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Introduced Session

This bill requires each school district to adopt a policy of preventing and addressing dating violence at school by September 1, 2011. "Dating violence" is defined in the bill to mean a pattern of behavior where one person threatens to use, or actually uses physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional abuse to control his dating partner. "Dating partner" is defined in the bill to mean any person, regardless of gender, involved in an intimate relationship with another, that is primarily characterized by the expectation of affectionate involvement whether casual, serious, or long-term. Under the bill, the Commissioner of Education must develop a model policy in order to assist the school districts by December 1, 2010. Each school district, however, will determine the content of its policy, except that the policy must contain, at a minimum, the following components: - a statement that dating violence will not be tolerated; - dating violence reporting procedures; - guidelines to responding to at-school incidents of dating violence; and - discipline procedures specific to at-school incidents of dating violence. Furthermore, to the extent funds are appropriated for this purpose, the bill requires each school district to provide dating violence training to school employees and volunteers who have significant contact with students. Lastly, under the bill, school districts are required to provide the parents or guardians of students enrolled in grades 7 through 12 with the school districts dating violence policy.

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Anthony Bucco (R)*,  Andrew Ciesla (R)*, 

Withdrawn from Consideration (on 06/21/2010)