[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2918 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 2918

 To deny funds to educational programs that allow corporal punishment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 1996

  Mr. Owens introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
          Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities

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                                 A BILL


 
 To deny funds to educational programs that allow corporal punishment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION AGAINST CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.

    Subpart 4 of part C of the General Education Provisions Act is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``prohibition against corporal punishment
    ``Sec. 444A. (a) No funds shall be made available under any 
applicable program to any educational agency, institution, 
organization, or other entity that has a policy which allows an 
individual to inflict corporal punishment or bodily pain upon a child 
as a form of punishment.
    ``(b) The prohibition described in subsection (a) does not preclude 
an individual, within the scope of employment, from using and applying 
such amount of physical restraint as may be reasonable and necessary--
            ``(1) to protect self, a child, or others from physical 
        injury;
            ``(2) to obtain possession of a weapon or other dangerous 
        object upon the person or within the control of the child; or
            ``(3) to protect property from serious damage.''.
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