Bill Text: TX HB4824 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the employment of armed commissioned security officers as school district security personnel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB4824 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4824-Introduced.html
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By: Herrero | H.B. No. 4824 |
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relating to the employment of armed commissioned security officers | ||
as school district security personnel. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.081(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The board of trustees of any school district may employ | ||
security personnel, enter into a memorandum of understanding with a | ||
local law enforcement agency for the provision of school resource | ||
officers, and commission peace officers to carry out this | ||
subchapter. If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as | ||
security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a | ||
commissioned peace officer or a commissioned security officer | ||
licensed under Subchapter G, Chapter 1702, Occupations Code, who | ||
has completed the training program provided under Section 1701.260, | ||
Occupations Code. The jurisdiction of a peace officer, a school | ||
resource officer, or security personnel under this section shall be | ||
determined by the board of trustees and may include all territory in | ||
the boundaries of the school district and all property outside the | ||
boundaries of the district that is owned, leased, or rented by or | ||
otherwise under the control of the school district and the board of | ||
trustees that employ the peace officer or security personnel or | ||
that enter into a memorandum of understanding for the provision of a | ||
school resource officer. | ||
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. |