Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 884
       
       
        
       By Senator Benacquisto
       
       
       
       
       
       30-00891A-16                                           2016884__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to youth suicide awareness and
    3         prevention; creating s. 1012.583, F.S.; requiring the
    4         Department of Education to incorporate training in
    5         youth suicide awareness and prevention into certain
    6         instructional personnel continuing education or
    7         inservice training requirements; requiring the
    8         department, in consultation with the Statewide Office
    9         for Suicide Prevention and suicide prevention experts,
   10         to develop a list of approved materials for the
   11         training; specifying requirements for training
   12         materials; requiring the training to be included in
   13         the existing continuing education or inservice
   14         training requirements; providing that no cause of
   15         action results from the implementation of this act;
   16         providing for rulemaking; providing an effective date.
   17          
   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   20         Section 1. Section 1012.583, Florida Statutes, is created
   21  to read:
   22         1012.583 Continuing education and inservice training for
   23  youth suicide awareness and prevention.—
   24         (1) Beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, the
   25  Department of Education shall incorporate 2 hours of training in
   26  youth suicide awareness and prevention into existing
   27  requirements for continuing education or inservice training for
   28  instructional personnel in elementary school, middle school, and
   29  high school.
   30         (2) The department, in consultation with the Statewide
   31  Office for Suicide Prevention and suicide prevention experts,
   32  shall develop a list of approved youth suicide awareness and
   33  prevention training materials. The materials:
   34         (a) Must include training on how to identify appropriate
   35  mental health services and how to refer youth and their families
   36  to those services.
   37         (b) May include materials currently being used by a school
   38  district if such materials meet any criteria established by the
   39  department.
   40         (c) May include programs that instructional personnel can
   41  complete through a self-review of approved youth suicide
   42  awareness and prevention materials.
   43         (3) The training required by this section must be included
   44  in the existing continuing education or inservice training
   45  requirements for instructional personnel and may not add to the
   46  total hours currently required by the department.
   47         (4) A person has no cause of action for any loss or damage
   48  caused by an act or omission resulting from the implementation
   49  of this section or resulting from any training required by this
   50  section unless the loss or damage was caused by willful or
   51  wanton misconduct. This section does not create any new duty of
   52  care or basis of liability.
   53         (5) The State Board of Education may adopt rules to
   54  implement this section.
   55         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.