Bill Text: TX HB2195 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to an active shooter emergency policy for school districts and required active shooter training for school district peace officers and school resource officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2195 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2195-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to an active shooter emergency policy for school districts and required active shooter training for school district peace officers and school resource officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2195 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2195-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Meyer, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 2195 | |
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019; | ||
| April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
| Education; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to an active shooter emergency policy for school districts | ||
| and required active shooter training for school district peace | ||
| officers and school resource officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.108, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) A school district shall include in its multihazard | ||
| emergency operations plan a policy for responding to an active | ||
| shooter emergency. The school district may use any available | ||
| community resources in developing the policy described by this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 37.0812, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.0812. TRAINING POLICY: SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE | ||
| OFFICERS AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. (a) A school district peace | ||
| officer or school resource officer shall complete an active shooter | ||
| response training program approved by the Texas Commission on Law | ||
| Enforcement. | ||
| (b) A school district with an enrollment of 30,000 or more | ||
| students that commissions a school district peace officer or at | ||
| which a school resource officer provides law enforcement shall | ||
| adopt a policy requiring the officer to complete the education and | ||
| training program required by Section 1701.263, Occupations Code. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall approve | ||
| an active shooter response training program required under Section | ||
| 37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. A school district peace officer or school | ||
| resource officer who begins employment with or begins providing law | ||
| enforcement at a school district on a date occurring before the | ||
| effective date of this Act shall complete the training required by | ||
| Section 37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as | ||
| practicable after the effective date of this Act but not later than | ||
| August 31, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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. | ||
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