Bill Text: TX SB738 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to law enforcement radio interoperability and training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to State Affairs [SB738 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB738-Introduced.html
| By: Gutierrez | S.B. No. 738 | |
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| relating to law enforcement radio interoperability and training. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter N, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.404 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.404. RADIO INTEROPERABILITY IN COUNTIES AFFECTED | ||
| BY OPERATION LONE STAR. In any county impacted by or adjacent to | ||
| Operation Lone Star, the department shall ensure that all public | ||
| safety entities have emergency radio infrastructure that allows | ||
| inter operable communication between all other public safety | ||
| entities, including communication between different types of | ||
| public safety agencies. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 411.2098 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 411.2098. MASS SHOOTING TRAINING. The department | ||
| shall establish a process to train public safety entities including | ||
| local law enforcement entities in response to a mass shooting | ||
| event. The training must include the following: | ||
| (1) protection of students in a mass shooting event at | ||
| a school; | ||
| (2) emergency medical response training in minimizing | ||
| gun violence casualties; | ||
| (3) tactics for denying an intruder entry into a | ||
| classroom or school facility; and | ||
| (4) the chain of command of command during a mass | ||
| shooting event. | ||
| SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
