Bill Text: TX HB1353 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to emergency response alarms at public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Referred to Public Education [HB1353 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1353-Introduced.html
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By: Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 1353 |
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relating to emergency response alarms at public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 37.111 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.111. EMERGENCY RESPONSE ALARMS. (a) Each school | ||
district shall equip each district school with three or more | ||
electronic alarms designed to be used to alert law enforcement of | ||
the need for an emergency response. The alarm must be easy to | ||
activate and may be controlled by a button. | ||
(b) The board of trustees of each school district shall | ||
adopt a policy for placement and use at the district's schools of | ||
the alarms described by Subsection (a). The policy must: | ||
(1) require that: | ||
(A) at least one of the alarms be placed in the | ||
school principal's office; and | ||
(B) another of the alarms be placed in another | ||
location at the school; | ||
(2) require that a designated school employee wear a | ||
mobile version of the alarm at school throughout each school day; | ||
and | ||
(3) permit activation of an alarm, other than in a | ||
drill, only in response to a threat, or perceived threat, posed by a | ||
person carrying a firearm on school premises. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |