Bill Text: CA AB549 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 549 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Comprehensive school safety plans: mental health professionals and police role on campus guidelines.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 422, Statutes of 2013. [AB549 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB549-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 549	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  422
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 30, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 11, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 6, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 14, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 32282.1 to the Education Code, relating to
school safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 549, Jones-Sawyer. Comprehensive school safety plans: mental
health professionals and police role on campus guidelines.
   Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of
education are responsible for the overall development of a
comprehensive school safety plan for its schools operating
kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law
requires the schoolsite council of a school to write and develop the
comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources
of the particular school, except as specified with regard to a small
school district. Existing law requires the comprehensive school
safety plan to include specified strategies and programs that will
provide or maintain a high level of school safety. Existing law
encourages, as comprehensive school safety plans are reviewed and
updated, all plans to include policies and procedures aimed at the
prevention of bullying.
   This bill would also encourage that comprehensive school safety
plans, as they are reviewed and updated, include clear guidelines,
for the roles and responsibilities of certain parties with
school-related health and safety responsibilities and would authorize
the inclusion in these plans of primary strategies for specified
purposes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 32282.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   32282.1.  As comprehensive school safety plans are reviewed and
updated, the Legislature encourages all plans, to the extent that
resources are available, to include clear guidelines for the roles
and responsibilities of mental health professionals, community
intervention professionals, school counselors, school resource
officers, and police officers on school campus, if the school
district uses these people. The guidelines may include primary
strategies to create and maintain a positive school climate, promote
school safety, and increase pupil achievement, and prioritize mental
health and intervention services, restorative and transformative
justice programs, and positive behavior interventions and support.