Chapter 126 |
2019 -- S 0265 Enacted 07/08/2019 |
A N A C T |
RELATING TO EDUCATION -- AMERICANIZATION OF SCHOOLS |
Introduced By: Senators Cano, Crowley, Nesselbush, Conley, and Metts |
Date Introduced: February 13, 2019 |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
SECTION 1. Sections 16-29-7 and 16-29-9 of the General Laws in Chapter 16-29 |
entitled "Americanization Schools" are hereby repealed. |
16-29-7. Required attendance by persons over compulsory school age. |
Every person who has completed sixteen (16) years of life and who has not completed |
twenty-one (21) years of life, and who cannot speak, read, and write the English language in |
accordance with standards approved by the department of elementary and secondary education, |
and who resides in a city or town in which the school committee has established a day |
continuation school for the teaching of the English language, or an evening school, shall attend |
either the day continuation school or the evening school at least two hundred (200) hours between |
the first day of September and the first day of June in every year until he shall have acquired |
reasonable facility in speaking, reading, and writing the English language in accordance with |
standards approved by the department of elementary and secondary education. |
16-29-9. Penalty for failure to attend schools. |
Any person who has completed sixteen (16) years of life and who has not completed |
twenty-one (21) years of life, and who does not speak, read, and write English in accordance with |
standards approved by the department of elementary and secondary education, who resides in a |
city or town in which the school committee has made provision for the teaching of the English |
language in compliance with this chapter, who habitually absents himself or herself from public |
instruction, is sufficiently irregular to make it impossible for him or her to complete two hundred |
(200) hours of instruction annually within the time set by the school committee for conducting the |
schools, and is not attending private instruction approved by the school committee as provided in |
ยง 16-29-8, may be fined for each willful absence one dollar ($1.00) and not exceeding twenty |
dollars ($20.00) in the aggregate during one year or, for persistent refusal to attend the |
instruction, may be committed to an institution during his or her minority. |
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
======== |
LC001202 |
======== |