Bill Text: TX SB838 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools providing silent panic alert technology in classrooms.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-15)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-05 - Effective immediately [SB838 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB838-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 838 | ||
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| relating to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools | ||
| providing silent panic alert technology in classrooms. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as Alyssa's Law. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 37.117 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.117. SILENT PANIC ALERT TECHNOLOGY. (a) Each | ||
| school district and open-enrollment charter school shall provide | ||
| each classroom in the district or school with silent panic alert | ||
| technology that allows for immediate contact with district or | ||
| school emergency services and emergency services agencies, law | ||
| enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments. | ||
| (b) Silent panic alert technology provided by a school | ||
| district or open-enrollment charter school under this section does | ||
| not satisfy the requirement under Section 37.108(a)(2) for the | ||
| district or school to ensure employees have classroom access to a | ||
| telephone or another electronic communication device. | ||
| (c) To comply with this section, a school district or | ||
| open-enrollment charter school may: | ||
| (1) use funds provided to the district or school | ||
| through the school safety allotment under Section 48.115 or other | ||
| available funds; and | ||
| (2) use the district's or school's customary | ||
| procurement process. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
| school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 838 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 838 passed the House on | ||
| April 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
