Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	88R6434 BDP-F
2	2	By: Allison H.B. No. 2009
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to measures for school safety in public schools.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 37.108(f), Education Code, is amended to
10	10	read as follows:
11	11	(f) A school district shall include in its multihazard
12	12	emergency operations plan:
13	13	(1) a chain of command that designates the individual
14	14	responsible for making final decisions during a disaster or
15	15	emergency situation and identifies other individuals responsible
16	16	for making those decisions if the designated person is unavailable;
17	17	(2) provisions that address physical and
18	18	psychological safety for responding to a natural disaster, active
19	19	shooter, and any other dangerous scenario identified for purposes
20	20	of this section by the agency or the Texas School Safety Center;
21	21	(3) provisions for ensuring the safety of students in
22	22	portable buildings;
23	23	(4) provisions for ensuring that students and district
24	24	personnel with disabilities are provided equal access to safety
25	25	during a disaster or emergency situation;
26	26	(5) provisions for providing immediate notification
27	27	to parents, guardians, and other persons standing in parental
28	28	relation in circumstances involving a significant threat to the
29	29	health or safety of students, including identification of the
30	30	individual with responsibility for overseeing the notification;
31	31	(6) provisions for supporting the psychological
32	32	safety of students, district personnel, and the community during
33	33	the response and recovery phase following a disaster or emergency
34	34	situation that:
35	35	(A) are aligned with best practice-based
36	36	programs and research-based practices recommended under Section
37	37	38.351;
38	38	(B) include strategies for ensuring any required
39	39	professional development training for suicide prevention and
40	40	grief-informed and trauma-informed care is provided to appropriate
41	41	school personnel;
42	42	(C) include training on integrating
43	43	psychological safety and suicide prevention strategies into the
44	44	district's plan, such as psychological first aid for schools
45	45	training, from an approved list of recommended training established
46	46	by the commissioner and Texas School Safety Center for:
47	47	(i) members of the district's school safety
48	48	and security committee under Section 37.109;
49	49	(ii) district school counselors and mental
50	50	health professionals; and
51	51	(iii) educators and other district
52	52	personnel as determined by the district;
53	53	(D) include strategies and procedures for
54	54	integrating and supporting physical and psychological safety that
55	55	align with the provisions described by Subdivision (2); and
56	56	(E) implement trauma-informed policies;
57	57	(7) a policy for providing a substitute teacher access
58	58	to school campus buildings and materials necessary for the
59	59	substitute teacher to carry out the duties of a district employee
60	60	during an emergency or a mandatory emergency drill; [and]
61	61	(8) the name of each individual on the district's
62	62	school safety and security committee established under Section
63	63	37.109 and the date of each committee meeting during the preceding
64	64	year; and
65	65	(9) provisions for reuniting students with their
66	66	parents, guardians, or other persons standing in parental relation
67	67	following a disaster or emergency situation.
68	68	SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
69	69	amended by adding Section 37.117 to read as follows:
70	70	Sec. 37.117. MOBILE PANIC ALERT SYSTEM. (a) Each school
71	71	district and open-enrollment charter school, in consultation with
72	72	local law enforcement agencies, shall implement a mobile panic
73	73	alert system to send emergency alerts to district or school
74	74	emergency services and emergency services agencies, law
75	75	enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments.
76	76	(b) The mobile panic alert system must:
77	77	(1) allow for immediate contact with district or
78	78	school emergency services, emergency services agencies, law
79	79	enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments;
80	80	(2) ensure real-time coordination between first
81	81	responder agencies;
82	82	(3) integrate directly with local public safety
83	83	answering point infrastructure to transmit 9-1-1 telephone calls;
84	84	and
85	85	(4) be capable of activation by mobile telephone.
86	86	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.