Bill Text: TX HB55 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the carrying and possession of a concealed handgun by a school marshal.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB55 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB55-Introduced.html

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87R1663 TSS-D
By: Swanson H.B. No. 55

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the carrying and possession of a concealed handgun by a
school marshal.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.0811(d), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
Subsection (c):
(1) must:
(A) authorize [provide that] a school marshal to
[may] carry a concealed handgun on or about the marshal's person;
and
(B) [as described by Subsection (c), except that
if the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct
contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed
handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a
school in a locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate
reach when conducting the marshal's primary duty. The written
regulations must also] require that a handgun carried or possessed
by [or within access of] a school marshal [may] be loaded only with
frangible duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas
Commission on Law Enforcement; and
(2) may not require a school marshal to store the
handgun in a locked and secured safe or other location while on
duty.
SECTION 2. Section 37.0813(d), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(d) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
Subsection (c) must:
(1) provide that a school marshal may carry a
concealed handgun as described by Subsection (c); and
(2) [, except that if the primary duty of the school
marshal involves regular, direct contact with students in a
classroom setting, the marshal may not carry a concealed handgun
but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a school in a
locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate reach when
conducting the marshal's primary duty. The written regulations
must also] require that a handgun carried or possessed by [or within
access of] a school marshal [may] be loaded only with frangible duty
ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement.
SECTION 3. Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
Subsection (d):
(1) must:
(A) authorize [provide that] a school marshal to
[may] carry a concealed handgun on or about the marshal's person;
and
(B) [as described by Subsection (d), except that
if the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct
contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed
handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a
public junior college campus in a locked and secured safe within the
marshal's immediate reach when conducting the marshal's primary
duty. The written regulations must also] require that a handgun
carried or possessed by [or within access of] a school marshal [may]
be loaded only with frangible duty ammunition approved for that
purpose by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement; and
(2) may not require a school marshal to store the
handgun in a locked and secured safe or other location while on
duty.
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
academic 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, 2021.