LB899 LB899
2024 2024
LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH LEGISLATURE
SECOND SESSION
LEGISLATIVE BILL 899
Introduced by Hughes, 24; Ballard, 21; Bostelman, 23; Brandt, 32; Brewer,
43; DeKay, 40; Dover, 19; Hansen, 16; Ibach, 44; Jacobson,
42; Lippincott, 34; Lowe, 37.
Read first time January 03, 2024
Committee: Education
1 A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to schools; to amend section 79-265.01,
2 Revised Statutes Supplement, 2023; to exempt Class III school
3 districts from the prohibition on suspending a student in pre-
4 kindergarten through second grade; and to repeal the original
5 section.
6 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,
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1 Section 1. Section 79-265.01, Revised Statutes Supplement, 2023, is
2 amended to read:
3 79-265.01 (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section,
4 an elementary school shall not suspend a student in pre-kindergarten
5 through second grade. Each school district shall develop a policy to
6 implement this section which shall include disciplinary measures inside
7 the school as an alternative to suspension.
8 (2) An elementary school may suspend a student in pre-kindergarten
9 through second grade if such student brings a deadly weapon as defined in
10 section 28-109 onto on school grounds, into in a vehicle owned, leased,
11 or contracted by a school being used for a school purpose or into in a
12 vehicle being driven for a school purpose by a school employee or his or
13 her designee, or to at a school-sponsored activity or athletic event.
14 (3) This section shall not apply to a Class III school district.
15 Sec. 2. Original section 79-265.01, Revised Statutes Supplement,
16 2023, is repealed.
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 79-265.01