Bill Text: TX HB758 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the requirement that an armed security officer be present at a school district campus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB758 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB758-Introduced.html
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By: Shaheen | H.B. No. 758 |
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relating to the requirement that an armed security officer be | ||
present at a school district campus. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.0814(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board of trustees of each school district shall | ||
determine the appropriate number of armed security officers for | ||
each district campus. The board must ensure that at least one armed | ||
security officer is present during regular school hours at each | ||
district campus at which an instructional facility, as defined by | ||
Section 46.001, is located. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |