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ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 2613
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/15/96. Referred to Committee
on Education.
Enhancing school disciplinary
measures.
AN ACT Relating to
school discipline; and amending RCW 28A.225.225, 28A.305.160, and 28A.635.090.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.225.225 and 1995
c 52 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) All districts
accepting applications from nonresident students or from students receiving
home-based instruction for admission to the district's schools shall consider
equally all applications received. Each school district shall adopt a policy
establishing rational, fair, and equitable standards for acceptance and
rejection of applications ((by June 30, 1990)). The policy may include
rejection of nonresident students if acceptance of these students would result
in the district experiencing a financial hardship, or if the nonresident
student's disciplinary record indicates a history of behavior that has been disruptive
to the educational process.
(2) The district shall
provide to applicants written notification of the approval or denial of the
application in a timely manner. If the application is rejected, the
notification shall include the reason or reasons for denial and the right to
appeal under RCW 28A.225.230(3).
Sec. 2. RCW 28A.305.160 and 1975‑'76
2nd ex.s. c 97 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The state
board of education shall adopt and distribute to all school districts lawful
and reasonable rules ((and regulations)) prescribing the substantive and
procedural due process guarantees of pupils in the common schools. Such rules
((and regulations)) shall authorize a school district to use informal
due process procedures in connection with the short-term suspension of
students to the extent constitutionally permissible: PROVIDED, That the state
board deems the interest of students to be adequately protected. When a
student suspension or expulsion is appealed, the rules shall authorize a school
district to impose the suspension or expulsion temporarily after an initial
hearing for no more than ten consecutive school days or until the appeal is
decided, whichever is earlier. Any days that the student is temporarily
suspended or expelled before the appeal is decided shall be applied to the term
of the student suspension or expulsion and shall not limit or extend the term
of the student suspension or expulsion.
(2) Short-term
suspension procedures may be used for suspensions of students up to and
including, ten consecutive school days.
Sec. 3. RCW 28A.635.090 and 1990
c 33 s 540 are each amended to read as follows:
It shall
be unlawful for any person, singly or in concert with others, to interfere by
force or violence with any administrator, teacher, classified employee, person
under contract with the school or school district, or student of any common
school who is in the peaceful discharge or conduct of his or her duties or
studies. Any such interference by force or violence committed by a student
shall be grounds for immediate suspension or expulsion of the student.
