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IN SB0325
Bill
AI Summary
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Expands Indiana Secured School Fund to allow matching grants for implementing student and parent support services plans, in addition to existing uses for school resource officers, threat assessments, and security equipment.
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Creates a new Student and Parent Support Services Grant Program (effective after June 30, 2020) to help schools develop plans supporting parents of at-risk students, administered by the Department of Education with the Division of Mental Health and Addiction.
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Requires participating schools to establish processes for notifying parents when students show repeated aberrant behavior, holding conferences, and offering school-based or contracted professional treatment services.
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Mandates confidentiality protections prohibiting schools from sharing treatment reports with other officials or maintaining treatment records in students' permanent educational files.
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Urges the legislative council to study school districts that have implemented trauma-informed approaches and community partnerships for student care systems.
Legislative Description
Student mental health. Adds additional purposes for which matching grants made under the Indiana secured school fund (fund) may be used. Amends the uses relating to school security for which the fund may be used. Establishes the student and parent support services grant program. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying school districts, within and outside of Indiana, that have: (1) implemented trauma informed approaches in the school districts; and (2) worked with community partners to provide systems of care for students.
Last Action
Public Law 153
5/1/2019