SB 172 — Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-185)
Last action — Chapter 169.
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✓Introduced
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✓In Committee
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✓Passed Senate
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✓Passed Assembly
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✓To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 04, 2021. Enacted.
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4 sponsors
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Bill Text
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(ReprintedSenate withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on April 19, 2021) FIRST REPRINT S.B.
172172–Senators SENATEDenis, BILLDondero NLoop O.and Buck Joint Sponsor:
172–SENATORSAssemblywoman DTolles ENIS,CHAPTER.......... D ONDERO L OOP AND BUCK M ARCH 4, 2021 ____________ JOINT S PONSOR :
ASSEMBLYWOMAN TOLLES ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to education.
(BDR 34-185) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
May have Fiscal Impact.
Effect on the State:
No.
CONTAINS UNFUNDED MANDATE (§ 1.5) (NOTR EQUESTED AFFECTEDLOCALGOVERNMENT) ~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations that provide a uniform grading scale for all public high schools, including, withoutwithoutt limitation, a grading scale for advanced placement courses and honors courses.
(NRS 389.007) Section 1 of this bill requires such regulations to include a uniform grading scale for dual credit courses and international baccalaureate courses and to assign the same weight to such courses as that assigned to advanced placement courses if the dual credit course or international baccalaureate course is in a core academic subject or a subject for which an advanced placement course is offered.
(NRS 389.300, 389.310) Under existing law, the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school must establish an application for enrollment - *SB172_R1* – 2 – in a dual credit course.
(NRS 389.300) Section 5 of this bill eliminates those reqExistingrequirements. law requires a school district or charter school to enter into a cooperative agreement with a community college, state college or university to offer dual credit courses to pupils enrolled in the school district or charter school.
Existing law requires a school district or charter school to enter into a offer dual credit courses to pupils enrolled in the school district or charter school.
(NRS 389.310) Section 1.5 of this bill removes provisions relating to cooperative agreements to offer dual credit courses and instead requires alsoa requires the board of trustees of each school district andor the governing body of.5 each charter school to bienniallyestablish submit a report on its program for dual creditcredit. to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau and the Legislative Committee on Education that may include, without limitation, certain information on the:
(1)Section 1.5 also requires the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school to biennially submit a report on its program for dual credit to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau and the Legislative Committee on pupils enrolled in the program;
and (3)(3)) teachers employed by the school district or charter school who are involved in the theprogram. Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, school districts and charterh schools, to adopt regulations prescribing the contents of the report.
Section 1.5 requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, school districts and charter schools, to adopt regulations prescribing the contents of the report.
- 81st Session (2021) – 2 – EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
The regulations adopted pursuant to this section must assign the same weight to dual credit courses and international baccalaureate courses as the weight assigned to advanced placement courses if the dual credit course or international baccalaureate course is a core academic subject designated pursuant to NRS 389.018 or a subject for which an advancedadv2. placement course is offered.
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Each school district and charter school shall [enter into cooperative agreements with one or more community colleges, state colleges and universities to offer] establish a program for dual credit [courses to] , or partner with another school district or charter school that has already established a program for dual - *SB172_R1* – 3 – credit, whereby pupils enrolled in the school district or charter school [.
(c) An explanation of the manner in which the tuition for the dual credit course will be paid, including, without limitation,limitation,e whether:
(1)- The81st schoolSession district(2021) or– charter3 school– willportion of the tuition for the dual credit course;ll pay all or a (2) A pupil is responsible for paying all or a portion of the tuition for the dual credit course;
(2) A pupil is responsible for paying all or a portion of the tuition for the dual credit course;
(e) Assignment by the school district or charter school of a unique identification number to each pupil who is enrolled in the dua(f) A requirement that the community college, state college or university that provides the dual credit course;course retain the unique identification number assigned to each pupil pursuant to paragraph (e);
(f) A requirement that the community college, state college or university that provides the dual credit course retain the unique identification number assigned to each pupil pursuant to paragraph (e);
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4.Department shall retain a copy of each cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to this section.] 2.
The Nevada System of Higher Education and the Department shall retain a copy of each cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to this section.] 2.
The Department, in consultation with the Board of - 81st Session (2021) – 4 – Regents of the University of Nevada, school districts and charter schools, shall adopt regulations prescribing the information the report must include.
(b) A list of the courses in which pupils enroll;
The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 218D.380 do not apply to any provision of this act which adds or revises a requirementreqSec. to submit a report to the Legislature.
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actSec. become effective upon passage and approval.
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This section and sections 2 to 5, inclusive, of this act become effective upon passage and approval.
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- 81st Session (2021) – 5 – (a) Upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting any regulations and performing any other preparatory administrative tasks that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act;
TEXT~~~~~ OF21 REPEALED- SECTION81st 389.300Session Application(2021) to enroll in dual credit course;
approval or disapproval of application;
prerequisites for dual credit course to be completed before enrollment in course.
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Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a pupil enrolled in high school, including, without limitation, a pupil enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11 or 12 in a charter school, who wishes to enroll in a dual credit course must, at least 60 days before the last day of the semester that immediately precedes the semester in which the pupil intends to enroll in a dual credit course, submit an application on the form prescribed pursuant to subsection 2 to the superintendent of schools of the school district or his or her designee or the administrator of the charter school, as applicable.
The superintendent or his or her designee or the administrator of a charter school, as applicable, may, in his or her discretion, waive the period for submitting an application prescribed by this subsection.
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The board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school shall create, publish and make publicly application must, without limitation:nt in a dual credit course.
The (a) Provide for enrollment in more than one dual credit course using a single application;
(b) Specify the dual credit course or courses in which the applicant seeks to concurrently enroll;
and - *SB172_R1* – 6 – (c) Be consistent with any regulations adopted by the State Board.
her designee or the administrator of a charter school, as applicable, shall approve or disapprove each application submitted pursuant to subsection 1 and provide notice of the approval or disapproval to the applicant.
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A pupil must satisfactorily complete the prerequisites for a dual credit course before he or she may enroll in the course.
If a credit course, the community college, state college or university that provides the dual credit course may allow the pupil to enroll in another course for which the pupil has satisfactorily completed the prerequisites without requiring the pupil to submit a new application.
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Action History
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Chapter 169.
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Approved by the Governor.
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Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
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In Senate. To enrollment.
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Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 1, Absent: 1.) To Senate.
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Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
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Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
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Read second time.
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From committee: Do pass.
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In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.
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From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
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From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 433.) To printer.
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From printer. To committee.
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Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
Sponsors
- Moises Denis · Primary
- Marilyn Dondero Loop · Primary
- Carrie Ann Buck · Primary
- Jill Tolles · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →4 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 63 not signed on
Sponsors (4)
- Moises Denis
- Dondero Loop, Marilyn Democratic
- Buck, Carrie Ann Republican
- Jill Tolles
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (63)
63 members have not signed on to this bill.
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- SB 172 is sponsored by Moises Denis, Dondero Loop, Marilyn (Democratic), Buck, Carrie Ann (Republican), and Jill Tolles.
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- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 04, 2021. Enacted.
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