Florida Senate - 2018 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for HB 7055
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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The Committee on Education (Thurston) recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment to Amendment (826696) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Between lines 2029 and 2030
5 insert:
6 Section 23. Subsections (4) and (6) of section 1006.07,
7 Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (7) is added to
8 that section, to read:
9 1006.07 District school board duties relating to student
10 discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall
11 provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the
12 attendance and control of students at school, and for proper
13 attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the
14 welfare of students, including:
15 (4) EMERGENCY DRILLS; EMERGENCY PROCEDURES.—
16 (a) Formulate and prescribe policies and procedures for
17 emergency drills and for actual emergencies, including, but not
18 limited to, fires, natural disasters, hostage and active shooter
19 situations, and bomb threats, for all the public schools of the
20 district which comprise grades K-12. District school board
21 policies shall include commonly used alarm system responses for
22 specific types of emergencies and verification by each school
23 that drills have been provided as required by law and fire
24 protection codes. The emergency response agency that is
25 responsible for notifying the school district for each type of
26 emergency must be listed in the district’s emergency response
27 policy.
28 (b) Establish model emergency management and emergency
29 preparedness procedures, including emergency notification
30 procedures pursuant to paragraph (a), for the following life
31 threatening emergencies:
32 1. Weapon-use, and hostage, and active shooter situations.
33 The active shooter situation training for each school must be
34 conducted by the law enforcement agency or agencies that are
35 designated as first responders to the school’s campus.
36 2. Hazardous materials or toxic chemical spills.
37 3. Weather emergencies, including hurricanes, tornadoes,
38 and severe storms.
39 4. Exposure as a result of a manmade emergency.
40 (6) SAFETY AND SECURITY BEST PRACTICES.—Each school
41 district shall: Use the Safety and Security Best Practices
42 developed by the Office of Program Policy Analysis and
43 Government Accountability to
44 (a) Conduct security risk assessments at each public school
45 and conduct a self-assessment of the school districts’ current
46 safety and security practices using a format prescribed by the
47 department. Based on these self-assessment findings, the
48 district school superintendent shall provide recommendations to
49 the district school board which identify strategies and
50 activities that the district school board should implement in
51 order to improve school safety and security. Annually each
52 district school board must receive such findings and the
53 superintendent’s recommendations the self-assessment results at
54 a publicly noticed district school board meeting to provide the
55 public an opportunity to hear the district school board members
56 discuss and take action on the report findings and
57 recommendations. Each district school superintendent shall
58 report such findings the self-assessment results and school
59 board action to the commissioner within 30 days after the
60 district school board meeting.
61 (b) Using a format prescribed by the department, develop a
62 plan that includes having a secure, single point of entry onto
63 school grounds.
64 (7) SAFETY IN CONSTRUCTION PLANNING.—A district school
65 board or private school principal or governing board must allow
66 the law enforcement agency or agencies that are designated as
67 first responders to the school’s or district’s campus to tour
68 such campus once every 3 years. Any changes related to school
69 safety and emergency issues recommended by a law enforcement
70 agency based on a campus tour must be documented by the district
71 school board or private school principal or governing board.
72 Section 24. Subsection (1) and paragraph (b) of subsection
73 (2) section 1006.12, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
74 1006.12 School resource officers and school safety
75 officers.—
76 (1) District school boards shall may establish school
77 resource officer programs, through a cooperative agreement with
78 law enforcement agencies or in accordance with subsection (2).
79 (a) School resource officers shall be certified law
80 enforcement officers, as defined in s. 943.10(1), who are
81 employed by a law enforcement agency as defined in s. 943.10(4).
82 The powers and duties of a law enforcement officer shall
83 continue throughout the employee’s tenure as a school resource
84 officer.
85 (b) School resource officers shall abide by district school
86 board policies and shall consult with and coordinate activities
87 through the school principal, but shall be responsible to the
88 law enforcement agency in all matters relating to employment,
89 subject to agreements between a district school board and a law
90 enforcement agency. Activities conducted by the school resource
91 officer which are part of the regular instructional program of
92 the school shall be under the direction of the school principal.
93 (2)
94 (b) A district school board shall may commission one or
95 more school safety officers for the protection and safety of
96 school personnel, property, and students at each district school
97 facility within the school district. The district school
98 superintendent may recommend and the district school board may
99 appoint one or more school safety officers.
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102 And the title is amended as follows:
103 Between lines 3212 and 3213
104 insert:
105 amending s. 1006.07, F.S.; requiring district school
106 boards to formulate and prescribe policies and
107 procedures for active shooter situations; requiring
108 that active shooter situation training for each school
109 be conducted by the law enforcement agency or agencies
110 that are designated as first responders to the
111 school’s campus; requiring each school district to
112 conduct certain assessments in a specified format;
113 requiring a district school superintendent to provide
114 specified agencies with certain findings and certain
115 strategy and activity recommendations to improve
116 school safety and security; requiring that district
117 school boards and private school principals or
118 governing boards allow campus tours by such law
119 enforcement agency or agencies at specified times and
120 for specified purposes; requiring that certain
121 recommendations be documented by such board or
122 principal; amending s. 1006.12, F.S.; requiring,
123 rather than authorizing, district school boards to
124 establish certain school resource officer programs;
125 requiring a district school board to commission one or
126 more school safety officers at each district school
127 facility within the district;