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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5693

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Senators Bailey, Rinehart, Murray, Bender, Fleming, Gaspard and Talmadge)

Read first time 3/1/89.

AN ACT Relating to corporal punishment in public schools; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.58 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28A.58 RCW to read as follows:

          Each school district board of directors shall adopt a written policy prohibiting the use of corporal punishment as a means of student discipline.  This policy shall 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.