HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2093        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3539

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to student readmittance after exclusion.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

1/20/2011

Donald F. Humason, Jr.

4th Hampden

1/27/2011

Angelo L. D'Emilia

8th Plymouth

2/1/2011

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

2/2/2011

Shaunna O'Connell

3rd Bristol

2/2/2011

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

2/3/2011

Todd M. Smola

1st Hampden

2/3/2011

Sheila C. Harrington

1st Middlesex

2/3/2011

Bruce E. Tarr

 

2/4/2011

George N. Peterson, Jr.

9th Worcester

1/26/2011

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

1/21/2011

Viriato Manuel deMacedo

1st Plymouth

2/3/2011


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2093        FILED ON: 1/20/2011

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3539

By Mr. Jones of North Reading, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3539) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr. and others for legislation to require suspended students be accompanied by parents or a legal guardian upon applying for readmittance to public schools in the Commonwealth.  Education.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Eleven

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An Act relative to student readmittance after exclusion.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Chapter 76 of the General Laws as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended, by inserting, after section 2, the following section:-

SECTION 2 ½.  A student who has been excluded from school for any given amount of time shall be accompanied by a parent or a legal guardian in order to be readmitted into said school. The principal of said school shall request the parent or the legal guardian of the student to sign a document stating that the parent or the legal guardian has been notified of the reason for the student’s exclusion, and has been informed of school procedures and regulations relative to the student exclusion and readmittance. Upon the signing of the document, the student may be readmitted into said school.