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Providing for the establishment of a school safety hotline, internet site, and mobile internet application, and providing penalties
Topics:K–12 educationSchool safety
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 29, 2019
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires the department of public safety to establish a statewide, toll-free telephone hotline, internet site, and mobile internet application for the purpose of receiving reports from the public regarding threats or possible threats to school safety in this state. The hotline, internet site, and application must include means for receiving anonymous reports that ensure that the identity of an individual making a report cannot be determined by the department or any other person. The department is required to refer all reports received through the hotline, internet site, and application to appropriate school and local law enforcement personnel and service providers.
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Such reports shall be confidential. The bill requires the department to advertise the hotline, internet site, and application through the use of public service announcements and other appropriate means and publicize the hotline, internet site, and application in all schools in this state through written materials and other appropriate means. The bill requires the department to annually publish on the department’s internet site information on the disposition of each report received through the hotline, internet site, and application. Such publication shall not include personally identifying information. The bill requires the department, in consultation with behavioral health care providers, to adopt rules to establish and operate the hotline, internet site, and internet application. The bill provides minimum required subjects for the rules. The bill prohibits the department from implementing a telephone hotline, internet site, and mobile internet until the rules have become effective. The bill provides that an individual who makes a report on the hotline, internet site, or internet application for a purpose other than to report a situation that the individual reasonably believes requires prompt action in order to preserve human life or property commits a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than 30 days or a fine of at least $65 but not more than $625 or by both.
House subcommittee
Named January 29, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
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