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Legislative Council Staff
Nonpartisan Services for Colorado’s Legislature
Final Fiscal Note
Drafting Number:
Prime Sponsors:
LLS 24-0179
Rep. Parenti; Hamrick
Date:
Bill Status:
Fiscal Analyst:
June 5, 2024
Postponed Indefinitely
Clayton Mayfield | 303-866-5851
clayton.mayfield@coleg.gov
Bill Topic: SCHOOL SAFETY MEASURES
Summary of
Fiscal Impact:
☒ State Revenue
☒ State Expenditure
☐ State Transfer
☐ TABOR Refund
☒ Local Government
☐ Statutory Public Entity
The bill would have modified requirements for school security officers, and when and
how firearms may be stored on school grounds. The bill would have increased state
and local workload in FY 2024-25 only. It may have increased state revenue and
expenditures in future fiscal years.
Appropriation
Summary:
No appropriation was required.
Fiscal Note
Status:
The final fiscal note reflects the introduced bill. This bill was postponed indefinitely by
the House Education Committee on April 11, 2024; therefore, the impacts identified in
this analysis do not take effect.
Summary of Legislation
The bill outlines who qualifies as a school security officer, establishes requirements for persons
who are employed or contracted as school security officers, and modifies the conditions to carry
a weapon on school properties, as described below.
School security officers. Security officers are individuals employed or retained by local
education providers whose primary duties involve security of persons and school grounds, and
excludes other school staff and resource officers. Security officers can only be employed if
certain training, education, and background check requirements are met, and if the school has a
policy regarding security officer duties.
Carrying firearms on school property. Additionally, the bill:
exempts security and resource officers from the crime of unlawfully carrying a weapon on
school grounds instead of any employee carrying a weapon as part of their duties;
allows school security officers to conceal carry on school property if they complete the
requirements listed above; and
specifies where firearms must be stored on school grounds. Page 2
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Finally, the bill prohibits the State Board of Education from waiving any of these requirements.
Comparable Crime Analysis
Legislative Council Staff is required to include certain information in the fiscal note for any bill
that creates a new crime, changes the classification of an existing crime, or creates a new factual
basis for an existing crime. The following section outlines crimes that are comparable to the
offense in this bill and discusses assumptions on future rates of criminal convictions resulting
from the bill.
Prior conviction data. This bill creates a new factual basis for the existing offense of unlawfully
carrying a firearm on school grounds, a class 5 felony, by restricting exceptions to this offense
for school personnel. From FY 2020-21 to FY 2022-23, 23 persons were convicted and sentenced
for this offense. Of the persons convicted, 23 were male, and 2 were female. Demographically,
17 were White, 5 were Black/African American, and 3 were Hispanic.
Assumptions. The fiscal note assumes that individuals convicted for this offense were not
school personnel covered by current exceptions, that school personnel will follow the law, and
that there will be minimal or no additional case filings or convictions for this offense under the
bill. Because the bill is not expected to have a tangible impact on criminal justice-related
expenditures or revenue at the state or local levels, these potential impacts are not discussed
further in this fiscal note. Visit leg.colorado.gov/fiscalnotes for more information about criminal
justice costs in fiscal notes.
State Revenue and Expenditures
Department of Education. The bill may increase workload in the Colorado Department of
Education (CDE) to promulgate rules and to respond to requests for assistance from school
districts regarding the requirements of the bill. This increase is expected to be minimal and no
change in appropriations is required.
Department of Law. The Department of Law (DOL) may be required to provide legal services to
the CDE to assist with rule promulgation, but this activity can be absorbed within existing
resources. Additionally, to the extent that more individuals attend school resource officer
training offered by the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board, fee revenue to and
expenditures from the POST Cash Fund will increase. Overall, the fiscal note assumes these
increases to be minimal and no change in appropriations is required.
School District
It is unknown how many school districts or charter schools currently employee school security
officers rather than school resource officers, or how many security officers carry a firearm as part
of their duties. To the extent that these school employee security officers, the bill increases
workload to ensure the requirements of the bill are met. Page 3
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Effective Date
The bill takes effect 90 days following adjournment of the General Assembly sine die, assuming
no referendum petition is filed.
State and Local Government Contacts
Education Higher Education Judicial
Law Natural Resources
The revenue and expenditure impacts in this fiscal note represent changes from current law under the bill for each
fiscal year. For additional information about fiscal notes, please visit the General Assembly website.