A Student Discipline Working Group was created to review the substance, application, and effect of Minnesota's Pupil Fair Dismissal Act under Minnesota Statutes, sections 121A.40 to 121A.56, and related student discipline provisions in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 121A, and submit written recommendations to the chairs and ranking minority members of the committees in the house of representatives and the senate with jurisdiction over education by February 1, 2017, on improving disciplinary policies, practices, and procedures as they affect students and school officials and the effects on student outcomes.