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IN SB0266
Bill
Status
1/7/2015
Primary Sponsor
Dennis Kruse
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AI Summary
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School employees and volunteers must simultaneously transmit electronic communications to students' parents (if parent provided contact information) and the school principal.
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Students must simultaneously transmit electronic communications to school employees or volunteers to their parents (if parent provided contact information) and the school principal.
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School principals must preserve all received electronic communications for at least two years.
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Schools must annually notify parents of preserved communications, the option to receive simultaneous copies, and their right to view their child's preserved communications.
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School employees and volunteers who fail to comply commit a Class A misdemeanor (up to one year imprisonment and $5,000 fine); non-compliant students are subject to school discipline.
Legislative Description
Electronic communications with students. Requires: (1) an employee of or a volunteer for a school corporation or nonpublic school who transmits an electronic communication to a student; and (2) a student who transmits an electronic communication to an employee of or a volunteer for a school corporation or nonpublic school; to simultaneously transmit the electronic communication to the student's parent, if the parent has provided information needed to receive the electronic communication, and to the principal of the school the student attends. Requires a principal who receives the electronic communication to preserve the electronic communication for at least two years.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law
1/7/2015