Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB174 Compare Versions

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4	4	By Senators Orr, Livingston, Butler, Allen, Waggoner, Roberts,
5	5	Jones
6	6	RFD: Finance and Taxation Education
7	7	First Read: 05-Apr-23
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13	13	6 8MQIHF-1 03/29/2023 SS (F)SS 2023-623
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under existing law, a retiree receiving an
17	17	Employees' Retirement System or Teachers' Retirement
18	18	System allowance may perform duties with an employer
19	19	participating in the system without suspension of the
20	20	retirement allowance, provided the person is not
21	21	employed in a permanent full-time capacity and the
22	22	compensation does not exceed $30,000 plus Consumer
23	23	Price Index adjustments after 2017.
24	24	This bill would provide further for the
25	25	compensation earned by retired law enforcement officers
26	26	working as school resource officers for local boards of
27	27	education.
28	28	A BILL
29	29	TO BE ENTITLED
30	30	AN ACT
31	31	Relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and the
32	32	Employees' Retirement System; to amend Section 16-1-44.1, Code
33	33	of Alabama 1975; to provide further for the compensation of
34	34	retired law enforcement officers providing services as school
35	35	resource officers for local boards of education.
36	36	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
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66	66	Section 1. Section 16-1-44.1 of the Code of Alabama
67	67	1975, is amended to read as follows:
68	68	"§16-1-44.1
69	69	(a) As used in this section, the following terms have
70	70	the following meanings:
71	71	(1) RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. A person who was a
72	72	law enforcement officer and retired in good standing from a
73	73	federal, state, or local law enforcement agency with at least
74	74	20 years of law enforcement experience.
75	75	(2) SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER. A person who is certified
76	76	by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training
77	77	Commission as a law enforcement officer, whose certification
78	78	is in good standing, and who has the power of arrest.
79	79	(b) A local board of education may employ persons as
80	80	school security personnel or contract with a local chief of
81	81	police or sheriff to employ school resource officers. A local
82	82	board of education may allow any person employed by the board
83	83	as school security personnel or as a school resource officer
84	84	to carry a firearm while on duty if the employee satisfies all
85	85	of the following qualifications:
86	86	(1) He or she is certified by the Alabama Peace
87	87	Officers' Standards and Training Commission as a law
88	88	enforcement officer whose certification is in good standing or
89	89	he or she is a retired law enforcement officer.
90	90	(2) He or she has successfully completed active shooter
91	91	training approved by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency.
92	92	(3) He or she annually completes and passes the firearm
93	93	requalification required of law enforcement officers by the
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123	123	Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission.
124	124	(4) While on duty, he or she carries a non-lethal
125	125	weapon and is trained in the appropriate use of that
126	126	non-lethal weapon.
127	127	(c) The compensation paid to a retired law enforcement
128	128	officer employed by a local board of education as a school
129	129	resource officer for hours worked after regular school hours
130	130	for extracurricular activities shall be paid on a contractual
131	131	basis and shall not be included in the calculation of the
132	132	limits set forth by Sections 16-25-26(a) and 36-27-8.2(a).
133	133	(c)(d) Nothing in this section confers upon any
134	134	individual the power of arrest.
135	135	(d)(e) The State Department of Education shall adopt
136	136	any necessary rules to provide for the implementation of this
137	137	section including, but not limited to, rules providing
138	138	additional qualifications for employment as school security
139	139	personnel or school resource officers."
140	140	Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first
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142	142	the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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