Bill Text: TX HB2111 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the employment of certain federal law enforcement agents as school district security personnel and the authority of the chief of school safety and security for the Texas Education Agency to carry a weapon on public school grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2111 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2111-Comm_Sub.html
  88R6098 CXP-F
 
  By: Allison, Dorazio H.B. No. 2111
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the employment of certain federal law enforcement
  agents as school district security personnel and the authority of
  the chief of school safety and security for the Texas Education
  Agency to carry a weapon on public school grounds.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.081(a), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  The board of trustees of any school district may employ
  security personnel, enter into a memorandum of understanding with a
  local law enforcement agency for the provision of school resource
  officers, and commission peace officers to carry out this
  subchapter. If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as
  security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a
  commissioned peace officer or a current or former licensed federal
  law enforcement agent who is authorized to carry a weapon while on
  duty. The jurisdiction of a peace officer, a school resource
  officer, or security personnel under this section shall be
  determined by the board of trustees and may include all territory in
  the boundaries of the school district and all property outside the
  boundaries of the district that is owned, leased, or rented by or
  otherwise under the control of the school district and the board of
  trustees that employ the peace officer or security personnel or
  that enter into a memorandum of understanding for the provision of a
  school resource officer.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 37.089 to read as follows:
         Sec. 37.089.  CHIEF OF SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY.
  Notwithstanding Section 46.03(a)(1), Penal Code, an individual
  appointed by the governor as chief of school safety and security for
  the agency may carry a weapon on the grounds of any school district
  or open-enrollment charter school campus or facility in this state
  if the individual is a commissioned peace officer or a current or
  former licensed federal law enforcement agent who is authorized to
  carry a weapon while on duty.
         SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  school year.
         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.
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