Bill Text: NJ A4072 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DOE to establish online school security resource clearinghouse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A4072 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4072-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 4072

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED MARCH 14, 2024

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  NANCY F. MUÑOZ

District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)

Assemblywoman  MICHELE MATSIKOUDIS

District 21 (Middlesex, Morris, Somerset and Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOE to establish online school security resource clearinghouse.

 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning school security resources 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.    The Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, shall develop an online clearinghouse for school districts to exchange information regarding the availability of school security resources, including personnel and equipment, that they are able to make available to other school districts in the event of an emergency.  The clearinghouse shall:

     a.     only be accessible to authorized school district employees;

     b.    allow a user to readily identify the resources that are available in school districts that are in a close proximity; and

     c.     be operational no later than one year following the effective date of this act.

     To facilitate the development of the clearinghouse, the department shall publish a list of resources that a school district may require in the event of different emergency situations.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, to develop an online clearinghouse for school districts to exchange information regarding resources that they are able to make available to other school districts in the event of an emergency.  The clearinghouse is to only be accessible to authorized school district employees, and allow a user to readily identify resources available in districts that are in close proximity.  The clearinghouse would be operational no later than one year following the bill's effective date.