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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2483

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Cole, Jones, Holland, Leonard, Nelson, Anderson, Prentice, Pruitt, Van Luven, Wood, Wineberry, Horn, May, Phillips and Wang; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Read first time 1/12/90 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to corporal punishment; and adding a new section to Title 28A RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to Title 28A RCW to read as follows:

          School districts and school district employees shall not use or authorize the use of corporal punishment as a means of disciplining students within the public schools.  For purposes of this section corporal punishment includes hitting, spanking, slapping, striking a student, or other methods of inflicting physical pain.  This section does not prohibit the use of physical restraint when reasonable and necessary to protect any person from physical injury or to prevent the commission of a crime.