Colorado H.B. 1345 (sec. 22+)
Safe School Provisions
Includes, among other provisions, safe school components. Requires local boards to adopt a mission statement that includes making safety for all students and staff a priority in each school. Requires each district to take reasonable measures to ensure that each student is familiar with the district's conduct and discipline code. Allows a teacher to remove a disruptive student from his or her classroom but provides that it cannot be for the remainder of the term unless the principal or designee has developed and implemented a behavior plan for the student. Such a plan must be developed after the second removal. In creating and enforcing a school conduct and discipline code, each board is required to imposed proportionate disciplinary interventions and consequences, including but not limited to in-school suspensions, in response to student misconduct, which interventions and consequences are designed to reduce the number of expulsions, out-of-school suspensions, and referrals to law enforcement (except for such referrals to law enforcement as are required by state or federal law). School conduct and discipline code is to include plans for the appropriate use of prevention, intervention, restorative justice, peer mediation, counseling, or other approaches which are designed to minimize student exposure to the criminal and juvenile justice system. School administration cannot order a victim's participation in restorative justice or peer mediation if the alleged misconduct constitutes unlawful sexual behavior, domestic violence or stalking. A student being denied admission or expelled for one year (after a hearing) has 10 days to appeal the decision if the board authorizes the appeal. http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2012a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont/CD3C8673214EEF8C872579CD00625FE2?Open&file=1345_enr.pdf
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
Status: Signed into law	Status Date: 05/01/2012