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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session

HB1340 Relating to certain federal law enforcement agents serving as armed security officers at public schools and the authority of the chief of school safety and security for the Texas Education Agency to carry a weapon on public school grounds.

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Firearms carryAI label

Expands gun access model confidence 90%

Expands the list of authorized armed security personnel at public schools to include certain federal law enforcement agents and grants the chief of school safety and security explicit authority to carry a weapon on school grounds, increasing the number of people allowed to carry firearms there.

a current or former licensed federal law enforcement agent who is authorized to carry a weapon while on duty.

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  1. Filed (completed)
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2025-03-10: Referred to Public Education
Filed
2024-11-14
Committee
Public Education
Sponsor
Pat Curry R

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands who may carry firearms on public school grounds by adding federal law enforcement agents as authorized security officers and creating an explicit exemption for the TEA chief of school safety and security to carry a weapon there, with no provisions that add new restrictions on firearms.

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History (3 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-03-10HReferred to Public Education
2025-03-10HRead first time
2024-11-14HFiled