially initiated a first grade program in another state that has a different attendance age requirement from South Carolina; or

(c) are five years of age and have attended a public school kindergarten program; or

(d) have attended a certified private kindergarten program for one full school year and will be six years old on or before December thirty-first of the applicable school year."

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