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HB 2609 School resource officers; compulsory minimum training standards.

Introduced by: Jerrauld C. "Jay" Jones | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Department of Criminal Justice Services; school resource officers; school administrators; training. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services (Department) to establish and every full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer employed as a school resource officer after July 1, 2020, to comply with compulsory minimum training standards for law-enforcement officers serving as school resource officers. The bill requires the training provided by the Department pursuant to such standards to be specific to the role and responsibility of a law-enforcement officer working with students in a school environment and to be available throughout the Commonwealth. The bill requires each school board to ensure that every public school it supervises employs at least one school administrator who has completed, either in-person or online, school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety, unless such training is not available online. This bill is identical to SB 1130.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

School resource officers; compulsory minimum training standards. Requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish compulsory minimum training standards for certification and recertification of law-enforcement officers serving as school resource officers that are specific to the role and responsibility of a law-enforcement officer working with students in a school environment. The bill requires every full-time or part-time law-enforcement officer employed as a school resource officer after July 1, 2020, to comply with such compulsory minimum training standards within a period of time fixed by the Criminal Justice Services Board.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

School resource officers; training. Requires the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety (the Center) to provide training to each school resource officer employed by a local law-enforcement agency before such officer begins his assignment in a public elementary or secondary school, unless the Center lacks the capacity to provide training for each such officer or other circumstances exist that prevent any such officer from completing such training. The bill requires the Center to encourage administrators who are employed at a school to which a school resource officer is assigned to attend such training with such school resource officer.