85R6260 GCB-D
By: Villalba H.B. No. 960
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appointment of school marshals by public schools
and the ammunition approved for use by a school marshal serving a
public school or a public junior college.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 37.0811(a) and (d), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) The board of trustees of a school district or the
governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may appoint not
more than the greater of:
(1) one school marshal per 200 [400] students in
average daily attendance per campus; or
(2) for each campus, one school marshal per building
of the campus at which students regularly receive classroom
instruction.
(d) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
Subsection (c) must provide that a school marshal may carry a
concealed handgun as described by Subsection (c), except that if
the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct
contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed
handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a
school in a locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate
reach when conducting the marshal's primary duty. The written
regulations must also require that a handgun carried by or within
access of a school marshal may be loaded only with frangible duty
ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on impact for maximum safety
and minimal danger to others].
SECTION 2. Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
Subsection (d) must provide that a school marshal may carry a
concealed handgun as described by Subsection (d), except that if
the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct
contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed
handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a
public junior college campus in a locked and secured safe within the
marshal's immediate reach when conducting the marshal's primary
duty. The written regulations must also require that a handgun
carried by or within access of a school marshal may be loaded only
with frangible duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the
Texas Commission on Law Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on
impact for maximum safety and minimal danger to others].
SECTION 3. 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, 2017.