This checklist provides guidance to school districts developing emergency operations plans to meet federal and state requirements.

1. The board of trustees of each school district shall establish a development committee to develop one plan, which constitutes the minimum requirements of a plan, to be used by all the public schools other than the charter schools in the school district in responding to a crisis, emergency or suicide. The governing body of each charter school shall establish a development committee to develop a plan, which constitutes the minimum requirements of a plan, to be used by the charter school in responding to a crisis, emergency or suicide.

1. Each development committee established by the board of trustees of a school district shall develop one plan, which constitutes the minimum requirements of a plan, to be used by all the public schools other than the charter schools in the school district in responding to a crisis, emergency or suicide. Each development committee established by the governing body of a charter school shall develop a plan, which constitutes the minimum requirements of a plan, to be used by the charter school in responding to a crisis, emergency or suicide. Each development committee shall, when developing the plan: (a) Consult with local social service agencies and local public safety agencies in the county in which its school district or charter school is located. (b) If the school district has an emergency manager designated pursuant to NRS 388.262, consult with the emergency manager. (c) If the school district has school resource officers, consult with the school resource officer or a person designated by him or her. (d) If the school district has school police officers, consult with the chief of school police of the school district or a person designated by him or her. (e) Consult with the director of the local organization for emergency management or, if there is no local organization for emergency management, with the Chief of the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety or his or her designee. (f) Consult with the State Fire Marshal or his or her designee and a representative of a local government responsible for enforcement of the ordinances, codes or other regulations governing fire safety. (g) Determine which persons and organizations in the community, including, without limitation, a provider of mental health services which is operated by a state or local agency, that could be made available to assist pupils and staff in recovering from a crisis, emergency or suicide.
2. The plan developed pursuant to subsection 1 must include, without limitation: (a) The plans, procedures and information included in the model plan developed by the Department pursuant to NRS 388.253; (b) A procedure for responding to a crisis or an emergency and for responding during the period after a crisis or an emergency has concluded, including, without limitation, a crisis or an emergency that results in immediate physical harm to a pupil or employee of a school in the school district or the charter school; (c) A procedure for enforcing discipline within a school in the school district or the charter school and for obtaining and maintaining a safe and orderly environment during a crisis or an emergency; (d) The names of persons and organizations in the community, including, without limitation, a provider of mental health services which is operated by a state or local agency, that are available to provide counseling and other services to pupils and staff of the school to assist them in recovering from a crisis, emergency or suicide; (e) A plan for making the persons and organizations described in paragraph (d) available to pupils and staff after a crisis, emergency or suicide; (f) A procedure for responding to a crisis or an emergency that occurs during an extracurricular activity which takes place on school grounds; (g) A plan which includes strategies to assist pupils and staff at a school in recovering from a suicide; and (h) A description of the organizational structure which ensures there is a clearly defined hierarchy of authority and responsibility used by the school for the purpose of responding to a crisis, emergency or suicide.
3. Each development committee shall provide a copy of the plan that it develops pursuant to this section to the board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or the governing body of the charter school that established the committee.
4. The board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or the governing body of the charter school that established the committee shall submit for approval to the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety the plan developed pursuant to this section.
5. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 388.249 and 388.251, each public school must comply with the plan developed for it pursuant to this section.

1. Each development committee shall, at least once each year, review and update as appropriate the plan that it developed pursuant to NRS 388.243. In reviewing and updating the plan, the development committee shall consult with the director of the local organization for emergency management or, if there is no local organization for emergency management, with the Chief of the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety or his or her designee.
2. Each development committee shall provide an updated copy of the plan to the board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or the governing body of the charter school that established the committee.

1. Each development committee shall, at least once each year, review and update as appropriate the plan that it developed pursuant to NRS 388.243. In reviewing and updating the plan, the development committee shall consult with the director of the local organization for emergency management or, if there is no local organization for emergency management, with the Chief of the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety or his or her designee.
2. Each development committee shall provide an updated copy of the plan to the board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or the governing body of the charter school that established the committee.
3. On or before July 1 of each year, the board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or the governing body of the charter school that established the committee shall submit for approval to the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety the plan updated pursuant to subsection 1.
4. The board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school shall: (a) Post a notice of the completion of each review and update that its development committee performs pursuant to subsection 1 at each school in its school district or at its charter school; (b) File with the Department a copy of the notice provided pursuant to paragraph (a); (c) Post a copy of NRS 388.229 to 388.266, inclusive, at each school in its school district or at its charter school; (d) Retain a copy of each plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.243, each plan updated pursuant to subsection 1 and each deviation approved pursuant to NRS 388.251; (e) Provide a copy of each plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.243 and each plan updated pursuant to subsection 1 to: (1) Each local public safety agency in the county in which the school district or charter school is located; and (2) The local organization for emergency management, if any; (f) Upon request, provide a copy of each plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.243 and each plan updated pursuant to subsection 1 to a local agency that is included in the plan and to an employee of a school who is included in the plan; (g) Provide a copy of each deviation approved pursuant to NRS 388.251 as soon as practicable to: (1) The Department; (2) A local public safety agency in the county in which the school district or charter school is located; (3) The Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety; (4) The local organization for emergency management, if any; (5) A local agency that is included in the plan; and (6) An employee of a school who is included in the plan; and (h) At least once each year, provide training in responding to a crisis and training in responding to an emergency to each employee of the school district or of the charter school, including, without limitation, training concerning drills for evacuating and securing schools.
5. The board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school may apply for and accept gifts, grants and contributions from any public or private source to carry out the provisions of NRS 388.229 to 388.266, inclusive.

1. Each school committee shall, at least once each year, review the plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.243 and determine whether the school should deviate from the plan.
2. Each school committee shall, when reviewing the plan: (a) Consult with the local social service agencies and law enforcement agencies in the county, city or town in which its school is located. (b) Consult with the director of the local organization for emergency management or, if there is no local organization for emergency management, with the Chief of the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety or his or her designee. (c) Consider the specific needs and characteristics of the school, including, without limitation, the length of time for law enforcement to respond to the school and for a fire-fighting agency to respond to a fire, explosion or other similar emergency.
3. If a school committee determines that the school should deviate from the plan, the school committee shall notify the development committee that developed the plan, describe the proposed deviation and explain the reason for the proposed deviation. The school may deviate from the plan only if the deviation is approved by the development committee pursuant to NRS 388.251.
4. Each public school shall post at the school a notice of the completion of each review that the school committee performs pursuant to this section.

1. A development committee that receives a proposed deviation from a school committee pursuant to NRS 388.249 shall, within 60 days after it receives the proposed deviation: (a) Review the proposed deviation and any information submitted with the proposed deviation; and (b) Notify the school committee that submitted the proposed deviation whether the proposed deviation has been approved.
2. A development committee shall provide a copy of each deviation that it approves pursuant to this section to the board of trustees of the school district that established the committee or to the governing body of the charter school that established the committee.

1. The Department shall, with assistance from other state agencies, including, without limitation, the Division of Emergency Management, the Investigation Division, and the Nevada Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety, develop a model plan for the management of: (a) A suicide; or (b) A crisis or emergency that involves a public school or a private school and that requires immediate action.
2. The model plan must include, without limitation, a procedure for: (a) In response to a crisis or emergency: (1) Coordinating the resources of local, state and federal agencies, officers and employees, as appropriate; (2) Accounting for all persons within a school; (3) Assisting persons within a school in a school district, a charter school or a private school to communicate with each other; (4) Assisting persons within a school in a school district, a charter school or a private school to communicate with persons located outside the school, including, without limitation, relatives of pupils and relatives of employees of such a school, the news media and persons from local, state or federal agencies that are responding to a crisis or an emergency; (5) Assisting pupils of a school in the school district, a charter school or a private school, employees of such a school and relatives of such pupils and employees to move safely within and away from the school, including, without limitation, a procedure for evacuating the school and a procedure for securing the school; (6) Reunifying a pupil with his or her parent or legal guardian; (7) Providing any necessary medical assistance; (8) Recovering from a crisis or emergency; (9) Carrying out a lockdown at a school; (10) Providing shelter in specific areas of a school; and (11) Providing disaster behavioral health related to a crisis, emergency or suicide; (b) Providing specific information relating to managing a crisis or emergency that is a result of: (1) An incident involving hazardous materials; (2) An incident involving mass casualties; (3) An incident involving an active shooter; (4) An incident involving a fire, explosion or other similar situation; (5) An outbreak of disease; (6) Any threat or hazard identified in the hazard mitigation plan of the county in which the school district is located, if such a plan exists; or (7) Any other situation, threat or hazard deemed appropriate; (c) Providing pupils and staff at a school that has experienced a crisis or emergency with access to counseling and other resources to assist in recovering from the crisis or emergency; (d) Evacuating pupils and employees of a charter school to a designated space within an identified public middle school, junior high school or high school in a school district that is separate from the general population of the school and large enough to accommodate the charter school, and such a space may include, without limitation, a gymnasium or multipurpose room of the public school; (e) Selecting an assessment tool which assists in responding to a threat against the school by a pupil or pupils; (f) On an annual basis, providing drills to instruct pupils in the appropriate procedures to be followed in response to a crisis or an emergency. Such drills must occur: (1) At different times during normal school hours; and (2) In cooperation with other state agencies, pursuant to this section. (g) Responding to a suicide or attempted suicide to mitigate the effects of the suicide or attempted suicide on pupils and staff at the school, including, without limitation, by making counseling and other appropriate resources to assist in recovering from the suicide or attempted suicide available to pupils and staff; (h) Providing counseling and other appropriate resources to pupils and school staff who have contemplated or attempted suicide; (i) Outreach to persons and organizations located in the community in which a school that has had a suicide by a pupil, including, without limitation, religious and other nonprofit organizations, that may be able to assist with the response to the suicide; (j) Addressing the needs of pupils at a school that has experienced a crisis, emergency or suicide who are at a high risk of suicide, including, without limitation, pupils who are members of the groups described in subsection 3 of NRS 388.256; and (k) Responding to a pupil who is determined to be a person in mental health crisis, as defined in NRS 433A.0175, including, without limitation: (1) Utilizing mobile mental health crisis response units, where available, before transporting the pupil to a public or private mental health facility pursuant to subparagraph (2); and (2) Transporting the pupil to a public or private mental health facility or hospital for admission pursuant to NRS 433A.150.
3. In developing the model plan, the Department shall consider the plans developed pursuant to NRS 388.243 and 394.1687 and updated pursuant to NRS 388.245 and 394.1688.
4. The Department shall require a school district to ensure that each public school in the school district identified pursuant to paragraph (d) of subsection 2 is prepared to allow a charter school to evacuate to the school when necessary in accordance with the procedure included in the model plan developed pursuant to subsection 1. A charter school shall hold harmless, indemnify and defend the school district to which it evacuates during a crisis or an emergency against any claim or liability arising from an act or omission by the school district or an employee or officer of the school district.
5. The Department may disseminate to any appropriate local, state or federal agency, officer or employee, as the Department determines is necessary: (a) The model plan developed by the Department pursuant to subsection 1; (b) A plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.243 or updated pursuant to NRS 388.245; (c) A plan developed pursuant to NRS 394.1687 or updated pursuant to NRS 394.1688; and (d) A deviation approved pursuant to NRS 388.251 or 394.1692.
6. The Department shall, at least once each year, review and update as appropriate the model plan developed pursuant to subsection 1.

1. The superintendent of schools of each school district shall designate an employee at the district level to serve as the school safety specialist for the district. The principal of each charter school shall designate an employee to serve as the school safety specialist for the charter school. Not later than 1 year after being designated pursuant to this subsection, a school safety specialist shall complete the training provided by the Office for a Safe and Respectful Learning Environment pursuant to NRS 388.1323.
2. A school safety specialist shall: (a) Review policies and procedures of the school district or charter school, as applicable, that relate to school safety to determine whether those policies and procedures comply with state laws and regulations; (b) Ensure that each school employee who interacts directly with pupils as part of his or her job duties receives information concerning mental health services available in the school district or charter school, as applicable, and persons to contact if a pupil needs such services; (c) Ensure the provision to school employees and pupils of appropriate training concerning: (1) Mental health; (2) Emergency procedures, including, without limitation, the plan developed pursuant to NRS 388.243; and (3) Other matters relating to school safety and security; (d) Annually conduct a school security risk assessment and submit the school security risk assessment to the Office for a Safe and Respectful Learning Environment for review pursuant to NRS 388.1323; (e) Present a summary of the school security risk assessment conducted pursuant to paragraph (d) and any recommendations to improve school safety and security based on the assessment at a public meeting of the board of trustees of the school district or governing body of the charter school, as applicable; (f) Not later than 30 days after the meeting described in paragraph (e), provide to the Director a summary of the school security risk assessment, any recommendations to improve school safety and security based on the assessment and any actions taken by the board of trustees or governing body, as applicable, based on those recommendations; (g) Serve as the liaison for the school district or charter school, as applicable, with local public safety agencies, other governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations and the public regarding matters relating to school safety and security; (h) At least once every 3 years, provide a tour of each school in the district or the charter school, as applicable, to employees of public safety agencies that are likely to be first responders to a crisis, emergency or suicide at the school; and (i) Provide a written record to the board of trustees of the school district or the governing body of the charter school, as applicable, of any recommendations made by an employee of a public safety agency as a result of a tour provided pursuant to paragraph (h). The board of trustees or governing body, as applicable, shall maintain a record of such recommendations.
3. In a school district in a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the school safety specialist shall collaborate with the emergency manager designated pursuant to NRS 388.262 where appropriate in the performance of the duties prescribed in subsection 2.
4. As used in this section: (a) “Crisis” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 388.231. (b) “Emergency” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 388.233.