Bills › 90th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 10, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 10, 2023
- Done: Senate committeeJanuary 26, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 149
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 149 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 149 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary School volunteers and charter school employees would receive the same legal protections and immunity from lawsuits as school employees when they have reasonable physical contact with students. If these volunteers or their schools are wrongly accused of illegal physical contact, they can also receive money to cover their legal fees and other damages. This change ensures that the same rules for physical contact and legal protection apply to everyone working in a school setting.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to civil actions associated with permissible physical contact between certain specified school employees or volunteers and students, including civil and criminal immunity, monetary damages, and attorney fees. _____ nonpublic school, or area education agency from inflicting corporal punishment upon a student. “Corporal punishment” is defined as the intentional physical punishment of a student. Current law specifies circumstances in which an employee’s physical contact with the body of a student shall not be considered corporal punishment. Current law also provides that a school employee who, in the reasonable course of the employee’s employment responsibilities, comes into physical contact with a student shall be granted immunity from any civil or criminal liability which might otherwise be incurred or imposed as a result of such physical contact, if the physical contact is reasonable under the circumstances and involves various specified acts. This bill applies the same prohibitions, responsibilities, and immunity to a school volunteer and to a charter school employee. The bill provides that if a school employee or school volunteer is granted immunity from any civil or criminal liability in this way, the school district, board of directors of the school district, accredited nonpublic school, authorities in charge of the accredited nonpublic school, charter school, governing board in charge of the charter school, area education agency, or board of directors of an area education agency shall also be granted immunity from any civil or criminal liability to the same extent as the school employee or school volunteer. Current law provides that any school employee determined in a civil action to have been wrongfully accused of violating state law on corporal punishment in schools shall be awarded reasonable monetary damages, in light of the circumstances involved, against the party bringing the action. _____ directors of an area education agency as well. The bill provides that reasonable monetary damages include attorney fees.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 10, 2023. On January 12, 2023 it recommended passage. [].
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: February 7, 2024 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
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This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2288 Pertaining to immunity from civil or criminal liability for acts of corporal punishment in…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · very similarCleared committee
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