Texas 2023 - 88th Regular

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1	1	By: Hancock S.B. No. 2407
2	2	(Burrows)
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to licensure and training requirements for school
8	8	marshals.
9	9	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	10	SECTION 1. Section 37.0811(f), Education Code, is amended
11	11	to read as follows:
12	12	(f) A school district or charter school employee's status as
13	13	a school marshal becomes inactive on:
14	14	(1) expiration of the employee's school marshal
15	15	license under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
16	16	(2) suspension or revocation of the employee's license
17	17	to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H, Chapter 411,
18	18	Government Code, if the employee is required to hold that license as
19	19	a condition of the employee's school marshal license under Section
20	20	1701.260, Occupations Code;
21	21	(3) termination of the employee's employment with the
22	22	district or charter school; or
23	23	(4) notice from the board of trustees of the district
24	24	or the governing body of the charter school that the employee's
25	25	services as school marshal are no longer required.
26	26	SECTION 2. Section 37.0813(f), Education Code, is amended
27	27	to read as follows:
28	28	(f) A private school employee's status as a school marshal
29	29	becomes inactive on:
30	30	(1) expiration of the employee's school marshal
31	31	license under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
32	32	(2) suspension or revocation of the employee's license
33	33	to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H, Chapter 411,
34	34	Government Code, if the employee is required to hold that license as
35	35	a condition of the employee's school marshal license under Section
36	36	1701.260, Occupations Code;
37	37	(3) termination of the employee's employment with the
38	38	private school; or
39	39	(4) notice from the governing body that the employee's
40	40	services as school marshal are no longer required.
41	41	SECTION 3. Section 51.220(g), Education Code, is amended to
42	42	read as follows:
43	43	(g) A public junior college employee's status as a school
44	44	marshal becomes inactive on:
45	45	(1) expiration of the employee's school marshal
46	46	license under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
47	47	(2) suspension or revocation of the employee's license
48	48	to carry a concealed handgun issued under Subchapter H, Chapter
49	49	411, Government Code, if the employee is required to hold that
50	50	license as a condition of the employee's school marshal license
51	51	under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code;
52	52	(3) termination of the employee's employment with the
53	53	public junior college; or
54	54	(4) notice from the governing board of the public
55	55	junior college that the employee's services as school marshal are
56	56	no longer required.
57	57	SECTION 4. Subchapter C, Chapter 96, Education Code, is
58	58	amended by adding Section 96.42 to read as follows:
59	59	Sec. 96.42. CERTAIN REQUIRED TRAINING PROVIDED BY ADVANCED
60	60	LAW ENFORCEMENT RAPID RESPONSE TRAINING CENTER. The Advanced Law
61	61	Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State
62	62	University--San Marcos shall offer to a person participating in a
63	63	school marshal training program under Section 1701.260,
64	64	Occupations Code, a course of instruction designed to prepare the
65	65	person to isolate, distract, and neutralize an active shooter.
66	66	SECTION 5. Section 1701.260, Occupations Code, is amended
67	67	by amending Subsections (a), (a-1), and (i) and adding Subsections
68	68	(a-2) and (c-1) to read as follows:
69	69	(a) The commission shall establish and maintain a training
70	70	program open to any employee of a school district, open-enrollment
71	71	charter school, private school, or public junior college who:
72	72	(1) holds a license to carry a handgun issued under
73	73	Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code;
74	74	(2) is a retired peace officer, as defined by Section
75	75	1701.3161; or
76	76	(3) is an honorably discharged veteran of the armed
77	77	forces of the United States.
78	78	(a-1) The training under the training program may be
79	79	conducted only by the commission staff or a provider approved by the
80	80	commission.
81	81	(a-2) [(a-1)] In this section, "private school" has the
82	82	meaning assigned by Article 2.127, Code of Criminal Procedure.
83	83	(c-1) For the instruction required under Subsection (c)(5),
84	84	the commission shall require a trainee to complete a course of
85	85	instruction offered by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response
86	86	Training Center at Texas State University--San Marcos that is
87	87	designed to prepare the trainee to isolate, distract, and
88	88	neutralize an active shooter.
89	89	(i) The commission shall revoke the [a person's] school
90	90	marshal license of a person described by Subsection (a)(1) if the
91	91	commission is notified by the Department of Public Safety that the
92	92	person's license to carry a handgun issued under Subchapter H,
93	93	Chapter 411, Government Code, has been suspended or revoked. A
94	94	person whose school marshal license is revoked may obtain
95	95	recertification by:
96	96	(1) furnishing proof to the commission that the
97	97	person's handgun license has been reinstated; and
98	98	(2) completing the initial training under Subsection
99	99	(c) to the satisfaction of the commission staff, paying the fee for
100	100	the training, and demonstrating psychological fitness on the
101	101	psychological examination described in Subsection (d).
102	102	SECTION 6. Not later than April 1, 2024, the Texas
103	103	Commission on Law Enforcement shall develop a school marshal
104	104	training program under Section 1701.260, Occupations Code, as
105	105	amended by this Act, that may be offered over a number of
106	106	consecutive Saturdays during a school year.
107	107	SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.