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.