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IN HB1570
Bill
Status
1/23/2017
Primary Sponsor
Ryan Hatfield
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AI Summary
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Commission for Higher Education must prepare and disseminate recommendations and guidelines for emergency procedures to all state educational institutions by January 1, 2018, with consultation from law enforcement agencies and public safety experts.
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Each state educational institution must establish a student emergency safety plan by July 1, 2018, that outlines student safety procedures for campus emergencies and includes actions to inform students of emergency situations.
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Beginning in the academic year after August 31, 2018, state educational institutions must provide written information about their emergency safety plan to all new students and present this information at new student orientation annually.
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Recommendations and guidelines may be disseminated in electronic format.
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Effective date: July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Student emergency safety plans. Requires, not later than January 1, 2018, the commission for higher education to prepare and disseminate to each state educational institution recommendations and guidelines concerning emergency procedures for student safety. Requires, not later than July 1, 2018, a state educational institution to establish a student emergency safety plan that sets forth the state educational institution's student safety procedures in cases of emergency situations on a campus of the state educational institution. Requires, beginning after August 31, 2018, a state educational institution to provide written information concerning the student emergency safety plan to new students and present
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Education
1/23/2017