TITLE: Relating to the model training curriculum and required training for certain school district peace officers and school resource officers.

SUMMARY: Relating to the model training curriculum and required training for certain school district peace officers and school resource officers.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the model training curriculum and required training for certain school district peace officers and school resource officers. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 37.0812, Education Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 37.0812. TRAINING POLICY: SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE OFFICERS AND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. A school district with an enrollment of 5,000 [30,000] or more students that commissions a school district peace officer or at which a school resource officer provides law enforcement shall adopt a policy requiring the officer to complete the education and training program required by Section 1701.263, Occupations Code. SECTION 2. Section 1701.263(b), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows: (b) The commission by rule shall require a school district peace officer or a school resource officer who is commissioned by or who provides law enforcement at a school district with an enrollment of 5,000 [30,000] or more students to successfully complete an education and training program described by this section not later than 180 [before or within 120] days after [of] the officer's commission by or placement in the district or a campus of the district. The program must: (1) consist of at least 16 hours of training; (2) be approved by the commission; and (3) provide training in accordance with the curriculum developed under Section 1701.262 in each subject area listed in Subsection (c) of that section. SECTION 3. (a) Notwithstanding Section 1701.263(b), Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, a school district peace officer or school resource officer who commences employment with or commences providing law enforcement at a school district with an enrollment of 5,000 or more students but fewer than 30,000 students on a date occurring before December 1, 2017, shall complete the training required by Section 1701.263, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as practicable and not later than August 31, 2018. This subsection does not apply to an officer who is exempt from the training established under Section 1701.263, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act, because the officer has completed the training described by Subsection (b-1) of that section. (b) Not later than January 1, 2018, a school district with an enrollment of 5,000 or more students but fewer than 30,000 students shall adopt the training policy for school district peace officers and school resource officers required by Section 37.0812, Education Code, as amended by this Act. SECTION 4. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017.