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House Amendment 9304

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the Senate amendment, H-9193, to House File
  1  2 2269, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House,
  1  3 as follows:
  1  4    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 3 through 43 and
  1  5 inserting the following:
  1  6    "#   .  Page 2, by striking line 13 and inserting
  1  7 the following:
  1  8    "1.  An employee of an accredited public school
  1  9 district, accredited nonpublic school, or area
  1 10 education agency may intervene in a fight or".
  1 11    #   .  Page 2, by inserting after line 22 the
  1 12 following:
  1 13    "2.  A person who is not an employee of an
  1 14 accredited public school district, accredited
  1 15 nonpublic school, or area education agency may
  1 16 intervene in a fight or physical struggle occurring
  1 17 among students, or between students and nonstudents,
  1 18 that takes place in the presence of the nonemployee in
  1 19 a school building, on school premises, or at any
  1 20 school function or school-sponsored activity
  1 21 regardless of its location.  The intervention may
  1 22 occur in the absence of an employee of an accredited
  1 23 public school district, accredited nonpublic school,
  1 24 or area education agency, or at the request of such an
  1 25 employee, utilizing the degree and force of
  1 26 intervention reasonably necessary to restore order and
  1 27 protect the safety of the individuals involved in the
  1 28 altercation and others in the vicinity of the
  1 29 altercation.  However, a person who intervenes in the
  1 30 absence of an employee of an accredited public school
  1 31 district, accredited nonpublic school, or area
  1 32 education agency shall report the intervention and all
  1 33 relevant information regarding the situation as soon
  1 34 as reasonably possible to such an employee.
  1 35    3.  An employee of an accredited public school
  1 36 district, accredited nonpublic school, or area
  1 37 education agency who intervenes in a fight or physical
  1 38 struggle pursuant to subsection 1 shall be awarded
  1 39 reasonable monetary damages against a party bringing a
  1 40 civil action alleging a violation of this section, if
  1 41 it is determined in the action that the employee has
  1 42 been wrongfully accused.  A nonemployee of an
  1 43 accredited public school district, accredited
  1 44 nonpublic school, or area education agency who
  1 45 intervenes in a fight or physical struggle pursuant to
  1 46 subsection 2 shall be limited to the recovery of
  1 47 reasonable attorney fees and court costs, if it is
  1 48 determined in a civil action alleging a violation of
  1 49 this section that the nonemployee has been wrongfully
  1 50 accused."
  2  1    #   .  Title page, lines 1 and 2, by striking the
  2  2 words "between school employees and" and inserting the
  2  3 following:  "involving".
  2  4    #   .  By renumbering, relettering, or
  2  5 redesignating and correcting internal references as
  2  6 necessary." 
  2  7 
  2  8 
  2  9                               
  2 10 RANTS of Woodbury 
  2 11 HF 2269.704 77
  2 12 rn/sc/28
     

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