Florida Senate - 2020 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 70
Ì326096?Î326096
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
02/25/2020 .
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Appropriations Subcommittee on Education (Book) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (889996) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Delete everything after the enacting clause
5 and insert:
6 Section 1. This act may be cited as “Alyssa’s Law.”
7 Section 2. Present paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of
8 section 1006.07, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph
9 (e), and new paragraphs (c) and (d) are added to that
10 subsection, to read:
11 1006.07 District school board duties relating to student
12 discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall
13 provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the
14 attendance and control of students at school, and for proper
15 attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the
16 welfare of students, including:
17 (4) EMERGENCY DRILLS; EMERGENCY PROCEDURES.—
18 (c) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, each public
19 elementary, middle, and high school campus, including charter
20 schools, must implement a mobile panic alarm system or a panic
21 button system with interoperability capability to connect
22 diverse emergency services technologies to ensure real-time
23 coordination between multiple first responders. Such system,
24 which shall be referred to as “Alyssa’s Alert,” shall integrate
25 with local public safety answering point infrastructure to
26 transmit 911 calls and mobile device application activations.
27 Each school must be equipped with such a system for use in a
28 school security emergency, including, but not limited to, a
29 nonfire evacuation, a lockdown, or an active shooter event, and
30 the system must effectively notify everyone on campus of the
31 emergency. The panic alarm system must:
32 1. Be accessible to administrators, teachers, staff, and
33 other designated personnel at all locations on the school
34 grounds.
35 2. Be directly linked to the main office at the school and
36 to local law enforcement agencies that are designated as first
37 responders to the school’s campus.
38 3. Immediately transmit a signal or message to local law
39 enforcement agencies upon activation.
40 (d) The department shall issue a competitive solicitation
41 to identify panic alarm system options that may be used by
42 school districts. In identifying the options available to school
43 districts, the department shall consider the ability of a system
44 to provide audible and visual notifications to protect persons
45 who are hearing or visually impaired and the interoperability of
46 the system.
47 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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50 And the title is amended as follows:
51 Delete everything before the enacting clause
52 and insert:
53 A bill to be entitled
54 An act relating to panic alarms in public schools;
55 providing a short title; amending s. 1006.07, F.S.;
56 requiring each public school campus, including charter
57 schools, to implement a panic alarm system for
58 specified purposes, beginning in a specified school
59 year; providing requirements for such system;
60 authorizing the Department of Education to issue a
61 competitive solicitation to identify panic alarm
62 system options to be used by school districts;
63 requiring the department to consider certain factors
64 during review of responses to the solicitation;
65 providing an effective date.