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Committee adopts one amendment and holds House Bill 14 for redrafting after conflicting data‑disaggregation language
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Summary
The committee adopted a Brooks amendment to House Bill 14 (bullying/harassment reporting) that simplifies reporting language, while a conflicting Washington amendment to require disaggregated analysis and form fields prompted the chair to hold the bill for the sponsors to reconcile language.
Stacy (committee staff) presented House Bill 14, which would require local school systems to include in annual reports to the State Board of Education information about bullying, harassment and intimidation incidents determined after investigation to have been motivated in whole or substantial part by specified personal characteristics, and to post summary information on school websites.
Senator Brooks offered an amendment that struck subjective triggering language and required broad reporting without conditionalities. Senator Washington later offered two amendments: one preserving disaggregated reporting by specified characteristics and a second requiring that victim reporting forms identify perceived motivating characteristics and, beginning Oct. 1, 2027, include an analysis measuring increases or decreases by group and any disproportionate incident rate. Committee members identified the Brooks and Washington amendments as potentially in conflict.
The committee adopted the Brooks amendment, and after discussing the Washington language members decided to hold the bill to allow sponsors, counsel and staff to reconcile the competing approaches and the exact terminology for 'group' and 'disaggregation' before returning the bill to the committee the next day.
Ending: The chair asked the sponsors and staff to confer and the committee agreed to hold the bill for further work.
