BILL REQ. #:  S-4799.4 

READ FIRST TIME 02/03/06.   

     AN ACT Relating to comprehensive safe school plans; and amending RCW 28A.320.125.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1   RCW 28A.320.125 and 2002 c 205 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) By ((June 1, 2002)) the beginning of the 2007-08 school year, within existing resources, the superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with ((representatives from the emergency management division of the state military department, educators, classified staff, principals, superintendents, administrators, the American society for industrial security, the state criminal justice training commission, the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs, and others as determined by the superintendent)) the Washington state school safety center advisory committee, shall provide guidance to school districts in developing comprehensive safe school plans for each school. This guidance shall include, but shall not be limited to, a comprehensive school safety checklist to use as a tool when developing their own individual comprehensive safe school plans, and successful models of comprehensive safe school plans that include prevention, intervention, all-hazards/crisis response, and postcrisis recovery.
     (2) Schools and school districts shall consider the guidance, including the comprehensive school safety checklist and the model comprehensive safe school plans, when developing their own individual comprehensive safe school plans.
     (3) The superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with school district superintendents, shall establish timelines for and set standards for school districts to develop individual comprehensive safe school plans. If funding is provided specifically for this purpose, all schools must have comprehensive safe school plans in place by the beginning of the 2008-09 school year. The school mapping component is required by the 2008-09 school year only for schools for which funding has been provided. If specific funding is not provided to enable this deadline to be met, the superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules regarding timelines for the development and review of comprehensive safe school plans consistent with the availability of resources including but not limited to technical assistance. The superintendent of public instruction shall require school districts to ((periodically report progress on their comprehensive safe school plans)) annually update and review as well as report on their comprehensive safe school plan, which includes the school mapping component where applicable.
     (4) If funding is provided specifically for this purpose, beginning with the 2007-08 school year and annually thereafter, staff in each school shall receive information and training regarding the school's comprehensive safe school plan. School districts shall coordinate comprehensive safe school plans and staff information and training with local emergency response officials.
     (5) The superintendent of public instruction ((may)) shall adopt rules to implement provisions of this section. These rules ((may)) shall include, but are not limited to, provisions for periodic table-top exercises and drills and testing, evacuations, lockdowns, shelter in-place, or other components of a comprehensive safe school plan. These rules shall be in place for the 2007-08 school year.