Bill Text: TX HB1042 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring law enforcement agencies to establish a campus active shooter response plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HB1042 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1042-Introduced.html
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By: Toth | H.B. No. 1042 |
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relating to requiring law enforcement agencies to establish a | ||
campus active shooter response plan. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 2.33 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 2.33. CAMPUS ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE PLAN. (a) Each | ||
law enforcement agency in this state shall: | ||
(1) establish a plan for coordinating with other local | ||
law enforcement agencies and first responders when responding to an | ||
active shooter emergency on the campus of a school or educational | ||
institution; | ||
(2) annually: | ||
(A) conduct an active shooter drill with local | ||
law enforcement agencies and first responders in accordance with | ||
the plan; and | ||
(B) review and, if necessary, revise the plan; | ||
and | ||
(3) not later than July 1 of each year, submit the plan | ||
to the Department of Public Safety. | ||
(b) The response plan established under Subsection (a)(1) | ||
must include protocols for the first officer arriving at the scene | ||
to immediately: | ||
(1) enter the premises where the emergency is | ||
occurring; | ||
(2) identify and evaluate the threat; and | ||
(3) take action to eliminate the threat, if feasible, | ||
or contain the threat to prevent further injuries and protect the | ||
public while additional law enforcement officers are summoned. | ||
(c) The Department of Public Safety shall adopt rules and | ||
procedures to annually certify a law enforcement agency's | ||
compliance with this article. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act: | ||
(1) each law enforcement agency shall establish the | ||
campus active shooter response plan required by Article 2.33(a)(1), | ||
Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act; and | ||
(2) the Department of Public Safety shall adopt the | ||
rules and procedures required by Article 2.33(c), Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, as added by this Act. | ||
(b) Not later than July 1, 2020, each law enforcement agency | ||
shall submit the agency's initial plan to the Department of Public | ||
Safety, as required by Article 2.33(a)(3), Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, as added by this Act. | ||
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. |