130th Ohio General Assembly
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H. B. No. 175  As Introduced
As Introduced

127th General Assembly
Regular Session
2007-2008
H. B. No. 175


Representative Fessler 

Cosponsors: Representatives Seitz, Stebelton, Collier 



A BILL
To amend section 3313.482 of the Revised Code to permanently permit school districts to make up excess calamity days by adding hours to remaining days in the school year and to declare an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3313.482 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3313.482.  (A) Annually, prior to the first day of September, the board of education of each city, local, and exempted village school district shall adopt a resolution specifying a contingency plan under which the district's students will make up days on which it was necessary to close schools for any of the reasons specified in division (B) of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code, if any such days must be made up in order to comply with the requirements of that section and sections 3313.48 and 3313.481 of the Revised Code. The resolution shall provide in the plan for making up at least five full school days. No resolution adopted pursuant to this division shall conflict with any collective bargaining agreement into which a board has entered pursuant to Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code and that is in effect in the district.
(b)(B) Notwithstanding the content of the contingency plan it adopts under division (A) of this section, if a school district closes or evacuates any school building for any of the reasons specified in division (B) of section 3317.01 of the Revised Code, or as a result of a bomb threat or any other report of an alleged or impending explosion, and if, as a result of the closing or evacuation, the school district would be unable to meet the requirements of sections 3313.48, 3313.481, and 3317.01 of the Revised Code regarding the number of days schools must be open for instruction or the requirements of the state minimum standards for the school day that are established by the department of education regarding the number of hours there must be in the school day, the school district may increase the length of one or more other school days for the school that was closed or evacuated, in increments of one-half hour, to make up the number of hours or days that the school building in question was so closed or evacuated for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of those sections regarding the number of days schools must be open for instruction or the requirements of those standards regarding the number of hours there must be in the school day. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 3313.48, 3313.481, and 3317.01 of the Revised Code and the requirements of the state minimum standards for the school day that are established by the department of education and notwithstanding the content of the contingency plan it adopts under division (A) of this section, a school district that makes up, as described in this division, all of the hours or days that its school buildings were so closed or evacuated shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements of those sections regarding the number of days schools must be open for instruction and the requirements of those minimum standards regarding the number of hours there must be in the school day.
Section 2. That existing section 3313.482 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.
Section 3. This act is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. The reason for such necessity is that school districts need the option provided by this act to make up days missed in the current school year due to hazardous weather conditions in excess of the number of days permitted by law. Therefore, this act shall go into immediate effect.
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