ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2903 By: Wallace, Martinez, Luttrell, and Baker of the House
and
Thompson
(Roger), Hall, Pugh, and Stephens of the Senate
An Act relating to school security; creating a pilot program
known as the School Resource Officer Program; directing State Department of
Education to administer program; requiring completion of certain law
enforcement training; defining term; creating the School Security Revolving
Fund; designating Department to administer fund; specifying source of funds and
expenditures from fund; providing procedures for payment of expenditures;
limiting annual expenditures from fund; providing for codification; providing
an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
SUBJECT: School security
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.
NEW LAW A new section of law
to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5-148.1 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Department
of Education shall establish and maintain a three-year pilot program known as
the School Resource Officer Program.
B. School resource
officers employed or contracted by school districts participating in the School
Resource Officer Program shall successfully complete law enforcement active
shooter emergency response training given by the Council on Law Enforcement
Education and Training (CLEET) and approved by the Oklahoma Department of
Public Safety.
C.
For purposes of this section, "school resource officer" means
a law enforcement officer with sworn authority and training in school-based law
enforcement and crisis response who is assigned by an employing law enforcement
agency to work collaboratively with one or more schools using
community-oriented policing concepts.
SECTION 2.
NEW LAW A new section of law
to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 5-148.2 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby
created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Department of
Education to be designated the "School Security Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not
subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by
the State Department of Education from:
1. Reimbursements,
grants, or other monies received from other state agencies and entities for
school security;
2. Reimbursements,
grants, or other monies received from the United States government obligated to
school security projects;
3. Gifts, donations, and
bequests; and
4. Monies appropriated or
apportioned by the Legislature.
B. All monies accruing to
the credit of the School Security Revolving Fund are hereby appropriated and
may be budgeted and expended by the State Department of Education for the
purposes of:
1. Establishing and
maintaining a School Resource Officer Program; and
2. Providing physical
security enhancements for schools including, but not limited to, school
resource officers, cameras, gates, lighting, locks, doors, windows, security
geofencing, and ballistic storm shelters.
Monies in
the School Security Revolving Fund shall supplement and not supplant existing
school security funding.
C. Expenditures from the
School Security Revolving Fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State
Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the
Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. Expenditures from the School Security
Revolving Fund shall not exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) in any
fiscal year and shall be divided equally among every public school district in
the state.
SECTION 3.
This act shall become effective July 1, 2023.
SECTION 4.
It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace,
health, or safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof
this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and
approval.
Passed the
House of Representatives the 17th day of May, 2023.
Presiding
Officer of the House
of
Representatives
Passed the Senate the 19th day of
May, 2023.
Presiding
Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office
of the Governor this ____________________ day of ___________________,
20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By:
_________________________________
Approved by the
Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of ___________________,
20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of
the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office
of the Secretary of State this __________ day of ___________________,
20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By:
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