ENROLLED
ACT No. 148
2019 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 160
BY REPRESENTATIVE BOUIE
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3911(B)(1)(i) and (l) and 3912(A) and (B) and to enact R.S.
3 17:416.19(D) and 3911(B)(1)(m), relative to information on school safety and
4 discipline; to require the collection and reporting of certain information relative to
5 school safety and discipline; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 17:3911(B)(1)(i) and (l) and 3912(A) and (B) are hereby amended
8 and reenacted and R.S. 17:416.19(D) and 3911(B)(1)(m) are hereby enacted to read as
9 follows:
10 §416.19. School resource officers
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12 D. A city, parish, or other local public school system that has entered into an
13 agreement with a local law enforcement agency to provide for school resource
14 officers shall annually report to the state Department of Education the total number
15 of school resource officers provided to the system.
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17 §3911. Data collection system; establishment
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19 B.(1) The data collection system shall provide for but shall not be limited to
20 the regular collection of the following information on a per school basis, including
21 schools and educational programs located within secure care facilities under the
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1 jurisdiction of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of juvenile
2 justice:
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4 (i) Student discipline information, including suspensions and expulsions. in
5 total and by unduplicated counts, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, sex,
6 English learner status, and students with exceptionalities, excluding gifted and
7 talented, in accordance with data collection conducted pursuant to 20 U.S.C.
8 3413(c)(1), including but not limited to the following:
9 (i) In-school suspensions.
10 (ii) Out-of-school suspensions.
11 (iii) In-school expulsions.
12 (iv) Out-of-school expulsions.
13 (v) Removals to an alternative education setting by school personnel.
14 (vi) Referrals to law enforcement.
15 (vii) School-related arrests.
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17 (l) Number of school resource officers.
18 (m) Such other data as the board may approve.
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20 §3912. Progress profiles; preparation; distribution
21 A. Using, at a minimum, the data required to be collected pursuant to R.S.
22 17:3911(B), the department state Department of Education shall annually prepare
23 and produce a state-level progress profile, a district-level progress profile for each
24 public school system, and a school-level progress profile for each public school.
25 Each profile shall be produced in a format common to all of them which shall be
26 designed by the department so as to provide to school-based users all pertinent
27 information in a readily usable form and to provide to the public all pertinent
28 information in a clear and understandable form. The state-level and each district-
29 level profile shall contain the last three years of trend information as required by R.S.
30 17:10.2 (A). Each school profile shall contain all of the information relevant to the
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1 school as required to be collected pursuant to R.S. 17:3911(B) as well as the same
2 information for the school system as a whole and the state. In addition, a parent-
3 level progress profile shall be prepared containing, at a minimum, results from
4 required state tests and other relevant information used to compute a school's
5 performance score as part of the district and school accountability program. For the
6 purposes of this Section, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of
7 juvenile justice, shall be considered a school district, and each secure facility
8 operated by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of juvenile
9 justice, shall be considered a school.
10 B. All such profiles shall be public record and each shall be published on the
11 state Department of Education's website. Each school and school system shall be
12 provided a copy of its profile by the department without cost. Each district shall
13 provide to parents a free copy of the parent-level profile of the school which the
14 parent's child or children attend. Additionally, the department shall provide a
15 summary report on the content of the profiles to the board, the governor, and the
16 members of the legislature. The parent-level profile shall be in a format and of a
17 nature that is easy to read, clear, and understandable.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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