Providing for the establishment of a school safety hotline, internet site, and mobile internet application, and providing penalties

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. 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 days or a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855 or by both.