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Title | Bill Number | State | Year Enacted | Summary | Year Included | Bill Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Firearm Safety and Suicide Prevention Education Requirements | HB 481 | Utah | 2023 | This bill strengthens youth suicide prevention efforts in Utah by ensuring families get information about limiting access to firearms and lethal means when a child or teen may be experiencing a mental health crisis. Previously, under Utah law, schools were required to notify a parent if their student threatens suicide or if the student is involved in an incident of bullying. This bill adds the requirement that schools give suicide prevention materials and information on ways to limit the student's access to fatal means, including firearms to parents who have been notified of a threat of suicide or a bullying incident. Under this bill, the state superintendent is responsible for selecting the materials to distribute in collaboration with the state suicide prevention coordinator and public education suicide prevention coordinator. | 2024 | |
School facilities: interior locks | AB 2565 | California | 2024 | This bill would require a charter school, school district or county office of education serving pupils in kindergarten or any grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that undertakes a project to build a new school facility or building, or to renovate, repair, modernize or otherwise alter an existing school facility or building for any purpose. This can include, but is not limited to usability or accessibility, to install interior locks on each door in that school facility or building, except as provided. By placing a new requirement on local educational agencies, the bill would constitute a statemandated local program. | 2024 | |
Authorize public and private schools to stock a supply of undesignated ready-to-use glucagon | HB 440 | Georgia | 2023 | A bill relating to student health in elementary and secondary education, so as to authorize public and private schools to stock a supply of undesignated ready-to-use glucagon; to provide for a definition; to provide for requirements for the storage, maintenance, and distribution of undesignated ready-to-use glucagon; to provide for the authorized use of undesignated ready-to-use glucagon; to provide for arrangements with manufacturers; to provide for regulations; to amend Chapter 4 of Title 26 of the O.C.G.A., relating to pharmacists and pharmacies, so as to authorize certain healthcare practitioners to prescribe or dispense glucagon to an authorized entity for emergency purposes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. | 2023 | |
An Act to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to military children | SB 317 | Tennessee | 2023 | This bill extends the benefits and opportunities provided to children of active-duty members of the uniformed services in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to school-aged children in the household of a member of any reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including members of the Tennessee army and air national guard who are enrolled in any of the grades K-12. | 2023 | |
School Mental Health Screenings | HB 403 | Utah | 2023 | This bill defines "non-participating LEA" (non-participating local education agency); requires an LEA to determine whether the LEA will be a participating or non-participating LEA; requires a non-participating LEA to report each year whether the LEA will change or maintain the LEA's participation status; amends participating LEA mental health screening and parental notification requirements; amends the annual mental health screening report requirements for the State Board of Education; and amends the uses for which an LEA may use State Board of Education funds and when the board may distribute those funds. | 2023 | |
Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights | AB 332 | Nevada | 2023 | This bill establishes protections for education loan borrowers by requiring loan servicers to be licensed and adhere to standards of conduct preventing predatory lending practices against Nevada's most vulnerable students. | 2023 | |
An Act concerning expansion of the opportunities to administer medical marijuana at school to a student with a valid medical marijuana recommendation. | SB 21-056 | Colorado | 2021 | This bill requires school districts to create systems to reasonably accommodate students who have been prescribed medical marijuana. | 2022 | |
Foster Youth Financial Assistance Program | SB 22-008 | Colorado | 2022 | The act requires all public higher education institutions in Colorado to provide to Colorado resident students who have been in foster care or, following an adjudication as neglected or dependent, in noncertified kinship care in Colorado at any time on or after reaching the age of 13 (qualifying students), financial assistance for the remaining balance of the student's total cost of attendance in excess of the amount of any private, state or federal financial assistance received by the student (remaining balance financial assistance). Subject to available appropriations, the act requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to provide to an institution money to cover 50% of the remaining balance financial assistance provided by the institution to qualifying students. The institutions are required to designate an employee to serve as a liaison to qualifying and prospective qualifying students. | 2022 | |
Universal Preschool Program | HB 22-1295 | Colorado | 2022 | The program promises 4-year-olds 10 hours a week of tuition-free preschool in public school classrooms or private settings, such as child care centers, churches or homes licensed to provide preschool. Funding will come from the state’s existing preschool program, which serves children with certain risk factors, and from proceeds of a nicotine tax Colorado voters approved in 2020. | 2022 | |
An Act Concerning Childhood Mental And Physical Health Services In Schools | SB 1 | Connecticut | 2022 | The bill provides that a school nurse or, in the absence of a school nurse, a qualified school employee may maintain opioid antagonists (i.e., substances that block or reduce the effects of opioids) for the purpose of emergency first aid to students who experience an opioid-related drug overdose and do not have a prior written authorization of a parent or guardian or a prior written order of a qualified medical professional for the administration of such an opioid antagonist. | 2022 | |
Provisional Teacher Licensure; Teachers Licensed or Certified Outside of the United States | SB 68 | Virginia | 2022 | This bill requires the Virginia Board of Education to provide for the issuance of a provisional license, valid for a period not to exceed three years, to any individual who holds a valid and officially issued and recognized license or certification to teach issued by an entity outside of the United States but does not meet the requirements for a renewable license. | 2022 |
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