Bill Text: CA SB1378 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 1378

Bill Title: Pupil and student safety: identification cards: federal Title IX assistance telephone number.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1378 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1378-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate April 11, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1378

Introduced by Senator Min

February 16, 2024

An act to amend Section 215.5 of the Education Code, relating to pupil and student safety.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1378, as amended, Min. Pupil and student safety: identification cards: federal Title IX assistance telephone number.

Existing law requires a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that issues pupil identification cards, and a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards, to have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and authorizes those schools to have printed on the identification cards certain other suicide-prevention and emergency-response telephone numbers.

This bill would, commencing July 1, 2025, require a public school, including a charter school, or a private ~~school,~~ school, as applicable, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that issues pupil identification ~~cards, and a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards,~~ cards to additionally have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the ~~United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for assistance related to Title IX.~~ Title IX Coordinator for the public school or, for a private school, the appropriate contact, and would authorize those public and private schools to have printed on the identification cards certain other telephone numbers of resources for Title IX assistance.

This bill would, commencing July 1, 2025, require a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards to additionally have printed on the identification cards the telephone number for the Title IX Coordinator for the institution of higher education or, for a community college, the Title IX Coordinator for the community college or the community college district, and would authorize those public and private institutions of higher education to have printed on the identification cards certain other telephone numbers of resources for Title IX assistance.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 215.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:

215.5.

(a) (1) Commencing July 1, 2019, a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards shall have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number described in subparagraph (A) and may have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the text line described in subparagraph (B) and the telephone number described in subparagraph (C):

(A) The telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.

(B) The Crisis Text Line, which can be accessed by texting HOME to 741741.

(2) Commencing October 1, 2020, a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards shall have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number for the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233.

(3) Commencing July 1, 2025, a public school, including a charter school, or a private school, as applicable, that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards shall have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number ~~for the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for assistance related to Title IX.~~ described in subparagraph (A) and may have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone numbers described in subparagraph (B), (C), or (D).

(A) The telephone number of the Title IX Coordinator for the public school or, for a private school, the appropriate contact.
(B) The telephone number of the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for assistance related to Title IX.
(C) The telephone number of the Civil Rights Department for assistance related to Title IX.
(D) The telephone number for the Office of Equity, Civil Rights, Title IX at the State Department of Education.

(b) (1) Commencing July 1, 2019, a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards shall have printed on either side of the student identification cards the telephone number described in subparagraph (A) and may have printed on either side of the student identification cards the text line described in subparagraph (B) and the telephone numbers described in subparagraphs (C) and (D):

(A) The telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.

(B) The Crisis Text Line, which can be accessed by texting HOME to 741741.

(C) The campus police or security telephone number or, if the campus does not have a campus police or security telephone number, the local nonemergency telephone number.

(D) A local suicide prevention hotline telephone number.

(2) Commencing October 1, 2020, a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards shall have printed on either side of the student identification cards the telephone number for either of the following:

(A) The National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233.

(B) A local domestic violence hotline that provides confidential support services for students that have experienced domestic violence or stalking and is available by telephone 24 hours a day.

(3) Commencing July 1, 2025, a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards shall have printed on either side of the student identification cards the telephone number ~~for the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for assistance related to Title IX.~~ described in subparagraph (A) and may have printed on either side of the pupil identification cards the telephone number described in subparagraph (B) or (C).

(A) The telephone number of the Title IX Coordinator for the institution of higher education or, for a community college, either the Title IX Coordinator for the community college or the community college district.
(B) The telephone number of the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights for assistance related to Title IX.
(C) The telephone number for the Civil Rights Department for assistance related to Title IX.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b), if, as of January 1, 2020, a school subject to the requirements of subdivision (a), or a public or private institution of higher education subject to the requirements of subdivision (b), has a supply of unissued pupil or student identification cards that do not comply with the requirements of subdivision (a) or (b), as applicable, the school or the public or private institution of higher education shall issue those pupil or student identification cards until that supply is depleted.

(d) Subdivisions (a) and (b) apply for a pupil or student identification card issued for the first time to a pupil or student, and to a pupil or student identification card issued to replace a damaged or lost pupil or student identification card.