By: Estes	S.B. No. 1857
	(In the Senate - Filed March 26, 2013; April 2, 2013, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Rural Affairs,
	and Homeland Security; April 10, 2013, reported adversely, with
	favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 3,
	Nays 0; April 10, 2013, sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1857	By:  Estes

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the certification of certain qualified handgun
	instructors to conduct school safety training.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 411.1901 to read as follows:
	Sec. 411.1901.  SCHOOL SAFETY CERTIFICATION FOR QUALIFIED
	HANDGUN INSTRUCTORS.  (a)  The department shall establish a process
	to enable qualified handgun instructors certified under Section
	411.190 to obtain an additional certification in school safety.
	The process must include a school safety certification course that
	provides training in the following:
	(1)  the protection of students;
	(2)  interaction of license holders with first
	responders;
	(3)  tactics for denying an intruder entry into a
	classroom or school facility; and
	(4)  methods for increasing a license holder's accuracy
	with a handgun while under duress.
	(b)  The school safety certification course under Subsection
	(a) must include not less than 15 hours and not more than 20 hours of
	instruction.
	(c)  A qualified handgun instructor certified in school
	safety under this section may provide school safety training,
	including instruction in the subjects listed under Subsection (a),
	to employees of a school district or an open-enrollment charter
	school who hold a license to carry a concealed handgun issued under
	this subchapter.
	(d)  The department shall establish a fee in an amount that
	is sufficient to cover the costs of the school safety certification
	under this section.
	(e)  The department may adopt rules to administer this
	section.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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