ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 169	By:	Ford of the Senate

			and

		Casey and Hoskin of the House

An Act relating to virtual education; authorizing an online provider to be a site; requiring reporting of certain student data; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

SUBJECT:  Virtual education providers

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-145.6 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

A.  A virtual education provider that offers full-time virtual education to students who are not residents of the school district with which the provider is contracted shall be considered a site within each school district with which the provider contracts and subject to the accountability system established pursuant to Section 1210.545 of this title.

B.  The virtual education provider and the school district with which it contracts are hereby directed to identify those students who are full-time virtual students and do not live in the physical boundaries of the district.  The district and provider shall submit as necessary to the State Department of Education detailed data on the performance of non-resident students who are receiving full-time instruction.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2013.

SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Passed the Senate the 27th day of February, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 15th day of April, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
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	Governor of the State of Oklahoma

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