By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 1720
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of the identity of a public school
  employee who reports a potential threat to the school's threat
  assessment and safe and supportive school team.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 37.115(c), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  The board of trustees of each school district shall
  establish a threat assessment and safe and supportive school team
  to serve at each campus of the district and shall adopt policies and
  procedures for the teams. The team is responsible for developing
  and implementing the safe and supportive school program under
  Subsection (b) at the district campus served by the team. The
  policies and procedures adopted under this section must:
               (1)  be consistent with the model policies and
  procedures developed by the Texas School Safety Center;
               (2)  require each team to complete training provided by
  the Texas School Safety Center or a regional education service
  center regarding evidence-based threat assessment programs; [and]
               (3)  require each team established under this section
  to report the information required under Subsection (k) regarding
  the team's activities to the agency; and
               (4)  provide for:
                     (A)  a district employee who reports a potential
  threat to a team to elect for the employee's identity to be
  confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552,
  Government Code, except as necessary for the team, the district, or
  law enforcement to investigate the potential threat; and
                     (B)  the district to maintain a record of the
  identity of a district employee who elects for the employee's
  identity to be confidential under Paragraph (A).
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2023-2024
  school year.
         SECTION 3.  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, 2023.