86R23694 TSS-F
By: Metcalf, Huberty, Allen, H.B. No. 974
González of El Paso, Dutton
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 974:
By: VanDeaver C.S.H.B. No. 974
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public school safety measures and procedures.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.108(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) At least once every two [three] years, each school
district or public junior college district shall conduct a safety
and security audit of the district's facilities. To the extent
possible, a district shall follow safety and security audit
procedures developed by the Texas School Safety Center or a
comparable public or private entity.
SECTION 2. Section 38.022, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to
read as follows:
(a) A school district shall [may] require a person who
enters a district campus for a purpose other than to attend a
school-sponsored event that is open to the public to display the
person's driver's license or another form of identification
containing the person's photograph issued by a governmental entity.
(c) A school district shall [may] verify whether a person
who visits [visitor to] a district campus for a purpose other than
to attend a school-sponsored event that is open to the public is a
sex offender registered with the computerized central database
maintained by the Department of Public Safety as provided by
Article 62.005, Code of Criminal Procedure, or any other database
accessible by the district.
(c-1) A school district may verify whether a person who
visits a district campus to attend a school-sponsored event that is
open to the public is a sex offender registered with the
computerized central database maintained by the Department of
Public Safety as provided by Article 62.005, Code of Criminal
Procedure, or any other database accessible by the district.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
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, 2019.