KLC 2020 Legislative Update

11) SCHOOL SAFETY
Senate Bill 8
SCHOOL SAFETY MEASURES
Sponsor: Senator Max Wise (R-Campbellsville)
SB 8 amends several provisions of SB 1, passed by the General Assembly in 2019 as the School
Safety and Resiliency Act.
KRS 158.4412(1) is amended to allow the local school district superintendent to appoint any
individual to serve as the district’s school safety coordinator and primary point of contact for public
school safety and security functions, rather than a district level school administrator.
KRS 158.4414 is amended to: (1) require each school resource officer to be armed with a firearm
notwithstanding any provision of local board policy, local school council policy, or memorandum of
agreement; and (2) clarify local boards of education are required to assign one or more certified school
resource officers to each campus where one or more school buildings are used for instruction to
students, rather than one or more school resource officers to each school within a school district, as
funds and personnel become available.
Senator Max Wise (R-Campbellsville) presents SB 8
to the Senate Education Committee.
Photo Courtesy: LRC Public Information
Senate Bill 239
REEMPLOYMENT OF RETIRED POLICE OFFICERS
Sponsor: Senator Mike Wilson (R-Bowling Green)
SB 239 amends KRS 95.022 to provide that retired police officers employed by a city after
retirement as school resource officers pursuant to KRS 158.4414 shall not count against the limitations in
KRS 95.022 on the number of retired police officers a city government may hire as a percentage of the total
number of officers employed by the city.
www.KLC.org
41