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  6. HB 236

HB 236

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  • 1 Bill Summary
  • 2 Bill Text
  • 3 Bill Actions
  • 4 Bill Votes
  • 5 Bill Documents

Bill Summary

Sponsors
  • Phillip Pettus
Session
Regular Session 2018
Title
Education, school resource officers, qualifications further provided for, Sec. 16-1-44.1 am'd.
Description

Relating to education; to amend Section 16-1-44.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the qualifications of school resource officers.

Subjects
Education

Bill Text

Note: Bills that change current law do not show the amended text correctly below. Please view Original PDF to see amended sections: HB 236 - Engrossed - PDF

Section 1

Section 16-1-44.1, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows: "§16-1-44.1. "(a) A local board of education may employ persons as school security personnel. or "(b) A local board of education may contract with a local chief of police or sheriff to employ school resource officers. A local board of education may also employ as a school resource officer a person who retired in good standing from a federal or state agency with at least 25 total years of law enforcement experience. "(c) A local board of education may allow any person employed by the board as school security personnel or as a school resource officer to carry a firearm while on duty if the employee satisfies all of the following qualifications: "(1) He or she is certified by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission as a law enforcement officer whose certification is in good standing or he or she was a certified law enforcement officer and retired in good standing from a federal, state, or local law enforcement agency with at least 20 years of law enforcement experience and who has successfully completed active shooter training approved by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. "(2) He or she annually completes and passes the firearm requalification required of law enforcement officers by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission. "(3) He or she must carry a non-lethal weapon and must be trained in the appropriate use of that non-lethal weapon. "(d) Only those school resource officers who are certified by the Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission shall have the power of arrest. "(b) (d) (e) The State Department of Education shall promulgate any necessary rules to provide for the implementation of this section including, but not limited to, rules providing additional qualifications for employment as school security personnel or school resource officers."

Section 2

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law. House of Representatives Read for the first time and re- ferred to the House of Representa- tives committee on Education Policy ................................... ....... 16-JAN-18Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment ...... ....... 22-FEB-18 Read for the third time and passed as amended......................... ....... 13-MAR-18 Yeas 99, Nays 0, Abstains Jeff Woodard Clerk

Bill Actions

Action Date Chamber Action
March 21, 2018 S Pending third reading on day 23 Favorable from Education and Youth Affairs
March 21, 2018 S Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
March 15, 2018 S Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education and Youth Affairs
March 13, 2018 H Engrossed
March 13, 2018 H Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 783
March 13, 2018 H Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 782
March 13, 2018 H Pettus Amendment Offered
March 13, 2018 H Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 765
March 13, 2018 H Pettus motion to Table adopted Roll Call 780
March 13, 2018 H Howard Amendment Offered
March 13, 2018 H Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 764
March 13, 2018 H Howard Amendment Offered
March 13, 2018 H Pettus motion to Table adopted Roll Call 781
March 13, 2018 H Education Policy Amendment Offered
March 13, 2018 H Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 763
March 13, 2018 H Pettus motion to reconsider adopted Voice Vote
March 13, 2018 H Education Policy Amendment Offered
March 13, 2018 H Third Reading Passed
March 13, 2018 H Third Reading Passed
February 22, 2018 H Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
January 16, 2018 H Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy

Bill Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Motion to Adopt
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Pettus motion to Table
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Motion to Adopt
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Pettus motion to Table
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed
Motion to Adopt
2018-03-13
Chamber: House
Result: Passed

Bill Documents

Document Type Document Location
Bill Text http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018RS/PrintFiles/HB236-eng.pdf
Bill Text http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018RS/PrintFiles/HB236-int.pdf
Bill Amendments http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018RS/PrintFiles/191485-2.pdf
Bill Amendments http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018RS/PrintFiles/193234-1.pdf
Bill Amendments http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018RS/PrintFiles/191485-3.pdf

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