State of South Dakota
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EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2013
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596U0096
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HOUSE ENGROSSED NO. HB 1128 - 02/14/2013
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Introduced by: Representatives Russell, Greenfield, Kaiser, Miller, Nelson, and Olson
(Betty) and Senators Begalka and Monroe
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FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to allow certain students to participate in the opportunity
scholarship program under certain circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. That § 13-55-31.2 be amended to read as follows:
13-55-31.2. Any student who does not meet the high school course requirements as provided
in subdivision 13-55-31(3) is eligible for the opportunity scholarship program if:
(1) The student takes the test administered by the American College Testing Program
ACT Incorporated after July 1, 2013, and earns a composite score of twenty-eight or
higher and achieves ACT college readiness benchmark scores equaling or exceeding
eighteen for English, twenty-one for reading, twenty-two for math, and twenty-four
for science; or
(2) The student takes the Scholastic Assessment Test after July 1, 2013, and earns a
verbal-mathematics score of twelve hundred fifty or higher, while also attaining
sufficiently high markers in reading, writing, mathematics, and science as not to
require remediation in any of those areas; or
(3) The student takes the test administered by ACT Incorporated after July 1, 2013, and
earns a composite score of twenty-six or higher and achieves ACT college readiness
benchmark scores equaling or exceeding eighteen for English, twenty-one for
reading, twenty-two for math, and twenty-four for science, or the student takes the
Scholastic Assessment Test and earns a critical reading-mathematics score of one
thousand one hundred seventy or higher, while also attaining a college readiness
benchmark score of five hundred or higher each on the critical reading, mathematics,
and writing sections of the test, and the student's secondary education was received
predominantly pursuant to § 13-27-3.
This section is effective on July 1, 2013.