Connecticut § 10-233a - Definitions.

§ 10-233a. Definitions.

Sec. 10-233a. Definitions. Whenever used in sections 10-233a to 10-233g, inclusive:

(a) “Exclusion” means any denial of public school privileges to a pupil for disciplinary purposes.

(b) “Removal” means an exclusion from a classroom for all or part of a single class period, provided such exclusion shall not extend beyond ninety minutes.

(c) “In-school suspension” means an exclusion from regular classroom activity for no more than five consecutive school days, but not exclusion from school, provided such exclusion shall not extend beyond the end of the school year in which such in-school suspension was imposed.

(d) “Suspension” means an exclusion from school privileges or from transportation services only, provided such exclusion shall not extend beyond the end of the school year in which such suspension was imposed.

(e) “Expulsion” means an exclusion from school privileges for more than ten consecutive school days and shall be deemed to include, but not be limited to, exclusion from the school to which such pupil was assigned at the time such disciplinary action was taken, provided such exclusion shall not extend beyond a period of one calendar year.

(f) “Emergency” means a situation under which the continued presence of the pupil in school poses such a danger to persons or property or such a disruption of the educational process that a hearing may be delayed until a time as soon after the exclusion of such pupil as possible.

(g) “School” means any school under the direction of a local or regional board of education or any school for which one or more such boards of education pays eighty per cent or more of the tuition costs for students enrolled in such school.

(h) “School-sponsored activity” means any activity sponsored, recognized or authorized by a board of education and includes activities conducted on or off school property.

(P.A. 75-609, S. 1; P.A. 78-218, S. 162; P.A. 79-136, S. 1, 2; 79-236, S. 1; P.A. 80-483, S. 42, 186; P.A. 83-119, S. 1, 8; P.A. 86-398, S. 1; P.A. 95-304, S. 4, 9; P.A. 07-66, S. 1; P.A. 08-160, S. 1; P.A. 24-45, S. 13.)

History: P.A. 78-218 specified local or regional boards in Subsec. (f) and replaced “school boards” with “boards of education”; P.A. 79-136 redefined “expulsion” to replace requirement that exclusion from school not extend beyond school year in which imposed with provision that exclusion may carry over but may not be for more than 180 consecutive school days; P.A. 79-236 inserted definition of “in-school suspension” as Subsec. (c) and relettered remaining Subsecs. accordingly; P.A. 80-483 extended applicability of definitions by substituting “10-233g” for “10-233e”; P.A. 83-119 redefined “suspension” to include exclusion from transportation services only; P.A. 86-398 added Subsec. (h) defining “school-sponsored activity”; P.A. 95-304 amended Subsec. (e) to base time limitation on expulsions on calendar year rather than school year, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 07-66 amended Subsec. (c) defining “in-school suspension” to increase maximum consecutive days from 5 to 10, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 08-160 changed effective date of P.A. 07-66, S. 1, from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2009, effective June 12, 2008; P.A. 24-45 amended Subsec. (c) defining “in-school suspension” to decrease maximum consecutive days from 10 to 5, and amended Subsec. (d) defining “suspension” to delete provision re no more than 10 consecutive school days, effective July 1, 2024.

Cited. 193 C. 93.