Bill Text: TX SB1852 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to active shooter training for peace officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1852 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1852-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1852 | ||
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| relating to active shooter training for peace officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1701.253, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (q) to read as follows: | ||
| (q) As part of the minimum curriculum requirements, the | ||
| commission shall require an officer to complete a training program | ||
| of not less than 16 hours on responding to an active shooter as | ||
| developed by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training | ||
| Center at Texas State University--San Marcos. An officer shall | ||
| complete the program not later than the last day of the first full | ||
| continuing education training period that begins on or after the | ||
| date the officer is licensed under this chapter unless the officer | ||
| completes the program as part of the officer's basic training | ||
| course. Completion of a training program under this subsection | ||
| satisfies any other requirement, other than a continuing education | ||
| requirement under Section 1701.3525, for the officer to complete a | ||
| training program on responding to active shootings, including under | ||
| Section 37.0812(a), Education Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter H, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1701.3525 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1701.3525. ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE TRAINING REQUIRED | ||
| FOR OFFICERS. (a) As part of the continuing education programs | ||
| under Section 1701.351(a), an officer must complete not less than | ||
| 16 hours of training on responding to an active shooter as developed | ||
| by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at | ||
| Texas State University--San Marcos. | ||
| (b) The exemptions under Sections 1701.351(b), (c), and (d) | ||
| do not apply to the training required by Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall adopt | ||
| rules to implement Sections 1701.253(q) and 1701.3525, Occupations | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. The minimum curriculum requirements under | ||
| Section 1701.253(q), Occupations Code, as added by this Act, apply | ||
| only to an officer who first begins to satisfy those requirements on | ||
| or after January 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 5. Section 1701.3525, Occupations Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only with respect to a 24-month continuing | ||
| education training unit that begins on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. A training unit that begins before the effective date | ||
| of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the training | ||
| unit began, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1852 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1852 passed the House on | ||
| May 6, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 1, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
