Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R5972 JDK-D
2	2	By: Slawson H.B. No. 3924
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school
10	10	marshal.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Sections 37.0811(c) and (d), Education Code, are
13	13	amended to read as follows:
14	14	(c) A school marshal appointed by the board of trustees of a
15	15	school district or the governing body of an open-enrollment charter
16	16	school may carry [a concealed handgun] or possess a handgun on the
17	17	physical premises of a school, but only:
18	18	(1) in the manner provided by written regulations
19	19	adopted by the board of trustees or the governing body; and
20	20	(2) at a specific school as specified by the board of
21	21	trustees or governing body, as applicable.
22	22	(d) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
23	23	Subsection (c) must:
24	24	(1) provide that a school marshal may:
25	25	(A) carry a concealed handgun on the school
26	26	marshal's person;
27	27	(B) if wearing a uniform identifying the marshal
28	28	as a school marshal, openly carry a handgun on the school marshal's
29	29	person; or
30	30	(C) possess the handgun on the physical premises
31	31	of a school in a locked and secured safe or other locked and secured
32	32	location; and
33	33	(2) [. The written regulations must also] require
34	34	that a handgun carried or possessed by a school marshal [may] be
35	35	loaded only with frangible duty ammunition approved for that
36	36	purpose by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
37	37	SECTION 2. Sections 37.0813(c) and (d), Education Code, are
38	38	amended to read as follows:
39	39	(c) A school marshal appointed by the governing body of a
40	40	private school may carry [a concealed handgun] or possess a handgun
41	41	on the physical premises of a school, but only in the manner
42	42	provided by written regulations adopted by the governing body.
43	43	(d) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
44	44	Subsection (c) must:
45	45	(1) provide that a school marshal may:
46	46	(A) carry a concealed handgun on the school
47	47	marshal's person;
48	48	(B) if wearing a uniform identifying the marshal
49	49	as a school marshal, openly carry a handgun on the school marshal's
50	50	person; or
51	51	(C) possess the handgun on the physical premises
52	52	of a school in a locked and secured safe or other locked and secured
53	53	location; and
54	54	(2) [. The written regulations must also] require
55	55	that a handgun carried or possessed by a school marshal [may] be
56	56	loaded only with frangible duty ammunition approved for that
57	57	purpose by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
58	58	SECTION 3. Section 51.220(d), Education Code, is amended to
59	59	read as follows:
60	60	(d) A school marshal appointed by the governing board of a
61	61	public junior college may carry [a concealed handgun] or possess a
62	62	handgun on the physical premises of a public junior college campus,
63	63	but only:
64	64	(1) in the manner provided by written regulations
65	65	adopted by the governing board; and
66	66	(2) at a specific public junior college campus as
67	67	specified by the governing board.
68	68	SECTION 4. Section 51.220(e), Education Code, as amended by
69	69	Chapters 795 (H.B. 781) and 851 (S.B. 741), Acts of the 87th
70	70	Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, is reenacted and amended to
71	71	read as follows:
72	72	(e) Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
73	73	Subsection (d):
74	74	(1) must [:
75	75	[(A)] authorize a school marshal to:
76	76	(A) carry a concealed handgun [as described by
77	77	Subsection (d)] on the school marshal's person;
78	78	(B) if wearing a uniform identifying the marshal
79	79	as a school marshal, openly carry a handgun on the school marshal's
80	80	person; or
81	81	(C) possess the handgun on the physical premises
82	82	of a public junior college campus in a locked and secured safe or
83	83	other locked and secured location; [and]
84	84	(2) must [(B)] require that a handgun carried or
85	85	possessed by a school marshal [to] be loaded only with frangible
86	86	duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission
87	87	on Law Enforcement; and
88	88	(3) [(2)] may not require a school marshal to store
89	89	the handgun in a locked container while on duty.
90	90	SECTION 5. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
91	91	school year.
92	92	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
93	93	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
94	94	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
95	95	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
96	96	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.