Amend HB 867 (house engrossed version) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:

SECTION ____.  Sections 37.0811(a) and (d), Education Code, are amended to read as follows:

(a)  The board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school may appoint not more than the greater of:

(1)  one school marshal per 200 [400] students in average daily attendance per campus; or

(2)  for each campus, one school marshal per building of the campus at which students regularly receive classroom instruction.

(d)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of Subsection (c) must provide that a school marshal may carry a concealed handgun as described by Subsection (c), except that if the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a school in a locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate reach when conducting the marshal's primary duty. The written regulations must also require that a handgun carried by or within access of a school marshal may be loaded only with frangible duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on impact for maximum safety and minimal danger to others].

SECTION ____.  Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:

(e)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of Subsection (d) must provide that a school marshal may carry a concealed handgun as described by Subsection (d), except that if the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a public junior college campus in a locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate reach when conducting the marshal's primary duty. The written regulations must also require that a handgun carried by or within access of a school marshal may be loaded only with frangible duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on impact for maximum safety and minimal danger to others].