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2017 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Carrico (Chairman), Dunnavant, Howell, Locke, Peake

Clerk: Patty Lung, Rhonda Johnson
Staff: Thomas Stevens
Date of Meeting: January 19, 2017
Time and Place: 1/2 Hour After Adjournment - 3rd Floor East

S.B. 828

Patron: Wexton

Family life education; child sexual abuse. Requires the Board of Education to include in its standards of learning for family life education standards for age-appropriate instruction in the prevention, recognition, and awareness of child abduction, child abuse, child sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse. The bill also requires such standards to be taught in grades K through 12.

S.B. 829

Patron: Wexton

Public schools; suspensions. Directs the Board of Education to establish guidelines for alternatives to short-term and long-term suspension for consideration by local school boards.

S.B. 951

Patron: Ruff

School service providers; student access to collected personal information. Requires school service providers to provide each student or his parent with access to a downloadable electronic copy of any student personal information pertaining to such student that has been collected, maintained, used, or shared by the school service provider. The bill requires such electronic copy to be in a machine-readable format.

S.B. 995

Patron: Stanley

Student discipline; long-term suspension. Reduces the maximum length of a long-term suspension from 364 calendar days to 45 school days. The bill prohibits a long-term suspension from extending beyond the current grading period unless aggravating circumstances exist and prohibits a long-term suspension from extending beyond the current school year.

S.B. 996

Patron: Stanley

Public schools; student discipline. Provides that no student shall receive a long-term suspension or expulsion for disruptive behavior unless such behavior involves intentional physical injury or credible threat of physical injury to another person.

S.B. 997

Patron: Stanley

Public schools; student discipline. Prohibits students in preschool through grade five from being suspended or expelled except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, or certain criminal acts.

S.B. 1017

Patron: Barker

School attendance officer; powers and duties. Authorizes a school attendance officer or local school division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer to complete, sign, and file petitions and motions for the enforcement of certain orders entered by a juvenile and domestic relations district court. The bill also provides that a nonattorney attendance officer or local school division superintendent or his designee acting as an attendance officer performing the powers and duties of an attendance officer is not considered the practice of law.

S.B. 1082

Patron: Wexton

School principals; incident reports. Eliminates the requirement that school principals report certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense to law enforcement.

S.B. 1116

Patron: McPike

Certain public school employees; assistance with student insulin pumps. Authorizes public school employees who are trained in the administration of insulin and glucagon to assist students who are diagnosed with diabetes and carry insulin pumps with the insertion or reinsertion of the insulin pump or any of its parts. The bill also provides liability protection for such employees.

S.B. 1163

Patron: Reeves

School principals; incident reports. Provides that school principals are not required to report criminal misdemeanors or status offenses to law enforcement if in the principal's discretion, based on a totality of the circumstances and consistent with Board of Education guidelines, such report is not warranted. The bill requires the Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Office of the Attorney General, and any interested stakeholders, to update its Student Conduct Policy Guidelines to provide guidance for principals in exercising such discretion.

S.B. 1214

Patron: Stuart

School health services; insulin pump training. Requires school employees who are required to have training in the administration of insulin and glucagon to also have training in the use and insertion of insulin pumps.

S.B. 1215

Patron: Stuart

Public schools; possession of glucagon. Requires local school boards to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of glucagon in every school that one or more students with diabetes attend and requires the Board of Education to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of glucagon in every school for students with disabilities that one or more students with diabetes attend. The bill allows a school nurse, an employee of the school board, an employee of a local governing body, an employee of a local health department, or an employee of the school for students with disabilities who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration of glucagon to any student diagnosed with diabetes believed to be suffering from or about to suffer from life-threatening hypoglycemia.

S.B. 1235

Patron: Ebbin

Family life education; required. Requires each local school board to implement the Standards of Learning for the family life education program developed by the Board of Education or a family life education program consistent with the guidelines developed by the Board.