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

 H-2573.1

HOUSE BILL 2246

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2026 Regular Session

By Representatives Low, Rule, and Barnard

Prefiled 01/05/26. Read first time 01/12/26. Referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to updating policies for elementary and secondary school students with firearm violations; and amending RCW 28A.600.420 .

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. RCW 28A.600.420 and 2019 c 266 s 23 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) (a)(i) Any elementary or secondary school student who is determined to have carried a firearm onto, or to have possessed a firearm on, public elementary or secondary school premises, public school-provided transportation, or areas of facilities while being used exclusively by public schools, shall be expelled from school for not less than one year under RCW 28A.600.010 . (( The superintendent of the school district, educational service district, or state school for the blind, or the director of the Washington center for deaf and hard of hearing youth, or the director's designee, may modify the expulsion of a student on a case-by-case basis.