CHAPTER 307

H.P. 419 - L.D. 564

An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Student Code of

Conduct

Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §1001, sub-§15, ¶F, as amended by PL 2001, c. 644, §1, is further amended to read:

F. Establish policies and procedures concerning the removal of disruptive or violent students or students threatening death or bodily harm to others from a classroom or a school bus, as well as student disciplinary and placement decisions, when appropriate; and

Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §1001, sub-§15, ¶G, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 351, §2, is amended to read:

G. Establish guidelines and criteria concerning the appropriate circumstances when the superintendent or the superintendent's designee may provide information to the local police or other appropriate law enforcement