73R6630 SRC-D By Hernandez, Bailey, et al. H.B. No. 634 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the commissioning as peace officers of armed security 1-3 personnel employed by a school district. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.308(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) The governing board of any school district may employ 1-8 security personnel for use in any school within its district when 1-9 the board in its discretion determines that the personnel are 1-10 necessary. If the governing board authorizes the security 1-11 personnel to carry a weapon, the security personnel must be 1-12 commissioned peace officers. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.