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AN ACT concerning Public Schools - Active Shooter Safety Drills or Trainings - Requirements FOR the purpose of requiring the Maryland Center for School Safety to collaborate with an institution of higher education or a designated federal or national research entity to study the effectiveness and psychological impact of active shooter safety drills or trainings by researching and analyzing certain data collected by local school systems; requiring the School Safety Subcabinet to develop best practices for local school systems to increase mental health services for students and school personnel before, during, and after active shooter safety drills; requiring the Center to identify best practices for active shooter safety drills or trainings by a certain date and periodically thereafter; authorizing the State Department of Education to adopt regulations to incorporate active shooter safety drills or trainings in the annual schedule of drills for local school systems; requiring the Department to annually review the best practices identified by the Center regarding active shooter safety drills and update the drills and trainings incorporated into the annual schedule of drills; requiring local school systems to take certain actions regarding active shooter safety drills or trainings, including collecting and reporting certain data to the Center, and providing certain notice to parents, students, and school personnel; requiring the Department Center to develop model content regarding the State’s laws on safe firearm storage and requiring local school systems to distribute the model content to parents at the beginning of each school year; and generally relating to active shooter safety drills or trainings in public schools. BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Education Underlining indicates amendments to bill. Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by amendment. HOUSE BILL 515 Section 7-1502(a) Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Education Section 7-1502(g), 7-1507(a) and (b), and 7-1509 Annotated Code of Maryland (2022 Replacement Volume)

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Jared Solomon (D)*,  Dana Jones (D),  Bernice Mireku-North (D),  Joe Vogel (D), 

Senate Education, Energy, and the Environment Hearing (13:00:00 4/4/2023 ) (on 04/04/2023)

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