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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5693

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Bailey, Rinehart, Murray, Bender, Fleming, Gaspard and Talmadge

Read first time 2/2/89 and referred to Committee on  Education.

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:

          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.