Bill Text: TX HB2009 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to measures for school safety in public schools.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-08 - Referred to Youth Health & Safety, Select [HB2009 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2009-Introduced.html
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| By: Allison | H.B. No. 2009 | |
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| relating to measures for school safety in public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.108(f), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (f) A school district shall include in its multihazard | ||
| emergency operations plan: | ||
| (1) a chain of command that designates the individual | ||
| responsible for making final decisions during a disaster or | ||
| emergency situation and identifies other individuals responsible | ||
| for making those decisions if the designated person is unavailable; | ||
| (2) provisions that address physical and | ||
| psychological safety for responding to a natural disaster, active | ||
| shooter, and any other dangerous scenario identified for purposes | ||
| of this section by the agency or the Texas School Safety Center; | ||
| (3) provisions for ensuring the safety of students in | ||
| portable buildings; | ||
| (4) provisions for ensuring that students and district | ||
| personnel with disabilities are provided equal access to safety | ||
| during a disaster or emergency situation; | ||
| (5) provisions for providing immediate notification | ||
| to parents, guardians, and other persons standing in parental | ||
| relation in circumstances involving a significant threat to the | ||
| health or safety of students, including identification of the | ||
| individual with responsibility for overseeing the notification; | ||
| (6) provisions for supporting the psychological | ||
| safety of students, district personnel, and the community during | ||
| the response and recovery phase following a disaster or emergency | ||
| situation that: | ||
| (A) are aligned with best practice-based | ||
| programs and research-based practices recommended under Section | ||
| 38.351; | ||
| (B) include strategies for ensuring any required | ||
| professional development training for suicide prevention and | ||
| grief-informed and trauma-informed care is provided to appropriate | ||
| school personnel; | ||
| (C) include training on integrating | ||
| psychological safety and suicide prevention strategies into the | ||
| district's plan, such as psychological first aid for schools | ||
| training, from an approved list of recommended training established | ||
| by the commissioner and Texas School Safety Center for: | ||
| (i) members of the district's school safety | ||
| and security committee under Section 37.109; | ||
| (ii) district school counselors and mental | ||
| health professionals; and | ||
| (iii) educators and other district | ||
| personnel as determined by the district; | ||
| (D) include strategies and procedures for | ||
| integrating and supporting physical and psychological safety that | ||
| align with the provisions described by Subdivision (2); and | ||
| (E) implement trauma-informed policies; | ||
| (7) a policy for providing a substitute teacher access | ||
| to school campus buildings and materials necessary for the | ||
| substitute teacher to carry out the duties of a district employee | ||
| during an emergency or a mandatory emergency drill; [ |
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| (8) the name of each individual on the district's | ||
| school safety and security committee established under Section | ||
| 37.109 and the date of each committee meeting during the preceding | ||
| year; and | ||
| (9) provisions for reuniting students with their | ||
| parents, guardians, or other persons standing in parental relation | ||
| following a disaster or emergency situation. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.117 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.117. MOBILE PANIC ALERT SYSTEM. (a) Each school | ||
| district and open-enrollment charter school, in consultation with | ||
| local law enforcement agencies, shall implement a mobile panic | ||
| alert system to send emergency alerts to district or school | ||
| emergency services and emergency services agencies, law | ||
| enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments. | ||
| (b) The mobile panic alert system must: | ||
| (1) allow for immediate contact with district or | ||
| school emergency services, emergency services agencies, law | ||
| enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments; | ||
| (2) ensure real-time coordination between first | ||
| responder agencies; | ||
| (3) integrate directly with local public safety | ||
| answering point infrastructure to transmit 9-1-1 telephone calls; | ||
| and | ||
| (4) be capable of activation by mobile telephone. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
