School boards; employment of at least one school resource officer in elementary & secondary schools.
Summary
School boards; school resource officers; employment;threat assessment. Requires each school board to enter into acollaborative agreement with the local law-enforcement agency toemploy at least one school resource officer in each public elementaryand secondary school in the local school division. The bill providesthat no school board shall be granted any full or partial waiverfrom such staffing requirements and that no school board that failsto fully comply with such staffing requirements is eligible for anygrant or waiver from the Commonwealth, Board of Education, or Departmentof Education. The bill also requires each division superintendentto include on the threat assessment team established for each publicelementary and secondary school in the local school division at leastone school resource officer employed in the school.
Bill status
failed
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 11, 2022
Last action Feb 3, 2022
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Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Feb 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 1, 2022
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104064D
upper
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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