SB 1310 — Reporting of Student Mental Health Outcomes

Students or their parents or legal guardians may complete the survey.

The department may include survey results in the annual evaluation under subsection (1).

Section 2.

Paragraph (a) of subsection (11) of section 1001.212, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

1001.212 Office of Safe Schools.—There is created in the Department of Education the Office of Safe Schools.

The office is fully accountable to the Commissioner of Education.

The office shall serve as a central repository for best practices, training standards, and compliance oversight in all matters regarding school safety and security, including prevention efforts, intervention efforts, and emergency preparedness planning.

The office shall:

(11) Develop a statewide behavioral threat management operational process, a Florida-specific behavioral threat assessment instrument, and a threat management portal.

(a)1.

By December 1, 2023, The office shall develop a Page 3 of 13 CODING:

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1310 6-01457A-25 20251310__ statewide behavioral threat management operational process to guide school districts, schools, charter school governing boards, and charter schools through the threat management process.

The process must be designed to identify, assess, manage, and monitor potential and real threats to schools.

This process must include, but is not limited to:

a.

The establishment and duties of threat management teams.

b.

Defining behavioral risks and threats.

c.

The use of the Florida-specific behavioral threat assessment instrument developed pursuant to paragraph (b) to evaluate the behavior of students who may pose a threat to the school, school staff, or other students and to coordinate intervention and services for such students.

d.

Upon the availability of the threat management portal developed pursuant to paragraph (c), the use, authorized user criteria, and access specifications of the portal.

e.

Procedures for the implementation of interventions, school support, and community services.

f.

Guidelines for appropriate law enforcement intervention.

g.

Procedures for risk management.

h.

Procedures for disciplinary actions.

i.

Mechanisms for continued monitoring of potential and real threats.

j.

Procedures for referrals to mental health services identified by the school district or charter school governing board pursuant to s.

1012.584(4).

Referrals to mental health services originating from the behavioral threat process or assessment instrument shall be reported, in the aggregate, by the threat management coordinator, designated in s.

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1310 6-01457A-25 20251310__ 1006.07(7)(j), to the Department of Children and Families for reporting and evaluation purposes pursuant to s.

394.4575.

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Procedures and requirements necessary for the creation of a threat assessment report, all corresponding documentation, and any other information required by the Florida-specific behavioral threat assessment instrument under paragraph (b).

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Section5. 1006.041, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

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394.4575.This evaluation must include, but is not limited to:

(1) Each school district must develop, and submit to the Page 5 of 13 CODING:

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1310 6-01457A-25 20251310__ district school board for approval, a detailed plan outlining the components and planned expenditures of the district’s mental health assistance program.

The plan must include all district schools, including charter schools, unless a charter school elects to submit a plan independently from the school district.

A charter school plan must comply with all of the provisions of this section and must be approved by the charter school’s governing body and provided to the charter school’s sponsor.

(2) A plan required under subsection (1) must be focused on a multitiered system of supports to deliver evidence-based mental health care assessment, diagnosis, intervention, treatment, and recovery services to students with one or more mental health or co-occurring substance abuse diagnoses and to students at high risk of such diagnoses.

The provision of these services must be coordinated with a student’s primary mental health care provider and with other mental health providers involved in the student’s care.

At a minimum, the plan must include all of the following components:

(a) Direct employment of school-based mental health services providers to expand and enhance school-based student services and to reduce the ratio of students to staff in order to better align with nationally recommended ratio models.

The providers shall include, but are not limited to, certified school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, and other licensed mental health professionals.

The plan must also identify strategies to increase the amount of time that school-based student services personnel spend providing direct services to students, which may include the review and revision of district staffing resource allocations based on school or Page 6 of 13 CODING:

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1310 6-01457A-25 20251310__ student mental health assistance needs.

(b) Contracts or interagency agreements with one or more local community behavioral health providers, mobile response teams, or providers of Community Action Team services to provide a behavioral health staff presence and services to students at district schools.

Services may include, but are not limited to, mental health screenings and assessments, individual counseling, family counseling, group counseling, psychiatric or psychological services, trauma-informed care, mobile crisis services, and behavior modification.

These behavioral health services may be provided on or off the school campus and may be supplemented by telehealth as defined in s.

456.47(1).

(c) Policies and procedures, including contracts with service providers, which will ensure that:

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(d)394.4573. Strategies or programs to reduce the likelihood of at- risk students developing social, emotional, or behavioral health problems;

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and to assist students in dealing with trauma and violence.

(f) Procedures to assist a mental health services provider or a behavioral health provider as described in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), respectively, or a school resource officer or school safety officer who has completed mental health crisis intervention training in attempting to verbally de-escalate a student’s crisis situation before initiating an involuntary examination pursuant to s.

394.463.

Such procedures must include strategies to de-escalate a crisis situation for a student with a developmental disability as defined in s.

393.063.

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1310 6-01457A-25 20251310__ personnel must make a reasonable attempt to contact a mental health professional as described in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) who may initiate an involuntary examination pursuant to s.

394.463, unless the child poses an imminent danger to themselves or others, before initiating an involuntary examination pursuant to s.

394.463.

Such contact may be in person or through telehealth.

The mental health professional may be available to the school district either by a contract or interagency agreement with the managing entity, one or more local community- based behavioral health providers, or the local mobile response team, or be a direct or contracted school district employee.

(3) Each school district shall submit its approved plan, including approved plans of each charter school in the district, to the Department of Children and Families Department of Education by August 1 of each fiscal year.

The Department of Children and Families shall certify receipt of and compliance with all of the requirements of this subsection to the Department of Education by September 1 of each fiscal year.

(4) Annually by September 30, each school district shall submit to the Department of Children and Families Department of Education a report on its program outcomes and expenditures for the previous fiscal year.

The Department of Children and Families shall certify receipt of and compliance with all the requirements of this subsection to the Department of Education by October 1 of each fiscal year.

that, At a minimum, the report must include the total number of each of the following:

(a) Students who receive screenings or assessments.

(b) Students who are referred to school-based or community- based providers for services or assistance.

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Florida Senate - 2025 SB 1310 6-01457A-25 20251310__ (c) Students who receive school-based or community-based interventions, services, or assistance.

(d) School-based and community-based mental health providers, including licensure type.

(e) Contract-based or interagency agreement-based collaborative efforts or partnerships with community-based mental health programs, agencies, or providers.

Section 4.

Paragraph (b) of subsection (6) and paragraphs (b), (i), and (j) of subsection (7) of section 1006.07, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

1006.07 District school board duties relating to student discipline and school safety.—The district school board shall provide for the proper accounting for all students, for the attendance and control of students at school, and for proper attention to health, safety, and other matters relating to the welfare of students, including:

(6) SAFETY AND SECURITY BEST PRACTICES.—Each district school superintendent shall establish policies and procedures for the prevention of violence on school grounds, including the assessment of and intervention with individuals whose behavior poses a threat to the safety of the school community.

(b) Mental health coordinator.—Each district school board shall identify a mental health coordinator for the district.

The mental health coordinator shall serve as the district’s and the Department of Children and Families’ primary point of contact regarding the district’s coordination, communication, and implementation of student mental health policies, procedures, responsibilities, and reporting, including:

CoordinatingPerformance withmetrics. the Department of Children and Page 10 of 13 CODING:

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1001.212.

MaintainingTreatment recordsoutcome andmetrics. reports regarding student mental health as it relates to the mental health assistance program under s.

1006.041 and school safety.

FacilitatingSystem thecapacity implementationmetrics. of school district policies relating to the respective duties and responsibilities of the school district, the superintendent, and district school principals.

4.(3) The department and the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute must coordinate with OPPAGA and provide requested information and data related to outcomes and performance of integrated and coordinated behavioral health systems of care pursuant to this chapter for evaluation and inclusion in the report.

CoordinatingSection with2. the Department of Children and Families to prepare evaluations on student mental health programs, services, and treatments provided pursuant to s.

394.4575.This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

ThePage coordinator3 shall assist the Department of Children3 andCODING: Families in the evaluation of treatment outcomes and the development of a survey tool as described in s.

394.4575(2).

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Coordinating with the school safety specialist on the staffing and training of threat management teams and facilitating referrals to mental health services, as appropriate, for students and their families.

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Coordinating with the school safety specialist on the training and resources for students and school district staff relating to youth mental health awareness and assistance.

7.6.

Reviewing annually the school district’s policies and procedures related to student mental health for compliance with state law and alignment with current best practices and making recommendations, as needed, for amending such policies and procedures to the superintendent and the district school board.

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(7) THREAT MANAGEMENT TEAMS.—Each district school board and charter school governing board shall establish a threat management team at each school whose duties include the coordination of resources and assessment and intervention with students whose behavior may pose a threat to the safety of the school, school staff, or students.

(b) A threat management team shall include persons certified under s.

1012.584(4) with expertise in counseling, instruction, school administration, and law enforcement.

All members of the threat management team must be involved in the threat assessment and threat management process and final decisionmaking.

At least one member of the threat management team must have personal familiarity with the individual who is the subject of the threat assessment.

If no member of the threat management team has such familiarity, a member of the instructional personnel or administrative personnel, as those terms are defined in s.

1012.01(2) and (3), who is personally familiar with the individual who is the subject of the threat assessment must consult with the threat management team for the purpose of assessing the threat.

The instructional or administrative personnel who provides such consultation may shall not participate in the decisionmaking process.

(i) The threat management team shall prepare a threat assessment report required by the Florida-specific behavioral threat assessment instrument developed pursuant to s.

1001.212(11).

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Information relating to treatment referrals and mental health assessments shall be provided to the Department of Children and Families for reporting and evaluation purposes pursuant to s.

394.4575.

(j) Each district school board shall establish a threat management coordinator to serve as the primary point of contact regarding the district’s coordination, communication, and implementation of the threat management program and to report quantitative data to the Department of Children and Families and the Office of Safe Schools in accordance with guidance from the office.

Section 5.

Subsection (4) of section 1012.584, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

1012.584 Continuing education and inservice training for youth mental health awareness and assistance.— (4) Each school district shall notify all school personnel who have received training pursuant to this section of mental health services that are available to students from mental health services providers as described in s.

1006.041(2)(a) and (b) in the school district, and the individual to contact if a student needs services.

The term “mental health services” includes, but is not limited to, community mental health services, health care providers, and services provided under ss.

1006.04 and 1006.041.

Section 6.

This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

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