REPORTING ATTEMPTED SCHOOL VIOLENCE S.B. 958 (S-1):
SUMMARY OF BILL
REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE
Senate Bill 958 (Substitute S-1 as reported)
Sponsor: Senator Darwin L. Booher
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 a report to the Michigan Department of State Police (MSP) on attempted acts of violence on, or threats of violence on or off, school grounds that were prevented or thwarted.
-- Require the MSP to compile a report on information reported by the school districts, ISDs, and PSAs, and provide it to the School Safety Commission.
Proposed MCL 380.1308a Legislative Analyst: Jeff Mann
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 annual 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, but the MSP creates no report specific to school violence currently. If a formalized reporting methodology from schools were required, the MSP likely would incur costs for programing that would allow for analysis, synthesis, and deconfliction of data submitted to optimize the quality and usefulness of reports.
School districts, ISDs, and public school academies would experience minimal costs associated with providing this information to the MSP. Requiring the report only once a year would keep overall costs down.
Date Completed: 5-24-18 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.