1-1 By: West S.B. No. 213
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1993; February 2, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 February 24, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 February 24, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Ratliff x
1-10 Haley x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Harris of Tarrant x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Montford x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Sibley x
1-18 Turner x
1-19 Zaffirini x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 213 By: Shapiro
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to model safe school checklists.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. It is declared to be the public policy of this
1-26 state that public schools are to be considered sanctuaries of
1-27 safety and security for the children of the state and that efforts
1-28 of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state
1-29 government are to be directed toward the fulfillment of this
1-30 policy.
1-31 SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 21, Education Code, is
1-32 amended by adding Section 21.938 to read as follows:
1-33 Sec. 21.938. SAFE SCHOOL CHECKLIST. The State Board of
1-34 Education by rule shall develop a model safe school checklist that
1-35 a school district may use to assess a school's safety strengths and
1-36 weaknesses. The checklist must include procedures for:
1-37 (1) implementing a comprehensive safety plan;
1-38 (2) communicating discipline policies and procedures;
1-39 (3) implementing intraagency and interagency emergency
1-40 plans;
1-41 (4) recording disruptive incidents;
1-42 (5) training staff and students;
1-43 (6) assessing buildings and grounds;
1-44 (7) handling visitors;
1-45 (8) assigning personnel in emergencies;
1-46 (9) communicating during emergencies and managing
1-47 emergencies;
1-48 (10) providing safe transportation;
1-49 (11) handling accidents; and
1-50 (12) communicating with law enforcement authorities.
1-51 SECTION 3. The State Board of Education shall develop and
1-52 distribute the model safe school checklist required by Section
1-53 21.938, Education Code, as added by this Act, not later than
1-54 January 1, 1994.
1-55 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-56 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-57 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-58 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-59 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-60 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-61 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 Austin,
1-64 Texas
1-65 February 24,
1-66 1993
1-67 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-68 President of the Senate
2-1 Sir:
2-2 We, your Committee on Education to which was referred S.B. No. 213,
2-3 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-4 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-5 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-6 pass and be printed.
2-7 Ratliff,
2-8 Chairman
2-9 * * * * *
2-10 WITNESSES
2-11 FOR AGAINST ON
2-12 ___________________________________________________________________
2-13 Name: Lonnie Hollingsworth x
2-14 Representing: TX Classroom Teachers Assoc.
2-15 City: Austin
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2-17 Name: Lamont Veatch x
2-18 Representing: TASSP
2-19 City: Austin
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2-21 Name: Hamp Atkinson x
2-22 Representing: Texas Assoc. of School Board
2-23 City: Austin
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2-25 Name: Walter Hinojosa x
2-26 Representing: Texas Federation of Teachers
2-27 City: Austin
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2-29 Name: Jack Kelly x
2-30 Representing: Tx State Teachers Assoc.
2-31 City: Austin
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2-33 Name: Robby Collins x
2-34 Representing: Dallas ISD
2-35 City: Dallas
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2-37 Name: Anita Sylvia Garcia x
2-38 Representing: Texas Education Agency
2-39 City: Austin
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2-41 Name: Rob Woodson x
2-42 Representing: TEA
2-43 City: Austin
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2-45 Name: Ann M. Streetman x
2-46 Representing: Texas Safety Association
2-47 City: Austin
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