House Bill 3 would require at least one armed security officer at every campus and silent panic buttons in every classroom.
"Listen I'm angry, I've got PTSD. These families are just destroyed," said State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio.
"We can start where we can start with 18,19 ,20-year-olds eliminate the AR15s, universal background orders and extreme risk protective orders. This isn't rocket science it's easy. But they don't want to do it," he said.passed on a third and final reading by a vote of 119 to 25.when the bill's author debated the merits of the bill for hours on the House floor.
Burrows said the focus of HB3 is to beef up school safety, including hiring at least one armed security officer at every campus."The teachers we personally interviewed in the hallway who talked about them going into school the next year did ask for some ability for someone defending and protecting that," said Burrows.
Gutierrez pointing out that dozens of armed law enforcement officers waited 77 minutes before taking out the gunman at Robb Elementary.Burrows believes his bill, which also includes adding silent panic buttons in every classroom, does plenty to beef up school safety. The $1.6 billion bill costs well above the original estimate of $300 million.
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