H-8239

   Amend Senate File 2360, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, line 10, after <280.21.> by inserting <The director shall provide guidance to school districts and accredited nonpublic schools on best practices for providing mental health supports to a student who witnesses, at a school or on school grounds, an incident of severe behavioral disturbance by another student, actions by school personnel to suppress another student’s behavioral disturbance, or violent acts by another student directed toward school personnel.>
   2.  Page 12, after line 12 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  280.31  Behavioral disturbance notification.
   If a school district or accredited nonpublic school provides a notification of behavioral disturbance to a parent or guardian of a student enrolled in the school district or school, the school district or school shall provide on the school district’s or school’s internet site a list of mental health services available to students, and the notification shall include a reference to the school district’s or school’s internet site or the list of mental health services available to students.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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EHLERT of Linn