Bill Text: TX SB1857 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the certification of certain qualified handgun instructors to conduct school safety training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1857 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1857-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the certification of certain qualified handgun instructors to conduct school safety training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1857 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1857-Comm_Sub.html
By: Estes | S.B. No. 1857 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 26, 2013; April 2, 2013, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs, | ||
and Homeland Security; April 10, 2013, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, | ||
Nays 0; April 10, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1857 | By: Estes |
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relating to the certification of certain qualified handgun | ||
instructors to conduct school safety training. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.1901 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.1901. SCHOOL SAFETY CERTIFICATION FOR QUALIFIED | ||
HANDGUN INSTRUCTORS. (a) The department shall establish a process | ||
to enable qualified handgun instructors certified under Section | ||
411.190 to obtain an additional certification in school safety. | ||
The process must include a school safety certification course that | ||
provides training in the following: | ||
(1) the protection of students; | ||
(2) interaction of license holders with first | ||
responders; | ||
(3) tactics for denying an intruder entry into a | ||
classroom or school facility; and | ||
(4) methods for increasing a license holder's accuracy | ||
with a handgun while under duress. | ||
(b) The school safety certification course under Subsection | ||
(a) must include not less than 15 hours and not more than 20 hours of | ||
instruction. | ||
(c) A qualified handgun instructor certified in school | ||
safety under this section may provide school safety training, | ||
including instruction in the subjects listed under Subsection (a), | ||
to employees of a school district or an open-enrollment charter | ||
school who hold a license to carry a concealed handgun issued under | ||
this subchapter. | ||
(d) The department shall establish a fee in an amount that | ||
is sufficient to cover the costs of the school safety certification | ||
under this section. | ||
(e) The department may adopt rules to administer this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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