The bill amends the Comprehensive School Safety Plan Act to establish a statewide behavioral threat assessment and management program aimed at enhancing school safety and security. It mandates the Department to create and implement this program within 180 days of the bill's effective date. The program will focus on identifying, assessing, managing, and monitoring potential threats to schools, and will include provisions for gathering and securely storing threat assessment information, assessing student risk levels, managing intervention plans, and creating a centralized data portal for threat assessment teams. Additionally, the program will follow best practices in behavioral threat assessment and will ensure strict security measures for accessing sensitive information.

Furthermore, the bill outlines the responsibilities of the Department in maintaining the program, including procuring a case management system, conducting quarterly access reviews, and providing annual reports to legislative members and other stakeholders. It also emphasizes the importance of training for authorized personnel involved in the program. The information collected under this program will be treated as education records, with access granted to parents or guardians under specific conditions. The enactment of this bill is contingent upon the passage of Senate Bill No. 471.

Statutes affected:
Senate Introduced Bill: 28.801, 28.809