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Bill Detail: SB24-225

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Title Trauma-informed School Safety Drills
Status Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely (04/29/2024)
Bill Subjects
  • Education & School Finance (Pre & K-12)
House Sponsors
Senate Sponsors J. Marchman (D)
House Committee
Senate Committee Education
Date Introduced 04/26/2024
Summary

The bill requires a school to provide written notification at least 5
days in advance of the scheduled date of a school safety drill to the
parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian of a student detailing when the
school safety drill will take place.
On or before July 1, 2025, the bill requires the office of school
safety (office) to convene a work group to develop best practices for the
use of trauma-informed practices to conduct school safety drills.
No later than August 1, 2026, the bill requires the work group to
develop recommendations to support schools in training school personnel
on the use of trauma-informed practices in conducting school safety
drills, how to best conduct school safety drills in a trauma-informed
manner, and how to best respond to school safety incidents.
Beginning August 1, 2027, the bill requires a school to conduct
school safety drills in compliance with the work group's
recommendations.
On or before December 31, 2027, the bill requires the work group
to submit a report to the office summarizing the work group's
recommendations and information from the schools on the
implementation of the trauma-informed best practices.
The bill requires educator preparation programs and alternate
teacher programs to include a training requirement on trauma-informed
practices for a teacher candidate to learn how to conduct school safety
drills and, beginning in the 2026-27 school year, requires educator
preparation programs and alternate teacher programs to implement the
work group's recommendations on best practices to incorporate
trauma-informed practices into the conduct of school safety drills.

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