(e) The district board of education shall:

• 2. Develop a process for annually discussing with students the school district's harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy;
• 3. Annually conduct a re-evaluation, reassessment, and review of its harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy, and any report(s) and/or finding(s) of the school safety/school climate team(s). The district board of education also shall make any necessary revision(s) to its policy, consistent with N.J.S.A. 18A:37-15.c.
• i. The programs or other responses shall be planned in consultation with, at a minimum, parents and other community members, school employees, law enforcement, school volunteers, students, and school administrators;
• 4. Annually establish, implement, document, and assess bullying prevention programs or approaches and other initiatives designed to create schoolwide conditions to prevent or intervene in harassment, intimidation, and bullying in schools of the school district.
• i. Programs, approaches, and initiatives shall be planned in consultation with, at a minimum, parents and other community members, school employees, law enforcement, school volunteers, students, and school administrators; and
• 5. Submit to the executive county superintendent a copy of its approved harassment, intimidation, and bullying policy within 30 days of its adoption or revision.

c. A school district shall adopt a policy and transmit a copy of its policy to the appropriate executive county superintendent of schools by September 1, 2003. A school district shall annually conduct a re-evaluation, reassessment, and review of its policy, making any necessary revisions and additions. The board shall include input from the school anti-bullying specialists in conducting its re-evaluation, reassessment, and review. The district shall transmit a copy of the revised policy to the appropriate executive county superintendent of schools within 30 school days of the revision. The first revised policy following the effective date of P.L.2010, c.122 (C.18A:37-13.1 et al.) shall be transmitted to the executive county superintendent of schools by September 1, 2011.

a. A school district’s policy on prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying adopted pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2002, c.83 (C.18A:37-15), shall be amended, if necessary, to reflect the provisions of P.L.2007, c.129 (C.18A:37-15.1 et al.). The district shall transmit a copy of the amended policy to the appropriate county superintendent of schools. Notice of the amended policy shall appear in any publication of the school district that sets forth the comprehensive rules, procedures and Standard of conduct for schools within the school district, and in any student handbook. b. In the event that a school district’s policy on prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying adopted pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2002, c.83 (C.18A:37-15) does not accord with the provisions of subsection a. of this section by the 90th day following the effective date of this act, the district’s existing policy prohibiting harassment, intimidation or bullying shall be deemed to include an “electronic communication” as defined in section 2 of P.L.2002, c.83 (C.18A:37-14) as amended by section 1 of P.L.2007, c.129.

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.