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| 1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Campus Security Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 1 and by adding Section 20 as follows:
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| 6 | (110 ILCS 12/1)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Campus | ||||||
| 8 | Security Enhancement Act of 2008.
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| 9 | (Source: P.A. 88-629, eff. 9-9-94.)
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| 10 | (110 ILCS 12/20 new) | ||||||
| 11 | Sec. 20. Campus security enhancement. | ||||||
| 12 | (a) In this Section, "higher education institution" means a | ||||||
| 13 | public university, a public community college, or an | ||||||
| 14 | independent, not-for-profit or for-profit higher education | ||||||
| 15 | institution located in this State. | ||||||
| 16 | (b) Each higher education institution is required to do the | ||||||
| 17 | following: | ||||||
| 18 | (1) develop a National Incident Management | ||||||
| 19 | System-compliant, all-hazards, emergency response plan in | ||||||
| 20 | partnership with the institution's county or major | ||||||
| 21 | municipal emergency management official, report the plan | ||||||
| 22 | to this official, and have training and exercises for the | ||||||
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| 1 | plan annually at a minimum; and | ||||||
| 2 | (2) develop an inter-disciplinary and | ||||||
| 3 | multi-jurisdictional campus violence prevention plan, | ||||||
| 4 | including coordination of and communication between all | ||||||
| 5 | available campus and local mental health and first response | ||||||
| 6 | resources, in partnership with the institution's county or | ||||||
| 7 | major municipal emergency management official, report the | ||||||
| 8 | plan to this official, and have training and exercises for | ||||||
| 9 | the plan annually at a minimum. The campus violence | ||||||
| 10 | prevention plan shall include the development and | ||||||
| 11 | implementation of a campus violence prevention committee | ||||||
| 12 | and campus threat assessment team. | ||||||
| 13 | (c) County and major municipal emergency managers and | ||||||
| 14 | Illinois Emergency Management Agency regional coordinators | ||||||
| 15 | shall assist in the planning and training process for the plans | ||||||
| 16 | specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this | ||||||
| 17 | Section with all resources available to them. | ||||||
| 18 | (d) County and major municipal emergency managers and | ||||||
| 19 | Illinois Emergency Management Agency regional coordinators | ||||||
| 20 | shall provide higher education institutions with appropriate | ||||||
| 21 | standards and guidelines for the plans specified in | ||||||
| 22 | subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (b) of this Section and | ||||||
| 23 | for the training and exercises for these plans.
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