PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 5

CHAPTER 5
(House Bill 298)

AN ACT concerning

Education - School Order and Discipline

FOR the purpose of requiring a continuum model of prevention and intervention
activities and programs for disruptive student behaviors; requiring that proposals for
funding of programs for disruptive youth satisfy certain criteria; authorizing a public
school principal to suspend a student for a certain number of days; requiring a
suspended or expelled student to stay away from school during certain hours;
requiring a principal or a designee of the principal to confer with certain individuals
under certain circumstances; authorizing a county superintendent to deny school
attendance to certain students under certain circumstances; requiring a school
system to forward certain information to another school system under certain
circumstances; authorizing requiring a principal to require restitution under certain
circumstances; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain regulations
including establish guidelines that define a State code of student discipline;
requiring local boards of education to adopt certain regulations; requiring the State
Board to assist local boards with implementation of certain policies and programs
guidelines; authorizing and immunizing principals, teachers, school security guards,
and school based staff school system personnel for certain actions under certain
circumstances; authorizing searches of students for violations of certain laws and
regulations under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Education to
submit a certain report; and generally relating to the maintenance of school order
and discipline.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education

Section 7-303, 7-304, 7-305, 7-306, and 7-307
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Education

7-303.

(A) THE PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION IS TO REQUIRE EACH COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION TO PROVIDE A CONTINUUM MODEL OF PREVENTION AND
INTERVENTION ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS THAT ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR AND REDUCE DISRUPTION.

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