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Introduced Session

In January of 2018, legislation was enacted, P.L.2017, c.291 (C.18A:46-13.4 et seq.), to require that school districts, educational services commissions, and private schools for students with disabilities follow certain procedures in the use of physical restraints, seclusion techniques, and timeouts on students with disabilities. Under that law, staff members who are involved in the restraint of students must receive training in safe techniques for physical restraint from an entity determined by the board of education as qualified to provide such training. This bill provides that an entity selected to provide the training must be approved by the Department of Education. The bill also requires a school district, educational services commission, or private school for students with disabilities to file a report with the department by September 1 of each school year that details the number of incidents in the prior school year in which a physical restraint, seclusion technique, or timeout was used on a student with disabilities. The report will include any other information the department determines to be necessary, and the report will be made available to the public on the department's Internet website in an easily accessible location.

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Nicholas Chiaravalloti (D)*,  Raj Mukherji (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 08/23/2019)

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