Bill Text: TX SB238 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of the school safety allotment for a school district's pandemic preparation and response.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-03 - Referred to Education [SB238 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB238-Introduced.html
87R726 JES-D | ||
By: Powell | S.B. No. 238 |
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relating to the use of the school safety allotment for a school | ||
district's pandemic preparation and response. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 42.168, Education Code, as added by | ||
Chapter 464 (S.B. 11), Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2019, is transferred to Subchapter C, Chapter 48, | ||
Education Code, redesignated as Section 48.115, Education Code, and | ||
amended to conform to changes made by Chapter 943 (H.B. 3), Acts of | ||
the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, and is further amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 48.115 [ |
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funds appropriated for that purpose, the commissioner shall provide | ||
to a school district an annual allotment in the amount provided by | ||
appropriation for each student in average daily attendance. | ||
(b) Funds allocated under this section must be used to | ||
improve school safety and security, including costs associated | ||
with: | ||
(1) securing school facilities, including: | ||
(A) improvements to school infrastructure; | ||
(B) the use or installation of physical barriers; | ||
and | ||
(C) the purchase and maintenance of: | ||
(i) security cameras or other security | ||
equipment; and | ||
(ii) technology, including communications | ||
systems or devices, that facilitates communication and information | ||
sharing between students, school personnel, and first responders in | ||
an emergency; | ||
(2) providing security for the district, including: | ||
(A) employing school district peace officers, | ||
private security officers, and school marshals; and | ||
(B) collaborating with local law enforcement | ||
agencies, such as entering into a memorandum of understanding for | ||
the assignment of school resource officers to schools in the | ||
district; | ||
(3) school safety and security training and planning, | ||
including: | ||
(A) active shooter and emergency response | ||
training; | ||
(B) prevention and treatment programs relating | ||
to addressing adverse childhood experiences; and | ||
(C) the prevention, identification, and | ||
management of emergencies and threats, including: | ||
(i) providing mental health personnel and | ||
support; | ||
(ii) providing behavioral health services; | ||
and | ||
(iii) establishing threat reporting | ||
systems; [ |
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(4) providing programs related to suicide prevention, | ||
intervention, and postvention; and | ||
(5) school health and safety efforts relating to | ||
pandemic preparation and response, including: | ||
(A) employing school nurses; and | ||
(B) purchasing: | ||
(i) diagnostic testing equipment; and | ||
(ii) personal protective equipment. | ||
(c) A school district may use funds allocated under this | ||
section for equipment or software that is used for a school safety | ||
and security purpose and an instructional purpose, provided that | ||
the instructional use does not compromise the safety and security | ||
purpose of the equipment or software. | ||
(d) A school district that is required to take action under | ||
Chapter 49 [ |
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48.257 is entitled to a credit, in the amount of the allotments to | ||
which the district is to receive as provided by appropriation, | ||
against the total amount required under Section 49.153 [ |
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the district to purchase attendance credit [ |
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(e) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails | ||
over another Act of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, | ||
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted | ||
codes. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |