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Committee carries over bill clarifying expulsions for firearms and proposed language to treat threats as expulsable offenses
Summary
Senate Bill 416, which would clarify when boards must impose one‑year expulsions for students who bring firearms to school and would tighten procedures for hearings and transfers, was carried over after extended debate and possible new language to add threats-by‑communication to the firearm expulsion scheme.
The Senate Education Committee carried over Senate Bill 416 after lengthy discussion about how courts and districts should treat firearms on school property and whether certain threats conveyed by letter, electronic communication or verbally should be treated under a similar expulsion framework.
Staff said the bill would clarify current law by distinguishing expulsions and suspensions and by specifying that expulsions for bringing a firearm to school should be for one year from the date of the incident; the bill would require that the district board of trustees hold the hearing and would prohibit the…
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