Bill Text: TX HB797 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that school districts and open-enrollment charter schools use metal detectors on each campus.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Public Education [HB797 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB797-Introduced.html
| 86R4914 MEW-D | ||
| By: Thierry | H.B. No. 797 | |
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| relating to a requirement that school districts and open-enrollment | ||
| charter schools use metal detectors on each campus. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.113 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.113. REQUIRED METAL DETECTORS. At each school | ||
| building located on a campus in which students attend class or | ||
| school-sponsored activities, a school district or open-enrollment | ||
| charter school shall screen persons entering the building for | ||
| weapons by installing a walk-through metal detector or using a | ||
| handheld metal detector at each entrance to the building that is | ||
| accessible from the outside. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
