A bill signed by Gov. Joe Lombardo this week will allow school districts to transfer students who have committed substantiated discrimination and bullying to different schools, rather than only being able to move the victims who had already endured being targeted by peers.

Lombardo signed Assembly Bill 48, which was drafted at the request of the Clark County School District, on Monday. It had passed the Assembly and state Senate unanimously.

Current law says that victims’ parents can request transfer. It does not address perpetrators transferring.

The new law will allow schools to reassign a bullying perpetrator as part of disciplinary proceedings in consultation with the perpetrator’s parent or guardian. If both the victim and perpetrator are transferred out, they must not be reassigne

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