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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 2246: Student firearm violations

Updating policies for elementary and secondary school students with firearm violations.

Summary

  • Allows school districts and other publicly funded schools that discipline a student for a firearm-related violation to deny or limit the student's return to the school or educational setting from which the student was suspended or expelled, and to prohibit or limit the student's participation in or attendance at extracurricular or other activities.
  • Authorizes school boards and other governing boards to make initial decisions, and, upon appeal, the final decision on reconsideration, regarding whether to prohibit or limit such a disciplined student's return or deny readmission.

From the House Bill Analysis 2026 (HB 2246), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 12, 2026
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Sam Low (R-39)
Introduced
January 12, 2026 in the House
Last action
January 12, 2026
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to updating policies for elementary and secondary school students with firearm violations;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Sam Low (R-39)

2 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 1 Republican)

Alicia Rule D-42Stephanie Barnard R-8

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. First reading, referred to Education.
  2. Prefiled for introduction.

HB 2246 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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