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
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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