ANTIBULLYING BILL BEING INTRODUCED IN INDIANA

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Go To Bill:   Keyword Search: Search all legislative material from the 2013 Session.   General Assembly Home PageSession Information Complete Bill Listing You will need to download and install Acrobat Reader to view PDF documents.		House Bill 1423 2013 First Regular Session Latest Information   DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL Antibullying. Requires the department of education, in consultation with school safety specialists and school counselors, to develop guidelines to assist school corporations and safe school committees in establishing bullying prevention programs, investigation and reporting procedures, and discipline rules. Requires each school corporation to include the number and nature of bullying incidents that occur within the school corporation on the school corporation's annual performance report. Requires each school corporation to provide training to school employees and volunteers concerning the school corporation's bullying prevention program, and to provide annual bullying prevention education to students. Modifies the definition of "bullying". Requires each school corporation to include detailed procedures for investigation and reporting of bullying behaviors in the school corporation's discipline rules. Requires each school corporation to include detailed procedures outlining the use of follow-up services for support services for the victim and bullying education for the bully in the school corporation's discipline rules. Sets out a bullying reporting requirement for each school corporation. Requires that if a board of trustees of a state educational institution elects to govern, by regulation or another means, the conduct of students, faculty, employees, and others on the property owned, used, or occupied by the state educational institution, the regulation must include a policy prohibiting bullying. Current Status:   In Committee - first House Latest Printing (PDF) Action List Introduced Bill (PDF) Fiscal Impact Statement(s): 1(PDF) House Committee Reports House Amendments Senate Committee Reports Senate Amendments Conference Committee Reports