Legislation

Section Number:	Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 15 § 1G (West 1999)
Title:	Advisory Councils to Board; Membership; Duties
Summary:	Creates the Advisory Council on Violence Prevention to include one assistant district attorney, one assistant attorney general, two teachers in the public schools, one elected member of the school committee, one school district superintendent, one principal, one police chief, and two students. One of the student members must have experience with youth violence prevention programs.

Section Number:	Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 17 § 16 (West 1999)
Title:	Office of Violence Prevention; Duties
Summary:	Creates and outlines the duties of the Office of Violence Prevention. The duties of the office include integrating a violence prevention focus and violence prevention education; supporting community-based violence prevention initiatives; and developing sources of funding to maintain the office and expand its activities.

Section Number:	Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 69 § 1D (West 1999)
Title:	Statewide Education Goals; Academic Standards; Vocational Training; Grant Program
Summary:	Instructs the Board of Education to establish a set of statewide educational goals for all public elementary and secondary schools, which may include standards for the instruction of violence prevention.

Section Number:	Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 69 § 1L (West 1999)
Title:	Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Health Education
Summary:	Allows the board to establish a comprehensive interdisciplinary health education and human service grant program to promote peer counseling and education.

Section Number:	Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 71 § 1 (West 1999)
Title:	Maintenance; Double Sessions; Subjects; Twelve-Month School Year
Summary:	Requires the advisory council on violence prevention to recommend for approval a model curriculum for grades kindergarten through 12 on violence prevention.

Pending Legislation

Bill Number:	2001 Massachusetts House Docket No. 4096/ 182nd General Court
Title:	Safe Schools
Summary:	Relates to safe schools.
Status:	Filed- 2/09/2001

Bill Number:	2001 Massachusetts House Bill No. 3116/ 182nd General Court
Title:	Gang Violence Prevention
Summary:	Youth and gang violence prevention.
Status:	In Joint Committee on Human Services and Elderly Affairs: Held in Committee.- 4/02/2001

Bill Number:	1999 Massachusetts House Bill No. 2490
Title:	Violence Prevention education Grant Program
Summary:	Relates to the establishment of a violence-prevention-education grant program by the Department of Education.
Status:	House Committee on Ways and Means- 4/1/99

Bill Number:	2001 Massachusetts House Docket No. 3350/ 182nd General Court
Title:	Violence Prevention Education License Plates
Summary:	Violence prevention education license plates.
Status:	Assigned House Bill No. 3173- 1/03/2001

Administrative Regulation

Regulation Number:	Mass. Regs. Code tit. 603 / 7.12
Title:	Competencies for Specific Certificates
Summary:	To obtain a standard teaching certificate in health the teacher must have attended a program which teaches decision-making, communication, conflict-resolution and life coping skills.