SB-0991, As Passed Senate, June 7, 2018

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 991

     A bill to amend 2013 PA 183, entitled

"Student safety act,"

by amending section 3 (MCL 752.913).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 3. (1) The department, in consultation with the

department of state police, the department of community health,

health and human services, and the department of education shall,

to the extent that funds are appropriated for the purpose,

establish a program for receiving reports and other information

from the public regarding potential self-harm and potential harm or

criminal acts directed at school students, school employees, or

schools in this state. The department shall establish the program

within the guidelines of this act. The department shall have access

to the information needed to meet the reporting requirements of

section 8.

     (2) The program described in subsection (1) shall must include

a hotline for receiving reports and information described in

subsection (1). The hotline shall must be available for use 24

hours a day, 365 days a year. The department may provide

promotional information regarding the program on its departmental

website.

     (3) Prior to operation of the hotline, the department of

technology, management, and budget shall issue a request for

proposals to enter into a contract for operation of the hotline.

The department of technology, management, and budget shall have has

sole authority over the request for proposals process and the

decision over which entity is awarded the contract. This subsection

does not prohibit the department of state police from submitting a

proposal. Any contract shall must require the vendor to be bound by

the requirements of this act, including its confidentiality

provisions. Beginning on the date that the hotline established

under this act is operational, all calls received by any existing

state-run school violence hotline in operation prior to the

establishment of this act shall be directed to the hotline

established under this act. Any existing state-run school violence

hotline in operation prior to the effective date of this act shall

before December 13, 2013 must be disconnected within 6 months after

the hotline established under this act is operational.

     (4) The department shall be responsible for the continued

operational and administrative oversight of the program. The

program shall must provide for a means to review all information

submitted through the hotline and to direct those reports and that

information, including any analysis of the potential threat as

determined appropriate by the department or a vendor under contract

with the department to local law enforcement officials and school

officials. The program shall must include a means by which

responses at the local level are determined and evaluated for

effectiveness. The department shall ensure that appropriate

training is provided to program personnel in all of the following

areas:

     (a) Crisis management, including recognizing mental illness

and emotional disturbance.

     (b) The resources that are available in the community for

providing mental health treatment and other human services.

     (c) Other matters determined by the department to be relevant

to the administration and operation of the program.

     (5) A report or other information submitted to the hotline is

considered to be a report to a law enforcement agency and shall

must be maintained as a record by the vendor described in section

3(3) subsection (3) for at least 1 year, subject to the

confidentiality requirements of this act.

     (6) The department shall ensure that any hotline information

that suggests that a psychiatric emergency is taking place within a

county is immediately referred to the community mental health

services program psychiatric crisis line for that county.

     (7) The department shall develop a source of information on

available community mental health resources and contacts, including

mental health services. The department shall notify schools and law

enforcement of this information source. The notice shall must

include the departmental recommendation that school and law

enforcement, upon investigating a case and determining that mental

illness or emotional disturbance is or may be involved, utilize

this information in aiding subjects and their parents or guardians.

     (8) At least biannually, the governing body of a school shall

provide to the department of state police current emergency contact

information for at least 1 school official to ensure that a school

official is able to receive information under subsection (4) at all

times. If a governing body provides contact information for more

than 1 school official, the governing body shall specify the days

and times that each school official is available to receive

information under subsection (4).

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.