HB 17-1347

HB 17-1347 is a Colorado bill that ensures when a student transfers schools, their previous school must share any threat or suicide assessment reports with the new school if requested. This means that important safety information about students will follow them as they move between public, charter, and pilot schools. The bill was signed into law, so it's now active and being implemented to help protect students' well-being across different educational settings.

Official Summary

The bill creates definitions of a student 'threat assessment' and a student 'suicide assessment'. The bill requires that when a student transfers to a new public school, including a charter or pilot school (public school), if the student's file contains a threat or suicide assessment and if the new public school, or a person acting on behalf of the student, requests copies of the student's records, the previous public school, or out-of-home placement if applicable, is required to transfer the student's threat or suicide assessment to his or her new public school with the other records requested. If a request for records is not made, the previous public school is not required to independently transfer the threat or suicide assessment. Current law allows for the transfer of threat or suicide assessments, but it does not require it.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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