Bill Text: MI SB0983 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; safety; school safety assessment and emergency operations plan; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308b.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - Assigned Pa 0436'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0983 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0983-Chaptered.html
Act No. 436
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
December 20, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 21, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 21, 2019
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Knollenberg
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 983
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1308b.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1308b. (1) Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, and at least biennially thereafter, a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall, in conjunction with at least 1 law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy, conduct a review of the emergency operations plan developed or adopted under subsection (2), including a review of the vulnerability assessment under subsection (3), or conduct a review of the statewide school safety information policy described under subsection (4), as applicable.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), not later than January 1, 2020, a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall develop an emergency operations plan for each school building operated by the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy with input from the public. The board of the school district or intermediate school district or the board of directors of the public school academy shall adopt the emergency operations plan by a majority vote of the members serving on the board or board of directors at a public meeting of the board or board of directors held in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.
(3) The emergency operations plan developed and adopted under subsection (2) must include guidelines and procedures that address at least all of the following:
(a) School violence and attacks.
(b) Threats of school violence and attacks.
(c) Bomb threats.
(d) Fire.
(e) Weather-related emergencies.
(f) Intruders.
(g) Parent and pupil reunification.
(h) Threats to a school-sponsored activity or event whether or not it is held on school premises.
(i) A plan to train teachers on mental health and pupil and teacher safety.
(j) A plan to improve school building security.
(k) An active violence protocol.
(l) Continuity of operations after an incident.
(m) A vulnerability assessment.
(4) A school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy that adopts and implements a statewide school safety information policy under section 1308 that meets the requirements under subsection (3) is in compliance with subsection (2).
(5) A school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall provide notice to the department of a completed emergency operations plan review under subsection (1) not later than 30 days after the completion of the review, in a form and manner prescribed by the department. A school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall also provide notice to the department of the adoption of an emergency operations plan under subsection (2) not later than 30 days after the adoption of the emergency operations plan, in a form and manner prescribed by the department.
(6) At least annually, the department shall provide to the office of school safety within the department of state police a list of each school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy that has not developed and adopted an emergency operations plan under subsection (2).
(7) The office of school safety within the department of state police shall coordinate with a law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy that has not developed and adopted an emergency operations plan under subsection (2) to notify the governing body of the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy that the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy has not developed and adopted an emergency operations plan.
(8) An emergency operations plan developed and adopted under subsection (2), any information provided to the department under subsection (5), and any information provided to the department of state police under subsection (6) is confidential and is exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(9) As used in this section, “school building” means any of the following:
(a) A building intended to be used to provide instruction for pupils, including an addition to an existing building.
(b) A recreational or athletic structure or field intended to be used by pupils.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
