S.B. No. 213 AN ACT 1-1 relating to model safe school checklists. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. It is declared to be the public policy of this 1-4 state that public schools are to be considered sanctuaries of 1-5 safety and security for the children of the state and that efforts 1-6 of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state 1-7 government are to be directed toward the fulfillment of this 1-8 policy. 1-9 SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is 1-10 amended by adding Section 21.938 to read as follows: 1-11 Sec. 21.938. SAFE SCHOOL CHECKLIST. The State Board of 1-12 Education by rule shall develop a model safe school checklist that 1-13 a school district may use to assess a school's safety strengths and 1-14 weaknesses. The checklist must include procedures for: 1-15 (1) implementing a comprehensive safety plan; 1-16 (2) communicating discipline policies and procedures; 1-17 (3) implementing intraagency and interagency emergency 1-18 plans; 1-19 (4) recording disruptive incidents; 1-20 (5) training staff and students; 1-21 (6) assessing buildings and grounds; 1-22 (7) handling visitors; 1-23 (8) assigning personnel in emergencies; 1-24 (9) communicating during emergencies and managing 2-1 emergencies; 2-2 (10) providing safe transportation; 2-3 (11) handling accidents; and 2-4 (12) communicating with law enforcement authorities. 2-5 SECTION 3. The State Board of Education shall develop and 2-6 distribute the model safe school checklist required by Section 2-7 21.938, Education Code, as added by this Act, not later than 2-8 January 1, 1994. 2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.