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Dustin Burrows: “They passed their own version of the bill, SB11.”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

Rep. Dustin Burrows on Bill Requiring School Security, Local Preemption Bill

Published February 22, 2024 | Video Starts at 12:59

Well, you know, obviously the Senate's going to have to take up, you know, this policy and decide if they agree with the House on armed security officers. They passed their own version of the bill, SB11. Senator Nichols, and I think he did a fine job. And a lot of the components In Senate Bill 11 are House Bill 3. (12:59–13:03)

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Asserts that the Senate passed its own version of the school safety bill, SB11.

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“We really are somewhat a low tax, low regulation state.”
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“Some of our bigger major metropolitan cities are out of control and they're trying to regulate to their social agenda.”
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“If the state regulates something, we're not going to let each of our municipalities shut up their own regulatory scheme and frameworks.”
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“All of our home rule cities are still going to have broad powers to do what we think of as core functions of government.”
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“The bill prohibited something specifically, and we were able to cite in code where it didn't.”
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“Let's stop playing whack a mole, let's have a consistent regulatory scheme.”
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“I was not going to let the bill get watered down.”
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“The bill requires TEA more oversight if our schools are not actually becoming safe.”
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“It requires that bond money be used first to actually make schools safer.”
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“We're going to require an armed security officer on every single campus.”
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“We gave our schools the option of fulfilling that armed security guard requirement.”
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“They can do it with their own internal ISD police force.”
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“They can contract to local sheriffs.”
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“They can go through the school marshal program.”
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“They can arm a teacher, not require them, but, you know, one volunteers.”
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“We also give them discretion to determine the number of armed security officers on each campus.”
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“Our committee interviewed over 70 different witnesses.”
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“We saw multiple shortcomings and found that there were multiple systemic failures.”
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“They did have an independent school district police force, but all the officers were primarily at the high school.”
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“The Senate's going to have to take up this policy and decide if they agree with the House on armed security officers.”
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“Both chambers have passed policy that is significant.”
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“We're putting $1.6 billion into school safety this session.”
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“We want TEA and the school safety center to vet all the technologies that are available.”
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“The state is making an investment in technology for school safety.”
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“This is the first session since we've ended abortion in the state of Texas.”
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“We probably passed the most historic pro Second Amendment laws in the country with passing constitutional carry.”
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“The heartbeat bill probably pushed the Supreme Court to think about [overturning Roe].”
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“The preemption bill also has a private cause of action for our businesses and individuals.”
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“We kind of decided to go that way with the heartbeat bill. It was probably one of the most effective and important bills we've passed.”
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“We just try to have an enforcement mechanism. I think that you're starting to see people avail themselves of that and conservatives wanting…”
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“Facebook bill's another, by the way.”
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“If your right of action is only to, you know, have your rights restored or to have, you know, something unconstitutional struck down, and…”
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“And you could get your attorney's fees. We did provide for that, and it's reasonable attorney's fees.”
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“Florida had actually tried that. That bill got vetoed by Governor DeSantis, you know, on some sort of another preemption bill.”
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