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HB 2346 Lock-down drills; every public school is required to have at least two practices per year, etc.

Introduced by: Margaret B. Ransone | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Yearly school lock-down drills, school safety audits, and school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plans. Requires each school, in its annual school safety audit, to complete a school inspection walk-through using a standardized checklist provided by the Virginia Center for School Safety, which shall incorporate crime prevention through environmental design principles. Each completed walk-through checklist shall be made available to the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality or his designee upon request. The bill requires the local school board to provide copies of each school crisis, emergency management, and medical emergency response plan to the chief law-enforcement officer, the fire chief, the chief emergency medical services official, and the emergency management official of the locality upon request. The bill also requires the division superintendant to establish a school safety audit committee that will review the school safety audits, and requires each school division to designate an emergency manager. The bill finally requires each public school to conduct at least two lock-down drills: one in September and one in January of each school year.


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