SCHOOL VIOLENT INCIDENTS REPORT                                                    H.B. 5851 (S-3):

                                                                                                    SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                      REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 5851 (Substitute S-3 as reported)

Sponsor:  Representative Beau Matthew LaFave

House Committee:  Appropriations

Senate Committee:  Judiciary

CONTENT

The bill would amend the Revised School Code to do the following:

-- Require a school district, intermediate school district (ISD), or public school academy (PSA) to provide to the Department of State Police (MSP) a report on certain incidents of crime occurring at school within the district or PSA.

-- Require the Office of School Safety to compile a report on the reported information at least quarterly and make it available to the School Safety Commission, MSP, and any law enforcement agency upon request.

-- If a district or PSA failed to provide the report described above to the MSP, allow the Department to determine that the district or PSA was ineligible to receive any school safety grants from the Department for the fiscal year in which the noncompliance was discovered.

The bill is tie-barred to Senate Bill 982 and House Bill 5828. (Senate Bill 982 would create the Office of School Safety within the MSP and, among other thing, require the Office to create model practice for school safety and develop and offer training on school safety to school staff. House Bill 5828 would enact the "Comprehensive School Safety Plan Act" to establish the School Safety Commission and require the Commission, among other things, to make recommendations to the MSP for rules determining school safety measures and metrics to evaluate school safety.)

Proposed MCL 380.1308a                                          Legislative Analyst:  Stephen Jackson

FISCAL IMPACT

The bill would have a fiscal impact on the MSP and intermediate school districts, school districts, and public school academies. The MSP would experience additional costs from processing incident reports from ISDs, school districts, and public school academies. The MSP currently receives information on incidents related to OK2SAY and passes that information on to the Department of the Attorney General, where it is compiled into an annual report; however, the MSP creates no report specific to school violence. If a formalized reporting methodology from schools were required, the MSP likely would incur costs for programming that would allow for analysis, synthesis, and deconfliction of data submitted to optimize the quality and usefulness of the proposed quarterly reports. 

School districts, ISDs, and public school academies would experience minimal costs associated with providing this information to the MSP after an incident occurred.

Date Completed:  12-6-18                                                     Fiscal Analyst:  Bruce Baker

                                                                                                             Cory Savino

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.