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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
HOUSE BILL 1181 By: Hardin
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; amending Section 1,
Chapter 281, O.S.L. 2023, as amended by Section 1,
Chapter 354, O.S.L. 2024 and Section 2 , Chapter 281,
O.S.L. 2023, as amended by Section 2, Chapter 408,
O.S.L. 2024 (70 O.S. Supp. 2024, Sections 5 -148.1 and
5-148.2), which relate to school resource officers;
extending school resource officer pilot program to
five years; increasing School Sec urity Revolving Fund
cap; providing an effective date; and declaring an
emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY Section 1, Chapter 281, O.S.L.
2023, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 354, O.S.L. 2024 (70 O.S.
Supp. 2024, Section 5 -148.1), is amended to read as follows:
Section 5-148.1. A. The State Department of Education shall
establish and maintain a three-year five-year pilot program known as
the School Resource Office r 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
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response training given by the Council on Law Enfor cement Education
and Training (CLEET) and approved by the Department of Public
Safety.
C. 1. A school district participating in the School Resource
Officer Program shall give first priority to employing or
contracting with a law enforcement officer with sworn authority and
training in school-based law enforcement and crisis respon se who is
assigned by an employing law enforcement agency to work
collaboratively with one or more schools using community -oriented
policing concepts.
2. If a law enforcement ag ency that serves the area in which a
school district is located is unwilling or unable to provide a law
enforcement officer described in paragraph 1 of this subsection, a
participating school district may employ or contract with a retired
law enforcement officer or an armed security guard who is licensed
pursuant to the Oklahoma Sec urity Guard and Private Investigator
Act. The law enforcement agency that serves the area in which the
school district is located shall preauthorize any individual
employed or contracted with under this paragraph. The school shall
require a background check on the individual. The law enforcement
agency that serves the area in which the school district is located
shall allow an authorized individual employed or contracted with t he
school district access to the preauthorizing agency 's radio system,
pursuant to this paragraph, and a police band radio system which may
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be used by the individual in the performance of his or her duties to
be paid for by the employing district. A schoo l district may use
funds from the School Security Revolving Fund created pursuant to
Section 5-148.2 of this title to cover the cost of the radio system.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY Section 2, Chapter 281, O.S.L.
2023, as amended by Sec tion 2, Chapter 408, O.S.L. 2024 (70 O.S.
Supp. 2024, Section 5 -148.2), is amended to read as follows:
Section 5-148.2. 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 oth er 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 O fficer
Program; and
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2. Providing physical security enhancements for schools
including, but not limited to, school resource officers, cameras,
gates, lighting, locks, doors, windows, security geofencing,
ballistic storm shelters, and mobile panic alert sys tems.
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 Enterpri se Services for approval and payment.
Expenditures from the School Security Revolving Fund shall not
exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00) Seventy-five Million
Dollars ($75,000,000.00) 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, 2025.
SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary for the pr eservation
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.
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