Bill Text: NJ A298 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DOE to collect and publish data on use of restraints and seclusion on students with disabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A298 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A298-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 298

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  MICHELE MATSIKOUDIS

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Flynn

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOE to collect and publish data on use of restraints and seclusion on students with disabilities.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning students with disabilities and supplementing P.L.2017, c.291 (C.18:46-13.4 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  The Department of Education shall annually collect data from school districts, educational services commissions, and approved private schools for students with disabilities on the number and times a physical restraint or a seclusion technique was utilized on a student with disabilities and the type and duration of the physical restraint or seclusion technique that was utilized, and the number of students with disabilities on which a physical restraint or a seclusion technique was utilized.

     The department shall publish the data collected pursuant to this section annually on its website in a manner that protects student privacy.  The data published on the website shall be disaggregated by county and by the race, gender, and age of the student.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Department of Education to annually collect data from school districts, educational services commissions, and approved private schools for students with disabilities on the number and times a physical restraint or a seclusion technique was utilized on a student with disabilities and the type and duration of the physical restraint or seclusion technique that was utilized, and the number of students with disabilities on which a physical restraint or a seclusion technique was utilized.  The department is required to publish the collected data annually on its website in a manner that protects student privacy.  The published data will be disaggregated by county and by the race, gender, and age of the student.