Amend CSHB 3 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 37.081, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (a-2), and (a-3) to read as follows:
(a) The board of trustees of any school district may employ or contract with security personnel, enter into a memorandum of understanding with a local law enforcement agency or a county or municipality that is the employing political subdivision of commissioned peace officers for the provision of school resource officers, and commission peace officers to carry out this subchapter. [If a board of trustees authorizes a person employed as security personnel to carry a weapon, the person must be a commissioned peace officer.] The jurisdiction of a peace officer, a school resource officer, or security personnel under this section shall be determined by the board of trustees and may include all territory in the boundaries of the school district and all property outside the boundaries of the district that is owned, leased, or rented by or otherwise under the control of the school district and the board of trustees that employ the peace officer or security personnel or that enter into a memorandum of understanding for the provision of a school resource officer.
(a-1) A memorandum of understanding for the provision of school resource officers entered into under Subsection (a) must:
(1) be in the form of an interlocal contract under Chapter 791, Government Code; and
(2) use a proportionate cost allocation methodology to address any costs or fees incurred by the school district or the local law enforcement agency, county, or municipality, as applicable.
(a-2) The cost allocation methodology used under Subsection (a-1)(2) may allow a local law enforcement agency, county, or municipality, as applicable, to recoup direct costs incurred as a result of the contract but may not allow the agency, county, or municipality to profit under the contract.
(a-3) A school district, local law enforcement agency, county, or municipality that enters into a memorandum of understanding under Subsection (a) may seek funding from federal, state, and private sources to support the cost of providing school resource officers under this section.
SECTION ____. The change in law made by this Act to Section 37.081, Education Code, applies only to a memorandum of understanding under that section that is entered into on or after September 1, 2023.