CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1086

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 21, 1997

  Yeas 68   Nays 29

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 18, 1997

  Yeas 48   Nays 1

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1086  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

President of the Senate

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1086

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                                

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.

  Establishing criteria that limit school employees' ability to remove students from school.  


    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)), except that a student may leave secondary school grounds only in accordance with the school district's open campus policy under RCW 28A.600.035.  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.

    Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit removal of a student from school grounds by any person acting in his or her official capacity in response to a 911 emergency call.

 


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