GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-186
HOUSE BILL 1464
AN ACT directing the state board of education to adopt rules providing for excused absences from school for legislative and governor's pages.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-379 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-379. Method of enforcement.
It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education to
formulate such rules and regulations as the rules that may be
necessary for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this Part. The Board
shall prescribe (i) what shall constitute unlawful absence, (ii) what
causes may constitute legitimate excuses for temporary nonattendance due to a
student's physical or mental inability to attend,attend or a
student's participation in a valid educational opportunity such as service as a
legislative page or a Governor's page, and (iii) under what
circumstances teachers, principals, or superintendents may excuse pupils for
nonattendance due to immediate demands of the farm or the home in certain
seasons of the year in the several sections of the State. It shall be the duty
of all school officials to carry out such instructions from the State Board of
Education, and any school official failing to carry out such instructions shall
be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor: Provided, that the compulsory attendance
law herein prescribed shall not be in force in any local school administrative
unit that has a higher compulsory attendance feature than that provided
herein."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2007-2008 school year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2007.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 9:50 a.m. this 7th day of July, 2007