Bill Text: OH HB319 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To require parents of students enrolled in school districts rated continuous improvement or lower to attend a parent-teacher conference.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-10-19 - To Education [HB319 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-HB319-Introduced.html
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Representative Williams, S.
Cosponsors:
Representatives Luckie, Domenick, Yuko, Koziura, Boyd
| To enact section 3321.30 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require parents of students enrolled in school | 2 |
| districts rated continuous improvement or lower to | 3 |
| attend a parent-teacher conference. | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 3321.30 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
| enacted to read as follows: | 6 |
| Sec. 3321.30. (A) As used in this section, "parent" means | 7 |
| either of the natural or adoptive parents of a student, except | 8 |
| under the following conditions: | 9 |
| (1) When the marriage of the natural or adoptive parents of | 10 |
| the student has been terminated by a divorce, dissolution of | 11 |
| marriage, or annulment or the natural or adoptive parents of the | 12 |
| student are living separate and apart under a legal separation | 13 |
| decree and the court has issued an order allocating the parental | 14 |
| rights and responsibilities with respect to the student, "parent" | 15 |
| means the residential parent as designated by the court except | 16 |
| that "parent" means either parent when the court issues a shared | 17 |
| parenting decree. | 18 |
| (2) When a court has granted temporary or permanent custody | 19 |
| of the student to an individual or agency other than either of the | 20 |
| natural or adoptive parents of the student, "parent" means the | 21 |
| legal custodian of the student. | 22 |
| (3) When a court has appointed a guardian for the student, | 23 |
| "parent" means the guardian of the student. | 24 |
| (4) When the student is the subject of a power of attorney | 25 |
| executed under sections 3109.51 to 3109.62 of the Revised Code, | 26 |
| "parent" means the grandparent designated as attorney in fact | 27 |
| under the power of attorney. When the student is the subject of a | 28 |
| caretaker authorization affidavit executed under sections 3109.65 | 29 |
| to 3109.73 of the Revised Code, "parent" means the grandparent | 30 |
| who executed the affidavit. | 31 |
| (B) This section applies to any city, exempted village, or | 32 |
| local school district in each school year in which the school | 33 |
| district ratings published under section 3302.03 of the Revised | 34 |
| Code after the first day of July of that school year declare the | 35 |
| district to be in need of continuous improvement, under an | 36 |
| academic watch, or in a state of academic emergency. | 37 |
| (C) The parent of each student enrolled in a school district | 38 |
| to which this section applies shall attend, prior to the | 39 |
| thirty-first day of December of the school year, at least one | 40 |
| parent-teacher conference held by the school the student attends | 41 |
| to meet the student's teachers. The conference shall provide an | 42 |
| opportunity for the parent and the student's teachers to establish | 43 |
| expectations of the student for the school year, discuss the | 44 |
| student's performance at school, and foster effective | 45 |
| communication. In the case of a parent who has more than one | 46 |
| child enrolled in the district, the requirement of this division | 47 |
| shall apply separately with respect to each of the parent's | 48 |
| children so enrolled. | 49 |
| (D) The board of education of each school district to which | 50 |
| this section applies shall impose a fine of fifty dollars on each | 51 |
| parent who fails to comply with division (C) of this section. In | 52 |
| the case of a parent who has more than one child enrolled in the | 53 |
| district, the board shall impose a separate fine of fifty dollars | 54 |
| for each child for whom the parent fails to comply with that | 55 |
| division. The board shall send the parent written notification of | 56 |
| the fine. The notification shall inform the parent of the | 57 |
| following: | 58 |
| (1) The amount of the fine, methods of payment, and the | 59 |
| deadline for payment; | 60 |
| (2) The procedures adopted under division (F) of this section | 61 |
| for showing good cause as to why the parent was unable to comply. | 62 |
| (E) The board shall notify parents of students enrolled in | 63 |
| the district of the requirements of divisions (C) and (D) of this | 64 |
| section. To the extent possible, the notification shall be | 65 |
| provided prior to the opening day of school. | 66 |
| (F) The board shall adopt a policy establishing procedures by | 67 |
| which a parent may appeal the fine imposed under division (D) of | 68 |
| this section. The policy shall require the board to waive the fine | 69 |
| for any parent who shows good cause as to why the parent was | 70 |
| unable to comply with division (C) of this section. | 71 |
| (G) The board shall use all fines collected under this | 72 |
| section solely to pay the costs of establishing and operating | 73 |
| mentoring programs for students or other volunteer programs. | 74 |
