School attendance; 4-H educational programs and activities.

School attendance; 4-H educational programs andactivities. Provides that students who miss a partial or fullday of school while participating in 4-H educational programs andactivities shall not be counted as absent for the purposes of calculatingaverage daily membership and shall receive course credit in the samemanner as they would for a school field trip. The bill directs eachlocal school board to develop policies and procedures for studentsto make up missed work and may determine the maximum number of schooldays per academic year that a student may spend participating in 4-Heducational programs and activities to not be counted absent. Thisbill is identical to SB 596.