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Introduced Session

amend KRS 158.441 to clarify the definition of "school resource officer"; amend KRS 158.4412 to allow the superintendent to specify any individual to serve as the district's school safety coordinator; amend KRS 158.4414 to clarify which facilities are required to have school resource officers and to require that school resource officers are armed with a firearm; amend KRS 158.4416 to specify that the goal is to have at least one school counselor per public school and to have at least one school counselor or school-based mental health services provider for every 250 students; amend KRS 61.902 to specify that the commission of a special law enforcement officer employed as a school resource officer shall be for four years; amend KRS 156.095 to specify that the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training is to prepare an active shooter training video in consultation with the Department of Education; amend KRS 158.162 to include exceptions to locked classroom doors; amend KRS 508.078 to clarify when a person is guilty of terroristic threatening; amend KRS 16.128, 1.315, 70.062, and 95.970 to conform.

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Max Wise (R)*,  Ralph Alvarado (R),  Tom Buford (R),  Danny Carroll (R),  C.B. Embry (R),  David Givens (R),  Stan Humphries (R),  Robby Mills (R),  Damon Thayer (R),  Johnny Turner (D),  Steve West (R),  Mike Wilson (R), 

signed by Governor (Acts ch. 5) (on 02/21/2020)

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