Bill Text: TX HB1353 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1353 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to emergency response alarms at public schools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-26 - Referred to Public Education [HB1353 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1353-Introduced.html

	83R7212 CAS-D

	By: Rodriguez of Travis	H.B. No. 1353



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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.