2025 Regular SessionMaryland Legislature

SB783: Public Schools – Student Fights – School Investigation and Discipline

Legislative Summary

Requiring a principal or school administration to investigate each student fight or physical struggle; prohibiting a school employee from disciplining a student who, after an investigation, more likely than not used reasonable force necessary to protect the student or to escape the attack; and requiring a principal or school administration to expunge certain documentation from a student's disciplinary record under certain circumstances.

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Bill History

1/31/2025
First Reading Education, Energy, and the Environment
Senate
2/5/2025
Hearing 2/21 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate
2/19/2025
Hearing canceled
Senate
2/19/2025
Hearing 2/21 at 9:30 a.m.
Senate