SB 2320 Summary

• District school boards must adopt a dress code policy prohibiting students from wearing clothing that exposes underwear or body parts in an indecent or vulgar manner or that disrupts the learning environment during the regular school day.

• Student codes of conduct must explain responsibilities regarding appropriate dress and respect for self and others, and how these factors contribute to an orderly learning environment.

• Dress code violations result in progressive discipline: first offense receives verbal warning and parent notification; second offense results in up to 5 days of extracurricular activity ineligibility and parent meeting; third offense and beyond result in up to 3 days in-school suspension, up to 30 days of extracurricular activity ineligibility, and written notification to parents.

• Students must maintain satisfactory conduct including adherence to appropriate dress and other codes of student conduct to be eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities.

• The act takes effect July 1, 2010.