Minnesota HF5018: School safety plans enhanced, anonymous threat reporting system established, circumstances when firearms are permitted on school property modified, additional student support personnel aid provided, and money appropriated.

What the bill says

A bill for an act relating to school safety; enhancing school safety plans; establishing an anonymous threat reporting system; modifying circumstances when firearms are permitted on school property; providing for additional student support personnel aid; requiring reports; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 121A.035; 609.66, subdivision 1d; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 124D.901, subdivision 3; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 121A.

From the introduced text, April 17, 2026:

A bill for an act relating to school safety; enhancing school safety plans; establishing an anonymous threat reporting system; modifying circumstances when firearms are permitted on school property; providing for additional student support personnel aid; requiring reports; appropriating money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 121A.035; 609.66, subdivision 1d; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 124D.901, subdivision 3; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 121A. Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 121A.035, is amended to read: 121A.035 CRISIS MANAGEMENT POLICY. Subdivision 1. Model policy. The commissioner shall maintain and make available to school boards and charter schools a model crisis management policy that includes, among other items, cardiac emergency response plans, new text begin [ADDED: a model school safety plan under section 121A.036, ] new text end school lock-down and tornado drills, consistent with subdivision 2, and school fire drills under section 299F.30. Subd. 2. School district and charter school policy. (a) A school board and a charter school must adopt a crisis management policy to address potential violent crisis situations in the district or charter school. The policy must be developed cooperatively with administrators, teachers, employees, students, parents, community members, law enforcement agencies, other emergency management officials, county attorney offices, social service agencies, emergency medical responders, and any other appropriate individuals or organizations. The policy must include at …