Sec. 37.1082. SCHOOL SAFETY TASK FORCE. (a) The School Safety Task Force is established to:
(1) study, on an ongoing basis, best practices for school multihazard emergency operations planning; and
(2) based on those studies, make recommendations to the legislature, the Texas School Safety Center, and the governor's office of homeland security.
(b) The task force is composed of:
(1) the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, or the chief's designee;
(2) the training director of the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University--San Marcos, or the training director's designee;
(3) the chairperson of the Texas School Safety Center, or the chairperson's designee; and
(4) the agency director of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, or the agency director's designee.
(c) The chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, or the chief's designee, shall serve as the presiding officer of the task force.
(d) A member of the task force is not entitled to compensation for service on the task force but is entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing task force duties.
(e) In performing the task force's duties under this section for schools, the task force shall consult with and consider recommendations from school district and school personnel, including school safety personnel and educators, and from first responders, emergency managers, local officials, representatives of appropriate nonprofit organizations, and other interested parties with knowledge and experience concerning school emergency operations planning.
(f) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year, the task force shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report concerning the results of the task force's most recent study, including any recommendations for statutory changes the task force considers necessary or appropriate to improve school multihazard emergency operations.
(g) The task force is abolished and this section expires September 1, 2017.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 620 (S.B. 1556), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2013.
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