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Committee debates, then rejects school seclusion bill after amendments clarify monitored seclusion
Summary
The House Education Committee amended House Bill 11-78 to define “monitored seclusion” and tighten reporting but voted 2-11 to send the bill to the Committee of the Whole; the bill was then postponed indefinitely by reverse roll call.
Representative English brought a strike‑below version of House Bill 11‑78 to the House Education Committee and led the amendment phase that reworked the bill’s definitions and reporting requirements for seclusion in schools.
The committee adopted two amendments on the floor of the committee: L6, which struck a definition passage, and L7, which added a statutory definition of “monitored seclusion” as “an adult’s observation of a student in a space or room through a window or via live video.” Representative English said those changes were intended to reflect stakeholder conversations and to tighten reporting and notification timelines so parents would be informed “by the end of the school day” if monitored seclusion had…
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