88R20044 JTZ-D
By: Dutton H.B. No. 2269
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2269:
By: Thompson of Harris C.S.H.B. No. 2269
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to security personnel and school resource officers at
public schools.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.081, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and
(a-3) to read as follows:
(a) The board of trustees of any school district may employ
or contract with security personnel, enter into a memorandum of
understanding with a local law enforcement agency or a county or
municipality that is the employing political subdivision of
commissioned peace officers 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.] 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.
(a-1) A memorandum of understanding for the provision of
school resource officers entered into under Subsection (a) must:
(1) be in the form of an interlocal contract under
Chapter 791, Government Code; and
(2) use a proportionate cost allocation methodology to
address any costs or fees incurred by the school district or the
local law enforcement agency, county, or municipality, as
applicable.
(a-2) The cost allocation methodology used under Subsection
(a-1)(2) may allow a local law enforcement agency, county, or
municipality, as applicable, to recoup direct costs incurred as a
result of the contract but may not allow the agency, county, or
municipality to profit under the contract.
(a-3) A school district, local law enforcement agency,
county, or municipality that enters into a memorandum of
understanding under Subsection (a) may seek funding from federal,
state, and private sources to support the cost of providing school
resource officers under this section.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
37.081, Education Code, applies only to a memorandum of
understanding under that section that is entered into on or after
the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.