HF 2706 Summary

• Expands homeless student protections by allowing districts to transport formerly homeless students to their school of origin for one additional year upon request and requires districts to adopt policies providing technology access for postsecondary enrollment option students.

• Establishes affirmative consent standards for campus sexual assault policies requiring all parties to actively express knowing and voluntary consent, and creates a sexual violence prevention grant program with up to $100,000 per institution.

• Creates a youth skills training program allowing students age 16 and older to earn secondary and postsecondary credit through work-based learning with employer partnerships, with grants up to $100,000 per local partnership.

• Appropriates $2,450,000 for fiscal years 2018-2019 for intermediate school district mental health innovation grants to serve students in higher instructional settings.

• Modifies postsecondary enrollment options and graduation incentives programs to allow charter school students in middle/early college programs to enroll in remedial or developmental courses.