House Bill No. by Representative Chassion seeks to amend student discipline regulations by prohibiting the assignment of prekindergarten or kindergarten students to alternative schools, except in specific circumstances. The bill enacts R.S. 17:100.5(E), which states that such students can only be assigned to an alternative school if they have been suspended or expelled for serious infractions involving drugs, weapons, assault, or battery, as outlined in R.S. 17:416.

The proposed law retains the existing framework that allows school boards to establish alternative schools for disruptive students while adding the new restriction for younger students. This change aims to protect prekindergarten and kindergarten students from being placed in alternative educational settings unless they have committed significant violations, thereby ensuring that disciplinary measures are appropriate for their age and developmental stage.