Bill Text: TX HB257 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a policy requiring certain public primary and secondary schools to provide local law enforcement agencies certain information regarding certain individuals authorized to carry a handgun on a campus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB257 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB257-Comm_Sub.html
86R30646 GCB-D | |||
By: Blanco | H.B. No. 257 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 257: | |||
By: Burns | C.S.H.B. No. 257 |
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relating to a policy requiring certain public primary and secondary | ||
schools to provide local law enforcement agencies certain | ||
information regarding certain individuals authorized to carry a | ||
handgun on a campus. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 37.0814 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.0814. LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNICATION AND | ||
COORDINATION POLICY. (a) This section applies to a school district | ||
or open-enrollment charter school that: | ||
(1) authorizes an individual, other than an individual | ||
described by Subsection (b), to carry a handgun for security | ||
purposes under written regulations or written authorization of the | ||
district or school; and | ||
(2) requires an individual described by Subdivision | ||
(1) to complete the school safety training and instruction | ||
described by Section 411.1901(c), Government Code. | ||
(b) This section does not apply with respect to: | ||
(1) an individual appointed as a school marshal under | ||
Section 37.0811 or 37.0813; or | ||
(2) an individual employed as security personnel under | ||
Section 37.081 and authorized to carry a handgun in accordance with | ||
that section. | ||
(c) The board of trustees of a school district or the | ||
governing body of an open-enrollment charter school that is subject | ||
to this section shall adopt a policy regarding communication and | ||
coordination with local law enforcement agencies. | ||
(d) A policy adopted under this section must require the | ||
school district or open-enrollment charter school to: | ||
(1) provide each law enforcement agency that has | ||
jurisdiction over the district or school with: | ||
(A) a list of each campus at which an individual | ||
described by Subsection (a) is authorized to carry a handgun; and | ||
(B) the identity of each individual described by | ||
Subsection (a) and the campus where that individual is regularly | ||
employed; and | ||
(2) update, as necessary, the information provided | ||
under Subdivision (1). | ||
(e) Information provided to a law enforcement agency under a | ||
policy adopted under this section regarding the identity or place | ||
of employment of an individual described by Subsection (a) is | ||
confidential, may be used by the law enforcement agency only for law | ||
enforcement purposes, and is not subject to a request under Chapter | ||
552, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |