Signed by Governor Kevin Stitt

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes school resource officer programs.

Highlights:

• Requires that the State Department of Education establish and maintain a 3-year School Resource Officer Program (Sec. 1).

• Requires that school resource officers employed or contracted by participating school districts successfully complete law enforcement active shooter emergency response training from the Council on LAw Enforcement Education and Training and approved by the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (Sec. 1).

• Defines school resource officer to mean 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 (Sec. 1).

• Establishes the School Security Revolving Fund, a fund not subject to fiscal year limitations that consists of all monies received by the State Department of Education from (Sec. 2):

• Reimbursements and other moonies from state agencies and entities for school security;

• Reimbursements and other monies received from the United States government obligated to school security projects;

• Gifts and donations;

• Money appropriated by the Legislature.

• Authorizes all monies accruing credit in the Fund to be budgeted and expended by the Department of Education for establishing and maintaining a School Resource Officer Program, and providing physical security enhancements for schools (Sec. 2).

• Requires that the School Security Revolving Fund supplement, not replace existing school security funding (Sec. 2).

• Requires that expenditures from the Fund not exceed $50,000,000 in any fiscal year and be divided equally among each public school district in the state (Sec. 2).

• Specifies that this Act takes effect in full after its passage and approval (Sec. 4).

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