You can make a difference! The House Ways & Means Committee has
just heard three of Disability Rights Maryland's priority bills and will be voting on them
soon. We need YOU to let the Committee members know you support these
important bills!
HB 331 (Luedtke) strictly limits the use of physical restraint and seclusion against students at school, practices that disproportionately
target students with disabilities and students of color, and are highly
traumatizing and dangerous. The bill would also require data collection
if such practices are used.
HB 425 (Lierman) bans
out-of-school suspension and expulsion for young children in
Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade - another discipline practice that
inordinately targets students with disabilities and students of color,
and pushes them toward academic failure and the school-to-prison
pipeline. Young children need to stay in school and learn.
HB 456 (Kaiser)
requires the development of a dispute resolution process to ensure that
children with disabilities and their families have access to child care
services.
PLEASE CALL THESE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ASAP - THANK YOU!
Anne Kaiser (Chair)
Frank Turner (Vice Chair)
410-841-3246
410-841-3246
Sheila Hixson (Chair Emeritus)
410-841-3469
410-841-3469
Kathy Afzali
410-841-3288
410-841-3288
Bilal Ali
410-841-3268
410-841-3268
Darryl Barnes
410-841-3557
Jason Buckel
410-841-3404
410-841-3404
Eric Ebersole
410-841-3328
410-841-3328
Kevin Hornberger
410-841-3284
410-841-3284
Carolyn Howard
410-841-3919
410-841-3919
Robert Long
410-841-3458
410-841-3458
Eric Luedtke
410-841-3110
410-841-3110
Nick Mosby
410-841-3520
410-841-3520
Edith Patterson
410-841-3247
410-841-3247
Teresa Reilly
410-841-3278
410-841-3278
April Rose
410-841-3070
410-841-3070
Haven Shoemaker
410-841-3359
410-841-3359
Meagan Simonaire
410-841-3206
410-841-3206
Jimmy Tarlau
410-841-3326
410-841-3326
Jay Walker
410-841-3581
410-841-3581
Alonzo Washington
410-841-3652
410-841-3652
Mary Washington
410-841-3476
410-841-3476
Jheanelle Wilkins
410-841-3493
410-841-3493
Thank you Parent’s Coalition for this important post!
ReplyDeleteI called every single representative on the list (members of the Ways and Means Committee) and told them of my enthusiastic support for these three bills. I am especially interested that HB-331 is passed, as our child was subject to excessive restraint and seclusion at an early age. Our child was held in bone-crushing restraint (by as many as 5 teachers /administrators) and placed in seclusion (for an hour or more, completely alone) for being noncompliant, NOT because our child was “an imminent danger to themselves or others.”