Safety

This bill requires a school traffic safety committee to: submit a child access routing plan to the Department of Transportation and municipal and county highway authorities and include priority recommendations for infrastructure improvements in a child access routing plan; requires a highway authority to provide feedback on: the estimated time and cost to complete infrastructure improvements that a school traffic safety committee recommends; and infrastructure improvements the highway authority has prioritized for the following year; requires school traffic safety committees to make recommendations to the State Board of Education and the Transportation Advisory Committee for new approved bus routes.

This bill: modifies certain exemptions for liability for entities for a cause of action for injury of a minor by pornographic material; changes provisions of the safe harbor protections for liability for a cause of action for injury of a minor by pornographic material; clarifies who must give a warning of the harmful impact of exposing pornographic material to a minor.

This bill establishes law enforcement agency reporting requirements concerning: lost or stolen firearms that are used in a crime; and the disposition of firearms in the custody of a law enforcement agency; requires the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (commission) to receive, compile, and publish law enforcement agency data concerning firearms;

This bill clarifies requirements regarding the collection of a DNA specimen from a minor adjudicated by the juvenile court; allows the Division of Juvenile Justice Services to manage accounts and finances for minors in the custody of the Division of Juvenile Justice Services; provides that a minor may not be placed in a correctional facility that is intended to hold adults accused or convicted of offenses as an alternative to detention; provides a time period in which an agency is required to send an affidavit to an individual who is the subject of an expungement order by the juvenile court;

This bill enacts civil and criminal provisions relating to an individual's failure to safely store a firearm in certain conditions.

This bill clarifies the requirements for an interrogation of a child; requires a law enforcement agency to make an audio or visual recording of an interrogation of a child; addresses the admissibility of a recorded or unrecorded interrogation of a child; addresses the admissibility of an admission, confession, or statement by a child as a result of an interrogation.

This bill amends the definition of child sexual abuse material; and provides a severability clause.

This bill clarifies the requirements for bringing a civil action for human trafficking;

This bill allows an individual to file a petition for expungement, without a certificate of eligibility, if the individual is seeking an expungement of records for prostitution, aiding prostitution, or sexual solicitation and the individual was subject to force, fraud, or coercion at the time of the conduct.

This bill:

▸ Requires key boxes for buildings with restricted access to have secure accountability procedures for keys;

▸ Amends the International Fire Code;

▸ Requires certain state buildings and schools to have emergency communication systems;

▸ Requires school resource officer training to be developed by the state security chief;

▸ Establishes duties of the state security chief and a county security chief in relation to school safety initiatives;

▸ Establishes a school guardian program;

▸ Requires threat reporting by state employees and others if they become aware of threats to schools;

▸ Establishes some reporting from the SafeUT Crisis Line to the state's intelligence databases;

▸ Requires certain school safety data to be included in the annual school disciplinary report;

▸ Expands requirements for school resource officer contracts and policies;

▸ Requires designation of certain school safety personnel;

▸ Requires panic alert devices and video camera access for schools and classrooms;

▸ Requires coordination of emergency call information with the state's intelligence system;

▸ Amends process for secure firearm storage under certain circumstances to include school guardians.