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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

SB 788

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Relating to: suspending or expelling a pupil from school.

Kindergarten School — Board School — Discipline and student rights

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits a school board or school administrator from suspending or

expelling a pupil in four-year-old kindergarten, five-year-old kindergarten, or first

grade, unless the discipline is for the pupil participating in a fight that resulted in

a person being physically injured or the discipline is required because the pupil

possessed a firearm at school. Under current law, a school board's authority to expel

a pupil and a school administrator's authority to suspend a pupil apply to all pupils

enrolled in a school district, regardless of the grade in which a pupil is enrolled.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Harris Dodd (D) , L. Taylor (D)

2 cosponsors

Berceau (D) , Kooyenga (R)

Full history

  1. Mar 10, 2016 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators L. Taylor and Harris Dodd; cosponsored by Representatives Kooyenga and Berceau

  2. Mar 10, 2016 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1