A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that school personnel may carry stun guns on educational property in accordance with policies adopted by the local board of education and to appropriate funds for stun guns for school personnel.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑269.2(g) is amended by adding the following new subdivision to read:
"(7)	A school employee provided that all of the criteria set out below in this subdivision are satisfied.
a.	The weapon is a stun gun. For purposes of this subdivision the term "stun gun" includes tasers.
b.	The school employee has satisfactorily completed a school crisis and safety course developed by the Department of Public Safety.
c.	The governing entity of the school at which the individual is employed has adopted a policy to allow that school employee to carry stun guns on educational property.
d.	The school employee is acting in the discharge of the employee's official duties and in compliance with the policies of the school and of the governing entity of the school.
e.	The school employee is on the premises of educational property that is owned, used, or operated by the governing entity of the school that employs the individual."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 115C‑47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(18b)	To Adopt Rules and Policies Authorizing Certain School Employees to Possess and Carry Certain Weapons on Educational Property. – Local boards of education may adopt rules and policies to allow school employees designated in those rules and policies to possess and carry stun guns on educational property as provided in G.S. 14‑269.2(g)(7)."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 115C‑238.29E(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	The board of directors of the charter school shall decide matters related to the operation of the school, including budgeting, curriculum, and operating procedures. The board of directors of the charter school may adopt rules and policies to allow school employees designated in those rules and policies to possess and carry stun guns on educational property as provided in G.S. 14‑269.2(g)(7)."
SECTION 4.  G.S. 143B‑601 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(15)	To develop, in consultation with the Department of Public Instruction, a school crisis and safety program that provides instruction for principals, assistant principals, and teachers regarding the development and implementation of school crisis response plans and that also includes a safety and training course that involves the actual firing of stun guns."
SECTION 5.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2013‑2014 fiscal year to provide grants to local school administrative units, regional schools, and charter schools for stun guns for school employees.
SECTION 6.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective December 1, 2013. Section 6 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2013. The remainder of this act becomes effective August 1, 2013. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions.