Bill Text: NJ A301 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires school district to submit emergency communication policies and protocols to Department of Education for review.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-10 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A301 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A301-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 301

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  KIMBERLY EULNER

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUNOZ

District 21 (Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Space, DePhillips, Thomson, Wirths, Assemblywomen Piperno and Matsikoudis

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires school district to submit emergency communication policies and protocols to Department of Education for review.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Education Committee on March 10, 2022, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning school security and supplementing chapter 41 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  ¹[Within 30 days of] Before the first day of October of the first full school year following¹ the effective date of this act, each school district shall submit its current emergency communication policies and protocols to the Department of Education. 

     The school district shall review, update, and resubmit its emergency communication policies and protocols to the department every five years.  If an emergency incident occurs at a school district during the five-year period, the policies and protocols shall be reviewed immediately.

     b.    The department, in consultation with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the State Office of Emergency Management, and local law enforcement authorities, shall review the emergency communication policies and protocols submitted by a school district pursuant to subsection a. of this section to ensure compliance with all relevant State laws and regulations and shall, when necessary, make recommendations to the school district for improving the policies and protocols.

     c.     ¹[The department may conduct unannounced site visits at any school district to review its emergency communication policies, protocols, equipment, and technology.]¹  The department may ¹, at any time,¹ request any additional information ¹regarding a school district's emergency communication policies, protocols, equipment, or technology¹ that it deems necessary.

     ¹d.   As used in this section, "emergency communication policies and protocols" means the procedures established to enable school administrators and security personnel to communicate with emergency responders, school staff, students, parents and guardians, and other school or school district stakeholders in the event of a school emergency.¹

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.