Bill Text: TX HB3623 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a memorandum of understanding between public or private primary or secondary schools authorizing a school marshal of one school to act as a school marshal at the other school during an event at which both schools participate.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective immediately [HB3623 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3623-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3623 |
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relating to a memorandum of understanding between public or private | ||
primary or secondary schools authorizing a school marshal of one | ||
school to act as a school marshal at the other school during an | ||
event at which both schools participate. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 37.08131 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.08131. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PUBLIC | ||
AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS REGARDING SCHOOL MARSHALS. (a) In this | ||
section, "public or private primary or secondary school" means a | ||
school district, open-enrollment charter school, or private | ||
school. | ||
(b) A public or private primary or secondary school may | ||
enter into a memorandum of understanding with another public or | ||
private primary or secondary school under which a school marshal | ||
appointed to a campus of the school may temporarily act as a school | ||
marshal at a campus of the other school for the duration of an event | ||
occurring at the campus of the other school at which both schools | ||
are participating. The memorandum of understanding must comply | ||
with the requirements for written regulations under Section 37.0811 | ||
or 37.0813, as applicable, and may be used to satisfy the | ||
requirement for written regulations or written authorization under | ||
Section 46.03(a)(1), Penal Code, to allow that school marshal to | ||
carry a firearm on the premises of the public or private primary or | ||
secondary school at which the event occurs. | ||
SECTION 2. 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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3623 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3623 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |