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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1086
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State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Mulliken, Johnson, Koster, Sump, Thompson, Crouse, Mielke and Sherstad)
Read first time 02/06/97.
AN ACT Relating to removing a child from school grounds; and amending RCW 28A.605.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.605.010 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 248 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The board of directors of each school district by rule or
regulation shall set forth proper procedure to ensure that each school within
their district is carrying out district policy providing that no child ((will))
may be removed from any school grounds or building thereon during school
hours except by a person so authorized by a parent or legal guardian having
legal custody thereof((: PROVIDED, That such rules and regulations need not
be applicable to any child in grades nine through twelve)). Such rules
shall be applicable to school employees or their designees who may not remove,
cause to be removed, or allow to be removed, any student from school grounds
without authorization from the student's parent or legal guardian unless the
employee is: The student's parent, legal guardian, or immediate family member,
a school employee providing school bus transportation services in accordance
with chapter 28A.160 RCW, a school employee supervising an extracurricular
activity in which the student is participating and the employee is providing
transportation to or from the activity; or, the student is in need of emergent
medical care, and the employee is unable to reach the parent for transportation
of the student. School security personnel may remove a student from school
grounds without parental authorization for disciplinary reasons.
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