FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 798

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DARROUGH (Sponsor), CORCORAN AND BROWN (50) (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time February 7, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

1663L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 167.029, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to school uniforms.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Section 167.029, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 167.029, to read as follows:

            167.029. [A] Each public school district [in any city not within a county shall] may determine whether a dress code policy requiring pupils to wear a school uniform is appropriate at any school or schools within such district, and if it is so determined, [shall] may adopt such a policy. The school district may determine the style and color of the school uniform.

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