CO HB1240

School districts are encouraged to negotiate and enter into memoranda of understanding with municipal law enforcement agencies and sheriff's departments with jurisdiction over their schools to establish procedures minimizing student referrals to law enforcement.

Each school board must adopt procedures requiring teachers or employees to file complaints for assaults, disorderly conduct, harassment, false child abuse allegations, or property damage directed at school staff.

School administration must suspend students for three days upon receiving adequate proof of such incidents and initiate procedures for further suspension or expulsion where injury or property damage occurred.

School administration shall report incidents to the district attorney or local law enforcement agency, which must investigate to determine whether to file criminal charges or initiate delinquency proceedings.

The act takes effect August 5, 2015, unless a referendum petition is filed, in which case it requires voter approval at the November 2016 general election.