An act relating to the creation of a model policy regarding school safety and violent intruders

This bill requires Vermont's Agency of Education to create a model safety policy for schools to handle violent intruder situations, involving input from mental health experts, school administrators, law enforcement, and families. The policy mandates that safety drills be trauma-informed and age-appropriate, prohibiting them for students below 9th grade and preventing older students from physically practicing lockdown procedures. School districts must notify parents before drills, track their effectiveness, and adopt safety policies that meet or exceed the state model, with automatic adoption of the model policy if a district fails to create its own.