Bill Text: AZ HB2332 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: School resource officers; residential vouchers
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-21 - Senate read second time [HB2332 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2018-HB2332-Engrossed.html
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018
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HOUSE BILL 2332 |
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AN ACT
amending section 15‑154, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to school safety requirements.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 15-154, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
15-154. School safety program; purpose; proposals; requirements; annual report; program termination; definitions
A. The school safety program is established within the department of education to promote safe learning environments for students by supporting the costs of placing school resource officers or juvenile probation officers on school campuses. A school district, or charter school or facility may apply to participate in the school safety program as provided in this section for up to three fiscal years by submitting by April 15 a program proposal to the department of education. The program proposal shall contain:
1. A detailed description of the school safety needs of the charter school, or school district or facility.
2. A plan for implementing a law‑related education program or a plan that demonstrates the existence of a law‑related education program as a school safety prevention strategy.
3. A plan to use trained school resource officers or juvenile probation officers, or both, in the school, or both facility.
4. If the school district, or charter school or facility has already participated in the school safety program, information on the success, compliance and implementation of the most recent grant.
B. The department of education shall administer the program in cooperation with the courts, law enforcement agencies and law‑related education providers awarded a contract pursuant to section 41‑2534, subject to review and approval by the state board of education. The department of education shall use relevant crime statistics to assess the needs of each program proposal and shall visit school districts and charter schools that submit program proposals in order to verify the information contained in the program proposals. The department of education shall contract to provide guidelines, curricula and support resources for school resource officers and juvenile probation officers to use in implementing a law‑related education program.
C. The department of education, subject to the review and approval of the state board of education, shall distribute monies to the school districts, and charter schools and facilities that are in compliance with program requirements and whose plans have been approved by the state board of education. The state board of education shall also review and approve renewal applications for up to an additional three fiscal years from participating school sites.
D. The department of education shall review plans submitted by school districts, and charter schools and facilities for participation in the school safety program and shall select sites that are eligible to receive funding based on school safety needs. The department of education may prioritize grants to school districts, and charter schools and facilities that have agreements to share the cost of the school resource officer or juvenile probation officer with a law enforcement agency or the courts.
E. The department of education shall evaluate the effectiveness of the school safety program and report on the activities of the program and the participants in the school safety program to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives and the governor on or before November 1 of each year and shall provide a copy of this report to the secretary of state. The evaluation and report shall include survey results from participating schools and data from participating schools on the impact of participating in the school safety program. The department shall establish data guidelines for school safety program participants to follow in reporting pursuant to this subsection.
F. The school safety program established by this section shall include a school safety program guidance manual adopted by the department of education that requires a dispute resolution process to be included in the service agreement between a school district, or charter school or facility that received a grant from the school safety program and the law enforcement agency that provides services to the school district, or charter school or facility.
G. Any appropriations that are made to the department of education for the school safety program are exempt from the provisions of section 35‑190 relating to the lapsing of appropriations. All monies that are not used for an approved school safety plan during the fiscal year for which the monies were appropriated revert to the department of education for distribution to the program in the following fiscal year.
H. Monies received by a school district, or charter school or facility under the program shall be spent to implement the approved plans.
I. The program established by this section ends on July 1, 2025 pursuant to section 41‑3102. The auditor general shall include the school safety program as part of its ongoing sunset review of agencies and programs.
J. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Facility" means a facility that receives a voucher pursuant to section 15-1182, subsection E, paragraph 2.
1. 2. "Law‑related education" means interactive education to equip children and youth with knowledge and skills pertaining to the law, school safety and effective citizenship.
2. 3. "Law‑related education program" means a program designed to provide children and youth with knowledge, skills and activities pertaining to the law and legal process and to promote law‑abiding behavior with the purpose of preventing children and youth from engaging in delinquency or violence and enabling them to become productive citizens.
