SB537 HED AMT 3-11

            Your Committee on Education moves to amend the title of the bill, by striking the title and inserting in lieu thereof a new title to read as follows:

            Eng. Com. Sub. for Senate Bill No. 537 –– A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-45 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the school calendar; requiring county board lost time recovery policies to include recovery for emergency closures and restricting applicable lost time to conditions that make attendance unsafe for students; requiring instructional time accrued or added in excess of certain minimums counted toward meeting 180 separate instructional day requirement; specifying per day minimums and amounts accumulated that count as day recovered for schools of different grade levels; counting days recovered prior to scheduling instruction on other days; authorizing decrease of instructional term for declared state of emergency or emergency preparedness; removing expired provisions; and referencing other alternative provisions for school term or instructional term approval.