Bill Text: CA AB2639 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pupil suicide prevention policies: reviews: updates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2018. [AB2639 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2639-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 18, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 25, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 2639 |
Introduced by Assembly Members Berman and O’Donnell |
February 15, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 215 of the Education Code is amended to read:215.
(a) (1) The governing board or body of a local educational agency that serves pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, shall, before the beginning of the 2017–18 school year, adopt, at a regularly scheduled meeting, a policy on pupil suicide prevention in grades 7 to 12, inclusive. The policy shall be developed in consultation with school and community stakeholders, school-employed mental health professionals, and suicide prevention experts and shall, at a minimum, address procedures relating to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.(b)
(a)The department shall identify one or more evidence-based online training programs that a local educational agency or county office of education can use to train school staff and pupils as part of the local educational agency’s or county office of education’s policy on pupil suicide prevention adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 215.
(b)In identifying an online training program pursuant to subdivision (a), the department shall ensure all of the following:
(1)The training program is evidence-based.
(2)The training program is consistent with the model pupil suicide prevention policy developed by the department pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (a) of Section 215.
(3)The training program addresses the needs of high-risk groups as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 215.
(4)The training program can track aggregate, statewide usage.
(5)The training program can assess trainee knowledge before and after training is provided in order to measure training outcomes.
(c)(1)Each county office of education shall, on a one-time basis, acquire a training program identified by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) and disseminate that training program to local educational agencies
located in the county over which it has jurisdiction.
(2)A county office of education shall make the training program available to local educational agencies pursuant to paragraph (1) at no cost.
(3)A local educational agency or county office of education is not required to use the training program and may use the training program on a voluntary basis.
(d)For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, state special school, or charter school that serves pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive.