By: Sanford, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Paxton) H.B. No. 781
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021;
May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 14, 2021, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 14, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the carrying and possession of a handgun by a public
junior college school marshal.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
Subsection (d):
(1) must:
(A) authorize [provide that] a school marshal to
[may] carry a concealed handgun as described by Subsection (d); and
(B) [, 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 or possessed by [or within
access of] a school marshal to [may] be loaded only with frangible
duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission
on Law Enforcement; and
(2) may not require a school marshal to store the
handgun in a locked container while on duty.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
academic year.
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, 2021.
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