BILL NUMBER: AB 1390 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 13, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Blumenfield FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to add Section 38006 to the Education Code, relating to school safety. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1390, as amended, Blumenfield. School security and police departments: criminal activity involving firearms. (1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a security department under the supervision of a chief of security or a police department under the supervision of a chief of police, as designated by, and under the direction of, the superintendent of the school district.Existing law authorizes the governing board to employ personnel to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils and the security of the real and personal property of the school district.Existing law designates persons employed and compensated as members of a police department of a school district, when appointed and duly sworn, as peace officers. Existing law prescribes the required training and conditions of employment for school security officers. This bill would require a school security department or school police department, within 24 hours of an incident of criminal activity involvingto make a written report, within 24 hours of the incident, regarding an incident occurring on a school campus that involves either a crime accompanied by the use or possession of a firearmoccurring on a schoolsite under the control of the school district, to report the incident in writingor any of several specified acts for which a school principal or school district superintendent is required to recommend a pupil for expulsion to the appropriate law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the area in which the incident occurred. The bill also would require a school security department or school police department, within 24 hours ofto make a written report, wi thin 24 hours of the incident, regarding an incident in which a firearm is surrendered to or otherwise seized by a school security officer or a school peace officer on aschoolsite under the control of the school district, to report the incident in writingschool campus to the appropriate law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the area in which the incident occurred. The bill would require the law enforcement agency, upon receiving the firearm from the school security department or school police department, to store the firearm in the same location where the agency maintains evidence for safekeeping. By requiring school security and police departments and local law enforcement agencies to perform additional duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 38006 is added to the Education Code, to read: 38006. (a) A school security department or school police department, within 24 hours of an incident of criminal activity involving a firearm occurring on a schoolsite under the control of the school district, shall report the incident in writing to theshall make a written report, within 24 hours of the incident, regarding an incident occurring on a school campus that involves either a crime accompanied by the use or possession of a firearm or any of the acts specified in Section 48915 to the appropriate law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the area in which the incident occurred. (b) A school security department or school police department, within 24 hours ofshall make a written report, within 24 hours of the incident, regarding an incident in which a firearm is surrendered to, or otherwise seized by, a school security officer or a school peace officer on aschoolsite under the control of the school district, the incident shall report in writingschool campus to the appropriate law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the area in which the incident occurred. The law enforcement agency, upon receiving the firearm from the school security department or school police department, shall store the firearm in the same location where the agency maintains evidence for safekeeping. SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.