Amend CSHB 974 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 37.108, Education Code, is amended by adding Subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) to read as follows:
(f) A school district shall include in its multihazard emergency operations plan a policy requiring district peace officers, school resource officers, and other security personnel to annually coordinate with each law enforcement agency with jurisdiction in the district to establish and maintain protocols for responding to a special threat on a district campus.
(g) A school district shall include in its multihazard emergency operations plan a policy requiring an annual special threat response drill that includes students and school personnel, including substitute teachers, and local law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction in the district and other first responders that provide emergency services in the district to be conducted at each district campus.
(h) The commissioner shall adopt rules establishing standard terminology for special threat response to be used by school districts when developing or adopting rules, policies, or procedures for responding to a special threat at a school district campus. The standard terminology established must be consistent with the terminology used in the standard response protocol promulgated by The I Love U Guys Foundation, if possible, or another nationally recognized standard protocol for special threat response.
(i) A school district must use the standard terminology for special threat response established by the commissioner under Subsection (h) in the district's multihazard emergency operations plan, in special threat response drills, on posted signs, and in any other district policies regarding school safety.