Stephen Whyte voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) on this Legislation.
Title: Authorizes School Employees to Volunteer as Armed Guards
Vote to concur with senate amendments and pass a bill that authorizes school employees, other than teachers and principals to volunteer as armed school guards in the state of Utah.
Amends the International Fire Code for Utah (Sec. 1).
Requires certain state buildings and schools to have emergency communication systems (Sec. 1).
Requires school resource officer training to be developed by the state security chief (Sec. 1).
Establishes duties of the state security chief and a county security chief in relation to school safety initiatives (Sec. 1).
Establishes a school guardian program (Sec. 1).
Requires threat reporting by state employees and others if they become aware of threats to schools (Sec. 1).
Establishes some reporting from the SafeUT Crisis Line to the state's intelligence databases (Sec. 1).
Requires certain school safety data to be included in the annual school disciplinary report (Sec. 1).
Requires a local education agency (LEA) to ensure that each school within the LEA conducts a school safety needs assessment (Sec. 1).
Requires designation of certain school safety personnel (Sec. 1).
Specifies that a school may share certain information regarding an incident of bullying, cyber-bullying, hazing, abusive conduct, or retaliation with a parent upon request (Sec. 1).
Requires a school to provide regular communication updates to a parent regarding the implementation of an action plan to address an incident of bullying, cyber-bullying, hazing, abusive conduct, or retaliation (Sec. 1).
Requires an LEA to update the LEA's bullying, cyber-bullying, hazing, abusive conduct, and retaliation policy related to certain social media use of a student (Sec. 1).
Requires an LEA to designate an individual for bullying incident response and outlines the individual's duties (Sec. 1).
Requires panic alert devices and video camera access for schools and classrooms (Sec. 1).
Requires coordination of emergency call information with the state's intelligence system (Sec. 1).
Amends process for secure firearm storage under certain circumstances to include school guardians (Sec. 1).
Title: Authorizes School Employees to Volunteer as Armed Guards
Title: Authorizes School Employees to Volunteer as Armed Guards
Title: Authorizes School Employees to Volunteer as Armed Guards