SUMMARY AS OF:
5/8/2000--Introduced.
School Safety Act of 2000 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA) to authorize school personnel to discipline (including
expel or suspend), in the same manner in which such personnel may discipline a
child without a disability, a child with a disability who: (1) carries or
possesses a weapon to or at a school, on school premises, or to or at a school
function under the jurisdiction of a State or local educational agency (LEA);
(2) threatens to do so, which includes behavior in which a child verbally
threatens to kill another person; (3) possesses or uses illegal drugs or sells
or solicits the sale of a controlled substance while at school, on school
premises, or at a school function under State or LEA jurisdiction; or (4)
assaults or threatens to assault a teacher, teacher's aide, principal, school
counselor, or other school personnel, including independent contractors and
volunteers.
Declares that a child expelled or suspended shall not be entitled to
continued educational services, including a free appropriate public education,
during the term of such expulsion or suspension, if the State does not require a
child without a disability to receive educational services after being expelled
or suspended. Authorizes the LEA, even if State law does not require it to do
so, to choose to continue to provide educational services, at any level of
services and at a site it chooses.
Amends the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to subject certain provisions to IDEA
requirements added by this Act for school expulsion or suspension, because of a
weapons violation, of a child with a disability.