ESHB 2079 — Improving school safety by extending and increasing penalties for interference by, or intimidation by threat of, force or violence at schools and athletic activities.

What this bill does

Expands the school-related crimes of Interference by Force or Violence and Intimidation by Threat of Force or Violence and increases the penalty for both offenses to a class C felony. Provides that a public school student who interferes by force or violence is subject to emergency removal, or if the student committed the offense during extracurricular athletic activities, may be excluded from participating in or attending that activity for up to 12 months. Provides that a person, other than a student, convicted of Interference by Force or Violence must be excluded from entering the school where the offense was committed, or from attending the extracurricular activities in which the offense was committed, for up to 12 months.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 13, 2024
  97 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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