Bill Text: CT HB05479 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Professional Development And In-service Training Requirement Relating To The Restraint And Seclusion Of Students.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-12 - Referred to Joint Committee on Education [HB05479 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB05479-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 5479

 

January Session, 2017

 

LCO No. 1176

 

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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION

 

Introduced by:

 

REP. LAVIELLE, 143rd Dist.

REP. STEINBERG, 136th Dist.

 

AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND IN-SERVICE TRAINING REQUIREMENT RELATING TO THE RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION OF STUDENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That chapters 166 and 170 of the general statutes be amended to limit professional development and in-service training relating to the restraint and seclusion of students, in accordance with the provisions of section 10-236b of the general statutes, to only those teachers and school personnel, as determined by the principal of the school, who may have to perform such restraint and seclusion on a student.

Statement of Purpose:

To require only those educators who may have to perform restraint or seclusion of a student to complete training related to such restraint and seclusion.

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