HB10 Summary

• Renames the Student Harassment Prevention Act to also be known as the Alex Moore Anti-Bullying Act.

• Allows students to be reassigned to another school to separate them from their harassment victims; clarifies that school boards are not required to provide transportation for such transfers.

• Provides immunity from civil liability for any person reporting harassment incidents, except in cases of negligence, wantonness, recklessness, or deliberate misconduct.

• Requires the Department of Education to post its model anti-harassment policy on its website and develop a list of approved anti-harassment training programs and materials for local school systems.

• Changes the compliance deadline for local boards to establish harassment prevention policies from July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013, and requires students in grades 6-12 who commit harassment for the third time in a school year to be assigned to an alternative school.