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1058.01000
     Sixty-eighth
     Legislative Assembly                       SENATE BILL NO. 2351
     of North Dakota
     Introduced by
       Senators Kreun, Burckhard, Elkin, Rummel
       Representatives O'Brien, Schreiber-Beck
  A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 15.1-06 of the North Dakota
  Century Code, relating to a data collection system for classroom and hallway clearings.
  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
      SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 15.1-06 of the North Dakota Century Code is created
  and enacted as follows:
      Classroom and hallway clearings - Data collection system.
      1.   The superintendent of public instruction and the executive director of the department
           of health and human services shall create and administer jointly a data collection
           system for the report of classroom clearings and hallway clearings, including the
          creation of a reporting form.
     2.   A public school shall report data monthly. The report must contain:
          a.     The number of classroom clearings and hallway clearings the school experienced
                 that month;
          b.     The number of students involved in or who caused a clearing that month; and
          c.     For each student involved in or causing a clearing:
                 (1)   Whether the student is developmentally disabled;
                 (2)   Whether the student is intellectually disabled;
                 (3)   A description of the behavior that caused the clearing; and
                 (4)   The student's age.
     3.   The attorney general shall provide a comprehensive report to the superintendent of
          public instruction and the executive director of the department of health and human
          services explaining a public school's authority and including limitations to provide
          discipline for a student under state and federal law, including student seclusion,
          restraint, suspension, expulsion, and school removal for behavioral issues.
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     4.   If a public school fails to submit the report required under subsection 2, the
          superintendent of public instruction shall withhold monthly state aid payments to that
          school until the report is received.
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