SB 144: Seclusion and Restraint on Students Wit...

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If you are interested in getting the restraint and seclusion bill passed please call the people below first thing in the morning and let your voices be heard. The bill will go before the committee at 1:15 pm on Thursday 2/9. Don't wait until this happens to your child to get involved. Get involved now!

SB 144: Seclusion and Restraint on Students With Disabilities in Public Schools

GENERAL BILL by ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Sachs; Storms; Ring

Seclusion and Restraint on Students With Disabilities in Public Schools; Requiring that manual physical restraint be used only in an emergency when there is an imminent risk of serious injury or death to the student or others; providing restrictions on the use of manual physical restraint; prohibiting the use of manual physical restraint by school personnel who are not certified to use district-approved methods for applying restraint techniques; requiring that each school medically evaluate a student after the student is manually physically restrained; prohibiting school personnel from placing a student in seclusion; providing requirements for the use of time-out; requiring that a school district report its training and certification procedures to the Department of Education, etc.

Senate Committee References:Education Pre-K - 12 (ED) , Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (CF) , Budget (BC)

Last Action: 02/06/2012 On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/09/12, 1:15 pm, 401 Senate Office Building

On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/09/12, 1:15 pm, 401 Senate Office Building Chair: Senator Ronda Storms ® Vice Chair: Senator Nan H. Rich (D)

Senator C. Detert ® Senator a Dockery ® Senator Audrey Gibson (D) Senator Jack Latvala ®