Bill Text: TX SB372 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of an open-enrollment charter school to employ security personnel, commission peace officers, and have school resource officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB372 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB372-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 372 | ||
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| relating to the authority of an open-enrollment charter school to | ||
| employ security personnel, commission peace officers, and have | ||
| school resource officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 12.104, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The governing body of an open-enrollment charter | ||
| school may: | ||
| (1) employ security personnel and commission peace | ||
| officers in the same manner as a board of trustees of a school | ||
| district under Section 37.081; and | ||
| (2) enter into a memorandum of understanding with a | ||
| local law enforcement agency to assign a school resource officer, | ||
| as that term is defined by Section 1701.601, Occupations Code, to | ||
| the school. | ||
| (a-2) A reference in law to a peace officer commissioned | ||
| under Section 37.081 includes a peace officer commissioned by an | ||
| open-enrollment charter school in accordance with Subsection | ||
| (a-1), and a charter school peace officer has the same powers, | ||
| duties, and immunities as a peace officer commissioned under that | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 372 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 11, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 24, 2019, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 372 passed the House, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 121, | ||
| Nays 20, one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
