Bill Text: TX HB2655 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to an active shooter emergency protocol for public school districts and required active shooter response training for school district peace officers and school resource officers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-19)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Education [HB2655 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2655-Engrossed.html
| By: Rosenthal, Allen, Talarico, Toth, Lopez, | H.B. No. 2655 | |
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| relating to an active shooter emergency protocol for public school | ||
| districts and required active shooter response training for school | ||
| district peace officers and school resource officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.108, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) A school district shall include in its multihazard | ||
| emergency operations plan a protocol for responding to an active | ||
| shooter emergency in a district facility. The protocol must | ||
| provide for school drills and exercises to prepare for an active | ||
| shooter emergency as part of the mandatory school drills and | ||
| exercises under Subsection (a)(2). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 37.0812, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0812. TRAINING POLICY: SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE | ||
| OFFICERS AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. (a) A school district peace | ||
| officer and school resource officer shall complete an active | ||
| shooter response training program approved by the Texas Commission | ||
| on Law Enforcement. | ||
| (b) A school district with an enrollment of 30,000 or more | ||
| students that commissions a school district peace officer or at | ||
| which a school resource officer provides law enforcement shall | ||
| adopt a policy requiring the officer to complete the education and | ||
| training program required by Section 1701.263, Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall approve | ||
| an active shooter response training program required under Section | ||
| 37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. A school district peace officer and school | ||
| resource officer who begin employment with or begin providing law | ||
| enforcement at a school district on a date occurring before | ||
| September 1, 2019, shall complete the training required by Section | ||
| 37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as | ||
| practicable after the effective date of this Act but not later than | ||
| August 31, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
