88R6098 CXP-F
By: Allison, Dorazio H.B. No. 2111
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the employment of certain federal law enforcement
agents as school district security personnel and the authority of
the chief of school safety and security for the Texas Education
Agency to carry a weapon on public school grounds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.081(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The board of trustees of any school district may employ
security personnel, enter into a memorandum of understanding with a
local law enforcement agency for the provision of school resource
officers, and commission peace officers to carry out this
subchapter. If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as
security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a
commissioned peace officer or a current or former licensed federal
law enforcement agent who is authorized to carry a weapon while on
duty. The jurisdiction of a peace officer, a school resource
officer, or security personnel under this section shall be
determined by the board of trustees and may include all territory in
the boundaries of the school district and all property outside the
boundaries of the district that is owned, leased, or rented by or
otherwise under the control of the school district and the board of
trustees that employ the peace officer or security personnel or
that enter into a memorandum of understanding for the provision of a
school resource officer.
SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 37, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 37.089 to read as follows:
Sec. 37.089. CHIEF OF SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY.
Notwithstanding Section 46.03(a)(1), Penal Code, an individual
appointed by the governor as chief of school safety and security for
the agency may carry a weapon on the grounds of any school district
or open-enrollment charter school campus or facility in this state
if the individual is a commissioned peace officer or a current or
former licensed federal law enforcement agent who is authorized to
carry a weapon while on duty.
SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
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, 2023.