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2024 Texas Statutes
Education Code
Title 2 - Public Education
Subtitle G - Safe Schools
Chapter 37 - Discipline; Law and Order
Subchapter D. Protection of Buildings and Grounds
Section 37.117. Silent Panic Alert Technology

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TX Educ Code § 37.117 (2024)
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Text of section as added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 838), Sec. 2

For text of section as added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 896 (H.B. 3), Sec. 16, see other Sec. 37.117.

Sec. 37.117. SILENT PANIC ALERT TECHNOLOGY. (a) Each school district and open-enrollment charter school shall provide each classroom in the district or school with silent panic alert technology that allows for immediate contact with district or school emergency services and emergency services agencies, law enforcement agencies, health departments, and fire departments.

(b) Silent panic alert technology provided by a school district or open-enrollment charter school under this section does not satisfy the requirement under Section 37.108(a)(2) for the district or school to ensure employees have classroom access to a telephone or another electronic communication device.

(c) To comply with this section, a school district or open-enrollment charter school may:

(1) use funds provided to the district or school through the school safety allotment under Section 48.115 or other available funds; and

(2) use the district's or school's customary procurement process.

Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 838), Sec. 2, eff. May 5, 2023.

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