Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	By: Creighton S.B. No. 1475
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to licensure and training requirements for school
7	7	marshals.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 37.0811(f), Education Code, is amended
10	10	to read as follows:
11	11	(f) A school district or charter school employee's status as
12	12	a school marshal becomes inactive on:
13	13	(1) expiration of the employee's school marshal
14	14	license under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
15	15	(2) suspension or revocation of the employee's license
16	16	to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H, Chapter 411,
17	17	Government Code, if the employee is required to hold that license as
18	18	a condition of the employee's school marshal license under Section
19	19	1701.260, Occupations Code;
20	20	(3) termination of the employee's employment with the
21	21	district or charter school; or
22	22	(4) notice from the board of trustees of the district
23	23	or the governing body of the charter school that the employee's
24	24	services as school marshal are no longer required.
25	25	SECTION 2. Section 37.0813(f), Education Code, is amended
26	26	to read as follows:
27	27	(f) A private school employee's status as a school marshal
28	28	becomes inactive on:
29	29	(1) expiration of the employee's school marshal
30	30	license under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
31	31	(2) suspension or revocation of the employee's license
32	32	to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H, Chapter 411,
33	33	Government Code, if the employee is required to hold that license as
34	34	a condition of the employee's school marshal license under Section
35	35	1701.260, Occupations Code;
36	36	(3) termination of the employee's employment with the
37	37	private school; or
38	38	(4) notice from the governing body that the employee's
39	39	services as school marshal are no longer required.
40	40	SECTION 3. Section 51.220(g), Education Code, is amended to
41	41	read as follows:
42	42	(g) A public junior college employee's status as a school
43	43	marshal becomes inactive on:
44	44	(1) expiration of the employee's school marshal
45	45	license under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
46	46	(2) suspension or revocation of the employee's license
47	47	to carry a concealed handgun issued under Subchapter H, Chapter
48	48	411, Government Code, if the employee is required to hold that
49	49	license as a condition of the employee's school marshal license
50	50	under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
51	51	(3) termination of the employee's employment with the
52	52	public junior college; or
53	53	(4) notice from the governing board of the public
54	54	junior college that the employee's services as school marshal are
55	55	no longer required.
56	56	SECTION 4. Subchapter C, Chapter 96, Education Code, is
57	57	amended by adding Section 96.42 to read as follows:
58	58	Sec. 96.42. CERTAIN REQUIRED TRAINING PROVIDED BY ADVANCED
59	59	LAW ENFORCEMENT RAPID RESPONSE TRAINING CENTER. The Advanced Law
60	60	Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State
61	61	University--San Marcos shall offer to a person participating in a
62	62	school marshal training program under Section 1701.260,
63	63	Occupations Code, a course of instruction designed to prepare the
64	64	person to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter.
65	65	SECTION 5. Section 1701.260, Occupations Code, is amended
66	66	by amending Subsections (a), (a-1), and (i) and adding Subsections
67	67	(a-2) and (c-1) to read as follows:
68	68	(a) The commission shall establish and maintain a training
69	69	program open to any employee of a school district, open-enrollment
70	70	charter school, private school, or public junior college who:
71	71	(1) holds a license to carry a handgun issued under
72	72	Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code;
73	73	(2) is a retired peace officer, as defined by Section
74	74	1701.3161; or
75	75	(3) is an honorably discharged veteran of the armed
76	76	forces of the United States.
77	77	(a-1) The training under the training program may be
78	78	conducted only by the commission staff or a provider approved by the
79	79	commission.
80	80	(a-2) [(a-1)] In this section, "private school" has the
81	81	meaning assigned by Article 2.127, Code of Criminal Procedure.
82	82	(c-1) For the instruction required under Subsection (c)(5),
83	83	the commission shall require a trainee to complete a course of
84	84	instruction offered by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response
85	85	Training Center at Texas State University--San Marcos that is
86	86	designed to prepare the trainee to isolate, distract, and
87	87	neutralize an active shooter.
88	88	(i) The commission shall revoke the [a person's] school
89	89	marshal license of a person described by Subsection (a)(1) if the
90	90	commission is notified by the Department of Public Safety that the
91	91	person's license to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H,
92	92	Chapter 411, Government Code, has been suspended or revoked. A
93	93	person whose school marshal license is revoked may obtain
94	94	recertification by:
95	95	(1) furnishing proof to the commission that the
96	96	person's handgun license has been reinstated; and
97	97	(2) completing the initial training under Subsection
98	98	(c) to the satisfaction of the commission staff, paying the fee for
99	99	the training, and demonstrating psychological fitness on the
100	100	psychological examination described in Subsection (d).
101	101	SECTION 6. Not later than April 1, 2024, the Texas
102	102	Commission on Law Enforcement shall:
103	103	(1) develop a school marshal training program under
104	104	Section 1701.260, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, that
105	105	may be offered over a number of consecutive Saturdays during a
106	106	school year; and
107	107	(2) subject to the availability of funding, authorize
108	108	two additional providers to offer school marshal training programs
109	109	under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act,
110	110	in areas of this state in which those programs are not offered on or
111	111	before the effective date of this Act.
112	112	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.