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Committee opens broad school-discipline discussion; members debate teacher protections, parental notification and cell-phone rules
Summary
Lawmakers debated a conceptual draft that would change immunity provisions, set rules for classroom removals and require schools to adopt cell-phone policies. The committee instructed LSO to draft language for a school-discipline bill and asked for a small working group to refine the proposal before the next meeting.
Committee members debated a multi-part conceptual school-discipline proposal that would replace portions of current law, clarify disciplinary processes, formalize parental notification timelines, and require school districts to adopt cell-phone and other electronic-device policies.
The initial concept aimed to replace an existing statutory immunity provision related to corporal punishment with a broader immunity for “reasonable disciplinary action” approved by a local school board and to create a formal classroom-removal procedure that…
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