| 1 | | - | By: Creighton, et al. S.B. No. 244 |
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| 1 | + | By: Creighton, Hall S.B. No. 244 |
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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed December 14, 2018; February 7, 2019, |
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| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on Education; |
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| 4 | + | March 21, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 3; March 21, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 3 | 8 | | |
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| 4 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 11 | | relating to the number of school marshals that may be appointed to |
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| 7 | 12 | | serve on a public school campus or at a private school. |
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| 8 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 37.0811(a), Education Code, is amended |
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| 10 | 15 | | to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 16 | | (a) The board of trustees of a school district or the |
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| 12 | 17 | | governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may appoint one |
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| 13 | 18 | | or more school marshals for each campus [not more than the greater |
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| 14 | 19 | | of: |
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| 15 | 20 | | [(1) one school marshal per 200 students in average |
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| 16 | 21 | | daily attendance per campus; or |
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| 17 | 22 | | [(2) for each campus, one school marshal per building of |
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| 18 | 23 | | the campus at which students regularly receive classroom |
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| 19 | 24 | | instruction]. |
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| 20 | 25 | | SECTION 2. Section 37.0813(a), Education Code, is amended |
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| 21 | 26 | | to read as follows: |
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| 22 | 27 | | (a) The governing body of a private school may appoint one |
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| 23 | 28 | | or more school marshals [not more than the greater of: |
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| 24 | 29 | | [(1) one school marshal per 200 students enrolled in |
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| 25 | 30 | | the school; or |
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| 26 | 31 | | [(2) one school marshal per building of the school at |
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| 27 | 32 | | which students regularly receive classroom instruction]. |
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| 28 | 33 | | SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 |
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| 29 | 34 | | school year. |
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| 30 | 35 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 31 | 36 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 32 | 37 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 33 | 38 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 34 | 39 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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