Bill Text: TX HB257 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a policy requiring certain public primary and secondary schools to provide local law enforcement agencies certain information regarding certain individuals authorized to carry a handgun on a campus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar [HB257 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB257-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Blanco | H.B. No. 257 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 257: | |||
| By: Burns | C.S.H.B. No. 257 | ||
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| relating to a policy requiring certain public primary and secondary | ||
| schools to provide local law enforcement agencies certain | ||
| information regarding certain individuals authorized to carry a | ||
| handgun on a campus. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.0814 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0814. LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNICATION AND | ||
| COORDINATION POLICY. (a) This section applies to a school district | ||
| or open-enrollment charter school that: | ||
| (1) authorizes an individual, other than an individual | ||
| described by Subsection (b), to carry a handgun for security | ||
| purposes under written regulations or written authorization of the | ||
| district or school; and | ||
| (2) requires an individual described by Subdivision | ||
| (1) to complete the school safety training and instruction | ||
| described by Section 411.1901(c), Government Code. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply with respect to: | ||
| (1) an individual appointed as a school marshal under | ||
| Section 37.0811 or 37.0813; or | ||
| (2) an individual employed as security personnel under | ||
| Section 37.081 and authorized to carry a handgun in accordance with | ||
| that section. | ||
| (c) The board of trustees of a school district or the | ||
| governing body of an open-enrollment charter school that is subject | ||
| to this section shall adopt a policy regarding communication and | ||
| coordination with local law enforcement agencies. | ||
| (d) A policy adopted under this section must require the | ||
| school district or open-enrollment charter school to: | ||
| (1) provide each law enforcement agency that has | ||
| jurisdiction over the district or school with: | ||
| (A) a list of each campus at which an individual | ||
| described by Subsection (a) is authorized to carry a handgun; and | ||
| (B) the identity of each individual described by | ||
| Subsection (a) and the campus where that individual is regularly | ||
| employed; and | ||
| (2) update, as necessary, the information provided | ||
| under Subdivision (1). | ||
| (e) Information provided to a law enforcement agency under a | ||
| policy adopted under this section regarding the identity or place | ||
| of employment of an individual described by Subsection (a) is | ||
| confidential, may be used by the law enforcement agency only for law | ||
| enforcement purposes, and is not subject to a request under Chapter | ||
| 552, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
