Keeping All Students Safe Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates nationwide federal rules to prohibit unlawful seclusion and restraint in federally funded schools and Head Start programs, backed by state plans, reporting, grants, oversight, private enforcement, and appropriations.
Who Benefits and How
Students, especially students with disabilities or behavioral support needs, and their families could receive stronger protections against dangerous or abusive restraint and seclusion practices.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Schools, Head Start programs, State educational agencies, and Federal agencies would face new compliance, reporting, training, enforcement, and rulemaking obligations.
Key Provisions
- Defines covered forms of seclusion, restraint, and related school personnel.
- Prohibits unlawful seclusion and restraint in federally funded programs and creates complaint, enforcement, and private action pathways.
- Requires State plans and annual public reporting on restraint incidents and compliance.
- Creates grants for States to improve compliance, data systems, and school climate supports.
- Requires a national assessment, protection-and-advocacy access, agency regulations, exemptions for certain private and home schools, severability, and authorized appropriations.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates nationwide federal rules to prohibit unlawful seclusion and restraint in federally funded schools and Head Start programs, backed by state plans, reporting, grants, oversight, private enforcement, and appropriations.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
This bill creates nationwide federal rules to prohibit unlawful seclusion and restraint in federally funded schools and Head Start programs, backed by state plans, reporting, grants, oversight, private enforcement, and appropriations.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Students and families seeking stronger protections against dangerous restraint and seclusion practices
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Schools and Head Start programs subject to the new safety standards and reporting requirements
- State and Federal education officials administering the new framework
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Murphy (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Blumenthal, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Education Department officials conducting the assessment and producing the reports, Education and Health and Human Services officials enforcing and regulating the new protections, Interior and Defense officials responsible for implementing the required regulations
Positive-direction: State educational agencies and programs implementing the Act that could receive federal funding support, State educational agencies eligible for implementation and school-climate grants
Negative-direction: Education Department officials conducting the assessment and producing the reports, Education and Health and Human Services officials enforcing and regulating the new protections, Interior and Defense officials responsible for implementing the required regulations, State educational agencies and Head Start agencies responsible for plans, reporting, and monitoring
Federally funded schools and Head Start programs subject to the new seclusion and restraint restrictions, Interior- and Defense-operated schools that must comply with the new restraint and reporting rules, Local educational agencies and Head Start agencies responsible for incident notices and information sharing
Positive-direction: Private schools without covered federal support and home-schooling parents excluded from the Act, Schools and students benefiting from improved de-escalation, mental health, and school climate supports funded through the grants
Negative-direction: Federally funded schools and Head Start programs subject to the new seclusion and restraint restrictions, Interior- and Defense-operated schools that must comply with the new restraint and reporting rules, Local educational agencies and Head Start agencies responsible for incident notices and information sharing
Students and families affected by injury or death related to restraint or seclusion incidents, Students and families relying on stronger school safety oversight and public reporting
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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