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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="6-122" title_number="6" title_name="Teachers and Other Personnel" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Personnel Matters">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in § 6–704.1 of this title and beginning on or before July 1, 2018, the State Board shall require all certificated school personnel who have direct contact with students on a regular basis to complete training on or before December 1 each year, by a method determined by each county board, in the skills required to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Understand and respond to youth suicide risk;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Identify professional resources to help students in crisis;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Recognize student behavioral health issues;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Recognize students experiencing trauma or violence out of school and refer students to behavioral health services; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>If the school is a community school, support any students needing the services at a community school.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The training required under subsection (a) of this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Provided to certificated school personnel during an in–service program; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A professional development requirement that may be met during time designated for professional development.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The State Board shall adopt regulations to implement this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This section may not be construed to impose a duty of care on certificated school personnel who complete training under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Unless the acts or omissions of a certificated school employee who completed training under subsection (a) of this section are willful, wanton, or grossly negligent, a person may not bring an action against the county board for personal injury or wrongful death caused by any act or omission resulting from:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Any training or lack of training of certificated school personnel under subsection (a) of this section; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The implementation of the training required under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
