Sentences with phrase «school safety bill in»

Flanked by family members of students who were killed during the Parkland mass shooting, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a $ 400 million school safety bill in response to the tragedy that killed 17 people at a high school.

Members of Congress passed their own school safety bill in March, though it only focuses on increasing security and safety training for students and school staff.

Greetings from Day 53 of the 60 - day legislative session in Tallahassee, where the gun access / school safety bills in response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting were supposed to be heard, at the very least on the Senate floor, if not the House.

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Powerful budget committees in the State House and Senate signed off on a package of bills on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18, mandate a three - day waiting period for most gun purchases, and increase funding for school safety measures and access to mental health care.

What measures would pass constitutional muster with the Second Amendment in place, especially given that even the Republican - backed gun access / school safety bill passed in Tallahassee is now the subject of a lawsuit issued by the NRA?

Democrats tried and failed to pass amendments to the Florida Senate's school safety bill, including a provision to allow teachers to carry guns in schools if they receive training and are deputized by a sheriff's office.

The STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 WednSchool Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednschool safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednesday.

Assembly Bill 97 of 25 July 2008 amends California's Health and Safety Code to require all food facilities (restaurants) in the state, with the exception of public school cafeterias, to cease using artificial trans fats by January 2011.

The goal of the bill is to help ensure the safety of the food served to kids in school meal programs.

The GOP conference in the Senate has supported a variety of bills for bolstering school security and safety, including money for resource officers.

«We're going over various bills that are out there to try to provide safety in the schools.»

During a debate in the New York State Senate on enhanced school safety measures, Democrats asked the Republican majority to support a bill to ban teachers from having guns in schools.

«We have realized advances in water safety, including Senator O'Mara's lead testing bill — for the first time requiring testing for all schools.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- The Democrat - controlled state Assembly on Tuesday passed legislation aimed at reducing gun violence in the state, a day after Republicans who control New York's Senate approved bills that focus on school safety but don't address the gun control issue.

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ALBANY — The Republican - led state Senate on Monday approved bills intended to improve school safety in the wake of the latest school shooting massacre, but only after voting down a number of Democratic gun - control proposals and trading insults.

During a debate in the New York state Senate on enhanced school safety measures Monday, Democrats asked the Republican majority to support a bill to ban teachers from having guns in schools.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

«I'm proud to appoint five dedicated Floridians to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission including fathers of two of the victims who were critical in helping a bill get passed quickly,» Scott stated in a news release.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

In a statement Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) said GOP lawmakers were preparing a package of bills to bolster school safety but did not mention anything about new gun restrictions.

Gov. Rick Scott, who met with officials in Miami - Dade County on Tuesday, said at a news conference that he hopes a gun and school - safety bill is passed before Florida's annual legislative session ends on March 9.

State lawmakers in recent days have been pushing a variety of bills meant to bolster — and fund — school safety in New York in the wake of a shooting at a Florida high school this month that killed 17 people.

A second gun - related bill has been postponed in the Florida Senate in the wake of last week's mass shooting at a Parkland high school, as legislative leaders craft a multi-pronged response to the massacre and Gov. Rick Scott plans a series of workshops about school safety and ways to keep guns away from people struggling with mental illnesses.

De Blasio called the bill «fiscally responsible,» but State Senator José Peralta told Gay City that he and other elected officials in Queens have been begging the administration for increased funding for crossing guards — something that would demonstrably aid the safety of public and private school students — only to be told that there is no money for it.

BY ANDY HUMM City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an «unprecedented» bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and religious schools — security — allocating almost $ 20 million in taxpayer funds outside the normal budget process for «safety officers» in any school with more than 300 students that wants one.

In Florida, after Parkland students rallied at the state Capitol, Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a gun bill called the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act.

«Furthermore, in order to ensure the safety of our children and who are billed to resume school on September 18, 2017, we hereby direct that the resumption be postponed till September 25, 2017 across the state.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, First Lady Chirlane McCray, convened a town hall on Thursday afternoon that attracted roughly 100 high school students to discuss steps the city can take to ensure safety in schools amid a national debate about gun control.

The bill also invests more than $ 400 million in school safety and mental health.

BeatBullying has long been campaigning for the introduction of a Schools Safety Bill and a Cyber-Bullying Act, which would make it explicitly against the law to bully or harass a child, young person and adult in and around school or online.»

An Education Week analysis of more than 450 bills related to school safety filed in the days, weeks, and months after the deadliest K - 12 school shooting in U.S. history found that legislators have proposed solutions that include arming teachers, adding guards or police officers, and shoring up the security of school buildings.

Because some bills dealt with multiple aspects of school safety, they are classified in multiple categories.

Republicans and Democrats alike are giving top billing to class - size reduction and school safety and making vouchers and tax credits for private education defining issues in this year's crowded state election season.

In March, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, a gun - control bill that would have never seen the light of day before the Parkland shooting.

In the wake of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals» recent decision to uphold most of the state's immigration enforcement legislation, Senate Bill 4, we renew our call for the San Antonio Independent School District to provide meaningful protections for our undocumented students and their families, and ask that our district make ensuring the safety of our most vulnerable community members its top priority.

Senate Bill 7026 represents a comprehensive approach to addressing the issues presented by the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, including firearm and school safety, and community mental health resoSchool in Parkland, Florida, including firearm and school safety, and community mental health resoschool safety, and community mental health resources.

As legislators are reviewing and considering House Bills to pass for improving the quality of education in our country, are gun and school safety laws on the table?

Florida senators narrowly gave their approval Monday to a sweeping school safety bill that would pour millions of dollars into hardening schools and increasing mental health services but would exclude most teachers from participating in a controversial «school marshal program» meant to allow school employees to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Dubbed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, the bill (SB 7026) doles out more than $ 400 million in funding for various initiatives, including more than $ 97 million for safe schools programming, more than $ 98 million hardening the physical security of school buildings, and $ 69 million to fund a mental health assistance prograSchool Public Safety Act, the bill (SB 7026) doles out more than $ 400 million in funding for various initiatives, including more than $ 97 million for safe schools programming, more than $ 98 million hardening the physical security of school buildings, and $ 69 million to fund a mental health assistance prograschool buildings, and $ 69 million to fund a mental health assistance programming.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

KAUKAUNA - A $ 100 million plan to improve school safety in Wisconsin is «critically important for students,» Gov. Scott Walker said Monday after he signed the bill into law in front of fourth - graders at Victor Haen Elementary Sschool safety in Wisconsin is «critically important for students,» Gov. Scott Walker said Monday after he signed the bill into law in front of fourth - graders at Victor Haen Elementary SchoolSchool.

Asked about the state's response to the mass shooting at Broward County's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&School, DeSantis said he would have approached a school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.&school - safety bill, which included new restrictions on gun sales, «differently because I think it scapegoated law - abiding citizens in terms of their Second Amendment rights.»

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the state House is behind a school safety bill that would add more law enforcement officers and social workers to schools.

Still concerned about the 9,959 schools built before 1978, in 1999 Assembly Bill 300 required the Division of the State Architects to conduct a Seismic Safety Inventory of public schools.

While nobody in Alabama is challenging the legality of the spending — the bill allowed for up to 18 percent of funds to be earmarked for other purposes, such as public safety — some educators bristle at the fact that four times as much education money is being spent per inmate as per public school student.

The Bill proposes to give the Minister of Education the power to investigate threats to the physical or emotional safety of students in preschool, primary education, high school and college.

«This bill is not perfect, and sadly it will not bring back the 17 lives lost in the horrific school shooting, but the safety of our children is not a political issue, it's simply the right thing to do,» she said.

Senate Bill 7026, dubbed the «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,» would toughen gun control in several ways — but also includes a controversial provision that would allow some teachers to be armed.