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159.150 Definitions of truant and habitual truant -- Attendance record requirements -- Adoption of truancy policies by local school boards.

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159.150 Definitions of truant and habitual truant -- Attendance record requirements -- Adoption of truancy policies by local school boards. (1) Any student who has attained the age of six (6) years, but has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday, who has been absent from school without valid excuse for three <br>(3) or more days, or tardy without valid excuse on three (3) or more days, is a <br>truant. (2) Any student enrolled in a public school who has attained the age of eighteen (18) years, but has not reached his or her twenty-first birthday, who has been absent from <br>school without valid excuse for three (3) or more days, or tardy without valid <br>excuse on three (3) or more days, is a truant. (3) Any student who has been reported as a truant two (2) or more times is an habitual truant. (4) For the purposes of establishing a student's status as a truant, the student's attendance record is cumulative for an entire school year. If a student transfers from <br>one (1) Kentucky public school to another during a school year, the receiving school <br>shall incorporate the attendance information provided under KRS 159.170 in the <br>student's official attendance record. (5) A local board of education may adopt reasonable policies that: (a) Require students to comply with compulsory attendance laws; <br>(b) Require truants and habitual truants to make up unexcused absences; and <br>(c) Impose sanctions for noncompliance. Effective: June 26, 2007 <br>History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 122, sec. 1, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 172, sec. 1, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 611, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998. -- Repealed and reenacted 1990 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 476, Pt. V, sec. 413, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 33, <br>sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective <br>October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4434-14.