| 1 | 1 | | 85R6260 GCB-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Villalba H.B. No. 960 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the appointment of school marshals by public schools |
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| 8 | 8 | | and the ammunition approved for use by a school marshal serving a |
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| 9 | 9 | | public school or a public junior college. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Sections 37.0811(a) and (d), Education Code, are |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (a) The board of trustees of a school district or the |
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| 14 | 14 | | governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may appoint not |
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| 15 | 15 | | more than the greater of: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (1) one school marshal per 200 [400] students in |
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| 17 | 17 | | average daily attendance per campus; or |
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| 18 | 18 | | (2) for each campus, one school marshal per building |
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| 19 | 19 | | of the campus at which students regularly receive classroom |
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| 20 | 20 | | instruction. |
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| 21 | 21 | | (d) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of |
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| 22 | 22 | | Subsection (c) must provide that a school marshal may carry a |
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| 23 | 23 | | concealed handgun as described by Subsection (c), except that if |
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| 24 | 24 | | the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct |
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| 25 | 25 | | contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed |
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| 26 | 26 | | handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a |
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| 27 | 27 | | school in a locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate |
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| 28 | 28 | | reach when conducting the marshal's primary duty. The written |
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| 29 | 29 | | regulations must also require that a handgun carried by or within |
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| 30 | 30 | | access of a school marshal may be loaded only with frangible duty |
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| 31 | 31 | | ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission on Law |
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| 32 | 32 | | Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on impact for maximum safety |
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| 33 | 33 | | and minimal danger to others]. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 2. Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 35 | 35 | | read as follows: |
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| 36 | 36 | | (e) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of |
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| 37 | 37 | | Subsection (d) must provide that a school marshal may carry a |
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| 38 | 38 | | concealed handgun as described by Subsection (d), except that if |
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| 39 | 39 | | the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct |
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| 40 | 40 | | contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed |
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| 41 | 41 | | handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a |
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| 42 | 42 | | public junior college campus in a locked and secured safe within the |
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| 43 | 43 | | marshal's immediate reach when conducting the marshal's primary |
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| 44 | 44 | | duty. The written regulations must also require that a handgun |
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| 45 | 45 | | carried by or within access of a school marshal may be loaded only |
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| 46 | 46 | | with frangible duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the |
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| 47 | 47 | | Texas Commission on Law Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on |
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| 48 | 48 | | impact for maximum safety and minimal danger to others]. |
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| 49 | 49 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 50 | 50 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 51 | 51 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 52 | 52 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 53 | 53 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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