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USB outlines new school-safety duties, statewide threat flag and forthcoming ESI incident fields for LEAs
Summary
USB presenters described HB44 (school safety amendments), SB51 (student-threat flag), and a set of new Emergency Safety Intervention (ESI) fields to be added to Utrex for incident recording, noting some technical and timeline uncertainty and that Qualtrics will remain a fallback until Utrex ingestion is confirmed.
USB policy and technical staff briefed LEA data contacts on a package of school-safety and student-data changes passed in the session and on planned data-collection changes.
Jennifer Wadsworth summarized HB44 as a multipart school-safety statute that clarifies guardian requirements and stipends, extends wearable panic-alert eligibility beyond lead teachers to include school safety personnel, requires LEAs to develop visitor-management systems and minimum cybersecurity practices, and tasks USB with administering guardian stipends and publishing the annual stipend amount by July 1. Wadsworth said LEAs may contract with private vendors for guardian training; she also said the bill contains no new ongoing funding for USB administration of these duties.
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