Bill Text: TX SB2467 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a study by the Texas School Safety Center on public school emergency response maps.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-03 - Referred to Education K-16 [SB2467 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB2467-Introduced.html
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| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2467 | |
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| relating to a study by the Texas School Safety Center on public | ||
| school emergency response maps. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.117, Education Code, as added by | ||
| Chapter 896 (H.B. 3), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.117. EMERGENCY RESPONSE MAP AND WALK-THROUGH. Each | ||
| school district and open-enrollment charter school shall provide to | ||
| the Department of Public Safety, the Texas School Safety Center, | ||
| and all appropriate local law enforcement agencies and emergency | ||
| first responders: | ||
| (1) an accurate map of each district campus and school | ||
| building that is developed and documented in accordance with the | ||
| standards described by Section 37.351 related to developing site | ||
| and floor plans, access control, and exterior door numbering; and | ||
| (2) an opportunity to conduct a walk-through of each | ||
| district campus and school building using the map described by | ||
| Subdivision (1). | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.1171 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.1171. EMERGENCY RESPONSE MAP STUDY. (a) In this | ||
| section, "center" means the Texas School Safety Center. | ||
| (b) The center shall conduct a study of the emergency | ||
| response maps submitted to the center by a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school under Section 37.117. In conducting | ||
| the study, the center shall: | ||
| (1) review the types of maps received, including | ||
| analyzing any variances in complexity or consistency of the maps; | ||
| (2) identify the mapping options available for an | ||
| emergency response map; | ||
| (3) identify the information an emergency response map | ||
| should include; | ||
| (4) analyze the costs associated with creating an | ||
| emergency response map based on the complexity of the map; and | ||
| (5) consider input from school districts, | ||
| open-enrollment charter schools, law enforcement agencies, and | ||
| specialists in geospatial mapping techniques on the aspects of the | ||
| maps that require improvement or standardization across school | ||
| districts and open-enrollment charter schools. | ||
| (c) Not later than September 1, 2026, the center shall | ||
| prepare and submit to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of | ||
| the house of representatives, and standing legislative committees | ||
| with primary jurisdiction over primary and secondary education a | ||
| written report on the results of the study and any recommendations | ||
| for legislative or other action. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
