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Education committee advances bill restricting student restraint and barring new isolation rooms
Summary
The House Education Committee reported House Bill 17 95 (H 2,871.1) out of committee with a due‑pass as amended recommendation after adopting clarifying language expanding who may be harmed and a ban on building rooms whose primary purpose is student isolation. The measure passed the committee vote 10–7 with 2 excused.
The House Education Committee on Thursday reported proposed substitute House Bill 17 95 (identified as H 2,871.1) out of committee with a "due pass as amended" recommendation, adopting amendments that narrow allowable use of restraint and limit construction of spaces intended primarily for student isolation.
Megan Wardacki, counsel to the committee, summarized the proposed substitute as prohibiting staff use of mechanical and chemical restraints and of physical restraints that are life‑threatening or that restrict breathing or blood flow. She said the bill would restrict the use of isolation as a planned behavioral intervention except when a licensed health care provider documents medical necessity in writing and a parent or guardian gives informed voluntary written consent. "The…
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