Bill Text: TX HB2269 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to security personnel and school resource officers at public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2269 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2269-Comm_Sub.html
  88R20044 JTZ-D
 
  By: Dutton H.B. No. 2269
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2269:
 
  By:  Thompson of Harris C.S.H.B. No. 2269
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to security personnel and school resource officers at
  public schools.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.081, Education Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and
  (a-3) to read as follows:
         (a)  The board of trustees of any school district may employ
  or contract with security personnel, enter into a memorandum of
  understanding with a local law enforcement agency or a county or
  municipality that is the employing political subdivision of
  commissioned peace officers for the provision of school resource
  officers, and commission peace officers to carry out this
  subchapter. [If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as
  security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a
  commissioned peace officer.] The jurisdiction of a peace officer,
  a school resource officer, or security personnel under this section
  shall be determined by the board of trustees and may include all
  territory in the boundaries of the school district and all property
  outside the boundaries of the district that is owned, leased, or
  rented by or otherwise under the control of the school district and
  the board of trustees that employ the peace officer or security
  personnel or that enter into a memorandum of understanding for the
  provision of a school resource officer.
         (a-1)  A memorandum of understanding for the provision of
  school resource officers entered into under Subsection (a) must:
               (1)  be in the form of an interlocal contract under
  Chapter 791, Government Code; and
               (2)  use a proportionate cost allocation methodology to
  address any costs or fees incurred by the school district or the
  local law enforcement agency, county, or municipality, as
  applicable.
         (a-2)  The cost allocation methodology used under Subsection
  (a-1)(2) may allow a local law enforcement agency, county, or
  municipality, as applicable, to recoup direct costs incurred as a
  result of the contract but may not allow the agency, county, or
  municipality to profit under the contract.
         (a-3)  A school district, local law enforcement agency,
  county, or municipality that enters into a memorandum of
  understanding under Subsection (a) may seek funding from federal,
  state, and private sources to support the cost of providing school
  resource officers under this section.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
  37.081, Education Code, applies only to a memorandum of
  understanding under that section that is entered into on or after
  the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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