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CS/SB 62: Students with Disabilities in Public Schools

GENERAL BILL by Education ; Book

Students with Disabilities in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Student Safety Act”; providing requirements for the use of physical restraint; providing requirements for the use of exclusionary and nonexclusionary time; providing requirements for documenting, reporting, and monitoring the use of restraint and exclusionary or nonexclusionary time; requiring continuing education and inservice training for instructional personnel in teaching students with emotional or behavioral disabilities, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Last Action: 5/3/2019 Senate - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Education (ED)
  2. Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (AED)
  3. Appropriations (AP)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
11/20/2018 Senate • Filed
12/13/2018 Senate • Referred to Education; Appropriations Subcommittee on Education; Appropriations -SJ 38
3/5/2019 Senate • Introduced -SJ 37
3/7/2019 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Education, 03/12/19, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
3/12/2019 Senate • CS by Education; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -SJ 195
3/13/2019 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
3/14/2019 Senate • Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education
• CS by Education read 1st time -SJ 239
5/3/2019 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Education