SF3086 Summary

• Comprehensive Education Reform: Omnibus bill addressing prekindergarten through grade 12 education, including general education, teachers, special education, facilities, nutrition, early childhood, and lifelong learning programs.

• Teacher Accountability: Adds grounds for license revocation including inappropriate sexual contact with students; requires immediate discharge of teachers convicted of crimes involving child abuse or sexual conduct; mandates background checks and information sharing between school districts about teacher discipline.

• Student Discipline and Support: Requires use of nonexclusionary disciplinary practices before removal/dismissal; establishes threat assessment policies; mandates mental health screening meetings after 10 cumulative days of removal; protects suspended students' ability to complete schoolwork for credit.

• Student Online Privacy and School Safety: Creates new student online privacy protections for school-based educational technology; requires lead testing in school water systems; establishes fire drill requirements and door lock procedures.

• School Meals Dignity: Requires schools to adopt meal policies prohibiting "lunch shaming"; ensures meals cannot be withdrawn once served; guarantees free/reduced-price lunch students receive meals regardless of debt; provides state aid of 12.5-52.5 cents per lunch.