By: Creighton, Hall  S.B. No. 244
         (In the Senate - Filed December 14, 2018; February 7, 2019,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
  March 21, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
  Nays 3; March 21, 2019, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the number of school marshals that may be appointed to
  serve on a public school campus or at a private school.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.0811(a), Education Code, is 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 one
  or more school marshals for each campus [not more than the greater
  of:
               [(1) one school marshal per 200 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].
         SECTION 2.  Section 37.0813(a), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  The governing body of a private school may appoint one
  or more school marshals [not more than the greater of:
               [(1)     one school marshal per 200 students enrolled in
  the school; or
               [(2)     one school marshal per building of the school at
  which students regularly receive classroom instruction].
         SECTION 3.  This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020
  school year.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
  * * * * *