By: Rosenthal, Allen, Talarico, Toth, Lopez, H.B. No. 2655
      et al.
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
 
  relating to an active shooter emergency protocol for public school
  districts and required active shooter response training for school
  district peace officers and school resource officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.108, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
         (f)  A school district shall include in its multihazard
  emergency operations plan a protocol for responding to an active
  shooter emergency in a district facility. The protocol must
  provide for school drills and exercises to prepare for an active
  shooter emergency as part of the mandatory school drills and
  exercises under Subsection (a)(2).
         SECTION 2.  Section 37.0812, Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 37.0812.  TRAINING POLICY: SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE
  OFFICERS AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. (a) A school district peace
  officer and school resource officer shall complete an active
  shooter response training program approved by the Texas Commission
  on Law Enforcement.
         (b)  A school district with an enrollment of 30,000 or more
  students that commissions a school district peace officer or at
  which a school resource officer provides law enforcement shall
  adopt a policy requiring the officer to complete the education and
  training program required by Section 1701.263, Occupations Code.
         SECTION 3.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall approve
  an active shooter response training program required under Section
  37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act.
         SECTION 4.  A school district peace officer and school
  resource officer who begin employment with or begin providing law
  enforcement at a school district on a date occurring before
  September 1, 2019, shall complete the training required by Section
  37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as
  practicable after the effective date of this Act but not later than
  August 31, 2020.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.