Bill Text: TX HB3255 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to emergency response management training for certain administrators and security personnel at public schools.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Referred to Education [HB3255 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3255-Engrossed.html
| By: Manuel, Collier, Jones of Harris, et al. | H.B. No. 3255 | |
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| relating to emergency response management training for certain | ||
| administrators and security personnel at public schools. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 12.104(b), Education Code, as amended by | ||
| Chapters 542 (S.B. 168), 887 (S.B. 1697), 915 (H.B. 3607), 974 (S.B. | ||
| 2081), and 1046 (S.B. 1365), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2021, is reenacted and amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) An open-enrollment charter school is subject to: | ||
| (1) a provision of this title establishing a criminal | ||
| offense; | ||
| (2) the provisions in Chapter 554, Government Code; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) a prohibition, restriction, or requirement, as | ||
| applicable, imposed by this title or a rule adopted under this | ||
| title, relating to: | ||
| (A) the Public Education Information Management | ||
| System (PEIMS) to the extent necessary to monitor compliance with | ||
| this subchapter as determined by the commissioner; | ||
| (B) criminal history records under Subchapter C, | ||
| Chapter 22; | ||
| (C) reading instruments and accelerated reading | ||
| instruction programs under Section 28.006; | ||
| (D) accelerated instruction under Section | ||
| 28.0211; | ||
| (E) high school graduation requirements under | ||
| Section 28.025; | ||
| (F) special education programs under Subchapter | ||
| A, Chapter 29; | ||
| (G) bilingual education under Subchapter B, | ||
| Chapter 29; | ||
| (H) prekindergarten programs under Subchapter E | ||
| or E-1, Chapter 29, except class size limits for prekindergarten | ||
| classes imposed under Section 25.112, which do not apply; | ||
| (I) extracurricular activities under Section | ||
| 33.081; | ||
| (J) discipline management practices or behavior | ||
| management techniques under Section 37.0021; | ||
| (K) health and safety under Chapter 38; | ||
| (L) the provisions of Subchapter A, Chapter 39; | ||
| (M) public school accountability and special | ||
| investigations under Subchapters A, B, C, D, F, G, and J, Chapter | ||
| 39, and Chapter 39A; | ||
| (N) the requirement under Section 21.006 to | ||
| report an educator's misconduct; | ||
| (O) intensive programs of instruction under | ||
| Section 28.0213; | ||
| (P) the right of a school employee to report a | ||
| crime, as provided by Section 37.148; | ||
| (Q) bullying prevention policies and procedures | ||
| under Section 37.0832; | ||
| (R) the right of a school under Section 37.0052 | ||
| to place a student who has engaged in certain bullying behavior in a | ||
| disciplinary alternative education program or to expel the student; | ||
| (S) the right under Section 37.0151 to report to | ||
| local law enforcement certain conduct constituting assault or | ||
| harassment; | ||
| (T) a parent's right to information regarding the | ||
| provision of assistance for learning difficulties to the parent's | ||
| child as provided by Sections 26.004(b)(11) and 26.0081(c) and (d); | ||
| (U) establishment of residency under Section | ||
| 25.001; | ||
| (V) school safety requirements under Sections | ||
| 37.108, 37.1081, 37.1082, 37.109, 37.113, 37.114, 37.1141, 37.115, | ||
| 37.116, 37.207, and 37.2071; | ||
| (W) the early childhood literacy and mathematics | ||
| proficiency plans under Section 11.185; | ||
| (X) the college, career, and military readiness | ||
| plans under Section 11.186; and | ||
| (Y) [ |
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| under Section 28.02124. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.116 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.116. EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING. (a) A school | ||
| district may require each principal, assistant principal, school | ||
| marshal, school district peace officer, school resource officer, | ||
| and school security personnel employed by or assigned to the | ||
| district to complete the following emergency response management | ||
| training courses provided by the Federal Emergency Management | ||
| Agency: | ||
| (1) Introduction to the Incident Command System; | ||
| (2) Basic Incident Command System for Initial | ||
| Response; | ||
| (3) An Introduction to the National Incident | ||
| Management System; and | ||
| (4) National Response Framework, An Introduction. | ||
| (b) The board of trustees of a school district that requires | ||
| the completion of training courses under Subsection (a) shall adopt | ||
| policies to: | ||
| (1) verify completion of the training by each person | ||
| required to complete the training under Subsection (a); and | ||
| (2) provide annual emergency response management | ||
| training exercises incorporating the training required under | ||
| Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 3. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
| over another Act of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, | ||
| relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
| codes. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
