Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 64, LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING COUNCIL, page 418, after line 21, by adding an appropriately numbered new proviso to read:
/ (LETC: School Resource Officers) Of the funds appropriated to the Law Enforcement Training Council for Fiscal Year 2019-20, the Law Enforcement Training Council, in coordination with state and local law enforcement agencies, shall develop a training program for School Resource Officers (SROs) that focuses on how to provide "frontline" defense of school children. The training plan shall also focus on the threats SROs face from student vs. student, student vs. teacher conflicts and the evolving active killer risk. The training program must also focus on the SROs meta-cognitive skills and their physical capacity to take action immediately. Their defensive tactics platform must be instructional, instinctual, and intuitive and be focused on de-escalation as the primary strategy as they are dealing with juveniles and adults. The Law Enforcement Training Council must present this training plan along with the estimated costs to fully implement this training program to the Governor, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the Chairman of House Ways and Means by June 1./
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