Incentives for school enrollment or attendance - prohibited - exceptions definitions.

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(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. "Item of value" means an item, cash, or an instrument or device that can be used toobtain cash, credit, property, services, or any other thing of value, which item, cash, or instrument or device exceeds twenty dollars in value.

  2. "Local education provider" means:

  1. A school district, other than a local college district, organized and existing pursuantto law;

  2. A board of cooperative services created and operating pursuant to article 5 of thistitle that operates one or more public schools;

  3. A public school of a school district, including but not limited to a charter schoolauthorized by a school district pursuant to part 1 of article 30.5 of this title;

  4. An institute charter school authorized by the state charter school institute pursuantto part 5 of article 30.5 of this title; and

  5. The state charter school institute established in section 22-30.5-503.

(c) "Parent" means the biological or adoptive mother or father or stepmother or stepfather of a child or any other person having legal or physical custody of a child.

(2) A local education provider shall not offer or provide to a school-aged child or the child's parent an item of value prior to, upon, or after enrolling in or attending an educational program operated by the local education provider unless:

  1. The local education provider makes the item of value available to the child continuously or at regular intervals throughout the school year and ceases providing the item of value if the child leaves the education program prior to the end of the school year;

  2. The local education provider awards the item of value at the end of the school year orupon matriculation in recognition of student performance; or

  3. The local education provider pays the item of value to the school-aged child or to hisor her parent in exchange for services rendered by the child or by the child's parent at the request of the local education provider. For purposes of this paragraph (c), "services rendered" does not include school attendance or enrollment.

Source: L. 2009: Entire section added, (HB 09-1125), ch. 113, p. 477, § 1, effective April 16.


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