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
  89R3317 ANG-D
 
  By: Shaheen H.B. No. 758
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.
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