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HB 1169 allow a school district to operate an attendance center within...
State of South Dakota  
NINETY-FIRST SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2016  

928X0132   HOUSE ENGROSSED    NO.  HB 1169 -  02/23/2016  

Introduced by:    Representatives Wollmann, Conzet, Dryden, Jensen (Alex), Otten (Herman), Schoenbeck, Sly, Solum, and Zikmund and Senators Peters, Haverly, Otten (Ernie), and Tidemann
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to allow a school district to operate an attendance center within another school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That chapter 13-23 be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:
    A school board may establish an attendance center outside the boundaries of its school district that is within the boundaries of another school district only when both school districts have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to chapter 1-24 to provide instruction to the students enrolled in the attendance center.
    If each school board adopts a resolution to approve the joint powers agreement, the school board for the school district that will operate the attendance center shall submit the joint powers agreement and each school board's resolution of approval to the secretary of education.
    Section 2. That chapter 13-23 be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:
    The operation of an attendance center under the authority of this Act does not affect the operation or authority of any other type of organization to provide an education such as a

cooperative educational learning unit or a virtual school.
    Section 3. That the code be amended by adding a NEW SECTION to read:

    A joint powers agreement to operate an attendance center not owned by the school district within the boundaries of another school district is not required for any attendance center that was established before January 1, 2016.