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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" citation="COMAR 13A.08.04.04" title_num="13A" subtitle_num="08" chapter_num="04" heading="Use of Exclusion.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>School personnel may use exclusion to address a student's behavior:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If the student's behavior unreasonably interferes with the student's learning or the learning of others;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>If the student's behavior constitutes an emergency and exclusion is necessary to protect a student or other person from imminent, serious physical harm after other less intrusive, nonphysical interventions have failed or been determined inappropriate;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>If exclusion is requested by the student; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>If supported by the student's behavior intervention plan.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A setting used for exclusion shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Provide school personnel with the ability to see the student at all times;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Provide adequate lighting, ventilation, and furnishings; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Be unlocked and free of barriers to prevent egress.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>School personnel shall monitor a student placed in exclusion and provide a student in exclusion with:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>An explanation of the behavior that resulted in the removal; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Instructions on the behavior required to return to the learning environment.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>School personnel shall ensure that each period of exclusion:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Is appropriate to the developmental level of the student and the severity of the behavior;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Provides support to increase the student’s self-regulation in order to return to the instructional setting; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Does not exceed 30 minutes.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Parents and school personnel may at any time request a meeting to address the use of exclusion and to:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Conduct a functional behavioral assessment; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Develop, review, or revise a student's behavioral intervention plan, Section 504 plan, or IEP.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>School personnel shall consider the need to initiate a referral to a Section 504 or IEP team if a nondisabled student has experienced excessive exclusion, to determine if the student has a disability that may require the provision of accommodations, modifications, or special education and related services.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>School personnel shall ensure the implementation of appropriate procedures, in accordance with COMAR 13A.08.03, if a student with a disability has experienced an excessive period of exclusion that may result in a change of placement.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>