By: Flores, et al. S.B. No. 1852
 
  (Metcalf, Morales of Harris)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to active shooter training for peace officers.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1701.253, Occupations Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (q) to read as follows:
         (q)  As part of the minimum curriculum requirements, the
  commission shall require an officer to complete a training program
  of not less than 16 hours on responding to an active shooter as
  developed by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training
  Center at Texas State University--San Marcos. An officer shall
  complete the program not later than the last day of the first full
  continuing education training period that begins on or after the
  date the officer is licensed under this chapter unless the officer
  completes the program as part of the officer's basic training
  course. Completion of a training program under this subsection
  satisfies any other requirement, other than a continuing education
  requirement under Section 1701.3525, for the officer to complete a
  training program on responding to active shootings, including under
  Section 37.0812(a), Education Code.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter H, Chapter 1701, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 1701.3525 to read as follows:
         Sec. 1701.3525.  ACTIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE TRAINING REQUIRED
  FOR OFFICERS. (a) As part of the continuing education programs
  under Section 1701.351(a), an officer must complete not less than
  16 hours of training on responding to an active shooter as developed
  by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at
  Texas State University--San Marcos.
         (b)  The exemptions under Sections 1701.351(b), (c), and (d)
  do not apply to the training required by Subsection (a).
         SECTION 3.  As soon as practicable after the effective date
  of this Act, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement shall adopt
  rules to implement Sections 1701.253(q) and 1701.3525, Occupations
  Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 4.  The minimum curriculum requirements under
  Section 1701.253(q), Occupations Code, as added by this Act, apply
  only to an officer who first begins to satisfy those requirements on
  or after January 1, 2024.
         SECTION 5.  Section 1701.3525, Occupations Code, as added by
  this Act, applies only with respect to a 24-month continuing
  education training unit that begins on or after the effective date
  of this Act. A training unit that begins before the effective date
  of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the training
  unit began, and the former law is continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.