SB 6620-S - DIGEST |
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE) |
Requires the Washington association of sheriffs and police chiefs to: (1) Develop and implement emergency response systems to expedite the response and arrival of law enforcement in the event of a threat or emergency at a school; |
(2) Establish and implement a grant program to fund school resource officers; and |
(3) Establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to local law enforcement agencies conducting background checks for the purchase and sale of pistols and semiautomatic rifles. |
Requires a first responder agency, when notifying a school of a situation that may necessitate an evacuation or lockdown, to determine if schools in the vicinity are similarly threatened and, if so, notify those schools. |
Requires the office of the superintendent of public instruction to: (1) Contract with a vendor to make an incident alert and reporting system available to public schools. The system is named the students protecting students program; |
(2) Contract for updates to the program as new technology is available; |
(3) Select two educational service districts, in coordination with the nine educational service districts, to establish regional school safety centers as part of a statewide network; |
(4) Review safe schools plans for school districts and educational service districts, and assess and document school district and regional school safety assets and needs; |
(5) Provide grants to educational service districts and school districts to develop or expand regional safety programs; and |
(6) During the annual school safety summit, take into account the discrete challenges of nonrural and rural schools. |
Requires summit participants to review Sandy Hook promise programs and make recommendations for the prevention of mass shootings. |
Requires school districts to implement the students protecting students program in middle or junior high schools and high schools. However, if unable, submit a students protecting students implementation plan to the office of the superintendent of public instruction. |
Requires the same background check process to purchase certain rifles as is currently required for pistols. |