HB299 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ed Henry

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Local boards of education prohibited from adopting or enforcing zero tolerance policy relating to drugs, alcohol, weapons, physical harm to a person, or threatened physical harm to a person, punishment on case-by-case basis, Secs. 16-1-24.1, 16-1-24.3 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, at the beginning of each school year local boards of education are required to adopt and make available codes of student conduct that describe specific grounds for disciplinary action and explain the responsibilities and rights of students with regard to attendance, conduct, and other matters.

Also under existing law, local boards of education are required to develop and implement local policies and procedures requiring the one-year expulsion of students who have brought to school or have in their possession a firearm in a school building, on school grounds, on school buses, or at other school-sponsored functions.

This bill would require local boards of education to impose punishment in an offense appropriate manner on a case-by-case basis and would prohibit any local board of education from adopting and enforcing any so-called "zero tolerance" policies relating to rules of student conduct.

This bill would also provide that the one-year expulsion for possession of a firearm on school property is not a zero tolerance policy and would clarify that the definition of firearm should be narrowly construed.

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Subjects

Education