§ 85.024 — SCHOOL SAFETY MEETINGS.

Texas § 85.024

• Jurisdiction: Texas
• Code LG: Local Government Code

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Sec. 85.024. SCHOOL SAFETY MEETINGS.
Text of subsection as amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 361 (H.B. 33 ), Sec. 14
(a) The sheriff of a county in which a public school is located shall call and conduct an annual meeting to discuss:
(1) school safety;
(2) coordinated law enforcement response to school violence incidents;
(3) law enforcement agency capabilities;
(4) available resources;
(5) emergency radio interoperability;
(6) chain of command planning;
(7) each public school's multihazard emergency operations plan, including a discussion and analysis of how the school's multihazard emergency operations plan would be implemented in an emergency situation; and
(8) other related subjects proposed by a person in attendance at the meeting.
Text of subsection as amended by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1070 (H.B. 121 ), Sec. 13
(a) The sheriff of a county with a total population of less than 350,000 in which a school district or open-enrollment charter school is located shall call and conduct a meeting at least twice each calendar year, not less than three months apart, to discuss:
(1) school safety;
(2) coordinated law enforcement response to school violence incidents;
(3) law enforcement agency capabilities;
(4) available resources;
(5) emergency radio interoperability;
(6) chain of command planning; and
(7) other related subjects proposed by a person in attendance at the meeting.
Without reference to the amendment of this subsection, this subsection was repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 361 (H.B. 33 ), Sec. 20, eff. September 1, 2025.
(b) The sheriff of a county to which this section applies in which more than one school district or open-enrollment charter school is located may discuss school safety policies for more than one school district or open-enrollment charter school in a meeting described by Subsection (a). This subsection does not require districts or schools located within the same county to adopt the same school safety policies.
(c) In a county with a population of less than 350,000, the following persons shall attend a meeting called under Subsection (a):
(1) the sheriff or the sheriff's designee;
(2) the police chief of a municipal police department in the county or the police chief's designee;
(3) each elected constable in the county or the constable's designees;
(4) each police chief of a school district's police department or school district security coordinator from each school district located in the county;
(5) a representative of the Department of Public Safety assigned to the county;
(6) a representative of each other state agency with commissioned peace officers assigned to the county;
(7) a person appointed to a command staff position at an emergency medical service in the county;
(8) a person appointed to a command staff position at a municipal emergency medical service in the county;
(9) a person appointed to a command staff position at a fire department in the county;
(10) the superintendent or the superintendent's designee of each school district located in the county;
(11) the person who serves the function of superintendent, or that person's designee, in each open-enrollment charter school located in the county;
(12) a representative of the Texas Division of Emergency Management; and
(13) any other person the sheriff considers appropriate.
(c-1) In a county with a population of 350,000 or more, the following persons shall attend a meeting called under Subsection (a):
(1) for each school district located in the county, either:
(A) the police chief of the district's police department, or the chief's designee; or
(B) if the district contracts with another political subdivision for law enforcement services, the chief administrative officer of the law enforcement agency providing law enforcement services to the district, or the officer's designee;
(2) the superintendent of each school district located in the county; and
(3) any other person the sheriff considers appropriate.
(d) The sheriff shall invite any federal law enforcement official serving in the county to attend the meeting.
(e) As soon as practicable after a meeting under Subsection (a), the sheriff shall submit a report to the Texas School Safety Center identifying the attendees of the meeting and the subjects discussed. The Texas School Safety Center shall maintain the report and make it publicly available on the center's Internet website. The center may not make publicly available and shall redact any parts of a report that the center determines may expose a safety vulnerability of a school district facility.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 896 (H.B. 3 ), Sec. 25, eff. September 1, 2023. Amended by: Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 361 (H.B. 33 ), Sec. 14, eff. September 1, 2025. Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 361 (H.B. 33 ), Sec. 20, eff. September 1, 2025. Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1070 (H.B. 121 ), Sec. 13, eff. September 1, 2025.