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Committee advances bill to restrict student restraint and ban purpose-built isolation rooms
Summary
The Early Learning & K–12 Education Committee advanced Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1795, which narrows authorized uses of restraint and bars rooms designed primarily for student isolation while adding reporting requirements tied to school resource officers; an amendment to the striking amendment failed before the bill received a due‑pass recommendation to the rules committee.
The Early Learning & K–12 Education Committee on Monday advanced Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1795, a measure that would limit mechanical, chemical and life‑threatening physical restraints on students and curtail the use of isolation in public schools.
Eileen Kato, committee staff, summarized the bill, saying it “prohibits mechanical restraint, chemical restraint, and physical restraint or physical ****** of a student that is life threatening,” and that the proposal would bar construction or repurposing of any room or enclosed area whose primary purpose is student isolation. Kato said the bill would also prohibit planned…
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