Working to transform the child welfare system.

Bills

SB 5766: Relating to preventing harassment, intimidation, bullying and discrimination in public schools

Requires each school district to:

  • Adopt or amend a transgender student policy and procedure that, at a minimum, incorporates the model transgender student policy and procedure created by the state school directors’ association and share the policy with parents or guardians, students, volunteers, and school employees; and
  • Designate one person in the district as the primary contact regarding the transgender student policy.

Requires the Office Of The Superintendent Of Public Instruction (OSPI) to develop a statewide training class for those people who act as the primary contact.

As amended, the bill tasks OSPI with developing a mandatory training class for primary contacts for the transgender student policy and the anti-harassment, intimidation, or bullying policy. It also requires OSPI to review and align questions in the Healthy Youth Survey with the model transgender student policy.