Bill Text: TX SB1720 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of the identity of a public school employee who reports a potential threat to the school's threat assessment and safe and supportive school team.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB1720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1720-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of the identity of a public school employee who reports a potential threat to the school's threat assessment and safe and supportive school team.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB1720 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1720-Introduced.html
88R10045 BDP-D | ||
By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1720 |
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relating to the confidentiality of the identity of a public school | ||
employee who reports a potential threat to the school's threat | ||
assessment and safe and supportive school team. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.115(c), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The board of trustees of each school district shall | ||
establish a threat assessment and safe and supportive school team | ||
to serve at each campus of the district and shall adopt policies and | ||
procedures for the teams. The team is responsible for developing | ||
and implementing the safe and supportive school program under | ||
Subsection (b) at the district campus served by the team. The | ||
policies and procedures adopted under this section must: | ||
(1) be consistent with the model policies and | ||
procedures developed by the Texas School Safety Center; | ||
(2) require each team to complete training provided by | ||
the Texas School Safety Center or a regional education service | ||
center regarding evidence-based threat assessment programs; [ |
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(3) require each team established under this section | ||
to report the information required under Subsection (k) regarding | ||
the team's activities to the agency; and | ||
(4) provide for: | ||
(A) a district employee who reports a potential | ||
threat to a team to elect for the employee's identity to be | ||
confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, | ||
Government Code, except as necessary for the team, the district, or | ||
law enforcement to investigate the potential threat; and | ||
(B) the district to maintain a record of the | ||
identity of a district employee who elects for the employee's | ||
identity to be confidential under Paragraph (A). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
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, 2023. |