87R1663 TSS-D
	By: Swanson	H.B. No. 55

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the carrying and possession of a concealed handgun by a
	school marshal.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 37.0811(d), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(d)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
	Subsection (c):
	(1)  must:
	(A)  authorize [provide that] a school marshal to
	[may] carry a concealed handgun on or about the marshal's person;
	and
	(B)  [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 or possessed
	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; and
	(2)  may not require a school marshal to store the
	handgun in a locked and secured safe or other location while on
	duty.
	SECTION 2.  Section 37.0813(d), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(d)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
	Subsection (c) must:
	(1)  provide that a school marshal may carry a
	concealed handgun as described by Subsection (c); and
	(2)  [, except that if the primary duty of the school
	marshal involves regular, direct contact with students in a
	classroom setting, 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 or possessed 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.
	SECTION 3.  Section 51.220(e), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(e)  Any written regulations adopted for purposes of
	Subsection (d):
	(1)  must:
	(A)  authorize [provide that] a school marshal to
	[may] carry a concealed handgun on or about the marshal's person;
	and
	(B)  [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 or possessed 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; and
	(2)  may not require a school marshal to store the
	handgun in a locked and secured safe or other location while on
	duty.
	SECTION 4.  This Act applies beginning with the 2021-2022
	academic year.
	SECTION 5.  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, 2021.