(a) Each district board of education shall develop, adopt, and implement a policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation, or bullying on school grounds, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:37-15.

• 2. Each district board of education shall have control over the content of the policy, except that the policy shall contain, at a minimum, the following components:
• xiv. A statement of how the harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy is to be publicized, including notice that the policy applies to participation in school-sponsored functions and on school buses.
• (1) Notice of the district board of education's policy shall appear in any publication of the school district that sets forth the code of student conduct, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 6A:16-7.1, for schools within the school district;
• xv. A requirement that a link to the harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy be posted prominently on the home page of the school district's and each school's website;
• xvi. A requirement that the harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy be distributed annually to all school staff, students, and parents.

b. A school district shall have local control over the content of the policy, except that the policy shall contain, at a minimum, the following components:

• (10) a statement of how the policy is to be publicized, including notice that the policy applies to participation in school-sponsored functions;
• (11) a requirement that a link to the policy be prominently posted on the home page of the school district’s website and distributed annually to parents and guardians who have children enrolled in a school in the school district; and
• (12) a requirement that the name, school phone number, school address and school email address of the district anti-bullying coordinator be listed on the home page of the school district’s website and that on the home page of each school’s website the name, school phone number, school address and school email address of the school anti-bullying specialist and the district anti-bullying coordinator be listed. The information concerning the district anti-bullying coordinator and the school anti-bullying specialists shall also be maintained on the department’s website.

Within 60 days of the effective date of this section each school district shall amend its bullying policy in accordance with section 3 of P.L.2002, c.83 (C.18A:37-15) as amended by section 7 of P.L.2007, c.303, make the policy available on the district’s website, and notify students and parents that the policy is available on the district’s website.