1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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3 HOUSE BILL 3860 By: Ford
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to school safety; creating the School
7 Safety Interoperability Fund; providing for the
8 appropriation of funds by the Legislature; directing
8 the Department of Public Safety to administer and
9 distribute funds to certain entities; establishing
9 school safety interoperability program requirements;
10 providing for codification; and providing an
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14 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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15 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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16 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2-151 of Title 47, unless there
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17 is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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18 There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be
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19 designated as the "School Safety Interoperability Fund". The fund
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20 shall consist of monies appropriated to the fund by the Legislature
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21 and shall be used for acquisitions and maintenance of the school
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22 safety interoperability program. The Department of Public Safety
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23 shall administer the fund and distribute said funds to any county,
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24 municipality, school district, sheriff's department, or municipal
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 1 police department that establishes a school safety interoperability
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2 program. The funds shall only be used for a school safety
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3 interoperability program that meets all of the following
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4 requirements:
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5 1. Encompasses public school districts, charter schools, and
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6 private schools throughout the state;
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7 2. Enables the deployment of an interoperable multimedia
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8 communications system to a user base consisting of public safety
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9 agencies and schools providing instruction in any combination of
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10 kindergarten programs and grades one through twelve;
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11 3. Provides a dynamic, scalable communications environment that
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12 allows for the following:
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13 a. automated emergency notifications from schools
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14 directly to multiple public safety agencies by
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15 integrating existing hard or soft panic button
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16 solutions,
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17 b. automated public safety mutual aid talk groups that
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18 bridge disparate land mobile radio systems among
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19 multiple public safety agencies in an emergency,
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20 c. enables live school cameras to be securely shared with
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21 public safety agencies upon emergency incident
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22 initiation where the location of the cameras and live
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23 views are displayed on the floor plan and may be
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 1 remotely viewed by first responders from a floor plan
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2 view for situational context,
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3 d. uses multiple forms of voice and data communications
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4 in a secure manner to all users involved in an
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5 incident including push-to-talk voice communication,
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6 land mobile radio to long term evolution
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7 interoperability, location, image, video, and document
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8 sharing,
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9 e. authenticates system users' identity, location, and
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10 operational status during an incident, and
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11 f. secures sharing of collaborative incident maps,
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12 building floor plans, and images between schools and
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13 public safety agency users;
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14 4. Integrates with school panic alarm systems that, when
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15 activated, establishes direct emergency incident collaboration
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16 between schools and public safety agencies, primary law enforcement
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17 agencies, public safety answering points, and appropriate mutual aid
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18 agencies, and simultaneously shares live video and floor plans
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19 through such systems;
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20 5. Enables dynamic interoperable radio communications between
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21 first responder agencies that may be using incompatible or different
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22 radio communications systems or channels;
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 1 6. Enables each participating entity to maintain discretionary
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2 real-time control over its communications, video, and information
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3 assets;
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4 7. Encrypts all media communications to a standard of at least
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5 advanced encryption standard(AES)-256;
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6 8. Is certified under the Federal Support Anti-Terrorism by
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7 Fostering Effective Technologies Act (SAFETY Act) of 2002, Part 25
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8 of Chapter I of Title 6 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as a
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9 qualified antiterrorism technology;
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10 9. Is compatible and interoperates with the Federal Emergency
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11 Management Agency interoperable gateway system for large-scale
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12 disaster communications;
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13 10. Ensures student and staff privacy by allowing for the
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14 sharing of information in an emergency or with incident-based
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15 permission; and
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16 11. Enables integration to school access control systems to
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17 allow remote lock down by law enforcement agencies through the same
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18 multimedia system.
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19 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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21 59-2-9676 GRS 01/05/24
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