A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the center for safer schools to develop a facility vulnerability assessment tool and directing local school administrative units to complete a facility vulnerability assessment for each school building annually, as recommended by the house select committee on school safety.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Article 8C of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 115C‑105.52A.  Facility vulnerability assessments.
(a)	At least once annually, each local school administrative unit shall require each school under its control to complete a facility vulnerability assessment for each school building.
(b)	The Center for Safer Schools, in collaboration with the Department of Public Instruction, Division of School Operations, shall develop a facility vulnerability assessment tool. This tool shall be used by local school administrative units when completing a facility vulnerability assessment."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law. The Center for Safer Schools and the Department of Public Instruction, Division of Safe and Healthy Schools Support, shall develop the facility vulnerability assessment tool by January 15, 2019. Each local school administrative unit shall require each school under its control to complete a facility vulnerability assessment for each school building before the end of the 2018‑2019 school year and annually thereafter.