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Senate Bill 1556 |
Senate Author: Seliger |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
House Sponsor: Davis, John |
Senate Bill 1556 amends the Education Code to establish the School Safety Task Force to study, on an ongoing basis, best practices for school multihazard emergency operations planning and to make recommendations based on the studies to the legislature, the Texas School Safety Center, and the governor's office of homeland security. The bill requires the task force, in performing its duties for schools, to consult with and consider recommendations from school district and school personnel and other entities with knowledge and experience concerning school emergency operations planning and to prepare and submit to the legislature a report concerning the results of the task force's most recent study. The bill requires the Texas School Safety Center, in consultation with the task force, to develop a school safety certification program under which the center awards a school safety certificate to a school district that has adopted and implemented a multihazard emergency operations plan containing specified safety measures and a training outline and that meets certain other requirements and eligibility criteria. The bill repeals a provision requiring the center to develop security criteria that school districts may consider in the design of instructional facilities. The bill abolishes the task force and the school safety certification program on September 1, 2017.