Bill Text: NC H744 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Safe Students Act
Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-28 - Ch. SL 2011-388 [H744 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-H744-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2011-388
HOUSE BILL 744
AN ACT to enact the safe students act.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Safe Students Act."
SECTION 2. G.S. 115C‑364(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) The initial point
of entry into the public school system shall be at the kindergarten level. If
the principal of a school finds as fact subsequent to initial entry that a
child, by reason of maturity can be more appropriately served in the first
grade rather than in kindergarten, the principal may act under G.S. 115C‑288
to implement this educational decision without regard to chronological age. The
principal of any public school may shall require the parent or
guardian of any child presented for admission for the first time to that school
to furnish (i) a certified copy of the child's birth certificate, which
shall be furnished by the register of deeds of the county having on file the
record of the birth of the child, or other satisfactory evidence of date of birthbirth,
as provided in Article 4 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes and (ii) a
certificate of immunization as required by G.S. 130A‑155."
SECTION 3. G.S. 130A‑109 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A‑109. Birth certificate as evidence.
Certified copies of birth
certificates shall be accepted by public school authorities in this State as
prima facie evidence of the age of children registering for school attendance,
and no other proof shall be required. In addition, certified copies of birth
certificates shall be required by all factory inspectors and employers of
youthful labor, as prima facie proof of age, and no other proof shall be
required. However, when it is not possible to secure a certified copy of a
birth certificate, school authorities, factory inspectors and employers
may accept as secondary proof of age any competent evidence by which the age of
persons is usually established.established. School authorities may
accept only competent and verifiable evidence as secondary proof of age, specifically
including but not limited to: (i) a certified copy of any medical record of the
child's birth issued by the treating physician or the hospital in which the
child was born, or (ii) a certified copy of a birth certificate issued by a church,
mosque, temple, or other religious institution that maintains birth records of
its members."
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2011‑2012 school year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
This bill having been presented to the Governor for signature on the 17th day of June, 2011 and the Governor having failed to approve it within the time prescribed by law, the same is hereby declared to have become a law. This 28th day of June, 2011.
s/ Karen Jenkins
Enrolling Clerk
