87R1642 TSS-D
By: Lucio S.B. No. 894
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the model training curriculum and required education
and training of security personnel employed by a school district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.0812, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 37.0812. TRAINING POLICY: SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE
OFFICERS, [AND] SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, AND SECURITY PERSONNEL.
(a) A school district peace officer, [or] school resource officer,
or person employed as security personnel shall complete an active
shooter response training program approved by the Texas Commission
on Law Enforcement.
(b) A school district that commissions a school district
peace officer or employs security personnel or at which a school
resource officer provides law enforcement shall adopt a policy
requiring the officer or security personnel to complete the
education and training program required by Section 1701.263,
Occupations Code.
SECTION 2. The heading to Section 1701.262, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1701.262. TRAINING FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE OFFICERS,
[AND] SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, AND SCHOOL SECURITY PERSONNEL.
SECTION 3. Section 1701.262(a), Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
(5) "School security personnel" means a person
employed as security personnel by the board of trustees of a school
district under Section 37.081, Education Code.
SECTION 4. Sections 1701.262(b) and (e), Occupations Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(b) The commission, in consultation with an institute or the
center, shall create, adopt, and distribute a model training
curriculum for school district peace officers, [and] school
resource officers, and school security personnel.
(e) The commission shall provide the curriculum developed
under this section and any supplemental education materials created
for the curriculum to:
(1) school district police departments;
(2) law enforcement agencies that place peace officers
in a school as school resource officers under a memorandum of
understanding; and
(3) any entity that provides training to school
district peace officers, [or] school resource officers, or school
security personnel.
SECTION 5. Section 1701.263, Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 1701.263. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL
DISTRICT PEACE OFFICERS, [AND] SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, AND SCHOOL
SECURITY PERSONNEL. (a) In this section:
(1) "School district peace officer" and "school
security personnel" have [has] the meanings [meaning] assigned by
Section 1701.262.
(2) "School resource officer" has the meaning assigned
by Section 1701.601.
(b) The commission by rule shall require a school district
peace officer or a school resource officer who is commissioned by or
who provides law enforcement at a school district or school
security personnel at a school district to successfully complete an
education and training program described by this section before or
within 180 days of the officer's or person's commission by, [or]
placement in, or employment at the district or a campus of the
district. The program must:
(1) consist of at least 16 hours of training;
(2) be approved by the commission; and
(3) provide training in accordance with the curriculum
developed under Section 1701.262 in each subject area listed in
Subsection (c) of that section.
(b-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (b) or a rule adopted
under that section, a school district peace officer, [or] school
resource officer, or school security personnel is not required to
successfully complete the education and training program required
by this section if the officer or person has successfully completed
the advanced training course conducted by the National Association
of School Resource Officers or a training course equivalent to that
advanced training course, as determined by the commission.
(c) The education and training program required under this
section may not require a peace officer or school security
personnel to pass an examination, except that the commission shall
administer an examination to qualify officers or security personnel
to provide the education and training to other officers or security
personnel. The examination to qualify an officer or person
[officers] to provide the education and training must test the
officer's or person's knowledge and recognition of the subject
areas listed in Section 1701.262(c).
(d) The commission shall issue a professional achievement
or proficiency certificate to an [a peace] officer or person who
completes the education and training program under this section.
SECTION 6. As soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act and not later than December 1, 2021:
(1) a school district that employs security personnel
shall adopt a policy as required by Section 37.0812(b), Education
Code, as amended by this Act; and
(2) the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall
amend the model training curriculum and rules as necessary to
implement Sections 1701.262 and 1701.263, Occupations Code, as
amended by this Act.
SECTION 7. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
date of this Act but not later than August 31, 2022, a person
employed as security personnel by a school district who begins
employment on a date occurring before December 1, 2021, shall
complete:
(1) the training required by Section 37.0812,
Education Code, as amended by this Act; and
(2) the training required by Section 1701.263,
Occupations Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a
person who is exempt from the training established under Section
1701.263, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, because the
person has completed the training described by Subsection (b-1) of
that section.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.