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1	1	83R22464 JSL-F
2	2	By: J. Davis of Harris H.B. No. 3655
3	3	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3655:
4	4	By: Pickett C.S.H.B. No. 3655
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the establishment of a school safety certification
10	10	program and the School Safety Task Force.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
13	13	amended by adding Sections 37.1081 and 37.1082 to read as follows:
14	14	Sec. 37.1081. SCHOOL SAFETY CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. (a) The
15	15	Texas School Safety Center, in consultation with the School Safety
16	16	Task Force established under Section 37.1082, shall develop a
17	17	school safety certification program.
18	18	(b) The Texas School Safety Center shall award a school
19	19	safety certificate to a school district that:
20	20	(1) has adopted and implemented a multihazard
21	21	emergency operations plan as required under Section 37.108 and
22	22	that includes in that plan:
23	23	(A) measures for security of facilities and
24	24	grounds;
25	25	(B) measures for communication with parents and
26	26	the media in the event of an emergency; and
27	27	(C) an outline of safety training for school
28	28	employees;
29	29	(2) demonstrates to the center with current written
30	30	self-audit processes that the district conducts at least one drill
31	31	per year for each of the following types of drills:
32	32	(A) a school lockdown drill;
33	33	(B) an evacuation drill;
34	34	(C) a weather-related emergency drill;
35	35	(D) a reverse evacuation drill; and
36	36	(E) a shelter-in-place drill;
37	37	(3) is in compliance with Sections 37.108(b) and (c);
38	38	and
39	39	(4) meets any other eligibility criteria as
40	40	recommended by the School Safety Task Force.
41	41	Sec. 37.1082. SCHOOL SAFETY TASK FORCE. (a) The School
42	42	Safety Task Force is established to:
43	43	(1) study, on an ongoing basis, best practices for
44	44	school multihazard emergency operations planning; and
45	45	(2) based on those studies, make recommendations to
46	46	the legislature, the Texas School Safety Center, and the governor's
47	47	office of homeland security.
48	48	(b) The task force is composed of:
49	49	(1) the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency
50	50	Management, or the chief's designee;
51	51	(2) the training director of the Advanced Law
52	52	Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State
53	53	University--San Marcos, or the training director's designee;
54	54	(3) the chairperson of the Texas School Safety Center,
55	55	or the chairperson's designee; and
56	56	(4) the agency director of the Texas A&M Engineering
57	57	Extension Service, or the agency director's designee.
58	58	(c) The chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management,
59	59	or the chief's designee, shall serve as the presiding officer of the
60	60	task force.
61	61	(d) A member of the task force is not entitled to
62	62	compensation for service on the task force but is entitled to
63	63	reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in
64	64	performing task force duties.
65	65	(e) In performing the task force's duties under this section
66	66	for schools, the task force shall consult with and consider
67	67	recommendations from school district and school personnel,
68	68	including school safety personnel and educators, and from first
69	69	responders, emergency managers, local officials, representatives
70	70	of appropriate nonprofit organizations, and other interested
71	71	parties with knowledge and experience concerning school emergency
72	72	operations planning.
73	73	(f) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year,
74	74	the task force shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report
75	75	concerning the results of the task force's most recent study,
76	76	including any recommendations for statutory changes the task force
77	77	considers necessary or appropriate to improve school multihazard
78	78	emergency operations.
79	79	SECTION 2. Section 46.0081, Education Code, is amended to
80	80	read as follows:
81	81	Sec. 46.0081. SECURITY CRITERIA IN DESIGN OF INSTRUCTIONAL
82	82	FACILITIES. A school district that constructs a new instructional
83	83	facility or conducts a major renovation of an existing
84	84	instructional facility using funds allotted to the district under
85	85	this subchapter shall consider, in the design of the instructional
86	86	facility, appropriate security criteria [developed by the Texas
87	87	School Safety Center under Section 37.2051].
88	88	SECTION 3. Section 37.2051, Education Code, is repealed.
89	89	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
90	90	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
91	91	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
92	92	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
93	93	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.