By Mr. Jones of North Reading, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 462) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and others relative to the readmittance of students to school after exclusion.  Education.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

Mary S. Rogeness

George N. Peterson, Jr.

John A. Lepper

Viriato Manuel deMacedo

Paul K. Frost

Elizabeth A. Poirier

Robert S. Hargraves

Karyn E. Polito

Richard J. Ross

Susan Williams Gifford

Paul J. P. Loscocco

Donald F. Humason, Jr.

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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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:

SECTION 1.

Chapter 76 of the General Laws as appearing in the 2004 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.