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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-301.1" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Attendance and Discipline of Students">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A student’s absence due to a student’s pregnancy or parenting needs is a lawful absence as provided under this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each county board shall develop a written attendance policy for pregnant and parenting students that, at a minimum, meets the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The policy developed under subsection (b) of this section shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Excuse all absences due to pregnancy– or parenting–related conditions, including absences for:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Labor;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Delivery;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Recovery; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>Prenatal and postnatal medical appointments;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Provide at least 10 days of excused absences for a parenting student after the birth of the student’s child;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Excuse any parenting–related absences due to an illness or a medical appointment of the student’s child, including up to 4 days of absences per school year for which the school may not require a note from a physician;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Excuse any absence due to a legal appointment involving the pregnant or parenting student that is related to family law proceedings, including adoption, custody, and visitation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Excuse any parenting–related absence from a class due to use of a lactation space to nurse or express breast milk.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In addition to home and hospital services, the school may allow the student to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Make up the work that the student missed in a time period that equals at least as many days that the student was absent; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Choose one of the following alternatives to make up work that the student missed:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Retake a semester;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Participate in an online course credit recovery program; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Allow the student 6 weeks to continue at the same pace and finish at a later date.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Each county board shall publish its written attendance policy for pregnant and parenting students on the county board’s website.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
