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SB4 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026
SB4 Alabama 2025 Session
Senate Bill
Enacted
Current Status
2025 Regular Session
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
2025 Regular Session
Title
School safety, permits sheriffs and chiefs of police to contract with nonpublic schools to provide school resource officers
Description

Under existing law, a local board of education may contract with a local chief of police or sheriff to employ school resource officers.

This bill would authorize a sheriff or local chief of police to contract with a nonpublic K-12 school for the provision of school resource officers as long as the services of a school resource officer are available to every public school in the county or municipality where the contracted services would be provided.

This bill would also require a sheriff or local chief of police to charge the nonpublic school for the full cost of employing any school resource officer.

Subjects
Education

Bill Actions

S

Enacted

S

Enacted

H

Signature Requested

S

Delivered to Governor

S

Enrolled

S

Ready to Enroll

H

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 289

H

Third Reading in Second House

H

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

H

Reported Out of Committee Second House

H

Pending House Public Safety and Homeland Security

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 15

S

Third Reading in House of Origin

S

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

S

Reported Out of Committee House of Origin

S

Pending Senate County and Municipal Government

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government

S

Prefiled

Calendar

Hearing

House Public Safety and Homeland Security Hearing

Room 206 at 10:00:00

Hearing

Senate County and Municipal Government Hearing

Finance and Taxation at 14:00:00

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Roll Call 15

February 5, 2025 Senate Passed
Yes 30
Absent 4

Third Reading in House of Origin

February 5, 2025 Senate Passed
Yes 29
No 1
Absent 4

SBIR: Passed by House of Origin

February 5, 2025 Senate Passed
Yes 29
No 1
Absent 4

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Roll Call 289

February 26, 2025 House Passed
Yes 102
Absent 2

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature