H582 Summary

• Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a policy for local school boards to provide students in grades 6-12 with information about child abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse, at the beginning of each school year.

• Mandates that students receive telephone numbers for reporting abuse to their county's department of social services and information about resources developed under the anonymous safety tip line application.

• Directs the Department of Public Instruction to develop and maintain an anonymous safety tip line application for receiving student reports on internal and external school risks and suspected abuse and neglect, with implementation required by July 1, 2018.

• Appropriates $708,420 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for fiscal year 2017-2018 to support the anonymous safety tip line application.

• Applies the abuse and neglect policy requirements to charter schools and regional schools beginning with the 2018-2019 school year.