Title: House Bill 1079-First Edition
Category: Introduced Bill 2005

General Assembly of North Carolina	Session 2005

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
H	1
HOUSE BILL 1079

Short Title:	Study Raising the Compulsory Attendance Age. | (Public)
Sponsors: | Representatives Parmon, Glazier, Womble, McLawhorn (Primary Sponsors);  B. Allen, Carney, Farmer‑Butterfield, Fisher, Pierce, Ross, Wainwright, and Weiss.
Referred to: | Education, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House.
March 31, 2005

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the joint legislative education oversight committee to study the need to raise the compulsory school attendance age.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall perform a comprehensive study of the need to raise the compulsory school attendance age.  In the course of the study, the Committee shall consider:
(1)	The impact of dropping out on the student;
(2)	The capacity of a 16-year-old to understand the social and economic consequences of dropping out of school;
(3)	The emergence of major high school reform efforts, including Learn and Earn Programs, the New Schools Initiative, and 21^st Century Schools, and the impact they may have on teenagers who remain in school longer;
(4)	The importance to the entire State of every student leaving high school prepared to enter the workforce or succeed in higher education;
(5)	Research on factors related to students' success in school;
(6)	Strategies, programs, and support services that should be provided if the compulsory school attendance age is raised to enable students to graduate from high school and time lines for implementing those strategies, programs, and support services;
(7)	Related laws and policies that must be addressed to ensure the availability of support services for students;
(8)	The fiscal impact of raising the compulsory attendance age;
(9)	The law in other states and the experience of other states that have raised the compulsory school attendance age; and
(10)	Input from school personnel and from dropouts and students at risk of dropping out on the issue.
The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall report the results of its study and its recommendations to the 2006 Regular Session of the 2005 General Assembly.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

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