Bill > HB3549

This bill requires school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to submit detailed annual reports to the state education agency about specific disciplinary and law enforcement actions involving students. The reports must include incident-based data on restraints used on students, complaints filed against students, citations issued, and student arrests that occur on school property or result from a school employee requesting law enforcement intervention. For each incident, the report must include demographic information about the student such as age, gender, race, special education status, language learner status, foster care status, and housing status. The data must be disaggregated to compare the demographics of students involved in these incidents to the overall campus student population, while ensuring individual student privacy and confidentiality. The bill defines various terms like "restraint" (which includes physical force, batons, OC spray, and conducted energy weapons) and requires the data to be collected using existing Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) codes. The reports must be submitted within 60 days after the school year ends, and the state education agency will compile and publicly release the data. The reporting requirement will begin in the 2025-2026 school year.

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