The first time during a school year that a participating student fails to comply with the learnfare program’s school attendance requirement, the county department of job and family services shall send the parent a notice warning that, if the student fails a second or subsequent time in the school year to comply with the school attendance requirement, the assistance group‘s cash assistance payment for the second month following report of the failure under section 5107.287 of the Revised Code will be reduced to the amount the assistance group would be eligible to receive if the student was not a member of the assistance group. The county department shall send the notice not later than the last day of the month that it is informed of the first failure to comply.

If a participating student fails two or more times in a school year to comply with the school attendance requirement, the county department shall reduce the assistance group’s cash assistance payment for the second month following report of the failure. The county department shall reduce the cash assistance payment to the amount the assistance group would be eligible to receive if the participating student was not a member of the assistance group.