Senate Bill 599 - Summary

• Requires school districts to establish written discipline policies including corporal punishment procedures, distribute them to pupils and parents annually, and provide staff training on implementation and school violence response.

• Mandates school administrators report acts of school violence to teachers and designated district employees, and report specified serious crimes (murder, assault, rape, burglary, robbery, drug distribution, arson, weapons possession, sexual abuse, harassment, stalking) to law enforcement as soon as reasonably practical.

• Establishes one-thousand-foot perimeter restrictions around school property for suspended students involved in violence or drug violations, with exceptions for parental supervision, authorized alternative school enrollment, or student residency within the restricted zone.

• Requires minimum one-year suspension or expulsion for students bringing weapons to school, with superintendent authority to modify on case-by-case basis and provision for alternative educational settings.

• Adds cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction as optional offering in grades 9-12, allows department of elementary and secondary education to coordinate career and technical student organizations (DECA, FBLA, FFA, FCCLA, HOSA, SkillsUSA, TSA), and exempts certain environmental penalty payments from district "local effort" calculations through July 1, 2016.