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Senate advances truancy intervention bill after debate on parental sanctions
Summary
House Bill 207, an intervention program that directs schools to meet with parents before court involvement in habitual student absences, advanced to third reading after members debated due-process protections and whether a parent could face a misdemeanor.
The Senate advanced House Bill 207, a school truancy and compulsory-education amendment that emphasizes local intervention before criminal penalties.
Sponsor Senator Walker described HB 207 as an intervention program in which school personnel meet with parents to identify barriers keeping children from attending and to develop alternatives that keep courts out of the process. "It is an…
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