HB600 Summary

• Allows retired law enforcement officers (municipal police officers, deputy sheriffs, or other positions requiring Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission certification) to serve as part-time school resource officers in Etowah County schools, municipalities, and local school districts.

• Part-time school resource officers are ineligible for health insurance or retirement benefits beyond those already received from prior employment, though they may be required to work full school day schedules during the regular school year.

• Part-time school resource officers retain all rights, privileges, and powers of certified law enforcement officers under state law, and chiefs of police or sheriffs have civil liability immunity for actions arising from their part-time school resource officer position.

• In municipalities with their own police force, hiring preference for part-time school resource officers goes to retired municipal police officers; in unincorporated Etowah County areas, preference goes to retired deputy sheriffs.

• Funding may come from local, state, or federal budgets or boards of education; pay rates are at the discretion of the hiring authority and not tied to existing pay scales.