85R6260 GCB-D
 
  By: Taylor of Collin S.B. No. 778
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the appointment of school marshals by public schools
  and the ammunition approved for use by a school marshal serving a
  public school or a public junior college.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 37.0811(a) and (d), Education Code, are
  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 not
  more than the greater of:
               (1)  one school marshal per 200 [400] 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.
         (d)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
  Subsection (c) must provide that a school marshal may carry a
  concealed handgun as described by Subsection (c), except that if
  the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct
  contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed
  handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a
  school in a locked and secured safe within the marshal's immediate
  reach when conducting the marshal's primary duty.  The written
  regulations must also require that a handgun carried by or within
  access of a school marshal may be loaded only with frangible duty
  ammunition approved for that purpose by the Texas Commission on Law
  Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on impact for maximum safety
  and minimal danger to others].
         SECTION 2.  Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (e)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
  Subsection (d) must provide that a school marshal may carry a
  concealed handgun as described by Subsection (d), except that if
  the primary duty of the school marshal involves regular, direct
  contact with students, the marshal may not carry a concealed
  handgun but may possess a handgun on the physical premises of a
  public junior college campus in a locked and secured safe within the
  marshal's immediate reach when conducting the marshal's primary
  duty.  The written regulations must also require that a handgun
  carried by or within access of a school marshal may be loaded only
  with frangible duty ammunition approved for that purpose by the
  Texas Commission on Law Enforcement [designed to disintegrate on
  impact for maximum safety and minimal danger to others].
         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, 2017.