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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL NO. 101 By: Pemberton, Garvin, Weaver,
and Bullard of the Senate
and
Lowe (Dick) of the House
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
An Act relating to school security; creating the
School Resource Officer Grant Program; directing
State Department of Education to administer program;
providing for program purp ose; establishing program
qualifications; providing duties for program school
resource officers; requiring completion of certain
law enforcement training; defining term; providing
for codification; providing an effective date; and
declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STA TE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as S ection 5-148.2 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The State Department of Education shall establish and
maintain the School Resource Officer Grant Program.
B. The purpose of the School Resource Officer G rant Program
shall be to improve school safety and enhance campus security by
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providing startup grants for school resource officer programs at
public and private schools in rural or underserved areas.
C. To qualify for an award from the program, a public school
district shall agree to:
1. Employ a school resource officer or enter into a contract or
memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement a gency for
the services of a school resource officer; and
2. Provide fifty percent (50%) matching fun ds, which may be
provided in partnership with a local law enforcement agency.
D. Duties of a school resource officer employed or contracted
by school districts participating in the School Resource Officer
Grant Program shall include but shall not be limit ed to assisting
school administration in ensuring the physical safety of school
buildings and the individuals in the school buildings and shall not
include student discipline issues that administration personnel are
required to handle.
E. School resource officers employed or contracted by school
districts participating in the School Resource Officer Grant 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.
F. For purposes of this section, "school resource officer"
means a law enforcement officer with sworn authority and trainin g in
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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. This act shall become effective Jul y 1, 2023.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health , or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof th is act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after it s passage and approval.
59-1-8222 JM 04/13/23