Bill Number: S.B. 1326

            Shope Floor Amendment

            Reference to: printed bill

            Amendment drafted by: Leg Council

FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION

1. Replaces, with a permissive authority, the requirement for a school district or charter school to establish a process to approve requests for course equivalent credit and requires a course equivalent to be approved by the governing board for a student to earn an elective credit.

2. Extends, to the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the authorization for a school district or charter school serving student in grades 9 through 12 to approve course equivalents through which a student may earn elective credit for outlined out-of-school experiences.

3. Eliminates the requirements for schools to:

a) make every effort to recognize the experiences students have outside of school-mandated courses as relevant to student growth and development;

b) identify an elective course for a student who works and requests a course equivalent; and

c) provide the opportunity to identify course equivalents during the course and semester enrollment period.

4. Removes the authorization for the State Board of Education to adopt rules to allow certain out-of-school experiences to satisfy academic standards for students in kindergarten programs and grades one through 8.

5. Removes the authorization for the use of extra hours in the school day resulting from a student receiving elective credit for out-of-school experiences for student support and acceleration.

6. Defines elective credit, for the authorization to approve course equivalents, as a credit earned for successfully completing an additional course that is not a core course as prescribed by the SBE.

7. Makes technical and conforming changes.

Fifty-fifth Legislature                                                     Shope

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1326

SHOPE FLOOR AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1326

(Reference to printed bill)

Page 1, line 5, strike "rules" insert "definition"

Line 7, strike "may" insert "and the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind"

Line 8, strike the second "and"

Line 9, strike "pursuant to subsection F of this section, allow" insert ", may approve course equivalents through which"

Line 10, strike "to"

Line 11, strike "course equivalents"

Line 17, after "by" insert "the arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind or"

Line 24, after "sports" insert "or sports organized by the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind"

Line 28, after "by" insert "the arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind or"

Line 30, after "or" insert "by the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind or"

Line 42, after "equivalent" insert "approved and"

Page 2, line 7, strike the second "a" insert "an approved"

Line 11, strike "a" insert "an approved"

Line 15, after "by" insert "the arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind and"

Line 17, strike "are" insert "may be"

Line 18, after "F." insert "The Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind and"; after "each" insert "participating"; after "and" insert "participating"

Line 19, strike "shall" insert "may"; strike "consider" insert "approve"

Page 2, line 20, after "credit" insert "at the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind,"

Strike lines 22 through 43, insert:

"G. For the purposes of this section, "elective credit" means a credit earned for successfully completing an additional course that is not a core course prescribed by the state board of education pursuant to section 15-701.01."

Amend title to conform

THOMAS SHOPE

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02/21/2022

03:17 PM

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