Florida Senate Bill 144 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requiring that manual physical restraint be used only in an emergency when there is an imminent risk of serious injury or death to the student or others; providing restrictions on the use of manual physical restraint; prohibiting the use of manual physical restraint by school personnel who are not certified to use district-approved methods for applying restraint techniques; requiring that each school medically evaluate a student after the student is manually physically restrained; prohibiting school personnel from placing a student in seclusion; providing requirements for the use of time-out; requiring that a school district report its training and certification procedures to the Department of Education, etc.

Seclusion and Restraint on Students With Disabilities in Public Schools

Sen. Anitere Flores [R]

Sen. Jeremy Ring [D]

Sen. Maria Sachs [D]

Sen. Ronda Storms [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
2012-02-14		On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/16/12, 10:30 am, 401 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
2012-02-06		On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/09/12, 1:15 pm, 401 Senate Office Building --Temporarily Postponed
2012-01-31		Now in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs -SJ 300
2012-01-30		Favorable by Education Pre-K - 12; YEAS 5 NAYS 0 -SJ 300
2012-01-25		On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K - 12, 01/30/12, 3:30 pm, 301 Senate Office Building
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 19
2011-09-08		Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Budget -SJ 19
2011-08-29		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
1003	573		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/144
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0144/BillText/Filed/HTML