VA HB 2346

Title: School boards; anonymous reporting system; assessment of risk of violence.
Author: Elizabeth R. Guzman

Summary
School boards; anonymous reporting system; assessment of risk of violence and prevention of student harm to self or others. Encourages each school board to contract with a private nonprofit organization to procure and make available an anonymous reporting system for the assessment of risk or violence and the prevention of student harm to self or others that includes the following features and components: (i) a secure platform for students to submit messages and tips relating to violence or harm to self or others by telephone, website, and a multiplatform compatible mobile application; (ii) student access, 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and 365 days per year, to a national crisis center that is staffed by a team of highly skilled and trained crisis counselors whose sole duty is to respond to messages and tips from students relating to violence or harm to self or others; (iii) ongoing program support; and (iv) training for student and adult users.

Status
House: Committee Referral Pending