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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79774</law_id><section_number>22.1-279.3:3</section_number><catch_line>Alternative school discipline process for certain incidents</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Pupils</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Discipline</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">school board</span> may establish an alternative school discipline process to provide the parties involved in an incident of <span class="dictionary">assault</span> or <span class="dictionary">assault</span> and <span class="dictionary">battery</span>, without bodily injury, of any person on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity the option to enter into a mutually agreed-upon process between the involved parties. Such process shall be designed to hold the student accountable for a noncriminal <span class="dictionary">offense</span> through a mutually agreed-upon standard. <a id="paragraph-285828" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-279.3_3/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If provided for in the process established by the <span class="dictionary">school board</span>, no principal shall report to the local <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency a <span class="dictionary">party</span> who successfully completes the alternative school discipline process. If the parties fail to agree to participate in the process or fail to successfully complete the alternative school discipline process, then the principal may report the incident to the local <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agency. <a id="paragraph-285829" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-279.3_3/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2020, c. 876; 2022, cc. 793, 794.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
