BILL NUMBER: AB 2300	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Swanson

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act relating to pupil discipline.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2300, as introduced, Swanson. Pupil discipline: suspension:
community service.
   Existing law authorizes a superintendent or principal of a school
to suspend or recommend for expulsion a pupil who commits one or more
of enumerated acts. Existing law authorizes the principal of a
school, the principal's designee, the superintendent of schools, or
the governing board of a school district to require a pupil to
perform community service, as defined, during the pupil's nonschool
hours as part of or instead of disciplinary action, subject to
specified exceptions.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would ensure that community service hours replace
suspensions as a primary method of pupil discipline.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature that would enact
legislation to ensure that community service hours replace
suspensions as a primary method of pupil discipline.