S.B. 167 Reintegration for Disciplined Students

What this bill does

The bill would require school incidents to be included in student records shared between schools, and cut the deadline for sending a student's record to a new school after a request from 30 days to 5. It would also let school boards deny enrollment to students with a safe school violation and encourage administrators to check the state data system for such violations before enrolling a student.

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Every vote

• 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Jan 26, 2026Who voted how
• 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 26, 2026Who voted how
• 24 yes, 2 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 9, 2026Who voted how
• 22 yes, 1 no, 6 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 20, 2026Who voted how
• 10 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Mar 3, 2026Who voted how
• 6 yes, 4 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2026Who voted how
• 65 yes, 4 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Mar 4, 2026Who voted how
• 21 yes, 0 no, 8 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2026Who voted how

Hearings and debates

• Jan 26, 2026 Senate Education Committee▶ Watch
  Transcript (26 turns)

  1. Committee chair3:05:56

     SB 1 67, reintegration for discipline students. You

  2. Sen. Daniel McCay3:06:05

     Yeah, we have two amendments online. We're gonna move the second one. Okay. And I'm happy to speak to that. Gimme just one second. I am pulling up my notes on the bill. Um, the purpose of this, uh, bill is, uh, an ongoing effort to try and better secure our campuses, uh, at least our, our school and high school campuses. Um, and try and improve, uh, safety. In talking with CCJJ and talking with, uh, education LEAs trying to figure out the best way to deal with reintegration plans, um, we came up with Senate Bill 1 67, uh, to make it so that there's better communication, uh, require school incidents to be included in the student record sharing. Uh, that then is shared between schools. It reduces the number of days a student record is required to be sent to a new school after a request has been made. It goes from, in the second Amendment, it goes from 30 days down to down to five. Uh, allow a school board to deny enrollment if to a student if they have a safe school violation. And it encourages school administrators to check the data gateway for safe school violation, reintegration, or threat assessment before enrolling a student. As opposed to what is happening now, which is they're enrolling, and then receiving the report within 30 days of that enrollment that may then notify that this student is unsafe to have in a classroom. And those, or have a security plan related to that, uh, to that student. So in working with, uh, CCJJ, which in, uh, and the Juvenile Justice Oversight Committees as well as LEAs, it's recommended that we make these changes. And, uh, with that, Mr. Chairman, I'm happy to yield, uh, the time and answer any questions.

  3. Committee chair3:07:51

     Senator Riebe, go ahead.

  4. Sen. Chris Riebe3:07:54

     Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I know Senator Owens has a bill similar to this, that, um, would create a policy that would, um, uh, tell other districts that a student was integrating that had a difficulty in another district. Would this bill help hinder? Would it work in conjunction or you don't see them affecting each other at all?

  5. Sen. Daniel McCay3:08:18

     I don't know Senator Owens's bill yet. I'll go back and review it and assure you that we'll make sure that they work together, that they not be necessarily competitive. And, and if not, I'm happy to take this subject matter from this bill and just put it in Senator Owens. Bill that I don't need to run one more bill. But the, the concept here is, Uh, Just is for security, so it's not really brand of ownership. So, but I'll make sure they work together. Senator.

  6. Sen. Kathleen A. Riebe3:08:40

     Thank you. I'm looking at line 11 that says integration plans, requirements for students have committed serious offenses. And that's basically what his bill is, so, yeah.

  7. Unknown speaker3:08:47speaker not certain

     Yeah. Okay. Because we then will only have 14,998 instead of 4,019. Okay. So you're saying we're, you're suggesting that we're running low?

  8. Committee chair3:08:59

     Yeah. Yeah. Senator Riebe, would you like to move the amendment?

  9. Sen. Kathleen A. Riebe3:09:04

     Well, you've got the mic. Um, amendment two. Sure. Second amendment. I would like to de delete and title and bo body 1 67 reintegration of disciplined students. Wait A sec. Sorry. Just as amended. Oh, As amended. Oh, I'm sorry. Amendment two. We just need to move Amendment two. Oh, I'd like to move amendment two. I'm sorry. It's getting late. Thank

  10. Committee chair3:09:25

      You. I'm, any discussion to that motion?

  11. Unknown speaker3:09:27speaker not certain

      I'm trying to pay attention. She's not

  12. Committee chair3:09:31

      Seeing none. I'm gonna place the motion. The motion is to, uh, adopt Amendment two. All in favor, say Aye. Aye. Aye. Chair rules. That is unanimous.

  13. Committee chair3:09:46

      We are sleepy today, aren't we? So, uh, Senator McKay, that concluded your presentation. Right?

  14. Sen. Daniel McCay3:09:55

      That concludes my presentation.

  15. Committee chair3:09:56

      Okay. So we've come back to the committee for comment. Any other comments from the committee? Seeing none, we're gonna come to members of the audience. Anyone here like to speak to this, come, come forward. Please state your name for the record and, uh, tell us who you represent.

  16. Pamela Vickrey, Chair, Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee3:10:15

      Pamela Vickery. I am the Chair of the Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee. And we just wanted to say thank you to Senator McKay. He reached out to CCJJ and JJC as he indicated for feedback on this. And a lot of the things that are in this bill, we really feel like will help the juvenile justice oversight going forward. To provide training expertise to the people actually implementing these things. There's a lot of confusion around it, and so we're very appreciative of the collaboration. Thank you.

  17. Committee chair3:10:38

      Thank you. Any other comments come forward. State your name for the record and who you represent.

  18. Susan Edwards, Canyon School District3:10:47

      Susan Edwards. Excuse me. And, uh, I'm with Canyon School District. Um, we just wanted to, uh, like Mrs. Victory, we just wanted to talk about, uh, the collaboration of this bill. Senator McKay reached out not just to juvenile justice, but to LEAs as well, and brought us to the table. And it has been actually one of the better experiences in my time up here, collaborating on a bill to, um, help the whole. And we learned a lot, uh, from the other, uh, experiences and the other expertise in the room, and then hopefully contributed some. But we just wanted to say thank you for allowing us to work on this bill. And this should be a huge help to us, is we have to integrate students, um, back and forth between districts to really encourage us to communicate in a timely manner. And we wanna say thank you.

  19. Committee chair3:11:35

      Thank you very much. Any other comments? Seeing none. I'm gonna come back to the Committee for Action. Senator Riebe.

  20. Sen. Kathleen A. Riebe3:11:45

      I would like that to make a motion that we recommend SB 1 67 reintegration of discipline students to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation As amended. As amended. Okay. The motions on the table, uh, to recommend SB 1 67 as amended to the full body of the Senate.

  21. Committee chair3:12:03

      Any discussion to that motion? Thank you. We're gonna come back to Senator McKay to some,

  22. Sen. Daniel McCay3:12:12

      Yeah. Thank you very much. I appreciate the questions and appreciate the interest. Um, this, uh, it was interesting how these issues came about. Uh, and also, you know, working with, and, and talking with Senator Escamilla, uh, she's worked in this space and Senator Cullimore on this issue as well. It's been very valuable and eye-opening to see that, uh, it, it is hard to have this communication, but giving our LEAs the option and the courts the ability to work together and make sure that we're, um, you know, that we're really collaborating to make sure that we're not putting students that are in the classroom at risk, uh, with, uh, with other, uh, with potential offenders. So, uh, with that, um, also make a motion somehow that we get cameras that don't show how much dark hair or gray hair I have. Okay. These cameras seem to highlight the gray as opposed, opposed to the dark. So if we could do something about that, that'd be great. Thank you very much. Thanks.

  23. Committee chair3:13:07

      Uh, Senator Riebe?

  24. Sen. Kathleen A. Riebe3:13:10

      Uh, I'd like to just add, you should see the bald spot from, just kidding. I don't wanna look. I'm afraid to look. Wave.

  25. Committee chair3:13:19

      Thank you. So the motion on the table is to, uh, send out SB 1 67 as amendment reintegration for discipline students with a favorable recommendation. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the chair rules. That is unanimous. Thank you. Okay,

  26. Unknown speaker3:13:41speaker not certain

      Which one did she want? Do first? Wait, you can't leave. You have to stay.

• Feb 9, 2026 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
  Transcript (14 turns)

  1. Sen. Daniel McCay38:18

     Thank you Mr. President. Senate Bill 1 67 is, uh, a bill that, uh, caught a loophole in reintegration program. Um, what we had was a time limit as part of the reintegration program that allowed for students to enroll in school before their safety or security could be identified or verified by a local LEA. So the purpose of Senate Bill 1 67 is to change that timeline and make it so that it is less, and I need to double check present 'cause I think I have an amendment that is online. Um, I'm just checking one second. Sorry. I do have amendment three that I wanted to move. Um, if it's okay, president, I'd like to move Senate bill, uh, amendment three for Senate bill 1 67.

  2. Senate President (presiding)39:07

     Thank you. That motion is in order. I see it online. Do you want to talk about the amendment?

  3. Sen. Daniel McCay39:12

     Yes. Thank you. The purpose of amendment three is to change, uh, or is to trade out duplicity, uh, or duplication of notice requirements so that when a, uh, so that when a student, uh, so the courts will notify that a minor has been taken into temporary custody and not notify the school official within five days after the day on which the minor is it says released from currently and now it's taken into, which then notifies the school prior to an absence being charged or any of those other issues. So now with this amendment, we'll move that there and another part of the code requires notice after they're released. And instead of requiring a second notice upon release, we're now just unifying the program with this amendment.

  4. Senate President (presiding)39:59

     Okay. Thank you. We have a motion to amend. See no discussion. I'll place in the motion. The motion is amendment three in Senator McKay's name. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All that motion passes. The bill is amended further presentation on the builders.

  5. Sen. Daniel McCay40:14

     Thank you President. I'm happy to waive the rest of presentation and, and I'm open for questions if there are already.

  6. Senate President (presiding)40:18

     Thank you. Looking for questions, Senator. Saying none. I'm going to you for action.

  7. Sen. Daniel McCay40:22

     Thank you President. I'll move that. Uh, Senate bill 1 67 reintegration for dis discipline students as amended. Be read for a third time.

  8. Senate President (presiding)40:29

     Thank you. And the question is, shall Senate bill 1 67 Be read a third time roll call

  9. Senate clerk (roll call)40:33

     Vote. Senator Vickers Baldry Lewin Brammer Bus Colmore Escamia a Fillmore A Grover Harper Kinins Aye. Ipson Johnson Juab McKay Mikel Milner Musselman Owens pitcher Plum Rebe Sandal Stevenson Stratton stickers. Weiler Wilson Winterton, president Adams aye.

  10. Senate clerk41:37

      Senate Bill 180 7, having received 24 yay votes two nay votes, three being absent shall be read a third time.

  11. Senate President (presiding)41:46

      Okay, hold on a second. Let me make sure I get the vote. Count right, Senate bill one in 67, having received 24 yay votes, two nay votes, three being absent shall be read a third time. First substitute Senate bill 1 49. First substitute Senate bill 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments. Senator Plumb.

  12. Sen. Jen Plumb42:06

      Senator Plumb. Thank you Mr. President. I know we've had a lot of conversations and talk about this bill. There are a couple of amendments that are online about it and I think I wanted to give everyone a little notice it was coming. So I'd like to circle the bill and bring it back this afternoon. I can tell some are ready to go, but some aren't.

  13. Senate President (presiding)42:26

      So I let motion to circle I'll in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. The bill is circled Senate Bill 55, Senate bill 55, placental Tissue Amendments. Senator Vickers. Senator Vickers.

  14. Sen. Evan J. Vickers42:45

      Thank you Mr. President. Uh, a couple years ago we passed a, a piece of legislation allowing for stem cell treatment using placental tissue and we required notification to the patient and some other things in the bill. The one thing we left out is the authority for the PR practitioner who is working in a space

• Feb 20, 2026 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
  Transcript (9 turns)

  1. Senate President (presiding)9:30

     The bill is Uncircled. Senator McKay.

  2. Sen. Daniel McCay9:32

     Thank you. Uh, in full confession. I forgot this bill was circled up there, so, uh, should have moved it while ago. Uh, here we are. Uh, Senate Bill 1 67 just makes minor changes to a reintegration plan and, uh, makes it so that, um, uh, that when juveniles are reintroduced to the school, that they, there's proper communications between the previous school and the current school and the courts. Um, in that situation, uh, this, you know, improves transparency. It also improves the ability for schools to communicate when a reintegration plan is needed for school safety reasons. Uh, we worked with a lot of stakeholders on this and, um, they all reminded me that the bill was circled this morning. So here we are.

  3. Senate President (presiding)10:19

     Thank you for the presentation. Senator. Looking for questions? Discussion on the bill. I don't see anyone up. I'm gonna go to you for a motion.

  4. Unknown speaker10:27speaker not certain

     Okay. I'll make a motion that Senate Bill 1 67 pass.

  5. Senate President (presiding)10:30

     Thank you. And the question is, shall Senate bill one sixty seven pass. Roll call vote.

  6. Senate clerk (roll call)10:35

     Senator Vickers Baldry Aye. Lewin Brammer Aye. Fuss. Colmore Escamilla. Bill Moore. Aye. Grover Aye. Harper Kinins Ipson Johnson Juab McKay Mikel Milner Musselman Owens Pitcher Plum Plum Rebe Sandal Stevenson Stratton Vicars Weiler Wilson Winterton, president Adams Aye.

  7. Senate President (presiding)11:51

     Senate Bill 1 67, having received 22 yay votes, one nay vote, six being absent passes his body will be sent to the house for their consideration. Before I leave the third reading calendar, anybody else wanna encircle? Let's go to the second reading calendar. First substitute Senate bill two 11. First substitute Senate bill two 11 Tort Amendments. Senator Cullimore.

  8. Sen. Chris H. Wilson12:17

     Senator Wilson. Motion to circle sponsors off the Floor. Motion to circle.

  9. Senate President (presiding)12:22

     All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All motion passes As the bill is circled.

• Mar 3, 2026 House Education Committee▶ Watch
  Transcript (41 turns)

  1. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)56:40

     Uh, we're gonna go to Senator McKay. We're gonna hear Senate Bill 1 67 reintegration for disciplined students. Go ahead, Senator.

  2. Sen. Daniel McCay57:06

     Okay. Thank you. Senate Bill 1 67 is a work product of a working group we had over the summer, uh, and we were working on reintegration plans for that purpose. I've decided, uh, to give my work group committee members an opportunity to present the bill. Uh, as soon as they're done signing in, That'd be great. Please make sure you, uh, tell us your name, who you represent, if any, please sign in. Thank you. And, uh, uh, as you're probably well aware, we do have a full committee, so we do wanna hear from you. But, uh, please be brief in your remarks.

  3. Susan Edwards, Canyon School District57:41

     Uh, Susan Edwards with Canyon School District.

  4. Michael Anderson, Jordan School District57:45

     Good afternoon. Michael Anderson, associate Superintendent for Jordan School District.

  5. Susan Edwards, Canyon School District57:50

     Um, first, uh, we want to, to thank the senator for working with us on this and for putting the group together that worked on this. It was, um, probably one of the more positive, uh, experiences and collaborations that I've had in 17 years up here. So I really appreciate, um, this group and the work that they did on this bill. So the, the issue, um, that we are looking at is when we get a student, students have become extremely mobile. Um, in particularly some students that have problems in one district or one school, they become extremely mobile. And while we love to have students come in, sometimes we don't know when those students have had behavior or, um, like in the bill language that was defined last year of forcible felonies. So this helps to clarify both how to identify that and how to transfer and receive their records in a timely manner. So when we get a request, a student wants to enroll before we enroll them, that their record catches up with them so that we will see that. Um, and that's very, very important coming between schools is so that you know who you're enrolling and, you know, if there's any situations. And, uh, the center has assured that that is written in here in two or three different ways. There is now going to be, um, a flag worked out. And we should say that part of the committee, uh, was made up of prosecutors and, um, defense attorneys, juvenile defense attorneys, and our juvenile justice folks. Uh, there was a, a wide breadth of people that worked on this, which was extremely beneficial because we don't necessarily know the legal side, but we know the implementation, implementation side on the school end. And then, um, and, and it was just very useful to hear that there's been some discussion with, um, uh, DCFS and with kids in care and with the, uh, court and the, uh, detention side. So we really appreciate those discussions, and it helped us get to a point to where there will be a notification in the state system that says, Hey, before you integrate this student, you need to look at, you need to look a little deeper. And then we've worked out the transfer of records, both electronically or the old fashioned way, um, and sending their actual file. So that's in here. And then also a timeliness that tells us to be able to get the records sent. Used to be 30 days. And quite honestly, a lot of times it never caught up to the student, um, before they were in school. Now it says you have to get this record transferred in five days, which lets us know what we're working with, um, and, and how to do the right placement. And then it goes over the reintegration, um, team that we'll talk about how to reintegrate a student if there's issues and when, and how you can do an alternate placement in education.

  6. Michael Anderson, Jordan School District1:00:34

     And I think I would just add to Susan that we appreciated the collaborative process. Um, this was, uh, worked on, uh, for many months now, and we appreciated that a lot. The, I also would say that it helps both keep the, the school itself safer, uh, the students in the school safer, but it also affords better due process to those students who, who are involved in serious crimes and, and offenses. And, uh, I think, so it's, it's good for both and we appreciate the good Senator Vickers work with this.

  7. Sen. Daniel McCay1:01:00

     Okay, thank you. I'll, I'll just add, there is a fiscal note on the bill for 237,000. Um, there are a couple components to that. Um, part of that is, um, to cover childcare for, for foster youth. Uh, that were, we actually, I'll say this, we actually think that this is an answer to the bill last year, and not necessarily to language this year, but the Senate has already, uh, you know, a agreed this morning to to fund that, uh, and work on, uh, you know, dealing with, dealing with that childcare need. And so, um, that's that primary purpose. But this bill came to me as a result of a constituent who reached out, who had concerns about a another student that was reintegrated during that 30 day period that a person can enroll, but their records haven't caught up to them. And then after the records caught up to the individual, the school realized a change needed to be made based on the reintegration plan, based on that student's safety. And so, uh, that's why we looked at trying to move this to, you know, that's why we're moving this to five days, uh, to shorten up that timeline. So, um, there's also a couple of amendments the Representative MacPherson has in his name, uh, that will clarify the bill when it is time for that, uh, consideration with that Mr. Chair. That can, that concludes my presentation.

  8. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:02:15

     Thank you, Senator. Uh, we've got, uh, we're gonna go to clarifying questions. We've got a couple of lights on for members of the committee. We're gonna go first to Vice Chair de Faye.

  9. Rep. Ariel Defay (vice chair)1:02:24

     Yes. Thank you. I'm just wondering, we passed House Bill three 10 from Representative Romero. I'm just wondering how this works in conjunction with that bill. Yeah, they'll have coordinating clauses, uh, you know, making sure that the policy, uh, overlaps or in the right place. Uh, you know, this is, uh, we had a, like I said, we had a work group that was working through, uh, these policies and a member of our work group highlighted, uh, Representative Romero that there was, uh, that this issue was out there and she engaged as well. And so, uh, you know, she's been great to work with this policy area as well. And I don't think there will be an issue with both Bills pass.

  10. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:02:57

      Thank you. Thank you. We're gonna go to Representative Thompson.

  11. Rep. Jason E. Thompson1:03:01

      Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, thank you for your work on this, on this bill. I think this is great. I I have a question with regard, uh, to, um, records. I've heard of a number of, of cases where schools are not keeping appropriate disciplinary records, um, and in, in fact not documenting stuff. Um, so it's easier as students, um, leave that it doesn't, it doesn't complicate things there, is there, is there any consideration given to whether or not schools are properly documenting, um, disciplinary, um, uh, events and making sure that that is actually available for, for the new school?

  12. Sen. Daniel McCay1:03:42

      Well, we know how important that is, right? So that the records are, are accurate so that we can deal with these safety issues as they're needed. I'm gonna turn over to my school experts for just a moment and give them a chance to shine on the issue. How's that?

  13. School district representative (unidentified)1:03:54speaker not certain

      Um, I would hope and like to think that that's not the case for serious offenses. I think you have a lot of disciplinary actions and they are, uh, documented locally and they're documented in schools when you get to serious offenses. And, uh, many of the things that are conceived of here, I would like to think that we're pretty darn good at it because we do share and we do, um, discuss. It is noted in here that these, uh, incidents do have to be documented and then it lists out, uh, various types, uh, lists, links to a different section that lists various types that have to be spelled out and transferred. Yeah, I would just add to that, that most LEA policies have requirements for serious offenses that they have to follow. Um, I can't speak for every district, but for now in ours, we do have a, a pretty tight process that we follow whenever a student is involved in a serious offense. And I would, I would add to that, that it has also been conceived of in some of representative Wilcox's school safety bills, um, those type of, uh, documentations as well.

  14. Rep. Jason E. Thompson1:04:52

      So, Mr. Chair, one more question if I Yeah,

  15. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:04:54

      Please Go ahead.

  16. Rep. Jason E. Thompson1:04:55

      So, um, so the phrase quote, any school safety incidents or safe school violations seems to be a, a little bit broad. Is that broad on, on purpose? Um, we actually had that discussion this morning on whether that needed to be narrowed down

  17. Unknown speaker1:05:16speaker not certain

      and it is, sorry, what did you just tell me? One line. 65, it's line Five. That's line 65. Yeah, five It is. Yep. Right Here.

  18. Sen. Daniel McCay1:05:24speaker not certain

      Yeah, I mean, that's a great question. Um, you know, as you look at it, the school safety incidents could be a, a broad term and maybe what we can look at is potentially using that to, uh, you know, relate to the section that, um, uh, that enumerates those that are required. Right? So maybe that's, maybe that's the better way to handle that component. And I Think the intent here is to give flexibility to the LEA. If they want to deny a student and they have, they have grounds for that, this isn't too restrictive, it gives 'em enough flexibility to say, you know what? We're gonna push pause on this until we get some more things figured out. The, yeah, the intention originally on that was, is kind of that or, so the safe school violations is very well determined in code and in law what a safe school violation is. And we're all familiar with that. This was kind of a, this is language or what you're referring to as safe school violation. But we had some discussion this morning that we may need to work on that very first couple of words this say the any school safety incident. Okay. But I think, but I think to your point representative, it seems like this language being this broad, it does allow for a denial of admission for, you know, a larger list of things than would potentially be included in the mandatory reporting. And so maybe it'd be wise to narrow that down to that, to that point, and we can work on amendment for the floor.

  19. Rep. Jason E. Thompson1:06:47

      Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you

  20. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:06:49

      to Representative MacPherson.

  21. Rep. Matt MacPherson1:06:51

      Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, my question actually is kind of on the side of this, 'cause I was just curious about your working group. Um, one section that I don't think is in this area of code is when it comes to when these offenses originally occur. We do have mandatory expulsion language and code right now for certain types of offenses, but a lot of cases currently superintendents kind of have a, uh, a discretionary ability to kind of, um, intervene in certain circumstances. Has this at all been considered also in part of your review of this whole process? I'm just curious.

  22. Sen. Daniel McCay1:07:27speaker not certain

      I don't know that the expulsion, this has really been once a student has been determined to have committed an offense and, and it's really dealing more with the transitory nature of these students, um, if that answers your question, But it hasn't necessarily been aimed at the reason that they're transitory. Right? Sure. To your point, this is really just a, making sure that when they are transitory, 'cause a a lot of times expulsion, you know, they may not get to the expulsion level, they may leave. Hmm. Right. And so that's, that's what we were having the problem with is what happens if they just leave and there's not an expulsion. And so how do we close that loop prior to? So that's, that's the purpose of this. And I think we could look at those, those expulsion events as we're looking at line 65.

  23. Rep. Matt MacPherson1:08:08

      Yeah. And I think my question comes more on the opposite side. If there is a mandatory expulsion event, essentially in a superintendent decides not to, uh, to effectively, uh, intervene and, and, and prevent that, uh, from happening. I'm just curious if that was looked at as well, but again, it's not part of this bill. I was just curious since you had a working group on it. Yeah, thank

  24. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:08:29

      You. Alright, thank you.

  25. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:08:30

      We're gonna go to Representative Voxer.

  26. Unknown committee member (called as Rep. Voxer)1:08:31speaker not certain

      Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just had a question maybe to harken back a little bit to the other one in the coordinating clauses, like what exactly is different? 'cause are you the Senate sponsor on that one as well? Yes. Okay. Can you just maybe walk through what exactly is different between the two?

  27. Sen. Daniel McCay1:08:46

      Both. We had this conversation this morning and I don't know yet the answer, if that's fair. Um, uh, can I answer that later on today? Okay. I don't know. In other words, we're, we're trying to preserve the policy at the same time, uh, you know, uh, deal with, uh, with the realities of, of being in a similar policy area and make, making them coordinate. We may abandon and just go to one bill. Uh, right now my bill has a fiscal note, ironically, and Hearst is not, uh, which also is, you know, uh, we, we don't understand how that's in the same policy area, but so we're, we're trying to figure that out. I think you've got an agency that looks at, at one being more likely to be funded than the other. Uh, really we're trying to figure that out. So, uh, those are questions we had before we could get, before we could get them. We couldn't get those answers before we got to committee today.

  28. Unknown speaker1:09:30speaker not certain

      Okay. How's that? Yeah, I mean, if it's that similar, it would make sense to just, you know, amend and whatever you need or sub it or whatever to the other one, then that's further along, but, okay. Thank you.

  29. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:09:39

      Yeah. Thank you. Alright. Thank you. Representative Vox Sierra, the members of the public that are here to speak to this bill. I, anybody online? Yes. Alright. Uh, that closes our public comment. We're gonna go to, uh, members, uh, members of the committee for, uh, action items.

  30. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:09:57

      We're gonna go to Representative MacPherson first.

  31. Rep. Matt MacPherson1:09:59

      Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd move House Amendment six. That motion is in order. Would you like to speak to it just Briefly? This clarifies some of the language. Right now. It has a school district listed in many areas of this bill we're in, indicating that it's an LEA and the relevant LEA. Um, also there's some language starting on line one 20 that talks about when school is not in session. Currently, when you're in session, the definition works just fine, but in the negative aspect, when we're talking about when we're not in session, there's some lack of clarity on how it applies to, um, schools with summer break and certain things. So we made some clarification in the code to just kind of clean that up and make sure that, um, it applies in both cases.

  32. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:10:40

      Alright, very good. To the sponsor on the adoption of the Sixth Amendment. It is a great amendment. Thank you very much for doing it. Very good to the members of the committee. Seeing none. Back to the sponsor. Aye. Alright. Motion forward is to adopt the Sixth Amendment to Senate bill 1 67 reintegration for discipline students. All in favor, police say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Emery, that motion carries unanimously.

  33. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:11:04

      Uh, we're now at, uh, SB 1 67 as amended Representative MacPherson.

  34. Rep. Matt MacPherson1:11:09

      Yep. I'll continue. Uh, motion to pass out favorably SB 1 67 As amended. That motion is an order.

  35. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:11:15

      Would you like to speak to it? Um, I'll Waive. Alright, uh, to the members of the committee on the motion to recommend favorably Senate Bill 1 67 as amended.

  36. Unknown committee member1:11:23speaker not certain

      Um, I'm just gonna note, uh, I'm, uh, supportive of this policy. Um, I know this was something that's been the, the working group has been highly engaged. Um, I appreciate the efforts in this space. Um, as a matter of principle, though, I'm concerned we have two bills exactly in the same space doing exactly the same thing, particularly this late in the, in the session. And so, uh, I'm in support of the policy, but I'm gonna be no, because of the, just the conflicting nature of the two bills.

  37. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:11:47

      Uh, with that, we'll go ahead and go to the sponsor to some.

  38. Sen. Daniel McCay1:11:54

      Well, um, uh, I appreciate the committee's time, Mr. Chairman. Uh, I hope that you'll extend to me the trust that we can, with our working group effort help us straighten this out. Uh, I don't know that this necessarily need to a no vote, so to speak, um, but I can assure you that if we're stuck with the exact same policy, with the exact same bill, only one will pass. Thank you. And to the pon to the maker of the motion, I will waive.

  39. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:12:18

      Alright. Motion before us is to recommend favorably Senate Bill 1 67 reintegration for discipline students.

  40. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:12:25

      Uh, as amended, we're gonna go to a roll call. Vote Representatives. Er Yes. Lyson? No. Hayes? No. Libe. No. McPherson? Yes. Millard? Yes. Peterson? Yes. Thompson? Yes. Vice Chair Defay? Yes. Chair Walter? No. Six four. The motion passes. Six to four.

  41. Rep. R. Neil Walter (committee chair)1:13:01

      Thank you, Senator. Uh, we, uh, the four that are nos are Walter, Lyon, Hayes, Hayes, and Libe. B. Uh, thank you Senator. Uh, we look forward to having, uh, the, uh, uh, having that, uh, policy integrated between the two bills.

• Mar 4, 2026 House floor debate▶ Watch
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  1. Unknown speaker1:08:06speaker not certain

     Senate bill 1 67 Reintegration for discipline students by Senator McKay. This bill was heard in education with the vote of 6 4 5. The house sponsor is Representative Romero.

  2. Speaker (presiding)1:08:19

     Representative Romero.

  3. Rep. Angela Romero1:08:24

     Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is, um, just came upon me. So many of you heard this bill already, um, in HB three 10. And so what this bill does is it just reintegrates, um, students into schools and it gives some parameters for those schools. And if you want me to repeat what I repeated last time on the floor, I can, but if not, we can just pass this bill.

  4. Speaker (presiding)1:08:49

     Thank you Representative Romero. Discussion to the bill. Seeing none. Back to your

  5. Rep. Angela Romero1:08:57

     Representative Romero for summation. This Is a really good bill and it's needed by our school district. So thank you.

  6. Speaker (presiding)1:09:02

     Thank you. Representative Romero. Voting will now be open on SB 1 67. All president, having voted and voting is now closed. SB 1 67 passed this body with 65 yes votes. Four no votes will be sent to the Senate for further consideration. Memory and clerk

• Mar 5, 2026 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
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  1. Sen. Daniel McCay15:46

     Thank you President. Uh, house made some, uh, mining minor language changes in the, uh, in the bill and, um, supporting it. So with that, I'd like to make a motion to concur with the house amendments.

  2. Senate President (presiding)15:58

     I think we have a motion to concur with the house amendments. I do. You have discussion? Seeing none, I'll place the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Rule that motion passes. Senate Bill 1 67 has been read three times. The question is, shall it pass? Roll call

  3. Senate President (presiding)16:13

     Vote. Senator Vickers Baldry Lewin Brammer Bus Cullimore Escamilla Fillmore Grover Harper Hin Ipson Johnson. Kwan McKay. Mikel Milner Musselman Owens Pitcher Plum Rebi Sandal Stevenson Stratton Aye. Bickers ler Aye. Wilson. Aye. Winterton President Adams Aye. Senate Bill 1 67. Having received 21 yay votes, zero nay votes. Eight being absent passes this body and will be returned to the house with the signature.

  4. Senate President (presiding)17:03

     The speaker second substitute Senate bill 180 6. Second substitute Senate Bill 180 6. Charter School Modifications. Senator Balderree. Senator Balderree.

  5. Sen. Heidi Balderree17:14

     Okay, Mr. President, um, we've already debate This Bill. Uh,

  6. Senate President (presiding)17:18

     Your mic was not on.

  7. Sen. Heidi Balderree17:19

     Let me start again. I thought I had it on but it didn't go. Thank you. Go Ahead. Thank you Mr. President.