Bill Text: TX HB974 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to public school safety measures and procedures.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Committee report printed and distributed [HB974 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB974-Comm_Sub.html
By: Metcalf, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Taylor) | H.B. No. 974 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2019; | ||
May 8, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Education; May 17, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to public school safety measures and procedures. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 11.159, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The State Board of Education shall require a trustee | ||
to complete training on school safety. The state board, in | ||
coordination with the Texas School Safety Center, shall develop the | ||
curriculum and materials for the training. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 38.022, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsections (c-1), | ||
(c-2), and (e) to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district shall [ |
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enters a district campus for a purpose other than to attend a | ||
school-sponsored event that is open to the public to display the | ||
person's driver's license or another form of identification | ||
containing the person's photograph issued by a governmental entity. | ||
(c) A school district shall [ |
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who visits [ |
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to attend a school-sponsored event that is open to the public is a | ||
sex offender registered with the computerized central database | ||
maintained by the Department of Public Safety as provided by | ||
Article 62.005, Code of Criminal Procedure, or any other database | ||
accessible by the district. | ||
(c-1) A school district may verify whether a person who | ||
visits a district campus to attend a school-sponsored event that is | ||
open to the public is a sex offender registered with the | ||
computerized central database maintained by the Department of | ||
Public Safety as provided by Article 62.005, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, or any other database accessible by the district. | ||
(c-2) A school district may: | ||
(1) develop a form of identification containing a | ||
person's photograph that is valid only during the school year for | ||
which it is issued; and | ||
(2) issue that form of identification to a student's | ||
parent or guardian who does not possess any other form of | ||
identification described by Subsection (a). | ||
(e) For purposes of this section, an event is a | ||
school-sponsored event that is open to the public if the event is | ||
held on a district campus and individuals other than district | ||
employees or students are encouraged, invited, or permitted to | ||
attend. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. Not later than January 1, 2020, the State Board | ||
of Education, in coordination with the Texas School Safety Center, | ||
shall develop the curriculum and materials for the training on | ||
school safety required under Section 11.159(b-1), Education Code, | ||
as added by this Act. | ||
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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