AN ACT directing the lee county sheriff to provide school resource officers to the lee county schools.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  This act applies to Lee County only.
SECTION 2.  The Lee County Sheriff shall be responsible for providing school resource officers to the Lee County Schools. The Lee County Sheriff and the Lee County Board of Education shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the provision of these services for the Lee County Schools. The Sheriff shall use funds appropriated by Lee County to the Sheriff's Office for school resource officers to provide school resource officers to the Lee County Schools.
SECTION 3.  G.S. 74E‑2 is amended by adding the following new subsection to read:
"(c)	The Lee County Board of Education is decertified as a company police agency under this Chapter and shall not be recertified. The Lee County Board of Education shall not employ or contract with a company police agency certified under this Chapter."
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective August 1, 2013.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of July, 2013.

	s/	 Tom Apodaca
	 Presiding Officer of the Senate

	s/	 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives