Bill Text: TX HB2653 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public school policies and procedures for the establishment of threat assessment teams.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Left pending in committee [HB2653 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2653-Introduced.html
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By: Rosenthal | H.B. No. 2653 |
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relating to public school policies and procedures for the | ||
establishment of threat assessment teams. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 37.1091 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 37.1091. THREAT ASSESSMENT TEAM. (a) Each school | ||
district and open-enrollment charter school shall adopt policies | ||
and procedures in accordance with the guidelines developed by the | ||
Texas School Safety Center, and in coordination with the agency, | ||
for the establishment of threat assessment teams. The policies and | ||
procedures must establish at least one threat assessment team and: | ||
(1) the membership and composition of each threat | ||
assessment team; | ||
(2) the training requirements for a member of a threat | ||
assessment team, including training provided by the Texas School | ||
Safety Center in threat assessment protocols; | ||
(3) guidance for students, faculty, and staff in | ||
identifying and reporting any threatening or aberrant behavior that | ||
may pose a threat to the community, school, or individual; and | ||
(4) the process for threat assessment, management, | ||
investigation, and response. | ||
(b) A threat assessment team identifying a student at risk | ||
of suicide shall act in accordance with the district's or school's | ||
suicide prevention program. | ||
(c) Each threat assessment team established under | ||
Subsection (a) shall annually report to the Texas School Safety | ||
Center the policies and procedures adopted by the team. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |