HF3545 Summary

• Charter schools and school districts must adopt and provide age-appropriate child safety curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade 12, delivered through videos and role-play demonstrations in collaboration with local law enforcement or self-defense experts.

• Required curriculum topics include stranger danger, nonstranger danger, physical self-defense, assertiveness, appropriate vs. inappropriate touching, body warning signs, awareness of surroundings, code words between parent and child, and how to obtain law enforcement assistance.

• Students must receive child safety instruction at least once per month for 45 minutes during the school year, with classroom discussion following instructional sessions.

• Charter schools must comply with this curriculum requirement consistent with section 121A.24, added as a new requirement to Minnesota Statutes chapter 121A.

• All provisions are effective for the 2018-2019 school year and later.