s_sa_2017a_2017-05-03t13:38:55z7 Hearing Summary

Date: 05/03/2017

Location: SCR 357

07:26 PM -- HB17-1276



Senator Fields and Senator Gardner, co-prime sponsors, presented House Bill 17-1276 to the committee. This bill, as amended by the House Education Committee, prohibits the use of a chemical, mechanical, or prone (face-down) restraint on a public school student. Exceptions are allowed for the use of mechanical or prone restraints when the student is openly displaying a deadly weapon or the person applying the restraint is an armed security officer who has received specified training and has made a referral to a law enforcement agency. The prohibition does not apply to schools operated in state-owned facilities within the Division of Youth Corrections.



07:28 PM -- Mike Hoover, representing the Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council, testified in support of the bill.



07:30 PM -- Laura Ayres, representing herself, testified in support of the bill.



07:33 PM -- Marijo Rymer, representing the Arc of Colorado and Mental Health America, testified in support of the bill.



07:35 PM -- Alison Daniels, representing Disability Law Colorado, testified in support of the bill.





07:38 PM



Senator Gardner presented amendment L.003 (Attachment J).



17SenateState0503AttachJ.pdf