From the ECS State Policy Database Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary CT Signed into law 05/2013 P-12 Community Schools S.B. 1002 Allows local or regional boards of education to establish a community school or schools to participate with community partners to provide various educational and social services to students, families, and community members during hours when school is not in se... More... IL Passed 05/2013 P-12 Promise Neighborhood Grants H.R. 154 Urges Congress, the President of the United States, and the U.S. Department of Education to consider communities in the state, including communities in the City of Chicago, as Promise Neighborhoods and award grants as such. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/H... More... NM Signed into law 03/2013 P-12 Community Schools Act H.B. 542 Provides a strategy to organize the resources of a community to ensure student success while addressing the needs of the whole student. Attempts to partner federal, state and local entities with private community-based organizations to improve the coordination... More... DC Signed into law 07/2012 P-12 Community Schools Incentive, Title IV Bill 19-648 Requires the mayor to establish and administer the multiyear Community Schools Incentive Initiative to award multiyear grants to incentivize the establishment of no fewer than 5 new community schools, with priority given to schools that have: a focus on mental... More... WV Adopted 06/2012 P-12 Education Innovation Zones WV ADC s 126-75-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Background: Legislation authorizing the West Virginia Board of Education (WVBE) to designate Education Innovation Zones in schools, groups of schools and departments or subdivisions of a school or schools was entered into statute in October, 2009. The legislat... More... CT Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Family Resource Centers & School-Based Health Clinics S.B. 458 (Sec. 8) Directs the education commissioner to establish at least 10 new family resource centers and at least 20 new or expanded school-based health clinics in alliance districts (the 30 lowest-performing districts). By law, family resource centers are located... More... OR Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Early Childhood and Youth Councils H.B. 4165 Revises the purpose of the Early Learning Council to ensuring that children enter school ready to learn, determines responsibilities, membership and term limits and establishes the Early Learning Council Fund. Requires that the Early Learning Council implement... More... MN Signed into law 07/2011 P-12 Full-service School Zones H.F. 26 Allows a school board to establish full-service school zones and provide transportation for students in these zones. Provides that zones may be created for schools in areas with higher than average crime or other social and economic challenges that provide edu... More... KY Adopted 03/2011 P-12 Students with Chronic Health Conditions H.R. 187 Encourages the state department of education, the Kentucky Board of Nursing, the Kentucky Education Association, and the Kentucky School Boards Association to work with the American Diabetes Association, the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentucky, and the American Lu... More... WI Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Act 215 - Misc. Provisions S.B. 437 Requires boards annually to prepare budgets for each school in the district. Requires boards to collaborate with nonprofits and government agencies to provide comprehensive social services and educational support. Requires boards to provide alternative methods... More... CO Issued 03/2010 P-12 Governor's Early Childhood Leadership Commission Exec. Order B 2010-002 The Commission is to ensure and advance a comprehensive service delivery system for children from birth to age eight using data to improve decision-making, alignment, and coordination among federally-funded and state-funded services and programs. The Early Chi... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 "Help Me Grow" Advisory Council H.B. 1 - Section 3701.611 and 289.20 Establishes the "Help Me Grow" advisory council, to serve as the state interagency coordinating council, as described in 20 U.S.C. 1441. Establishes duties of the council. Authorizes the council to advise and assist the departments of health and education on t... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Service Coordination Workgroup H.B. 1 - Section 751.20 Establishes the Service Coordination Workgroup, consisting of a representative of 10 state offices/agencies, including the departments of education; health; job and family services; mental health; developmental disabilities; and youth services, and to be chair... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Council on Children and Families S.B. 1646 Creates the Council on Children and Families to coordinate the state's health, education and human services systems to ensure that children and families have access to needed services, and improve efficiency in the provision of services. Establishes council me... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Interagency Task Force for Children with Special Needs S.B. 1824 Defines "children with special needs" as children younger than 22 diagnosed with a chronic illness, intellectual or other developmental disability, or serious mental illness. Creates the Interagency Task Force for Children with Special Needs to improve the coo... More... IN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Board for the Coordination of Programs Serving Vulnerable Individuals H.B. 1289 - Section 1 Creates the board for the coordination of programs serving vulnerable individuals to coordinate the delivery of services to vulnerable individuals in need of services; requires the Superintendent of the Department of Education or designee to serve on the board... More... GA Adopted 03/2009 P-12 Grant Programs GAC 96-1-.01, .04, .05, .07 Establishes guidelines for the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Treatment grant program, the Abstinence Until Marriage grant program, the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program, and the Caring Communities grant program. Juvenile Delinquency Prevention ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 County/Local Board Collaboration S.B. 92 Modifies provisions regarding local governmental entity and school district cooperation in education matters. Allows a representative of county government to attend and participate in the board discussions at local school board meetings. Requires local boards ... More... IL Signed into law 08/2008 P-12 Postsec. Community College Commission on Children and Youth H.B. 4456 Creates the Commission on Children and Youth Act. Provides for membership, appointments, goals, recommendations, and reports. Provides that the Early Learning Council must have primary responsibility for development of a five-year strategic plan for children a... More... LA Signed into law 07/2008 P-12 Integrated Services for At Risk Students S.B. 701 Provides for integrated case management through the use of No Wrong Door; relates to disadvantaged children and their families; relates to student achievement, truancy intervention, drop out prevention, family safety and stability, foster care and adoption, pr... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Family Resource and Youth Services Centers S.B. 192 Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Pro... More... NY Vetoed 12/2007 P-12 Postsec. College-Linked Senior Living Community S.B. 2139 Directs the department of health to approve the establishment of a college-linked senior living community that has a formal, jointly defined program in collaboration with a local college offering degree programs in gerontology and allied health professions to ... More... IL Adopted 07/2007 P-12 Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants 23 IAC 555.10 thru .160, and Appendix A Creates new Part of rules, "Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants." Subpart A, "School Mental Health Support Grants," (pages 136-141 of 201 http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume31_issue30.pdf) includes the following ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Truancy and Assessment and Service Centers S.B. 187 Gives permanent status to truancy and assessment and service centers (which were initially established through a pilot program). Deletes language directing the Families in Need of Services program to serve in a coordinating and facilitating capacity for the ce... More... TX Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Withholding Funding When Goals Not Met H.B. 1609 Codifies provisions concerning program performance goals, objectives, and measures and provides the commissioner of education authority to withhold funding from a Communities In Schools (CIS) program that consistently fails to achieve performance criteria. (CI... More... MD Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Student Self-Injury Prevention H.B. 1046 Requires the State Superintendent of Schools, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to establish and promote in schools in the State a public awareness campaign related to self-injury by cutting; provides for the components of the ... More... ID Signed into law 03/2007 P-12 Teen Early Intervention Mental Health and Substance Abuse Specialist Program S.B. 1147 Defines "teens at risk" as public school students in grades 7-12 who have been identified as expressing or exhibiting indications of depression, suicidal inclination, emotional trauma, substance abuse or other behaviors or symptoms that indicate the existenc... More... ID Issued 04/2006 P-12 Executive Office for Families and Children Executive Order 2006-09 Establishes the Executive Office for Families and Children. Provides that the duties of the council include: A. Coordinating all boards, councils, commissions, and initiatives as recommended by the Governor, within the Executive Office of the Governor with ... More... ID Issued 04/2006 P-12 Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children Executive Order 2006-15 Continues the "Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children" within the governor's office. Provides that the objectives for the Coordinating Council are to: a. Maintain a comprehensive inventory of resources and programs serving families and chi... More... MD Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Integrated Children and Family Programs for At Risk Youth S.B. 882 Establishes an advisory council to the children's cabinet to make recommendations to the children's cabinet on methods for meeting the policy and program goals of the state for integrated children and family programs, coordinate state programs with local progr... More... KY Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council S.J.R. 184 Encourages the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council; establishes membership and permits the creation of subcommittees of the council; requires the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension S... More... TN Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Family Resource Centers S.B. 2115 Sets the purpose of each family resource center: to maximize the potential learning capacity of the child by ensuring that school environments and neighborhoods are safe and socially enriching, that families are strong and able to protect children and meet the... More... MT Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 SCHOOL DISTRICT TUITION LAWS H.B. 83 AN ACT REVISING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TUITION LAWS; REQUIRING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO PAY TUITION FOR CHILDREN WHO ATTEND SCHOOL OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE BECAUSE OF PLACEMENT IN FOSTER CARE OR A GROUP HOME; ELIMINATING THE REQUIRE... More... MD (H) THIRD READING PASSED (131-0) 04/2005 P-12 Children in State-Supervised Care - Transfer of Educational Records S.B. 426 Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; r... More... MD Vetoed 04/2005 P-12 Department of Juvenile Services Educational Programs - Private Residential Rehabilitative Institutions S.B. 503 Requiring private residential rehabilitative institutions to develop and implement a specified educational program; requiring a specified educational program to be approved by the State Department of Education before the program is implemented; providing for t... More... MD (S) THIRD READING PASSED WITH AMENDMENTS (44-2) 04/2005 P-12 Department of Juvenile Services Educational Programs - Private Residential Rehabilitative Institutions H.B. 1148 Requiring private residential rehabilitative institutions to develop and implement a specified educational program; requiring a specified educational program to be approved by the State Department of Education before the program is implemented; providing for t... More... MD (S) THIRD READING PASSED (46-0) 04/2005 P-12 Children in State-Supervised Care - Transfer of Educational Records H.B. 1259 Requiring a placement agency responsible for a child in State-supervised care, or the agency's designee, to provide notice to a public school or a specified nonpublic school regarding the enrollment or imminent enrollment of a child in State-supervised care; r... More... VA Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Virginia Interagency Coordinating Council S.B. 1188 Authorizes the state lead agency for early intervention to contract with local lead agencies for the implementation of local early intervention systems statewide. Under the bill, a local lead agency shall have the duty to (i) establish and administer a local s... More... CA Signed into law 09/2004 P-12 Special Education: Mental Health Services S.B. 1895 Relates to referral of a pupil suspected of needing mental health services to a community health service by a local education agency, providing mental health services to students with exceptional needs, monitoring of compliance to provide mental health service... More... LA Signed into law 07/2004 P-12 Early Intervention Program for At Risk Children H.B. 956 Authorizes the creation of an early intervention pilot program in certain parishes, to address the underlying causes of behavioral problems and school performance problems related to behavior. Authorizes local boards, law enforcement agencies, courts with jur... More... LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Juvenile Service Center Truancy and Assessment H.B. 1527 Authorizes any parish in the state, not just pre-existing pilot program parishes, to create truancy and assessment and service centers. Louisiana State University's office of social services research and development to develop and implement a monitoring and ev... More... LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Special Education H.B. 258 Specifies that children with exceptionalities enrolled in state-operated facilities and receiving special education services provided by the special school district shall be enrolled as residents of such facilities, and that eligible children enrolled in state... More... LA Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 School Employees H.B. 1163 Permits city, parish, or other local public or nonpublic school systems to contract with local law enforcement agencies to provide for school resource officers. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT3/OUT/0000LV4G.PDF... More... AR Signed into law 02/2004 P-12 Family Resource Centers H.B. 1091 Provides for family resource centers to remove nonacademic barriers to academic success; authorizes use of national school lunch funds for this program; provides that the State Child Abuse and Prevention Board shall determine which schools are priority element... More... GA Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Child Abuse Records S.B. 201 Relates to child abuse and deprivation records; permits the Department of Human Resources to share access to child abuse records and release information from such records to the Office of School Readiness, includes principals, guidance counselors, school socia... More... OR Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Community Learning Centers S.B. 158 Includes community learning centers as part of services to children and families system. http://pub.das.state.or.us/LEG_BILLS/PDFs/ESB158.pdf... More... WA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Children's Mental Health H.B. 1784 Improves coordination of services for children's mental health; improves field-level cross-program collaboration and efficiency, the early periodic screening diagnosis and treatment plan to reflect the current mental health system structure and identifying and... More... TX Became law without governor's signature 05/2003 P-12 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs S.B. 491 Requires the Texas Education Agency, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, the Texas Department of Health, and the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, shall assess existing school-based mental health and subs... More... TN Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Child Immunization Records S.B. 1938 Includes third party payors or carriers regulated by department of commerce and insurance and self- insured entities as entities authorized to share information regarding child immunization records; relates to schools, child care facilities, and other institut... More... NM Signed into law 04/2003 P-12 Youth Council Act S.B. 425 Creates a youth council within the children, youth and families department; enacts the Youth Council Act; youth membership shall be provided by educational advisors, faith-based organizations and community-based youth-serving organizations; provides that meeti... More... NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Family and Youth Services Program H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Adds Section 66, which allows any school to create a family and youth resources program to provide an intermediary for students and families to access social and health care services. Any school with at least 80% of students eligible for free & reduced lunch ... More... KY Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Interlocal Cooperation Agreements S.B. 133 Includes any county or independent school district in the definition of "public agency" as related to interlocal cooperation agreements. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB133/bill.doc... More... VA Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Comprehensive Community Police and Management H.B. 1714 Relates to the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; relates to the comprehensive assessment and planning team referral; requires the council to review and approve a request by such team to establish a collaberative... More... AZ Issued 01/2003 P-12 Governor's Children's Cabinet Executive Order 2003-04 Establishes a Children's Cabinet to focus attention and resources on problems facing the state's children by collaborating and promoting coordinated policies and service delivery systems that support children, families and communities. Establishes an Advisory ... More... MI Rejected by voters 11/2002 P-12 Reallocation of tobacco settlement revenue Proposal 02-4 Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to reallocate tobacco settlement revenue on a permanent annual basis funding to certain entities, including nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices, nurse practitioners, school-linked health cent... More... NY Signed into law 07/2002 P-12 Coordinated Services S.B. 7516 Establishes a coordinated children's services initiative for children with emotional and/or behavioral disorders, within the council on children and families, to provide effective collaboration among State and local health, mental hygiene, education, juvenile ... More... CT Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Colocation of Family Resource Centers and School-Based Health Clinics H.B. 5179 Mandates that the Commissioner of Education and Public Health create plan for the colocation where possible of family resource centers and school-based health clinics in order to improve access to services and to make the delivery of services more cost-efficie... More... AZ Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Pilot Cooperative Special Education Program H.B. 2702 Establishes three-year pilot project for cooperative programs for low incidence pupils. Establishes an advisory committee to assist in establishment of the pilot project for cooperative programs for certain groups of pupils with low incidence disabilities. Def... More... MD Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Special Needs Children and the State School-Based Health Center Policy Advisory Council H.B. 1386 Renames State Coordinating Countil for Residential Placement of Handicapped Children as State Coordinating Council for Children. Adds Maryland School-Based Health Care Center Policy Advisory Council; State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect; and State Commiss... More... IN Signed into law 03/2002 P-12 Postsec. Interagency Task Force S.B. 290 Requires the Director of the Division of Special Education to coordinate an interagency task force to review services and funding sources available for children and young adults with disabilities and their families.... More... OR Signed into law 07/2001 P-12 Community Learning Centers H.B. 2082 Directs the Departments of Education, Human Services, the State Commission on Children and Families and the Criminal Justice Commission to support development and implementation of community learning centers; requires specified State and local entities to expl... More... OR Signed into law 06/2001 P-12 Interagency Shared Information System S.B. 400 Modifies the Interagency Shared Information System; defines participating State agency or organization for system; directs the Employment Department to establish system for collecting, analyzing and sharing data for development of education, training and emplo... More... AR Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Social Workers H.B. 2380 Provides licensed social workers to serve the needs of children enrolled in public schools in Arkansas.... More... AR Signed into law 03/2001 P-12 Repeals Governor's Partnership Council H.B. 1633 Repeals the Governor's Partnership Council and the Intervention and Prevention Grant Program for Arkansas School Children.... More... NY Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Payments to Medical Centers for Serving Preschool Students with Handicaps S.B. 6735 Authorizes medical assistance payments to certain clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers for services they render to preschool children with disabilities.... More... OK Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Partnership for School Readiness S.B. 1597 Creates the Partnership for School Readiness Act to facilitate community collaboration of efforts and services that will prepare children to enter school healthy and ready to succeed. Goal also to stress importance of reading to children for 15 minutes per da... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council H.B. 418 Establishes an Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council; provides for the membership and organization of the Council; defines the responsibilities of the Council; establishes an interagency advisory committee to the Council; provides for the m... More... OK Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Prevention of Violence H.B. 2168 States legislative intent to address school violence through prevention. Authorizes districts to contract with nonprofit agencies or community-based service providers for the appropriate personnel and services and to seek any available funding, including the ... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Projects for Youth H.B. 2807 Authorizes blended funding projects for youth; defines youth eligibility for the projects; directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services to transfer appropriated funds to support blended fund... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Office of Comprehensive Services H.B. 1510 Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; assumes the responsibilities of the State Management Team to develop programs and fiscal policies that promote and suppo... More...