Bill Text: TX SB1037 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to establishing a committee to develop school safety and security rules and standards for newly constructed school facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB1037 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1037-Introduced.html
88R1491 GCB-D | ||
By: Blanco | S.B. No. 1037 |
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relating to establishing a committee to develop school safety and | ||
security rules and standards for newly constructed school | ||
facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 7.061, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) In adopting or amending rules under Subsection (b), | ||
the commissioner shall incorporate the new school facility safety | ||
and security rules and standards developed under Section 7.0615. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 7, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 7.0615 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 7.0615. NEW SCHOOL FACILITY SAFETY AND SECURITY RULES | ||
AND STANDARDS. (a) The commissioner, in collaboration with the | ||
Texas School Safety Center, shall establish a committee to develop | ||
rules and standards for required school safety and security | ||
features for newly constructed school district and open-enrollment | ||
charter school facilities. | ||
(b) Any school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
facility for which construction commences on or after January 1, | ||
2024, must comply with the rules and standards developed by the | ||
committee under this section. | ||
(c) The agency shall publish the rules and standards | ||
developed under this section on the agency's Internet website. | ||
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than October 1, 2023, the | ||
commissioner of the Texas Education Agency, in collaboration with | ||
the Texas School Safety Center, shall establish the committee | ||
required under Section 7.0615, Education Code, as added by this | ||
Act. | ||
(b) Not later than December 1, 2023, the Texas Education | ||
Agency shall publish on its Internet website the rules and | ||
standards developed under Section 7.0615, Education Code, as added | ||
by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. 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. |