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2019 SESSION
19103999DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Chapter 11 of Title 52 a section numbered 52-50 as follows:
§ 52-50. School safety mobile application.
The Virginia Fusion Intelligence Center (the Center) shall
develop or obtain a school safety mobile application to (i) facilitate the
provision of real-time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week crisis intervention
services by licensed clinicians, including support or crisis counseling, suicide
prevention, and referral services to students and youth in the Commonwealth
through calls, texts, and online chat portals and (ii) provide to students and
youth in the Commonwealth a platform that is capable of receiving text, audio,
images, or video to furnish information concerning a suspected, anticipated, or
completed criminal violation. [ The Center shall coordinate with the
Department of Medical Assistance Services to contract with a third-party to
provide such crisis intervention services The Department of Medical
Assistance Services shall provide the Center with data and other information
necessary to ensure that the school safety mobile application is integrated
with any existing crisis intervention phone hotline ] .
[ 2. That the provisions of this act shall not become effective unless an appropriation effectuating the purposes of this act is included in a general appropriation act passed in 2019 by the General Assembly that becomes law. ]