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Committee adopts substitute requiring wearable panic-alert devices in public schools, clarifies scope
Summary
A Senate committee approved a committee substitute (as amended) for Senate Bill 4 34 requiring the State Board and Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to adopt rules for a wearable panic-alert system in public schools, and directed county boards to provide devices and training. The committee clarified the requirement applies to
A Senate committee on (date not specified) adopted a committee substitute, as amended, for Senate Bill 4 34 that would require the State Board, in conjunction with the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, to promulgate rules implementing a wearable panic-alert system in public schools. The committee then voted to report the substitute, as amended, to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass and to first refer the bill to the Committee on Finance.
Counsel Hank explained the substitute would require each school to have a wearable panic-alert system capable of integrating with local public-safety answering point infrastructure to transmit 911…
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