Indiana House Bill 1567 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-01-20 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Requires the department of education to develop guidelines to assist school corporations and safe school committees in establishing bullying prevention programs and investigation and reporting procedures. Requires each school corporation to include the number and nature of bullying incidents that occurred within the school corporation on the school corporation's annual performance report. Modifies the definition of bullying. Requires each school corporation to include detailed procedures for investigations and reporting of bullying behaviors in the school corporation's discipline rules. Sets out a bullying reporting requirement for each school corporation. Requires that if a board of trustees of a state educational institution elects to govern by regulation or another means, the conduct of students, faculty, employees, and others while upon the property owned, used, or occupied by the state educational institution, the regulation must include a policy prohibiting bullying.

Antibullying.

Rep. Gregory Porter [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-01-20		First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2011-01-20		Authored by Representative Porter

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=HB&docno=1567
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN1567.1.html