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    This document is a bill being proposed in the Tennessee state legislature to amend existing laws around the use of restraints on students receiving special education services. The bill proposes prohibiting the use of mechanical restraints on these students, with an exception that allows trained law enforcement to use restraints in emergency situations. It also provides that schools and law enforcement would not be civilly liable for using restraints as outlined in the bill. If passed, the law would take effect immediately.

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    HOUSE BILL 127 By Martin G

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    This document is a bill being proposed in the Tennessee state legislature to amend existing laws around the use of restraints on students receiving special education services. The bill proposes prohibiting the use of mechanical restraints on these students, with an exception that allows trained law enforcement to use restraints in emergency situations. It also provides that schools and law enforcement would not be civilly liable for using restraints as outlined in the bill. If passed, the law would take effect immediately.

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    This document is a bill being proposed in the Tennessee state legislature to amend existing laws around the use of restraints on students receiving special education services. The bill proposes prohibiting the use of mechanical restraints on these students, with an exception that allows trained law enforcement to use restraints in emergency situations. It also provides that schools and law enforcement would not be civilly liable for using restraints as outlined in the bill. If passed, the law would take effect immediately.

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    SENATE BILL 141

    By Watson

    HOUSE BILL 127

    By Martin G

    AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49,


    Chapter 10, Part 13 and Title 49, Chapter 6,
    relative to special education.

    BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

    SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 49-10-1305(c), is amended by

    deleting the subsection and substituting:

    (c) The use of any mechanical restraint on a student receiving special education

    services, as defined in § 49-10-102, is prohibited; provided, however, that a school

    resource officer, school security officer, or other law enforcement officer who is trained

    and certified for completing a behavior intervention training program may use a

    mechanical restraint on a student receiving special education services in an emergency

    situation. An LEA, a school resource officer, a school security officer, or other law

    enforcement officer is not civilly liable for acting in accordance with this subsection (c).

    SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

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