PRINTER'S NO. 3856
No. 2696 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY DeLUCA, AUGUST 21, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, AUGUST 21, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," further providing for pupil
6 attendance in certain territory that has been transferred
7 from one school district to another school district.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 1314 of the act of March 10, 1949
11 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is
12 amended to read:
13 Section 1314. Attendance in District to Which Territory of
14 Residence Formerly Attached.--(a) All pupils residing in any
15 territory belonging to any school district established by the
16 act, approved the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine
17 hundred eleven (Pamphlet Laws 309), which territory at the time
18 of the approval of said act was attached to another school
19 district for school purposes, may, if they so desire, attend
20 during the entire school term of each year the public schools in
1 the district to which the territory in which they reside was
2 formerly attached. The district in which they reside shall pay
3 to the district in which they attend the tuition charge provided
4 for by this act: Provided, That if the school districts in which
5 such pupils now reside has or shall hereafter, by the
6 establishment of new schools or otherwise, provide within
7 reasonable distance proper school facilities of like grades to
8 those in the district to which they were formerly attached, then
9 in any such case, such pupils shall attend the schools in the
10 district in which they reside. In case of dispute, the decision
11 of the Superintendent of Public Instruction as to sufficiency
12 and reasonableness of the school facilities provided by the
13 school district in which such pupils reside shall be final.
14 (b) As of July 1, 2000, pupils residing in any territory
15 that has been transferred from one school district to another
16 school district for school purposes may, if they so desire,
17 continue to attend the public schools in the district to which
18 the territory in which they reside was formerly attached for the
19 duration of their attendance in public schools. The district in
20 which they reside shall pay to the district in which they attend
21 the tuition charge provided for by this act in accordance with
22 section 2561.
23 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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