A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require the involvement of a parent or guardian before school officials may administer corporal punishment on a student.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑391(a)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	 Corporal punishment may be administered only on a student whose parent or guardian has stated in writing that corporal punishment may be administered on that student. Parents and guardians shall be given a form to make such an election at the beginning of the school year or when the student first enters the school during the school year."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2011‑2012 school year.