HB42 Alabama 2023 Session

Under existing law, a local board of education is required to develop a comprehensive school emergency operations plan for each school under its jurisdiction

This bill would require regularly scheduled lockdown drills conducted under the plan to include the participation of school resource officers and law enforcement and would designate those days on which drills are conducted as school safety and awareness days

Relating to public K-12 education; to amend Section 16-1-44, Code of Alabama 1975, providing for comprehensive school emergency operations plans; to require the participation of school resource officers and law enforcement agencies in regularly scheduled lockdown drills; and to designate the days on which lockdown drills are conducted as school safety and awareness days.