Bill Text: TX SB2273 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to requiring semiannual school safety meetings in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-17 - Referred to Public Education [SB2273 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2273-Engrossed.html
| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 2273 | |
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| relating to requiring semiannual school safety meetings in certain | ||
| counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.0833 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0833. SCHOOL SAFETY MEETINGS. (a) The sheriff of a | ||
| county with a total population of less than 300,000 in which a | ||
| public school is located, shall call and conduct semiannual | ||
| meetings to discuss: | ||
| (1) school safety; | ||
| (2) coordinated law enforcement response to school | ||
| violence incidents; | ||
| (3) law enforcement agency capabilities; | ||
| (4) available resources; | ||
| (5) emergency radio interoperability; | ||
| (6) chain of command planning; and | ||
| (7) other related subjects proposed by a person in | ||
| attendance at the meeting. | ||
| (b) The following persons shall attend a meeting called | ||
| under Subsection (a): | ||
| (1) the sheriff or the sheriff's designee; | ||
| (2) the police chief of a municipal police department | ||
| in the county or the police chief's designee; | ||
| (3) each elected constable in the county or the | ||
| constable's designees; | ||
| (4) each police chief of a school district's police | ||
| department or school district security coordinator from each school | ||
| district located in the county; | ||
| (5) a representative of the Department of Public | ||
| Safety assigned to the county; | ||
| (6) a person appointed to a command staff position at | ||
| an emergency medical service in the county; | ||
| (7) a person appointed to a command staff position at a | ||
| municipal emergency medical service in the county; | ||
| (8) a person appointed to a command staff position at a | ||
| fire department in the county; and | ||
| (9) any other person the sheriff considers | ||
| appropriate. | ||
| (c) As soon as practicable after a meeting under Subsection | ||
| (a), the sheriff shall submit a notice to the Texas School Safety | ||
| Center identifying the attendees of the meeting and a statement of | ||
| compliance with this provision. The Texas School Safety Center | ||
| shall publish the notice on the center's Internet website. | ||
| (d) A meeting under this section shall be conducted as a | ||
| closed, nonpublic meeting that is not subject to the open meetings | ||
| law, Chapter 551, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the sheriff of a county described by Section | ||
| 37.0833(a), Education Code, as added by this Act, shall call a | ||
| meeting as provided by that section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
