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Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 16. STUDENTS · Part 1. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

20-2-693. Exemptions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Children during the ages of compulsory attendance as provided for in subsection (b) of Code Section 20-2-690.1 who are excused from attendance in public school by the local board of education in accordance with general policies and regulations required by law or promulgated by the State Board of Education shall be exempt from this subpart. The state board, in promulgating its general policies and regulations, shall take into consideration sickness and other emergencies which may arise in any school community.#

  2. (b)

    Children during the ages of compulsory attendance as provided for in subsection (b) of Code Section 20-2-690.1 who are excused from attendance at private schools or home study programs for sickness or emergencies or for other reasons substantially the same as the reasons for excused absences from attendance at public school authorized by law or state board policy pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section shall be exempt from this subpart.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 3; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1266, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 851, § 3/SB 413; Ga. L. 2025, p. 92, § 7/SB 123, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, substituted “compulsory attendance as provided for in subsection (b) of Code Section 20-2-690.1” for “mandatory attendance as required in subsection (a) of Code Section 20-2-690.1” in subsections (a) and (b); in subsection (a), in the first sentence, substituted “the local board of education” for “county or independent school system boards” and inserted “required by law or” following “regulations”; and inserted “law or” preceding “state board policy” in subsection (b).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t20-ch1-2b-(v17)-pdf.pdf, Volume V17, 2022 edition, 2025 supplement, page 226; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 46f1cc71579d.