Bill Text: TX HB2069 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to minimum standards for entry safety point protocols and infrastructure for school districts and charter schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-08 - Referred to Youth Health & Safety, Select [HB2069 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2069-Introduced.html
By: Lozano | H.B. No. 2069 |
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relating to minimum standards for entry safety point protocols and | ||
infrastructure for school districts and charter schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 37.2072 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.2072. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR SCHOOL ENTRY POINT | ||
PROTOCOLS AND INFRASTRUCTURE. (a) The center shall develop | ||
minimum standards for reducing and securing school entry points in | ||
order to ensure that the security standards for instructional | ||
facilities and other school district and charter school facilities | ||
provide for a safe environment. | ||
(b) The minimum standards for reducing entry points | ||
developed pursuant to Subsection (a) shall include: | ||
(1) determining the minimum number of open entry | ||
points required to allow for efficient ingress of students and | ||
faculty for the start of a school day and limiting the number of | ||
open entry points to that minimum; | ||
(2) further reducing the total number of open entry | ||
points to the greatest extent possible once the initial entry of | ||
students and faculty for the start of a school day has been | ||
completed; | ||
(3) securing all other points of access so as to not | ||
allow entry while still allowing students and faculty to exit in the | ||
event of an emergency; and | ||
(4) remotely monitoring other points of access by use | ||
of access controls, camera systems, or other devices determined by | ||
the school district or charter school to be effective and feasible. | ||
(c) The minimum standards for securing entry points | ||
developed pursuant to Subsection (a) shall be divided into four | ||
levels based upon the specific needs and available resources of a | ||
school district or charter school. The levels shall be delineated | ||
as follows: | ||
(1) Level One shall provide for visual surveillance of | ||
the entry point by school security personnel or school staff to | ||
monitor for unusual behavior while applying questioning, | ||
individual searches, and bag checks when deemed warranted; | ||
(2) Level Two shall include all of the practices | ||
described in Level One, as well as performing random checks of | ||
entrants by school security personnel or school staff utilizing | ||
handheld metal detectors; | ||
(3) Level Three shall include establishing security | ||
screening during which entrants and their belongings would be | ||
randomly screened by walk through metal detectors, as well as | ||
applying all of the practices described in Level One and using | ||
handheld metal detectors for secondary screening; and | ||
(4) Level Four shall entail comprehensive security | ||
screening of all entrants and their belongings, including applying | ||
all of the practices described in Level One; screening all entrants | ||
through the use of walk through metal detectors; using handheld | ||
metal detectors for secondary screening; conducting bag checks in | ||
only those instances in which the alarm in the walk through metal | ||
detector sounds; and instructing entrants to use low metal content | ||
backpacks and school supplies to mitigate the alarms and maintain | ||
efficient ingress. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |