Bill Text: TX HB2269 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to security personnel and school resource officers at public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2269 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2269-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to security personnel and school resource officers at public schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2269 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2269-Introduced.html
88R7919 JTZ-D | ||
By: Dutton | H.B. No. 2269 |
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relating to memoranda of understanding for the provision of school | ||
resource officers at public schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 37.081, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and | ||
(a-3) 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 or a county or municipality that is the | ||
employing political subdivision of commissioned peace officers 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. 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. | ||
(a-1) A memorandum of understanding for the provision of | ||
school resource officers entered into under Subsection (a) must: | ||
(1) be in the form of an interlocal contract under | ||
Chapter 791, Government Code; and | ||
(2) use a proportionate cost allocation methodology to | ||
address any costs or fees incurred by the school district or the | ||
local law enforcement agency, county, or municipality, as | ||
applicable. | ||
(a-2) The cost allocation methodology used under Subsection | ||
(a-1)(2) may allow a local law enforcement agency, county, or | ||
municipality, as applicable, to recoup direct costs incurred as a | ||
result of the contract but may not allow the agency, county, or | ||
municipality to profit under the contract. | ||
(a-3) A school district, local law enforcement agency, | ||
county, or municipality that enters into a memorandum of | ||
understanding under Subsection (a) may seek funding from federal, | ||
state, and private sources to support the cost of providing school | ||
resource officers under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
37.081, Education Code, applies only to a memorandum of | ||
understanding under that section that is entered into on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |