Bill > S2495

This bill directs the state's department of elementary and secondary education, working with the Rhode Island interscholastic league (a governing body for high school sports), to create a comprehensive anti-hazing policy for student athletics, emphasizing that hazing, bullying, and harassment are unacceptable in schools. This policy will define hazing, which generally involves humiliating, degrading, abusing, or endangering someone, often in a group setting, and will establish clear, consistent, and zero-tolerance consequences for violations, including potential suspension of student-athletes or even cancellation of a team's season, with no defense for consent. The policy will also include educational components and require student-athletes to sign an acknowledgment of the policy and its potential penalties before participating in any team activities, and it will apply to all schools and school districts within the Rhode Island interscholastic league.

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