Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05479 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/11/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5479
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 1176
 *01176*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. LAVIELLE, 143rd Dist. REP. STEINBERG, 136th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5479 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 1176

*01176*

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.