House amends classroom‑management bill to emphasize de‑escalation, reporting and limits on force
After floor amendments, the House adopted changes to an education bill that clarify the definition of reasonable force, direct training on de‑escalation and restraint, and require targeted reporting on removals and violent incidents. Sponsors said changes protect educators while preventing unnecessary physical interventions.
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Floor amendments to the classroom‑management measure narrowed some definitions and added training and reporting requirements. Representative Joy Waters successfully removed language that would have allowed reasonable force to protect school property, arguing "we should not be giving school property this amount of value relative to a student."
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