2014 -- S 3039

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO THE CHARIHO REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

     Introduced By: Senator Catherine Cool Rumsey

     Date Introduced: May 29, 2014

     Referred To: Senate Education

     (by request)

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 13 of Chapter 286 of the 1986 Public Laws entitled "AN ACT IN

AMENDMENT OF AND IN ADDITION TO CHAPTER 55 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS, 1958,

ENTITLED 'AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWNS OF CHARLESTOWN AND

RICHMOND TOGETHER, OR TOGETHER WITH THE TOWN OF HOPKINTON, TO JOIN

A REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT INCORPORATING SAID REGIONAL HIGH

SCHOOL DISTRICT AND PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS,

CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE JOINT

USE OF THE PARTICIPATING TOWNS, WITHIN SAID REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

DISTRICT ESTABLISHED BY THIS ACT,' AS AMENDED" is hereby further amended to read

as follows:

     Sec. 13(1) A student who enters an elementary school in kindergarten will be assured to

matriculation at the school through grade 4 unless the family relocates outside the elementary

school attendance district. Siblings, also will be assured of matriculation in the same elementary

school as long as another sibling is in attendance. Students shall attend the elementary school in

the town in which they reside and shall have priority to matriculate in such school even if a

student from another town has been previously allowed to attend that same elementary school.

The Chariho school committee is authorized in its discretion to place a child in an elementary

school outside of the town in which the child resides, with the consent of the child's parent or

guardian, depending upon available space, and provided that such placement does not increase

costs to the regional school district.

     (2) Transportation of pupils shall be considered an operational cost of the regional school

district and shall be governed by the regional school district committee, which shall also govern

and determine the curriculum of the school subject to the provisions of section 11 hereof.

     SECTION 2. The question of the approval of this act shall submitted to the electors of the

towns of Charlestown, Hopkinton and Richmond qualified to vote on any proposition to impose a

tax or for the expenditure of money at the general election in 2014. The question shall be

submitted in substantially the following form:

     "Shall the act passed by the general assembly at its January 2014 session entitled 'AN

ACT RELATING TO THE CHARIHO REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT' be approved?"

     The warning for said election shall contain the question to be submitted. From the date

the election is warned until it is held, it shall be the duty of the town clerks of the respective

towns of Charlestown, Hopkinton and Richmond to keep a copy of the act available at their

offices for pubic inspection, but any failure of any clerk to perform this duty shall not affect the

validity of the election.

     SECTION 3. This Section and Section 2 of this act shall take effect upon passage of this

act; and the remainder of this act shall take effect upon the approval of this act by a majority in

each town of those voting on the question at the election prescribed by Section 2 hereof.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

RELATING TO THE CHARIHO REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

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     This act would amend the Chariho Regional School District Act to allow the Chariho

school committee to place a child in an elementary school outside of the town in which the child

resides, with the consent of the child's parent or guardian.

     Sections 2 and 3 of this act would take effect upon passage of the act. The remainder of

the act would take effect upon the approval of the act by a majority in each town of those voting

on the question of approval of the act.

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