Bill Text: TX HB691 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to school district compliance with certain school safety measures; providing an administrative penalty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - No action taken in committee [HB691 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB691-Introduced.html
  87R2086 MEW-F
 
  By: Metcalf H.B. No. 691
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to school district compliance with certain school safety
  measures; providing an administrative penalty.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 37.219 to read as follows:
         Sec. 37.219.  REPORT OF NONCOMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN SCHOOL
  SAFETY MEASURES. (a) The center shall report to the agency if a
  school district fails to comply with a requirement under any of the
  following provisions:
               (1)  Section 37.108(a), (b), or (c);
               (2)  Section 37.109; 
               (3)  Section 37.207(b); or
               (4)  Section 37.2121(d).
         (b)  If the agency receives a report under Subsection (a) of
  a school district's  failure to comply, the agency may impose an
  administrative penalty against the district in an amount not
  greater than the amount of the annual salary of the district's
  superintendent.
         (c)  The commissioner may adopt rules as necessary to
  implement this section.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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