Bill Text: TX HB1496 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a notice requirement regarding possible acts of school violence.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB1496 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1496-Comm_Sub.html
| 86R4805 ADM-D | ||
| By: Metcalf, Allen, Bonnen of Galveston, | H.B. No. 1496 | |
| Huberty, Dutton | ||
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| relating to a notice requirement regarding possible acts of school | ||
| violence. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 2.296 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 2.296. NOTICE REGARDING POSSIBLE SCHOOL VIOLENCE. (a) | ||
| In this article, "school violence" means any offense: | ||
| (1) involving violence that may result in death or | ||
| serious bodily injury to any person; and | ||
| (2) that occurs at a primary or secondary school. | ||
| (b) A law enforcement officer who receives a report or finds | ||
| evidence that suggests a person may be contemplating committing an | ||
| act of school violence at a public school in this state shall, as | ||
| soon as practicable, deliver written notice of the threat to the | ||
| superintendent of the affected school or a person designated by the | ||
| superintendent. | ||
| (c) The superintendent or person designated by the | ||
| superintendent shall, on receiving notice under this article, | ||
| notify appropriate instructional and support personnel. All | ||
| personnel shall keep the information received under this article | ||
| confidential. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
