Bill Text: FL S0590 | 2021 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: School Safety
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-06 - Chapter No. 2021-176 [S0590 Detail]
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2 An act relating to school safety; amending s.
3 381.0056, F.S.; revising parent, guardian, or
4 caregiver notification requirements that must be met
5 before an involuntary examination of a minor; defining
6 the term “a reasonable attempt to notify”; requiring a
7 principal or his or her designee who successfully
8 notifies any known emergency contact to share only the
9 information necessary to alert such contact that the
10 parent or caregiver must be contacted; requiring all
11 such information to be in compliance with federal and
12 state law; amending s. 394.463, F.S.; revising data
13 reporting requirements for the Department of Children
14 and Families; amending s. 1001.212, F.S.; revising
15 data reporting requirements for the Office of Safe
16 Schools; amending s. 1002.20, F.S.; revising parent
17 notification requirements; providing an exception;
18 defining the term “a reasonable attempt to notify”;
19 requiring a principal or his or her designee who
20 successfully notifies any known emergency contact to
21 share only the information necessary to alert such
22 contact that the parent or caregiver must be
23 contacted; requiring all such information to be in
24 compliance with federal and state law; providing that
25 parents of public school students have a right to
26 access school safety and discipline incidents as
27 reported; amending s. 1002.33, F.S.; revising parent
28 notification requirements; defining the term “a
29 reasonable attempt to notify”; requiring a principal
30 or his or her designee who successfully notifies any
31 known emergency contact to share only the information
32 necessary to alert such contact that the parent or
33 caregiver must be contacted; requiring all such
34 information to be in compliance with federal and state
35 law; providing an exception; providing that parents of
36 charter school students have a right to access school
37 safety and discipline incidents as reported; amending
38 s. 1006.07, F.S.; requiring codes of student conduct
39 to include provisions relating to civil citation or
40 similar prearrest diversion programs for specified
41 purposes; requiring codes of student conduct to
42 include provisions relating to the assignment of
43 students to school-based intervention programs;
44 prohibiting participation in such programs from being
45 entered into a specified system under certain
46 circumstances; authorizing certain procedures to
47 include accommodations for specified drills; requiring
48 district school boards to establish certain emergency
49 response and emergency preparedness policies and
50 procedures and provide timely notification to parents
51 following certain unlawful acts or significant
52 emergencies; creating reporting requirements for
53 schools relating to involuntary examinations of
54 minors; amending s. 1006.12, F.S.; revising training
55 requirements for school safety officers; amending s.
56 1008.386, F.S.; requiring that student identification
57 cards issued to certain students by public schools
58 include specified telephone numbers; amending s.
59 1011.62, F.S.; requiring that certain plans include
60 procedures to assist certain mental and behavioral
61 health providers in attempts to verbally de-escalate
62 certain crisis situations before initiating an
63 involuntary examination; requiring the procedures to
64 include certain strategies; creating requirements for
65 memoranda of understanding between schools and local
66 mobile crisis response services; providing an
67 effective date.
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69 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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71 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
72 381.0056, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
73 381.0056 School health services program.—
74 (4)(a) Each county health department shall develop, jointly
75 with the district school board and the local school health
76 advisory committee, a school health services plan. The plan must
77 include, at a minimum, provisions for all of the following:
78 1. Health appraisal;
79 2. Records review;
80 3. Nurse assessment;
81 4. Nutrition assessment;
82 5. A preventive dental program;
83 6. Vision screening;
84 7. Hearing screening;
85 8. Scoliosis screening;
86 9. Growth and development screening;
87 10. Health counseling;
88 11. Referral and followup of suspected or confirmed health
89 problems by the local county health department;
90 12. Meeting emergency health needs in each school;
91 13. County health department personnel to assist school
92 personnel in health education curriculum development;
93 14. Referral of students to appropriate health treatment,
94 in cooperation with the private health community whenever
95 possible;
96 15. Consultation with a student’s parent or guardian
97 regarding the need for health attention by the family physician,
98 dentist, or other specialist when definitive diagnosis or
99 treatment is indicated;
100 16. Maintenance of records on incidents of health problems,
101 corrective measures taken, and such other information as may be
102 needed to plan and evaluate health programs; except, however,
103 that provisions in the plan for maintenance of health records of
104 individual students must be in accordance with s. 1002.22;
105 17. Health information which will be provided by the school
106 health nurses, when necessary, regarding the placement of
107 students in exceptional student programs and the reevaluation at
108 periodic intervals of students placed in such programs;
109 18. Notification to the local nonpublic schools of the
110 school health services program and the opportunity for
111 representatives of the local nonpublic schools to participate in
112 the development of the cooperative health services plan; and
113 19. A reasonable attempt to notify Immediate notification
114 to a student’s parent, guardian, or caregiver before if the
115 student is removed from school, school transportation, or a
116 school-sponsored activity to be and taken to a receiving
117 facility for an involuntary examination pursuant to s. 394.463,
118 including and subject to the requirements and exceptions
119 established under ss. 1002.20(3) and 1002.33(9), as applicable.
120 For purposes of this subparagraph, “a reasonable attempt to
121 notify” means the exercise of reasonable diligence and care by
122 the principal or the principal’s designee to make contact with
123 the student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency contact
124 whom the student’s parent or guardian has authorized to receive
125 notification of an involuntary examination. At a minimum, the
126 principal or the principal’s designee must take the following
127 actions:
128 a. Use available methods of communication to contact the
129 student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency contact,
130 including but not limited to, telephone calls, text messages, e
131 mails, and voice mail messages following the decision to
132 initiate an involuntary examination of the student.
133 b. Document the method and number of attempts made to
134 contact the student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency
135 contact, and the outcome of each attempt.
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137 A principal or his or her designee who successfully notifies any
138 other known emergency contact may share only the information
139 necessary to alert such contact that the parent or caregiver
140 must be contacted. All such information must be in compliance
141 with federal and state law.
142 Section 2. Subsection (4) of section 394.463, Florida
143 Statutes, is amended to read:
144 394.463 Involuntary examination.—
145 (4) DATA ANALYSIS.—Using data collected under paragraph
146 (2)(a), the department shall, at a minimum, analyze data on both
147 the initiation of involuntary examinations of children and the
148 initiation of involuntary examinations of students who are
149 removed from a school, identify any patterns or trends and cases
150 in which involuntary examinations are repeatedly initiated on
151 the same child or student, study root causes for such patterns,
152 trends, or repeated involuntary examinations, and make
153 recommendations to encourage the use of for encouraging
154 alternatives to eliminate and eliminating inappropriate
155 initiations of such examinations. The department shall submit a
156 report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the
157 President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
158 Representatives by November 1 of each odd-numbered odd numbered
159 year.
160 Section 3. Subsection (7) of section 1001.212, Florida
161 Statutes, is amended to read:
162 1001.212 Office of Safe Schools.—There is created in the
163 Department of Education the Office of Safe Schools. The office
164 is fully accountable to the Commissioner of Education. The
165 office shall serve as a central repository for best practices,
166 training standards, and compliance oversight in all matters
167 regarding school safety and security, including prevention
168 efforts, intervention efforts, and emergency preparedness
169 planning. The office shall:
170 (7) Provide data to support the evaluation of mental health
171 services pursuant to s. 1004.44. Such data must include, for
172 each school, the number of involuntary examinations as defined
173 in s. 394.455 which are initiated at the school, on school
174 transportation, or at a school-sponsored activity and the number
175 of children for whom an examination is initiated.
176 Section 4. Paragraph (l) of subsection (3) of section
177 1002.20, Florida Statutes, is amended, and subsection (25) is
178 added to that section, to read:
179 1002.20 K-12 student and parent rights.—Parents of public
180 school students must receive accurate and timely information
181 regarding their child’s academic progress and must be informed
182 of ways they can help their child to succeed in school. K-12
183 students and their parents are afforded numerous statutory
184 rights including, but not limited to, the following:
185 (3) HEALTH ISSUES.—
186 (l) Notification of involuntary examinations.—
187 1. Except as provided in subparagraph 2., the public school
188 principal or the principal’s designee shall make a reasonable
189 attempt to immediately notify the parent of a student before the
190 student who is removed from school, school transportation, or a
191 school-sponsored activity to be and taken to a receiving
192 facility for an involuntary examination pursuant to s. 394.463.
193 For purposes of this subparagraph, “a reasonable attempt to
194 notify” means the exercise of reasonable diligence and care by
195 the principal or the principal’s designee to make contact with
196 the student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency contact
197 whom the student’s parent or guardian has authorized to receive
198 notification of an involuntary examination. At a minimum, the
199 principal or the principal’s designee must take the following
200 actions:
201 a. Use available methods of communication to contact the
202 student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency contact,
203 including but not limited to, telephone calls, text messages, e
204 mails, and voice mail messages following the decision to
205 initiate an involuntary examination of the student.
206 b. Document the method and number of attempts made to
207 contact the student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency
208 contact, and the outcome of each attempt.
209
210 A principal or his or her designee who successfully notifies any
211 other known emergency contact may share only the information
212 necessary to alert such contact that the parent or caregiver
213 must be contacted. All such information must be in compliance
214 with federal and state law.
215 2. The principal or the principal’s designee may delay the
216 required notification for no more than 24 hours after the
217 student is removed if:
218 a. The principal or the principal’s designee deems the
219 delay to be in the student’s best interest and if a report has
220 been submitted to the central abuse hotline, pursuant to s.
221 39.201, based upon knowledge or suspicion of abuse, abandonment,
222 or neglect; or
223 b. The principal or principal’s designee reasonably
224 believes that such delay is necessary to avoid jeopardizing the
225 health and safety of the student.
226 3. Before a principal or his or her designee contacts a law
227 enforcement officer, he or she must verify that de-escalation
228 strategies have been utilized and outreach to a mobile response
229 team has been initiated unless the principal or the principal’s
230 designee reasonably believes that any delay in removing the
231 student will increase the likelihood of harm to the student or
232 others. This requirement does not supersede the authority of a
233 law enforcement officer to act under s. 394.463.
234
235 Each district school board shall develop a policy and procedures
236 for notification under this paragraph.
237 (25) SAFE SCHOOLS.—
238 (a) School safety and emergency incidents.—Parents of
239 public school students have a right to timely notification of
240 threats, unlawful acts, and significant emergencies pursuant to
241 s. 1006.07(4) and (7).
242 (b) School environmental safety incident reporting.—Parents
243 of public school students have a right to access school safety
244 and discipline incidents as reported pursuant to s. 1006.07(9).
245 Section 5. Paragraph (q) of subsection (9) of section
246 1002.33, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (r) is
247 added to that subsection, to read:
248 1002.33 Charter schools.—
249 (9) CHARTER SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS.—
250 (q)1. The charter school principal or the principal’s
251 designee shall make a reasonable attempt to immediately notify
252 the parent of a student before the student who is removed from
253 school, school transportation, or a school-sponsored activity to
254 be and taken to a receiving facility for an involuntary
255 examination pursuant to s. 394.463. For purposes of this
256 subparagraph, “a reasonable attempt to notify” means the
257 exercise of reasonable diligence and care by the principal or
258 the principal’s designee to make contact with the student’s
259 parent, guardian, or other known emergency contact whom the
260 student’s parent or guardian has authorized to receive
261 notification of an involuntary examination. At a minimum, the
262 principal or the principal’s designee must take the following
263 actions:
264 a. Use available methods of communication to contact the
265 student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency contact,
266 including but not limited to, telephone calls, text messages, e
267 mails, and voice mail messages following the decision to
268 initiate an involuntary examination of the student.
269 b. Document the method and number of attempts made to
270 contact the student’s parent, guardian, or other known emergency
271 contact, and the outcome of each attempt.
272
273 A principal or his or her designee who successfully notifies any
274 other known emergency contact may share only the information
275 necessary to alert such contact that the parent or caregiver
276 must be contacted. All such information must be in compliance
277 with federal and state law.
278 2. The principal or the principal’s designee may delay
279 notification for no more than 24 hours after the student is
280 removed if:
281 a. The principal or the principal’s designee deems the
282 delay to be in the student’s best interest and if a report has
283 been submitted to the central abuse hotline, pursuant to s.
284 39.201, based upon knowledge or suspicion of abuse, abandonment,
285 or neglect; or
286 b. The principal or the principal’s designee reasonably
287 believes that such delay is necessary to avoid jeopardizing the
288 health and safety of the student.
289 3. Before a principal or his or her designee contacts a law
290 enforcement officer, he or she must verify that de-escalation
291 strategies have been utilized and outreach to a mobile response
292 team has been initiated unless the principal or the principal’s
293 designee reasonably believes that any delay in removing the
294 student will increase the likelihood of harm to the student or
295 others. This requirement does not supersede the authority of a
296 law enforcement officer to act under s. 394.463.
297
298 Each charter school governing board shall develop a policy and
299 procedures for notification under this paragraph.
300 (r)1. Parents of charter school students have a right to
301 timely notification of threats, unlawful acts, and significant
302 emergencies pursuant to s. 1006.07(4) and (7).
303 2. Parents of charter school students have a right to
304 access school safety and discipline incidents as reported
305 pursuant to s. 1006.07(9).
306 Section 6. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (4) of
307 section 1006.07, Florida Statutes, are amended, and paragraphs
308 (n) and (o) of subsection (2) and subsection (10) are added to
309 that section, to read:
310 1006.07 District school board duties relating to student
311 discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall
312 provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the
313 attendance and control of students at school, and for proper
314 attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the
315 welfare of students, including:
316 (2) CODE OF STUDENT CONDUCT.—Adopt a code of student
317 conduct for elementary schools and a code of student conduct for
318 middle and high schools and distribute the appropriate code to
319 all teachers, school personnel, students, and parents, at the
320 beginning of every school year. Each code shall be organized and
321 written in language that is understandable to students and
322 parents and shall be discussed at the beginning of every school
323 year in student classes, school advisory council meetings, and
324 parent and teacher association or organization meetings. Each
325 code shall be based on the rules governing student conduct and
326 discipline adopted by the district school board and shall be
327 made available in the student handbook or similar publication.
328 Each code shall include, but is not limited to:
329 (n) Criteria for recommending to law enforcement that a
330 student who commits a criminal offense be allowed to participate
331 in a civil citation or similar prearrest diversion program as an
332 alternative to expulsion or arrest. All civil citation or
333 similar prearrest diversion programs must comply with s. 985.12.
334 (o) Criteria for assigning a student who commits a petty
335 act of misconduct, as defined by the district school board
336 pursuant to s. 1006.13(2)(c), to a school-based intervention
337 program. If a student’s assignment is based on a noncriminal
338 offense, the student’s participation in a school-based
339 intervention program may not be entered into the Juvenile
340 Justice Information System Prevention Web.
341 (4) EMERGENCY DRILLS; EMERGENCY PROCEDURES.—
342 (a) Formulate and prescribe policies and procedures, in
343 consultation with the appropriate public safety agencies, for
344 emergency drills and for actual emergencies, including, but not
345 limited to, fires, natural disasters, active assailant shooter
346 and hostage situations, and bomb threats, for all students and
347 faculty at all public schools of the district comprised of
348 grades K-12. Drills for active assailant shooter and hostage
349 situations shall be conducted in accordance with developmentally
350 appropriate and age-appropriate procedures at least as often as
351 other emergency drills. District school board policies shall
352 include commonly used alarm system responses for specific types
353 of emergencies and verification by each school that drills have
354 been provided as required by law and fire protection codes and
355 may provide accommodations for drills conducted by exceptional
356 student education centers. District school boards shall
357 establish The emergency response and emergency preparedness
358 policies and procedures that include, but are not limited to,
359 identifying policy shall identify the individuals responsible
360 for contacting the primary emergency response agency and the
361 emergency response agency that is responsible for notifying the
362 school district for each type of emergency.
363 (b) Provide timely Establish model emergency management and
364 emergency preparedness procedures, including emergency
365 notification to parents of threats pursuant to policies adopted
366 under subsection (7) and procedures pursuant to paragraph (a),
367 for the following unlawful acts or significant emergencies that
368 occur on school grounds, during school transportation, or during
369 school-sponsored activities life-threatening emergencies:
370 1. Weapons possession or use when there is intended harm
371 toward another person Weapon-use, hostage, and active assailant
372 shooter situations. The active assailant shooter situation
373 training for each school must engage the participation of the
374 district school safety specialist, threat assessment team
375 members, faculty, staff, and students and must be conducted by
376 the law enforcement agency or agencies that are designated as
377 first responders to the school’s campus.
378 2. Murder, homicide, or manslaughter.
379 3. Sex offenses, including rape, sexual assault, or sexual
380 misconduct with a student by school personnel.
381 2. Hazardous materials or toxic chemical spills.
382 4.3. Natural Weather emergencies, including hurricanes,
383 tornadoes, and severe storms.
384 5.4. Exposure as a result of a manmade emergency.
385 (10) REPORTING OF INVOLUNTARY EXAMINATIONS.—Each district
386 school board shall adopt a policy to require the district
387 superintendent to annually report to the department the number
388 of involuntary examinations, as defined in s. 394.455, which are
389 initiated at a school, on school transportation, or at a school
390 sponsored activity.
391 Section 7. Present paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of
392 section 1006.12, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph
393 (d), and a new paragraph (c) is added to that subsection, to
394 read:
395 1006.12 Safe-school officers at each public school.—For the
396 protection and safety of school personnel, property, students,
397 and visitors, each district school board and school district
398 superintendent shall partner with law enforcement agencies or
399 security agencies to establish or assign one or more safe-school
400 officers at each school facility within the district, including
401 charter schools. A district school board must collaborate with
402 charter school governing boards to facilitate charter school
403 access to all safe-school officer options available under this
404 section. The school district may implement any combination of
405 the options in subsections (1)-(4) to best meet the needs of the
406 school district and charter schools.
407 (2) SCHOOL SAFETY OFFICER.—A school district may commission
408 one or more school safety officers for the protection and safety
409 of school personnel, property, and students within the school
410 district. The district school superintendent may recommend, and
411 the district school board may appoint, one or more school safety
412 officers.
413 (c) School safety officers must complete mental health
414 crisis intervention training using a curriculum developed by a
415 national organization with expertise in mental health crisis
416 intervention. The training shall improve officers’ knowledge and
417 skills as first responders to incidents involving students with
418 emotional disturbance or mental illness, including de-escalation
419 skills to ensure student and officer safety.
420
421 If a district school board, through its adopted policies,
422 procedures, or actions, denies a charter school access to any
423 safe-school officer options pursuant to this section, the school
424 district must assign a school resource officer or school safety
425 officer to the charter school. Under such circumstances, the
426 charter school’s share of the costs of the school resource
427 officer or school safety officer may not exceed the safe school
428 allocation funds provided to the charter school pursuant to s.
429 1011.62(15) and shall be retained by the school district.
430 Section 8. Section 1008.386, Florida Statutes, is amended
431 to read:
432 1008.386 Florida student identification numbers.—
433 (1) When a student enrolls in a public school in this
434 state, the district school board shall request that the student
435 provide his or her social security number and shall indicate
436 whether the student identification number assigned to the
437 student is a social security number. A student satisfies this
438 requirement by presenting his or her social security card or a
439 copy of the card to a school enrollment official. However, a
440 student is not required to provide his or her social security
441 number as a condition for enrollment or graduation. The
442 Commissioner of Education shall assist school districts with the
443 assignment of student identification numbers to avoid
444 duplication of any student identification number.
445 (2) The department shall establish a process for assigning
446 a Florida student identification number to each student in the
447 state, at which time a school district may not use social
448 security numbers as student identification numbers in its
449 management information systems.
450 (3) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, any student
451 identification card issued by a public school to students in
452 grades 6 through 12 must include the telephone numbers for
453 national or statewide crisis and suicide hotlines and text
454 lines.
455 (4) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
456 implement this section.
457 Section 9. Paragraph (b) of subsection (16) of section
458 1011.62, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
459 1011.62 Funds for operation of schools.—If the annual
460 allocation from the Florida Education Finance Program to each
461 district for operation of schools is not determined in the
462 annual appropriations act or the substantive bill implementing
463 the annual appropriations act, it shall be determined as
464 follows:
465 (16) MENTAL HEALTH ASSISTANCE ALLOCATION.—The mental health
466 assistance allocation is created to provide funding to assist
467 school districts in establishing or expanding school-based
468 mental health care; train educators and other school staff in
469 detecting and responding to mental health issues; and connect
470 children, youth, and families who may experience behavioral
471 health issues with appropriate services. These funds shall be
472 allocated annually in the General Appropriations Act or other
473 law to each eligible school district. Each school district shall
474 receive a minimum of $100,000, with the remaining balance
475 allocated based on each school district’s proportionate share of
476 the state’s total unweighted full-time equivalent student
477 enrollment. Charter schools that submit a plan separate from the
478 school district are entitled to a proportionate share of
479 district funding. The allocated funds may not supplant funds
480 that are provided for this purpose from other operating funds
481 and may not be used to increase salaries or provide bonuses.
482 School districts are encouraged to maximize third-party health
483 insurance benefits and Medicaid claiming for services, where
484 appropriate.
485 (b) The plans required under paragraph (a) must be focused
486 on a multitiered system of supports to deliver evidence-based
487 mental health care assessment, diagnosis, intervention,
488 treatment, and recovery services to students with one or more
489 mental health or co-occurring substance abuse diagnoses and to
490 students at high risk of such diagnoses. The provision of these
491 services must be coordinated with a student’s primary mental
492 health care provider and with other mental health providers
493 involved in the student’s care. At a minimum, the plans must
494 include the following elements:
495 1. Direct employment of school-based mental health services
496 providers to expand and enhance school-based student services
497 and to reduce the ratio of students to staff in order to better
498 align with nationally recommended ratio models. These providers
499 include, but are not limited to, certified school counselors,
500 school psychologists, school social workers, and other licensed
501 mental health professionals. The plan also must identify
502 strategies to increase the amount of time that school-based
503 student services personnel spend providing direct services to
504 students, which may include the review and revision of district
505 staffing resource allocations based on school or student mental
506 health assistance needs.
507 2. Contracts or interagency agreements with one or more
508 local community behavioral health providers or providers of
509 Community Action Team services to provide a behavioral health
510 staff presence and services at district schools. Services may
511 include, but are not limited to, mental health screenings and
512 assessments, individual counseling, family counseling, group
513 counseling, psychiatric or psychological services, trauma
514 informed care, mobile crisis services, and behavior
515 modification. These behavioral health services may be provided
516 on or off the school campus and may be supplemented by
517 telehealth.
518 3. Policies and procedures, including contracts with
519 service providers, which will ensure that students who are
520 referred to a school-based or community-based mental health
521 service provider for mental health screening for the
522 identification of mental health concerns and ensure that the
523 assessment of students at risk for mental health disorders
524 occurs within 15 days of referral. School-based mental health
525 services must be initiated within 15 days after identification
526 and assessment, and support by community-based mental health
527 service providers for students who are referred for community
528 based mental health services must be initiated within 30 days
529 after the school or district makes a referral.
530 4. Strategies or programs to reduce the likelihood of at
531 risk students developing social, emotional, or behavioral health
532 problems, depression, anxiety disorders, suicidal tendencies, or
533 substance use disorders.
534 5. Strategies to improve the early identification of
535 social, emotional, or behavioral problems or substance use
536 disorders, to improve the provision of early intervention
537 services, and to assist students in dealing with trauma and
538 violence.
539 6. Procedures to assist a mental health services provider
540 or a behavioral health provider as described in subparagraph 1.
541 or subparagraph 2., respectively, or a school resource officer
542 or school safety officer who has completed mental health crisis
543 intervention training in attempting to verbally de-escalate a
544 student’s crisis situation before initiating an involuntary
545 examination pursuant to s. 394.463. Such procedures must include
546 strategies to de-escalate a crisis situation for a student with
547 a developmental disability as that term is defined in s.
548 393.063.
549 7. Policies of the school district must require that in a
550 student crisis situation, school or law enforcement personnel
551 must make a reasonable attempt to contact a mental health
552 professional who may initiate an involuntary examination
553 pursuant to s. 394.463, unless the child poses an imminent
554 danger to themselves or others, before initiating an involuntary
555 examination pursuant to s. 394.463. Such contact may be in
556 person or using telehealth as defined in s. 456.47. The mental
557 health professional may be available to the school district
558 either by contracts or interagency agreements with the managing
559 entity, one or more local community behavioral health providers,
560 or the local mobile response team or be a direct or contracted
561 school district employee.
562 Section 10. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
