GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
HOUSE BILL 744
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to enact the safe students act.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Safe Students Act."
SECTION 2. G.S. 115C-364(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)
The initial point of entry into the public school system shall be at the
kindergarten level. If the principal of a school finds as fact subsequent to
initial entry that a child, by reason of maturity can be more appropriately
served in the first grade rather than in kindergarten, the principal may act
under G.S. 115C-288 to implement this educational decision without regard
to chronological age. The principal of any public school may shall require
the parent or guardian of any child presented for admission for the first time
to that school to furnish (i) a certified copy of the child's birth
certificate, which shall be furnished by the register of deeds of the county
having on file the record of the birth of the child, or other satisfactory
evidence of date of birthbirth, as provided in Article 4 of Chapter
130A of the General Statutes and (ii) a certificate of immunization as required
by G.S. 130A-155."
SECTION 3. G.S. 130A-109 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-109. Birth certificate as evidence.
Certified copies of birth
certificates shall be accepted by public school authorities in this State as
prima facie evidence of the age of children registering for school attendance,
and no other proof shall be required. In addition, certified copies of birth
certificates shall be required by all factory inspectors and employers of
youthful labor, as prima facie proof of age, and no other proof shall be
required. However, when it is not possible to secure a certified copy of a birth
certificate, school authorities, factory inspectors and employers may
accept as secondary proof of age any competent evidence by which the age of
persons is usually established.established. School authorities may
accept only competent and verifiable evidence as secondary proof of age,
specifically including but not limited to: (i) a certified copy of any medical
record of the child's birth issued by the treating physician or the hospital in
which the child was born, or (ii) a certified copy of a birth certificate
issued by a church, mosque, temple, or other religious institution that
maintains birth records of its members."
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2011-2012 school year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011