00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 332                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to elementary and pre-elementary schools."                                                             
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 14.03.060(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
04            (a)  Except as provided in (e) of this section, an [AN] elementary school                                
05       consists of grades kindergarten through grade eight or any appropriate combination of                             
06       grades within this range.                                                                                         
07    * Sec. 2. AS 14.03.060 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                              
08            (e)  In addition to the grades enumerated in (a) of this section, an elementary                              
09       school consists of a pre-elementary program supervised by the department under                                    
10       AS 14.07.020(a)(8), operated by the department as a head start program under                                      
11       AS 14.38.010, or located in a public school for federal funding purposes. Pre-                                    
12       elementary students may not be counted in a school's average daily membership under                               
13       AS 14.17.