Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition. Deletes provisions regarding duties imposed on a superintendent who has personal knowledge or actual notice from school personnel that certain offenses have occurred on school property. Deletes provision requiring a local board of education to expel, or the superintendent remove to an alternative education setting, any student who has been convicted of a felony, adjudicated delinquent for an offense that would be a felony if committed by an adult, arrested two or more times, or alleged to be delinquent or undisciplined two or more times. Deletes proposed GS 14-34.10, which concerned assaults on school employees.
Amends GS 115C-288(g) to include instances when a principal has a reasonable belief that a certain offense has occurred on school property, to the instances required to be reported to local law enforcement. Removes the provision stating that failure to do so is a Class 3 misdemeanor. Provides that willful failure to make such a report subjects the principal to demotion or dismissal pursuant to GS 115C-325. Applies beginning with the 2011-12 school year.
Amends proposed GS 115C-532.1 to provide, except as specified, that probation officers are not authorized to visit students during school hours on school property. Details exception to the prohibition. Applies beginning with the 2011-12 school year.
Amends proposed GS 115C-366(i) to include additional language that if there is no other appropriate school within the local school administrative unit, the student is to be transferred to a different class or assigned to a teacher who was not involved as a victim of the cyber-bullying. Applies beginning with the 2011-12 school year.
Clarifies that proposed GS 15A-301(b1) does not apply if the offense is a traffic offense or if the offense occurred in the presence of a sworn law enforcement officer. Amends GS 14-458.2 to provide that any student who violates the statute is guilty of cyber-bullying a school employee, punishable as a Class 2 misdemeanor (previously, Class H felony). Amends proposed GS 14-266.4 to limit the application of the provisions to supervisors of school employees (previously included an employer of a school employee as well). Amends proposed GS 14-266.4 to provide that violations of the provisions are a Class 2 misdemeanor (previously Class 3 misdemeanor). Amends proposed GS 14-266.4 to specify the assault must result in bodily injury. Effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
Makes other clarifying, technical, and organizational changes.