Adopted

AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

House Bill No. 1982

BY: Representative Grady

     AMEND by inserting the following after line 299:

"    (5)  (a)  During any period of the regular scholastic year or extended school year programs in which academic instruction is being provided to students upon the campuses of a public and private elementary or secondary schools, school resource officers, employed by a local law enforcement agency to provide community policing efforts to combat school violence and improve student and school safety, shall maintain an active and visible presence upon the school campus to which he or she is assigned under the program defined in Section 1 of this act.  For purposes of this section, "regular scholastic year" means the minimum one hundred eighty (180) days which public schools are required to be kept in session under Section 37-13-63 to constitute a scholastic year.  "Extended school year programs" means those programs authorized by law, which extend beyond the one hundred eighty-day term of a regular scholastic year, including summer school instruction.  In the performance of his or her duties, a school resource officer shall report for duty on the campus of the school of assignment not later than one (1) hour before the start of each school day on Monday through Friday, and remain thereon for one (1) hour after the conclusion of normal daily instruction.  No school resource officer shall be required to work on Saturday or Sunday, unless a school sponsored event is hosted upon the school campus which the school resource officer has been assigned, which such events shall include extracurricular and cocurricular activities.

(b)  When school is not in session (i.e. holidays, summer vacation, fall breaks, declarations of emergency which suspend the requirements for school attendance, etc.), the school resource officer shall report to his or her immediate supervisor within the local law enforcement agency of employment for further assignment of duties that are directly related to activities and functions of the local law enforcement agency.

(c)  Notwithstanding a school resource officer's permanent employment with the local law enforcement agency with whom a local school governing authority has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) or an interlocal agreement for the assignment of a school resource officer, the employing local law enforcement agency shall not require a school resource officer to leave his or her assigned post at a school during the time specified for the performance of his or her duties as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this subsection to perform work duties directly related to activities and functions of the local law enforcement agency, unless it has been determined by the chief law enforcement officer of the employing agency that exigent circumstances exist, which have created an emergency situation of an impending catastrophic nature that requires swift action to prevent imminent danger to life, substantial harm to the public welfare or serious damage to property."

AMEND title to conform.