HB5707ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy

Filed: 4/3/2014

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5707

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5707 as follows:

by replacing line 24 on page 9 through line 5 on page 10 with the following:

"(d-10) Beginning with the 2014-2015 school year, each public elementary and secondary school, charter school, and non-public, non-sectarian elementary and secondary school shall collect and maintain the following information for each school year:

(1) the number of reports of bullying made to the person responsible for receiving reports of bullying at the school;

(2) the number of investigations conducted regarding reports of bullying;

(3) the number of reports determined to be substantiated and the number determined to be unsubstantiated; and

(4) for substantiated reports, the number of reports with outcomes involving restorative interventions, the number of reports involving disciplinary action against students, and the number of reports involving both restorative interventions and disciplinary action.

Each public elementary and secondary school shall report this information to the superintendent of the school district or his or her designee, and the school district shall maintain the aggregate data for all of its schools and shall make the information available upon request and on its Internet website. Each charter school and non-public, non-sectarian elementary and secondary school shall make the information available upon request and on its Internet website. All identifying information of any student involved in a report or investigation of bullying shall be redacted from the information maintained under this subsection (d-10)."; and

on page 10, line 6, by replacing "shall" with "may".