Student discipline; school board may modify suspension, if it deems such action to be warranted. (SB588)

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Progress

✓	Introduced
✗	Passed Committee
☐	Passed House
✓	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Student discipline; modifying long-term suspensions and expulsions. Permits a school board or a committee thereof to reduce the long-term suspension or expulsion of a student or students who received a greater punishment in cases in which the school board or committee determines that (i) two or more students have engaged in closely related offenses arising out of the same incident or circumstances that lead to each student's expulsion or suspension, (ii) the cases resulted in highly disparate disciplinary decisions in which at least one student received a lesser punishment, and (iii) no rational basis exists for the disparate disciplinary decisions. The bill provides that such decisions of the school board or a committee thereof are not subject to judicial review. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

Date	Action
01/13/2014	Presented and ordered printed 14102512D
01/13/2014	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
01/28/2014	Assigned Education sub: Public Education
02/06/2014	Committee substitute printed 14104885D-S1
02/06/2014	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/07/2014	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
02/10/2014	Read second time
02/10/2014	Reading of substitute waived
02/10/2014	Committee substitute agreed to 14104885D-S1
02/10/2014	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB588S1
02/10/2014	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
02/10/2014	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
02/12/2014	Placed on Calendar
02/12/2014	Read first time
02/12/2014	Referred to Committee on Education
02/14/2014	Assigned Education sub: Elementary and Secondary Education
02/19/2014	Stricken from docket by Education